Google’s Chrome: The Only Two Things You Need To Know
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Having played around with Google’s new browser, Chrome, I’d like to offer my two bits to the ongoing bloggasm around its release.  If you’re looking for an indepth review, wa readmore
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Google’s Chrome Could Be Crap — And It Would Still Gain Market Share
(unknown author) via Deep Jive Interests on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Shared by marcel weiß "Even if no one else wrote about it, there was no blogger buzz, and no coverage that we all expect in tomorrow’s news … all it has to do is throw up some strategic links on its SERP’s, on its home page, and on all of its applications (since Chrome will exist for web applications it would be especially apropros), and this will still get thousands readmore
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Does Anyone Else Use the iPhone On Chrome Throne?
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Not that *I* do, of course (cough, cough), but I’ve noticed that browsing on the iPhone to be a fairly awesome mobile experience, where, of course, I can literally surf anywhere, and surf real webpages, not the mobile optimized crap that often passes as a “web experience”. Yesterday, for example, I found myself on my couch surfing on my iPhone (via Safari) while watching TV, while readmore
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Thoughts on Being a Dad and a Blogger
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Sat, 30 Aug. 2008
My son is almost two now, and I find that as he’s getting older, its becoming tougher to regularly blog *and* be a Dad who is “present” at home.  I’m finding something that most new parents already know: as babies turn into toddlers, and as toddlers turn into children, they actually demand more and more out of you.  That’s presuming that you want to be a good parent, of course. readmore
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Some (Late) Thoughts on the iPhone 3G: Its Good, Bad and sometimes Ugly
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Sat, 30 Aug. 2008
So, in light of the new data plan promotion for 3G phones up here in Canada via Rogers (part of our wireless oligopoly), I decided to go full bore and just go for it.  Even though Rogers has extended this “special” rate for data plans for another month or three, it made sense for me.  I have been paying through t readmore
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Wait, wait, wait. Google News Makes *HOW* Much Money?
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Sat, 26 Jul. 2008
Somewhere in the cacophony of the usual stuff on TechmemeCrunchFeed this past week, I missed this interesting nugget of news: Google News makes money.  Lots of it.  readmore
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What Happened With Pownce?
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Fri, 25 Jul. 2008
*image via Quantcast Almost 8 months into its public launch, Pownce is looking like readmore
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Dear PR Firms: Please Have An Angle When Pitching To Bloggers
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
If you're going to send us something, make it worthwhile. So, if you’ve been blogging for any stretch o readmore
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After iPhone Debacle, Is Rogers Up For Another PR Pie-In-The-Face?
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Mon, 21 Jul. 2008
Shared by William Spaetzel I can confirm this is happening. Ridiculous. I'll be installing OpenDNS on my router Up here in the hinterlands of Canada, you may have heard about the giant uproar with Rogers, our only provider who can support, and therefore, sell the iPhone — sp readmore
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Video “Blogging” Sing-A-Long Genius (or, Is It “Evil Genius”?)
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Sun, 20 Jul. 2008
Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris. Now, that’s funny. :) Catch all three “blog” episodes at http://www.drhorrible.com readmore
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Is It Now Ever Acceptable For Amazon’s S3 “To Be Down”?
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Sun, 20 Jul. 2008
Silly question for you to ponder: even though mistakes happen, and they are inevitable, in the evolving space of cloud c readmore
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Who Almost Has As Many RSS Subscribers As TechCrunch?
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Fri, 18 Jul. 2008
I guess its debatable about whether the number of RSS subscribers is a useful metric.  Now that we’ve all acknowledged that it *might* be debatable, here’s a tiny bit of techblogger mind candy for you to enjoy — know which tech-related blog that almost has readmore
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The “Mainstream” Deception Is Google’s Achille’s Heel
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Thu, 17 Jul. 2008
Marshall Kirkpatrick comments on a recent Hitwise study, remarking that a whole load of people *still* type in the URL not in the Address Bar, but directly into a search engine, to find their site.  Marshall’s wondering if civilization as we know it would collapse around our ears if some elements of the w readmore
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What Drives More Traffic Than Getting Digged, Reddited, Delicious’d, or StumbledUpon?
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Wed, 16 Jul. 2008
From the “oh yeah — its that important” department”, Om “GigaOm” Malik reports how beneficial being “buzzed” has been for GigaOm.com.  And of course he’s referring to Yahoo Buzz, which is a social news type of site that was launched some months ago.  Its funny how some news gets lost in the wake readmore
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Just How Vulnerable Is FriendFeed To Spam?
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Tue, 15 Jul. 2008
So, in a threaded comment-ango on Friendfeed today, I noticed an odd comment by a Friendfeedster readmore
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The Problem With Frienderati
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Mon, 14 Jul. 2008
The A-list is dead! Long live the A-list! Long live the — !  …  ahem. Guy “I can’t believe somewhat bought Truemors” Kawasaki has added yet another subdomain to his endless list of Alltop (what popURLs would be if someone decided to aggregate feeds of all kinds) categories, and this one is the top 100 (or so) “friendsters” on Friendfeed. Its called readmore
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Blogging Is Not Dead (Or, “Jason Calacanis Is A Narcissist”)
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Mon, 14 Jul. 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 “the evolution of conversation”, or “the further maturation of bl readmore
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I, Too, Call “BullShit” On Jason Calacanis
(unknown author) via Deep Jive Interests on Sat, 12 Jul. 2008
Shared by Powera I wouldn't expect anything less than complete bullshit from someone as full of bullshit as Jason Calacanis. He's a hack and a fraud, in my opinion. Jason Calacanis has decreed that readmore
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Newsflash! Digg FrontPage Still Dominated By Small Group of Diggers!
Tony Hung via Deep Jive Interests on Mon, 07 Jul. 2008
There are a few (tech) blogging topics that are eternal. Comments vs. no comment.  A-listers vs. non-A-listers.  Techmeme sucks vs. Techmeme is readmore
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Mashable vs. John Reese: The Bigger Issue In Internet Marketing
(unknown author) via Deep Jive Interests on Fri, 20 Jun. 2008
Shared by Sue Agreed. Both camps have something to teach each other, but I'm not sure they'll listen & learn. There’s one heck of a donnybrook going on at Mashable, kicked off via readmore
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