Have We Reached The Pinnacle Of Social News?

by Tony Hung on February 22, 2008

So I loves my news aggregators, and I loves my social news sites. You may have also heard of a new breed of such sites, which aggregate shared bookmarks via Google Reader (and more), such as readburner, linkriver, and rssmeme. (…)

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Jeebus Frackin’ … Come, Freakin’ *ON*, Microsoft!

by Tony Hung on February 21, 2008

You may have heard that Vista SP1 is coming / has come / will destroy you / devour small animals / capture all of your bases. There’s some more news that installing it will likely render even *MORE* programs unusable. (…)

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Google News 2.0 … Leveling The Field For New Media “Orphans”?

by Tony Hung on February 21, 2008

Not that Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia is anything *remotely* like a New Media Orphan (in fact, one could say he is a new media ‘godfather’, in some respects), but interesting rejoinder *by* Mr. Sanger on Google News, with respect (…)

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The Why’s And Wherefore’s Of Taking On TechCrunch

by Tony Hung on February 21, 2008

Interesting debate today — for a small period of time — BubbleGeneration’s Umair Haque leveled some interesting assertions at Mikey A et al. over at TechCrunch, and subsequently took the post down … but was then put up again, in (…)

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37Signals’ Backpack Evolves Into Intranet 2.0?

by Tony Hung on February 20, 2008

Update: Interesting stats on how many people upgraded/ converted to their new services; 37Signals reminds us that Web2.0 doesn’t always mean an adsense supported bottom line  I’m sure you’ll be reading in depth reviews at some point or another by (…)

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What “Techno Addiction” Really Means

by Tony Hung on February 20, 2008

So read an article on BBC today about a warning call on “Techno Addiction”, and I couldn’t help but be reminded about *another* article I read on Cory Doctorow at BoingBong.net, about his own opinions on the subject (via a (…)

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Newspond: Saccharine, Misbegotten Child Of Digg And Techmeme?

by Tony Hung on February 20, 2008

Contrary to what some believe, Newspond, the latest entry into the news aggregator scene, isn’t really teh awesome. Here’s the two second run down: it aggregators news, like Techmeme.  It allows you to comment, like Digg. Sure, there’s a fancy (…)

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