Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Bret Taylor suggested having a Wikipedia for Data. It's not a novel idea, considering that Freebase is up and I have meddled around with a similar idea concept that I submitted to Y-combinator earlier. Adrian Holovaty, founder of web framework Django and programmer-journalist, also suggested something similar when he proposed ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Joyeur: Joyent's Garden of Eden for Python Web Applications
Joyent’s “Garden of Eden” program provides you, the python application developer, with unlimited on-demand compute, storage, memory, bandwidth for your python application (besides the nude, and buffed people everywhere).
All these in exchange for customer information and click-stream data. I wonder how developers ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Another breakthrough by Apple. The world's thinnest notebook
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
This post is for beginners for Ruby on Rails who is learning from the Depot tutorial from the book: Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edition. The release of Rails 2.0.2 had deprecated some functions, and changed some defaults. I'm only started with Ruby on Rails for less than ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Cisco believes that the next big wave is collaboration , and social networking. They are now rethinking how they can help companies distribute content more securely and efficiently to their customers, meaning they have to move into areas beyond switches and routers, but also about unified communications, wireless and ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
So Good O'Reilly noticed the opportunities in the finance industry for Web 2.0 to strike in. Check out the Money:Tech Conference 2008 in New York City. When will we see the next Bloomberg killer?
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Facebook has received another $60m in funding by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing. However, he's not making the investment in the name of his conglomerates, Cheung Kong and Hutchison Whampoa, but as another entity. Apparently, he's turning his head to leverage on social networking sites. I wonder ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Just received an email about the Salesforce.com Christmas Party 2007 at Clarke Quay! There's a high chance I will be going there. Hopefully I can get a job over there - Since I have not been too active in my job applications of late. Chances are very slim ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Lawrence Lessig never fails to impress me. The content and style of this presentation is just amazing. Creativity should not be constrained by incumbent legislature, but encouraged to be expressed in different forms that makes meaning to different groups of users. Anyone can flag user-generated content and have the content ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
A few months back, I was contemplating whether it's time for me to switch over from a normal mobile phone to a smartphone. It was not a small investment for a student to have a smartphone - Unless I can justify why I needed a smartphone over a normal ...
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