What’s Your Backup Strategy? (Or, Putting A Price On Memories)

by Tony Hung on November 24, 2007

So a few days ago my wife and I learned an expensive lesson about how the fragility of external hard drives and the curiosity of a 14 month year old just *do* _NOT_ mix. When my son was born, I (…)

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The Truth About Viral And Social Marketing? Its All About The Sock Puppets.

by Tony Hung on November 22, 2007

Over at TechCrunch a guest poster, Dan Acker Greenburg, has revealed how the company he works for creates viral videos on YouTube. Go and read the details, but it basically boils down to marketing tricks, and less to do with (…)

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The Kindle Is Fugly, Awkward, And … Biased Against Lefties?

by Tony Hung on November 20, 2007

I haven’t held one yet, but if Robert Scoble could act as my proxy, then I’d have to say that Amazon’s Kindle is one fugly awkward looking piece of … jeez, well, “technology”.  I mean, its flashing screens between pages (…)

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Hallelujah! Unlimited Data Plans Come To Canada, Courtesy of Bell Canada

by Tony Hung on November 20, 2007

I have ranted on a few occasions about how Canadians get reamed with respect to wireless data plans, and their cost thereof (really high), particularly with *personal* inequity I feel about not having any unlimited data plans. This made sense (…)

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I Will Push Mat Ingram’s Post On Techmeme

by Tony Hung on November 19, 2007

This is Mat Ingram’s post over here, where he talks a little bit about how Techmeme diversifying to non-blogs is a good thing — and that the good ol’ blogosphere in the good ol’ days, sounds a little bit like (…)

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Has Techmeme Stopped You From Reading RSS Feeds?

by Tony Hung on November 19, 2007

Interesting question posited by Fred Wilson on Techmeme as a curator of feeds.  That is, that it does such a good job at curating memes that he hasn’t read many (if any) news / blog feeds these days.  The problem, (…)

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Hmmm … Either No One Likes The Chumby, Or …

by Tony Hung on November 19, 2007

Well, the contest is off due to a lack of interest — either because no one really likes the Chumby (come on, guys!), or perhaps because you can just pick one up off the shelf (via your browser, of course) (…)

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