* Blogged.com — 1994 Called, And They Want Their Blog Directory Back

by Tony Hung on February 25, 2008

What with Blogged.com’s coverage in the past day or so, as Duncan remarked, its amazing what a little PR can do for you.  Any one else amazed yet?  For the love of pete its a Blog *DIRECTORY* — of which (…)

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* Low Engagement, Flattening Traffic, Gets Rewarded At Digg-Clone, Mixx

by Tony Hung on February 25, 2008

Would you be surprised if a Digg clone got millions of dollars to clone … well, Digg? I know I would. Fine, there are some finer features that distinguish it from the king of the social news mountain, but surely (…)

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Summing Up Twitter In One (Long) Sentence

by Tony Hung on February 24, 2008

Just read Mr. Rheingold’s thoughts on Twitter (he’s the chap behind Smart Mobs), and I think I can sum it up even more succinctly than he can (granted, his answer was off the cuff when asked by a student), i.e. (…)

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Twitter Is Good For Meeting People, Part I

by Tony Hung on February 23, 2008

Twitter is good for a lot of reasons, and I find that I’m hanging out more and more on the service.  I’m not going to rehash what’s been said about it, except that its an incredible way of meeting new (…)

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Why I Love Blogging, Part #242: Hearing It From The Horse’s Mouth

by Tony Hung on February 23, 2008

You may have heard about one Texas Senator, named Kirk Watson, an how he spectacularly flubbed on national television, when, as a Barack Obama supporter, was grilled by Chris Matthews (on CNBC) about Obama’s record — and came up blank. (…)

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RIP Netscape 1994-2008 (… The Browser, That Is)

by Tony Hung on February 23, 2008

The half-dozen or so users of the Netscape browser will be sad to hear that AOL is finally ending the historic browser’s run as of its latest release, which is 9.0.0.6, and was released February 20th. With the latest version (…)

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Did Sony Pay Off Toshiba To Scuttle HD-DVD Format? (Does It Matter?)

by Tony Hung on February 23, 2008

So with news that Japan is shelving the HD-DVD format from stores entirely, an interesting bit of news in the post portem of the high def wars, around the question — did Sony pay off Toshiba to end the war?  (…)

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