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Jimmy Wales Fiasco A Missed Opportunity For Google News

by Tony Hung on March 6, 2008

A few days ago, you may have heard about the whole Jimmy Wales / Wikipedia fiasco — its hard to believe that you didn’t as it hit a lot of major mainstream media outlets.  The substance of the fiasco (if (…)

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Google’s Destruction, Step #1: Populate Search Results With Google Pages

by Tony Hung on December 14, 2007

Not merely content with indexing the web in all its forms (and serving applications to help people work online, tell other people where they are in the world and what they’re doing, creating a platform for mobile devices, and … (…)

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Live @ Mesh / Day 2 @ 1340: Digital Sharecropping

by Tony Hung on May 31, 2007

With Mathew Ingram, Simon Pulsifer, Jeff Howe, Michael Sikorsky “How do you respond criticism towards crowdsourcing?” JH: I think its a false controversy. There were far fewer models back then, and there was no sharecropping taking place. I think it (…)

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