Three Things I Love About WordPress 2.6
by Tony Hung on July 18, 2008
If you’re a user of WordPress, you should probably always upgrade when a new version comes out for security reasons. However, with the new release of WordPress 2.6, there are three features that really stand out for me — in (…)
Who Almost Has As Many RSS Subscribers As TechCrunch?
by Tony Hung on July 18, 2008
I guess its debatable about whether the number of RSS subscribers is a useful metric. Now that we’ve all acknowledged that it *might* be debatable, here’s a tiny bit of techblogger mind candy for you to enjoy — know which (…)
The “Mainstream” Deception Is Google’s Achille’s Heel
by Tony Hung on July 17, 2008
Marshall Kirkpatrick comments on a recent Hitwise study, remarking that a whole load of people *still* type in the URL not in the Address Bar, but directly into a search engine, to find their site. Marshall’s wondering if civilization as (…)
What Drives More Traffic Than Getting Digged, Reddited, Delicious’d, or StumbledUpon?
by Tony Hung on July 16, 2008
From the “oh yeah — its that important” department”, Om “GigaOm” Malik reports how beneficial being “buzzed” has been for GigaOm.com. And of course he’s referring to Yahoo Buzz, which is a social news type of site that was launched (…)
Just How Vulnerable Is FriendFeed To Spam?
by Tony Hung on July 14, 2008
So, in a threaded comment-ango on Friendfeed today, I noticed an odd comment by a Friendfeedster that seemed out of place. So out of place, it almost smelled … blog spammy. Sure enough, someone (Hutch Carpenter) mentioned that this comment (…)
The Problem With Frienderati
by Tony Hung on July 14, 2008
The A-list is dead! Long live the A-list! Long live the — ! … ahem. Guy “I can’t believe somewhat someone bought Truemors” Kawasaki has added yet another subdomain to his endless list of Alltop (what popURLs would be if (…)
Blogging Is Not Dead (Or, “Jason Calacanis Is A Narcissist”)
by Tony Hung on July 13, 2008
In what is mostly likely to be the most *douchiest* thing that has ever been written by Jason Calacanis, he now declares blogging “dead”. The funny thing is that this particular meme has some legs under other titles, such as (…)