Why Hulu Won? Free Compelling Content That Saves You Cash Always Wins (Doesn’t it?)

by Tony Hung on July 8, 2009

Saul Hansell queries why Hulu was pooh-pooh’d in the first place, and then takes the position that its peculiar and non-disruptive to broadcast network television on teh internets It seems odd to say, but “American Idol,” “Heroes” and the rest of (…)

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Tempering Overexuberance

by Tony Hung on July 8, 2009

Dennis Howlett is amongst the realists when it comes to GoogleOS, and he rightly reminds us that: Linux has not fared so well in the Netbooks market and I don’t see anything here that makes me think Google ChromeOS will (…)

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Michael Jackson The Victim of Googlebombing? (“The Ugliest Person In The World”)

by Tony Hung on July 8, 2009

SEO Roundtable picks on a meme in the wake of Michael Jackson’s death: If you conduct a Google search for ugliest person in the world today, you will see Google listing a picture of the late Michael Jackson … As virtually (…)

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Three Reasons Twittorati Needs Pruning

by Tony Hung on July 8, 2009

Seth Godin, Beppe Grillo and Geekologie to start. (For the lazy: The above blogs don’t Twitter).

Holy Moly! Google OS Lives! (… As A Net-Only Cloud-Based Linux-Based OS)

by Tony Hung on July 8, 2009

You know, it figures 5 minutes after I pre-order Windows 7 (home premium, if you must wonder) off of Amazon.ca do I learn that Google OS is coming to netbooks far and yonder in the next few months.  Google’s own (…)

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Twitter A Nobel Peace Prize Nominee? I Don’t Think So.

by Tony Hung on July 8, 2009

But Mark Pfieifle from the Christian Monitor does. Twitter is a free social-messaging utility. It drove people around the world to pictures, videos, sound bites, and blogs in a true reality show of life, dreams, and death. Last month’s marches for (…)

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Lessons in Linkbait XI: “How to Sell Weed on Facebook”

by Tony Hung on July 7, 2009

Allfacebook has a great post which should do well on Reddit and / or Digg, since potheads love promoting their neverending love of pot marijuana advocacy  is probably the second and fourth most popular topics on those social news sites. (…)

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