Facebook Privacy Follies Continue

by Tony Hung on November 18, 2007

As a bit of a follow up to a post I did some weeks ago about controlling the kind of information that gets back to Facebook via Facebook Beacon, it turns out that, in a similar vein, it may in (…)

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“Dying From Exhaustion” — What Is That, Exactly?

by Tony Hung on November 18, 2007

No, seriously. I don’t have any idea what this phrase actually means in medical terms. There’s a piece in the New York Times about how there’s a concern about Internet addiction in South Korea, and it brings up, once again, (…)

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Domainers To Strike It Big, With IPO Valued at $160M

by Tony Hung on November 18, 2007

Update: I have read somewhere that CreditCards.com was sold twice in 2007 already; once for $1M, and the second time for $3M, after which the second purchaser brought in some VC capital, to the tune of $20M.  Well, I guess (…)

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What Does Google’s Beat-Down Say About PageRank?

by Tony Hung on November 18, 2007

You may have heard about the ongoing drama that is Google and how it has laid the smacketh down on paid links — and now, possibly paid postings.  Besides the fact that it may be hypocrisy writ large, as Google (…)

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Could LonelyGirl15′s Bree Come Back From The Dead?

by Tony Hung on November 17, 2007

A few more half baked ones on new media being scooped up by the mainstream: Interesting pick up by the Sydney Morning Herald a few weeks ago on LonelyGirl15.  I don’t actively follow web dramas, but it seems like shows (…)

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Congratulations to Eric Berlin — AKA Online Media Cultist — On Quarterlife

by Tony Hung on November 17, 2007

A quick congrats to Eric Berlin, who is the blogger behind online media cultist.  He was blogging a little more frequently, but has been held up over the past few months as the web producer behind the social networking site, (…)

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NBC Picks Up Quarterlife: New Media Taking Advantage of Hollywood Strike

by Tony Hung on November 17, 2007

As I’ve mentioned in the past, the Hollywood Writer’s strike is creating an opportunity for other kinds of television shows, and new media in particular.  23/6, in particular is one of those kinds of entrepreneurial stabs, which is making a (…)

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