Joost on the iPhone: Luxuriate in its Deliciousness
by Tony Hung on November 29, 2008
Not much else to say, other than it is slick and delicious, and unfortuantely only available using Wi-Fi. I’ll be honest. I haven’t checked out Joost in months (years?), and they’ve boosted their line up considerably. Full length movies? Check. (…)
Will Qik Be The Next Twitter?
by Tony Hung on November 27, 2008
There’s been a lot of good debate around the use of Twitter at a time of crisis with the terrorist attacks in #Mumbai. I think its probably going to be one of those perennial topics any time there’s a crisis (…)
Gamers Not Addicted, Merely Disabled. Socially, That is.
by Tony Hung on November 25, 2008
Interesting article from the BBC today on the changing attitudes of a clinic in Europe which treats “gaming addictions”. The gist of things is that they’re changing the model with which they’re helping their clients, as they no longer view (…)
The Predictable (And Tragic) Evolution of New Media
by Tony Hung on November 20, 2008
Some news today on the tragic suicide of a young man captured on Justin.tv — Justin.tv being a tad different than, say, YouTube, as its one of those video services which streams content live. That is to say, he committed (…)
Text-Link-Ads Debuts Inlinks.com — Hopes To Fly Under Googles Radar
by Tony Hung on November 19, 2008
Text-Link-Ads (disclosure: they had advertising on this blog for a loooong time — what’s up Patrick!) has recently unveiled one of its newest products: InLinks.com. This service aims to match bloggers with advertisers in the paid-link arena, and makes no (…)
The “Real” Dan Lyons Could Never Exist At Newsweek — Or Forbes, For That Matter
by Tony Hung on November 18, 2008
You may have heard that Dan “Fake Steve Jobs” Lyon was forced to yank a couple of posts — and that he’s threatened (or may have actually) left his blogging post over the fact. Although Valleywag does a nice timeline (…)
Does Not Leaving Comments Matter?
by Tony Hung on November 24, 2008
Louis Gray spent a lot of time crafting a satirical post on the alleged “exchange rate” between comments and other means of interacting with a post — launched in part due to Allen Stern’s public bemoaning of a lack of (…)
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