Archive for the “Mike Arrington” category

BlogWars Are Easily Defused When Meeting In Person

by Tony Hung on August 1, 2007

Looks like Arrington and Scoble have buried the hatchet, over their recent tiff regarding PodTech.  Blogwars are boring, I know, but its so funny how easily these things are defused when people actually meet people in person.

TechCrunch Launches Spawn on the Sly: Crunchbase Debuted, Like 2 Weeks Ago.

by Tony Hung on July 25, 2007

Well, I must have missed the newsletter or something — but it seems like TechCrunch launched its database of Web2.0 companies about two weeks ago, with an appropriately/cringeworthy “crunch” like moniker: Crunchbase.  And in fact,it may yet be in ‘stealth’ (…)

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A Deep And Flawed Misunderstanding of A-Lists, Blogs, And Social Networks

by Tony Hung on July 5, 2007

… is being propagated by Hugh McLeod, who, once again, has decided to raise the egalitarian “Es Gibt Keine Einliste Es gibt keine A-Liste” (Or, “There is no A-list”, for our non-German reading readers). This issue seems to raise its (…)

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Does Your Favourite Tech Blogger Disclose What Companies They Own? (Should They?)

by Tony Hung on June 28, 2007

In the interests of the “big D”, maybe they should.

The Unanswered Question About GrandCentral

by Tony Hung on June 25, 2007

Not that its going to be sold — there are lots of folks who think that its going to happen.  For what its worth, I think it makes a lot of sense, from Google’s own desire to organize the world’s (…)

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Understanding The Real Nature Of “Conversational Marketing” (Its More Insidious Than PayPerPost)

by Tony Hung on June 23, 2007

Probably because the bloggers who are doing it aren’t aware of the kind of connections that are made.

… And Why It Actually Kind of Sucks To Meet Bloggers In Person

by Tony Hung on June 17, 2007

I usually love meeting bloggers in person. For me, certainly, its a chance to talk about things that I rarely get a chance to talk about with friends in my own social circle — and I think my wife has (…)

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