I Grudgingly Give Props To Jason Calacanis: Mahalo Has Been Doing Great
by Tony Hung on February 28, 2008
There were a lot of people, who, about a year ago made a lot of noises about how Jason Calacanis‘s next project, wasn’t going to work (me included). Human edited directories will never ride in this day of automated algorithmic (…)
What Are The SEO Implications Of Google “Sites”? (The Wiki Previously Known As Jotspot)
by Tony Hung on February 28, 2008
Google Sites, Google’s update for Jotspot, the Wiki application it bought almost a year and a half ago has just been released. Now, just a question from a casual observer, but given how Squidoo has been embraced by SEO-types for (…)
Picnik is Free! Freeeeee! (… ahem, or, going to a freemium, ad-supported model)
by Tony Hung on February 27, 2008
I love Picnik, the online image editor. I’ve said so in the past, mostly because it is so slick, smooth and user-friendly. Therefore, it made my day to hear that Picnik has, in fact, gone Free! Waved its premium membership, (…)
VC’s Back Crunchyroll: Guts? Brains? Or Sheer Stupidity?
by Tony Hung on February 27, 2008
Crunchyroll. You might vaguely remember some noise around this video-streaming site (let’s call it a YouTube clone) that hosts largely japanese “cartoons”, or anime, as its also known, as it got some coverage by TechCrunch and Venturebeat a few months (…)
Google’s A One Trick Pony I’ll Bet On Any Day
by Tony Hung on February 27, 2008
Looks like the blogosphere has jumped on Fred Wilson’s back-of-the-envelope financial analysis of Google, in light of Google’s apparent troubling click-fortunes (honestly, did anyone think we’d be having this discussion 6 months ago?). He has a good point though: Google’s (…)
FriendFeed Is Giving Me Another “Woah” Moment
by Tony Hung on February 26, 2008
The funny thing is that unlike Twitter, which took me over a year to “get”, it took me all of 5 minutes to “get” Friendfeed (which just announced a 5M dollar round of funding). Anyway, the service is a bit (…)
Digg Town Hall: Spam Catching, Exit Strategies, Focus Groups, And Pimping (Digg’s Features)
by Tony Hung on February 26, 2008
So I had a chance to listen in on the Digg Town Hall today, which wasn’t quite the format I was expecting, as they fielded 20 questions that were sent to them (ordered by Diggs, naturally), rather than answer live (…)