Articles Written by:    TONY HUNG     

The Many — or Singular? — Problems of Friendfeed

What Friendfeed has to have is some kind of inflection point where its inherent greatness pulled through, was recognized by all, and contributed to some greater good.  The key, of course, is that “inherent greatness” — as Scoble points out, there are a ...

From TONY HUNG, Deep Jive Interests,  10 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

A Bit of a Personal Update

Just a bit of a personal update.  About a week ago, I finished my medical training.  I’m now fully qualified in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care.  Its culminated about 27 years of schooling, 15 of which has been post-secondary.  Whew!   I’m taking ...

From TONY HUNG, Deep Jive Interests,  9 Jul 2009

Bing Bigger Than Digg? Twitter? Not Quite.

Ben Parr at Mashable says Bing, Microsoft’s latest search engine offering, is doing well.  So well, in fact, that its bigger than Digg, Twitter and CNN. But none of that matters if Bing doesn’t grow and find a way to compete with Google . So after a ...

From TONY HUNG, Deep Jive Interests,  9 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Digg,  Twitter Inc,  Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.

Why Hulu Won? Free Compelling Content That Saves You Cash Always Wins (Doesn’t it?)

It seems odd to say, but “American Idol,” “Heroes” and the rest of the prime-time lineup have many millions of fans who don’t get the same satisfaction from YouTube (even though many of them turn to YouTube for other entertainment). So not only did ...

From TONY HUNG, Deep Jive Interests,  8 Jul 2009
Related Topics: American Idol,  Amazon.com,  eBay Inc.

Tempering Overexuberance

Google has said it wants to get help from the open source community. I’ll bet they do. All those drivers that Arrington dismisses with a wave of the hand WILL need to be served. If he thinks I”m wrong then a quick call to any of the major banks’ CTO ...

From TONY HUNG, Deep Jive Interests,  8 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Michael Jackson The Victim of Googlebombing? (”The Ugliest Person In The World”)

One wonders whether or not Michael Jackson’s been the unfortunate victim of a Googlebomb — my money is on “no” for at least one technical reason (I think): Google Images doesn’t work that way.  As far as I know, for images to get indexed on Google ...

From TONY HUNG, Deep Jive Interests,  8 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Michael Jackson,  Google Inc.

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

With the maturing of Google apps out of beta (just a few hours ago), and the announcement of Google’s own online OS just now, one wonders if the pieces are beginning to drop into place with respect to Google carving out its own niche — in earnest, this ...

From TONY HUNG, Deep Jive Interests,  8 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Twitter A Nobel Peace Prize Nominee? I Don’t Think So.

Twitter is a free social-messaging utility. It drove people around the world to pictures, videos, sound bites, and blogs in a true reality show of life, dreams, and death. Last month’s marches for freedom and the violent crackdowns were not only ...

From TONY HUNG, Deep Jive Interests,  8 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Twitter Scams Suckering In Gullible, Desperate

Recent schemes involve companies promising to pay Twitter users hundreds of dollars a day to tweet after they sign up for a free training kit, which the bureau said ends up sucking away a hefty monthly payment. Having said that, similar scams ...

From TONY HUNG, Deep Jive Interests,  7 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.

Google’s Paying Subscribers Still Anemic. Why?

The broader question for me is why Google has been a laggard in pushing / encouraging / appealing for a greater uptake in its services — get people down the funnel, so to speak from free to fee — or even, for that matter, from Google search –> free ...

From TONY HUNG, Deep Jive Interests,  7 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

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