Posts Tagged “Facebook”

The evolving picture of public (and private) discourse

by Tony Hung on November 28, 2010

Then in the last year something new has happened, which I see as the combined rise of mobile Internet technology and Facebook. While smartphones have made us more e-mail-enabled than ever, I think people are actually sending less total e-mail as (…)

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Holy Moly! Google OS Lives! (… As A Net-Only Cloud-Based Linux-Based OS)

by Tony Hung on July 8, 2009

You know, it figures 5 minutes after I pre-order Windows 7 (home premium, if you must wonder) off of Amazon.ca do I learn that Google OS is coming to netbooks far and yonder in the next few months.  Google’s own (…)

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Better Question: Would a Social Media Revolt “Matter” If Nothing Was Remedied?

by Tony Hung on May 17, 2009

Ben Parr asks “Why Social Media Revolts Take Place”, and goes through the usual places (crib notes: they do something that seriously cheeses its users, obviously visible in hindsight).  I think the better question is “what would have happened if (…)

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Is Blogging Dead? (Wait: Is It That Time Of Year Again?)

by Tony Hung on December 1, 2008

The “is blogging dead” meme (although no one has the chutzpah to call it what it is) rears its interesting head today over at the FastForward Blog — and much like other memes about blogging (there is / is not (…)

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