Would Digg Be Substantially Different Without The Digg Elite?

by Tony Hung on January 26, 2008

Well, now you can answer that for yourselves, thanks to some creative piping at Yahoo Pipes.  There’s a mashup that alleges to remove some of the front page results of the Digging Elite (or Top Diggers, or Top X number (…)

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FYI: The TechCrunch Effect Won’t Help If You’re Site Es Muy Malo

by Tony Hung on January 24, 2008

Interesting thoughts about the TechCrunch Effect today.  Two things to say about it: 1. Its almost always unpredictable in its timing: my understanding is that Mike doesn’t email you the heads up as to when its happening, so you can’t (…)

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Are You Applying SEO Strategies To Your Resume? (Maybe You Should)

by Tony Hung on January 23, 2008

Over at Scobleizer, I was reading a comment thread and a very interesting comment came up.  It was in the context of Robert Scoble giving a few pearls of wisdom about “what to do if you get fired in this (…)

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One Rocking Solution For Digital Music Sales

by Tony Hung on January 21, 2008

In the long running, agonizing death spiral that that is the CD Business, its refreshing to see new models for distribution that Just Work (and that don’t involve iTunes).  One example is the example of Guitar Hero 3 and Rock (…)

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Facebook Partnering With Nokia? Yeah, That’s A Good Thing.

by Tony Hung on January 20, 2008

Well it looks like Nokia may be partnering with Facebook in a fairly major way to allow placement of Facebook right onto the main menus of Nokia screens.  Pretty important stuff in terms of utility and branding. Not just in (…)

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Are Journalists Using Your Blog To Help Their Stories?

by Tony Hung on January 19, 2008

Maybe. There’s an oldish (interesting what passes for “old” in blogging time) study that was released two weeks ago, which surveyed a whole bunch of American journalists over their attitudes on blogs, and more importantly, how they interact with them. (…)

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How’s Your Wp-Content/Plugins Folder Doing? Secure? Are You Sure?

by Tony Hung on January 19, 2008

I’m embarassed to say that I actually knew this tip a while ago, but never got around to implementing it until I read about it *again* today.  Embarassed because this blog has been hacked a few times, and in a (…)

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