Archive for the “Web2.0” category

Andrew Keen: Totally Wrong, But a Magnificent Troll.

by Tony Hung on June 8, 2007

Andrew Keen, widely regarded as the curmudgeon of the social media set, sat down earlier today to take a few questions and answers from a few lowly plebs about his thoughts on social media. For those not quite familiar with (…)

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CONTEST: Want to Try Out The “New” RealPlayer? (I Have An Extra Invite)

by Tony Hung on June 8, 2007

Yet another contest — this time for an alpha build of RealPlayer

Yahoo! — “Search Is History”. Translation? “We Should Have Bought Facebook When We Had The Chance”

by Tony Hung on June 5, 2007

Yahoo says personalization. I say they mean social networks. I guess they should have made Mark Zuckerberg a better offer.

The Real Lesson Behind Guy Kawasaki’s Truemors — And It Ain’t Listed In His $12,107 Breakdown

by Tony Hung on June 5, 2007

Its his star power, actually. And can you put a price on that?

Live @ Mesh / Day 2 @ 1112h: Building A Web Business — With Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist, Part 2

by Tony Hung on May 31, 2007

More:  On the newspaper industry: I think its easy to point to the Internet when you’re laying people off to raise profit margins to please Wall Street.  In my mind its unfair to lay it our feet and its done (…)

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Could Ask.com Ever Topple Google? Wait, Let Me Stop Laughing First.

by Tony Hung on May 22, 2007

Don’t laugh — but that’s the meme that’s kind of floating around, since Allen from CenterNetworks proposed how he might orchestrate it, with Read/Write/Web chiming in with their three cents. Don’t get me wrong: making some strategic moves makes sense (…)

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Contest: Spock.com Invitations … Who Wants One?

by Tony Hung on May 22, 2007

Hi guys, Spock.com is a startup / web application that specializes in finding information about people.  I will be posting my own thoughts about it a later date (soon), but suffice it to say that it does a little more (…)

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