What Is Your Definition Of Privacy?

by Tony Hung on December 26, 2007

Seems like there’s a bit of a hubaloo around Google’s recently changed settings with respect to its “Shared” feature function in Google Feed Reader — mainly in that Google decided, a couple of weeks ago, to include a new feature (…)

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Google News Comments — Four Months Later, Still Kicking, Dramatically Under-Promoted

by Tony Hung on December 26, 2007

So four months after I unbashedly proclaimed that Google News would change the world as we know it (or something like that), the New York Times has done a bit of a pseudo-update on how things have done in the (…)

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Merry Christmas!

by Tony Hung on December 25, 2007

Merry Christmas, blogosphere! Its hard to believe that another year has gone by. I’ll be doing another set of predictions in a few more days that takes a better look back at tech events over the past year, and what (…)

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Newsflash: People Are Using IM’s To Game Digg! (Wait — Is This 2006?)

by Tony Hung on December 18, 2007

Dave Cohn of NewsAssignment.net, Propeller Scout, sometime-contributor to Wired, AKA “DigiDave”, and all around Social News Dude has written an interesting post about Digg today, with respect to people gaming Digg.  I have to admit I don’t really follow Digg (…)

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Pownce Goes Mobile: Squaring Sights On Twitter?

by Tony Hung on December 18, 2007

Coming from the metaphorical lips of Kevin Rose himself, Pownce announced its super-alpha mobile version of Pownce today, available for mobile browsing at mobile.pownce.com.  I think this is an interesting development, given that one of the biggest pluses for Twitter (…)

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Is T-Mobile Shuttering Twitter Actually Dangerous?

by Tony Hung on December 15, 2007

Looks like US mobile phone company T-mobile is refusing to allow Twitterers to use its SMS service to Twitter. Its unclear on what grounds other than its an “unauthorized third party”. There are some great comments over at GetSatisfaction (which (…)

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Google’s Destruction, Step #1: Populate Search Results With Google Pages

by Tony Hung on December 14, 2007

Not merely content with indexing the web in all its forms (and serving applications to help people work online, tell other people where they are in the world and what they’re doing, creating a platform for mobile devices, and … (…)

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