Archive for the “General” category

You Spending Longer In That Chair Stairing At This Screen Has Implications. Big Implications.

by Tony Hung on November 30, 2007

If you’re interested in knowing why the writers are on strike in Hollywood *and* try to understand why music sales continue to slump, head over to this interesting graph over at Compete.com which basically suggests we are all spending more (…)

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Facebook’s Billion Dollar Evaluation Hinges On Apathy. *Our* Apathy.

by Tony Hung on November 25, 2007

Looks like the A-lister brigade is out in force against the opt-in lunacy that is Facebook Beacon. Or, so it would seem, anyway, with Doc Searls, Dave Winer, and Jason Calacanis (and a few others) making some good ol’ impassioned (…)

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Congratulations to Eric Berlin — AKA Online Media Cultist — On Quarterlife

by Tony Hung on November 17, 2007

A quick congrats to Eric Berlin, who is the blogger behind online media cultist.  He was blogging a little more frequently, but has been held up over the past few months as the web producer behind the social networking site, (…)

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Give Facebook’s Beacon The Kibosh, Adblocking Styles!

by Tony Hung on November 8, 2007

When I was writing about how “average” Facebookers might not like how the new Social Ads might be implemented, in the back of my mind I was wondering how “above-average” Facebookers might take to it.  Geeky coding types being stereotypically (…)

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Pundits Poo-Poo Social Ads … Will Average Facebookers Care?

by Tony Hung on November 7, 2007

Seems like there’s a whole bunch of healthy skepticism around Facebook’s attempt at monetizing the relationships people have on Facebook (in addition to yours truly, of course). Mat Ingram loathes the idea of “friending” a company like Coca-Cola Nick Carr (…)

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Digg Finally Adding New Real Features — Its About Frackin’ Time

by Tony Hung on September 20, 2007

I’ve been critical of Kevin Rose and Digg in the past, and as Muhammad Saleem points out — its been almost half a year since many promised features would be rolled out. Well, as you probably heard from all your (…)

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Lifehacker Reveals Greatest Hack Since Sliced Bread … Unfortunately.

by Tony Hung on September 15, 2007

Its nice to see it get some real publicity. I’m referring, of course, to the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) project, which I’ve written about before a few times. Its a open source linux project which allows you to turn your (…)

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