Ken Yeung

My Two Cents

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Social Media

Mocking the Twitter gods

Quite recently, a few of my co-workers in jest were asking me every  a ltime they saw me on my blackberry or near a laptop whether I was “updating Twitter”. It’s interesting to hear what people think about Twitter and how some even think that it’s only used to answer the age-old question “What are […]

Reviews

Getting it on with Naked Conversations

A few years ago, two great minds wrote a book about blogging. Not about the basics, but more from a business end. This is obviously not the first review of this book, but having just read it, I thought I would offer my own insights into the great information that can be found in Naked […]

Social Media

So blogs aren’t used for journalistic means?

I just finished reading Naked Conversations by Shel Isreal and Robert Scoble and I felt it was quite informative and showed how the power of the blog can influence the way business is done. Journalists are taking advantage of this media and it’s become quite a powerful tool for spreading the news and keeping in […]

Marketing

A marketer’s take on social networking’s mortality rate

In a recent post on the Social Times, Nick O’Neill, a social media newshound (and who seems to be right up there with Mashable, TechCrunch, and Read/Write/Web in reporting great bits of news), has written that social networking sites will be “dead in two years“. That’s an interesting observation, but I think it’s going to take […]

Marketing

A major shift in the search engine monopoly appears to be brewing

Apparently as first reported on Robert Scoble’s blog and repeated on Truemors.com (run by Guy Kawasaki), it appears that Microsoft’s new “alternative” strategy in working with Yahoo will wind up greatly decreasing Yahoo’s status as a search engine powerhouse and help elevate Microsoft’s search status to rival that of Google. Surely while software development company […]

Marketing

Yahoo’s not giving up without a fight

Surprise…surprise…Yahoo’s troubles aren’t over. Although not enough for Microsoft, they’ve rallied around Carl Icahn to lead the charge to acquire the number two search engine. But while this theoretically could create a powerful competitor to Google, Yahoo’s board of directors are claiming that they might be better off trying to survive on their own. So […]

Social Media

I’m a little verklempt. SocialDevCamp was neither about development or camping. Discuss.

So I’m back from a pretty awesome time at SocialDevCamp East at the University of Baltimore. I think it was pretty well organized and had a great turnout – over 100 attendees that gathered to learn all about what issues are surrounding the social web. The issues were thought-provoking and I managed to get some […]

Dev

Break Time at SocialDevCamp East

So I’ve spent nearly several hours here at SocialDevCamp East at the University of Baltimore and I must say that I’m quite impressed with what’s been going on. Thank you to the organizers (David Troy, Ann Bernard, Keith Casey, and anyone else I forgot) for arranging cool sessions. I think that I’ve got some good […]

Social Media

Video commenting on blogs: Wave of the Future?

In the past couple of months, there have been several big developments on video blogging. Perhaps most important is that two big applications have offered their services to allow people to post comments on blog posts. But not just any comment…these are video comments (I’ll wait for the “oohs” and “ahhs”). The two that I […]

Marketing

Mission: Impossible? How can UPS use social media to its advantage?

Yesterday, Ann Bernard (social media guru from WhyGoSolo – which is a site you must check out, by the way) posted on Twitter about her encounters with UPS and how she noticed on her receipt a message from UPS, which got me thinking about UPS’s perdicament. What exactly was the message that appeared on the receipt? […]