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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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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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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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Microsoft’s Jerry Seinfeld “Ads”: A Non-Sequitur Disaster

by Tony Hung on September 5, 2008

Nothing to see here except for non-sequitur humour that passes as “funny”.  I can’t believe Microsoft paid him $10M to star in this dreck.  Or, rather, I can’t believe that Jerry Seinfeld wants to attach his name to this kind (…)

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Mashable vs. John Reese: The Bigger Issue In Internet Marketing

by Tony Hung on June 20, 2008

There’s one heck of a donnybrook going on at Mashable, kicked off via Duncan Riley at the Inquistr, involving everyone’s favourite downtime service (Twitter), and John Reese, Internet Marketing schlep / god (depending on where you sit). Funny thing is (…)

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Want Some Free Research? Mahalo’s Worker Bees Will Do It For You

by Tony Hung on March 11, 2008

So an interesting fact, trailing the hubaloo over how Jason Calacanis does (or does not) treat his startup squad at Mahalo (working them like slaves or merely encouraging the best out of them) — turns out that the Mahalo worker (…)

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JuicyCampus Founder Pleads “Can’t You Just Stop Being Mean To Each Other? Please?”

by Tony Hung on March 2, 2008

Well … in not so many words, of course. Matt Ivester, founder of JuicyCampus.com, the “gossip” site for College kids notoriously known for being an unrestrained melting pot of libelous and defamatory remarks, has made a plea for decorum and (…)

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