Making Friendfeed Better, Part II

by Tony Hung on July 10, 2009

Friendfeed needs powerful friends (read: friends with tons of friends, wealthy friends, powerful friends, friends with access).  They could do a lot worse than Thomas Hawk, Zooomr-evangelist, and gigantic Flickr Fan, who suggests a lot more engagement with Flickr Fans (…)

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On Using Twitter For Corporate Marketing

by Tony Hung on July 10, 2009

It appears as though some institutions are using interns to man their Twitter stations, as picked up by the Big Money Blog at Slate.com — Pizza Hut, in particular has had some success with their own intern: she’s grown their (…)

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Google OS’s Hardware Strategy?

by Tony Hung on July 10, 2009

Perhaps the key to Google OS’s success is in this key statement that might have been overlooked yesterday: Messrs. Schmidt and Page were also careful not to position Chrome as a competitor to Microsoft Windows. They argued that Chrome will (…)

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Army Using Video Games To Fight Smoking Addiction

by Tony Hung on July 10, 2009

And there’s spending almost $4 million dollars to produce a game that will likely surface in 2013.  You know, I almost pooh-pooh’d this particular fact until I read this piece in Scientific American about how a similar program aimed at (…)

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The Many — or Singular? — Problems of Friendfeed

by Tony Hung on July 10, 2009

The most prolific Friendfeeder of them all (to give you an idea of how Robert-Scoble-as-lifestreamer >> Scoble-as-blogger, just look at the number of comments on his Friendfeed vs. Blog … currently a ratio of 10:1 as of this writing) gives (…)

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A Bit of a Personal Update

by Tony Hung on July 9, 2009

Just a bit of a personal update.  About a week ago, I finished my medical training.  I’m now fully qualified in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care.  Its culminated about 27 years of schooling, 15 of which has been post-secondary.  Whew! (…)

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Bing Bigger Than Digg? Twitter? Not Quite.

by Tony Hung on July 9, 2009

Ben Parr at Mashable says Bing, Microsoft’s latest search engine offering, is doing well.  So well, in fact, that its bigger than Digg, Twitter and CNN. But none of that matters if Bing doesn’t grow and find a way to (…)

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