Seems like this year is going to be the year we find out whether print media is about to taken by a revolution as big as the rise of digital music players was for music. Although print may be an industry in decline, we are confronted with more reading than ever before. The only difference [...]
I’ve never been a fan of windows. Switching to a mac was definitely one of the best things that I’ve ever done in my life. It opened my life to a world of stress free computing, until Leopard. I still like the mac and I think the fonts and visuals are nice but I’ve also [...]
Founders at Work certainly lives up to expectations. If you’re looking for inspiration on how people bootstrapped themselves in the tech sector to wild success here it is. Now, as a chronicle of the nascent IT sector at this point in history, there are a lot of people who were at the right place at [...]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Technological advances radically alter dynamics of social change. The election of President Obama is a watershed moment that represents an evolution over a decade in the making. For the first time, social networks were mobilized on a scale that silenced critics of the technology’s limited utility to society or the “realness” of online social connections. [...]
Saturday, January 10, 2009
The other day I read “Time Machine” by H.G. Wells using Stanza. I’ve always had my doubts about digital books simply for the fact that it simply doesn’t “feel” the same. Plus, my experience with digital content is most with made for the web content such as blogs. It simply isn’t the same level of [...]
Barack Obama ’s successful bid for president is probably just as significant as having our first (at least openly) multi-racial president (remember his mother is white and he only met his father once or twice). He changed the nature of campaigning for good and finally delivered on the promise of information technology driven movements. Just [...]
After watching Lost the other day I was taken by all the similarities that the island of Lost and its characters have with an IT company. Jack Sheppard as the CEO A solid runner who came up in the ranks starting with the code. He’s a hands on type manager who’s not afraid [...]
Here’s yet another gratuitous bandwagon blog post on Google Apps. We’re starting to see an explosion of “sandbox platforms” for third-party developers. Basically, you get a constrained subset of common features in exchange for access to a beautiful playing ground with lots of toys and playmates. We have mini platforms such as Amazon’s web services [...]
I decided to subscribe to a bunch of Cocoa mailing lists, as in Mac OS X cocoa framework in preparation of the hairy ride I’d be subjected to as I try to come to grips with Objective-C and all the other technology required to master development for the Apple platform. I use Gmail exclusively [...]
I took a look at Adobe AIR after being impressed against my will using Twhirl. Not that I have anything against Adobe. I just think their flagship products are over-priced or out of the reach for hobbyists. That doesn’t mean that the company doesn’t have some serious talent. It got me thinking about the big [...]
