Archive for the “Jason Calacanis” category

Blogging Is Not Dead (Or, “Jason Calacanis Is A Narcissist”)

by Tony Hung on July 13, 2008

In what is mostly likely to be the most *douchiest* thing that has ever been written by Jason Calacanis, he now declares blogging “dead”. The funny thing is that this particular meme has some legs under other titles, such as (…)

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I Grudgingly Give Props To Jason Calacanis: Mahalo Has Been Doing Great

by Tony Hung on February 28, 2008

There were a lot of people, who, about a year ago made a lot of noises about how Jason Calacanis‘s next project, wasn’t going to work (me included). Human edited directories will never ride in this day of automated algorithmic (…)

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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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Netscape Parties’ Like Its 1999: AOL Quietly Crushes Calacanis’s “Social” Legacy

by Tony Hung on September 7, 2007

Update:  Apparently official communications were such that Scouts were in fact told of the upcoming changes. Some sad (or happy, depending on your point of view) news coming out of AOL this morning: they plan to scuttle Jason Calacanis’s social (…)

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Quote of The Day

by Tony Hung on August 12, 2007

I was about to comment on the whole slapfest at Gnomedex, relishing in the fact, of course, that I am on the other side of the continent, and am absolutely unqualified to write about any of the high school drama (…)

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A Backlash Against Facebook Applications Will Come — This is How.

by Tony Hung on July 30, 2007

For those who follow popular tech bloggers (and I expect most, if not all of you do, if you’re reading this blog), there have been two interesting posts within the last 48 hours few days or so. One involves Jason (…)

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Does Spock.com Need a Guy Kawasaki or a Jason Calacanis?

by Tony Hung on June 26, 2007

How important is generating buzz to drive signups for better network effects?