Sometimes you underestimate the power of little things. Case in point, the power to dream. As people get more and more experience, imagination starts to take a back seat and you start thinking in terms of what might be possible.
It just struck me at a small gathering. We were planning an event and a group [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
Yeah, this is old news. Gree, one of Japan’s largest social networks (at least in the mobile arena, No. 2 or 3 depending on who you ask) is headed for an IPO. The timing couldn’t be worse with the sub-prime global meltdown, especially considering all the paperwork and red tape involved and all the restrictions [...]
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Been using as much free time as possible to read. It’s not that I haven’t been reading anything these past couple of years. If anything I’ve been reading tons of blogs and postings of various sorts. However, it’s apparent that the words you see on a screen are not the same as the words your [...]
Monday, November 10, 2008
I somehow managed to catch Jason Calacanis on his very first visit to Japan ever making a presentation at Tokyo 2.0. I was just going over my notes only to be a bit shocked to see that I could of read most of these by subscribing to his email list as shown in this post.
But [...]
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Like many books of its kind based on websites, Facebook Marketing spends a lot of time on basic usage with more than ample screenshots. The book is mainly written from the perspective of a person successfully marketing real estate on Facebook. Unfortunately, most of the screenshots are obsolete due to recent interface changes and one [...]
This is one of those rare pieces of long form journalism that tells so much through one traumatic event: a woman reporter’s rape. Joanna Conners, a reporter covering the theater, is raped in a deserted theater by a young African-American young man. The rapist died of cancer while locked up for the crime many years [...]
Back in the day, the web used to be my hobby. Programming started as a hobby very late in life as well. Now it pays the rent. I wont pretend and say it was purely for fun. I thought it would be not only cool to bring my web ideas to life as well as [...]
I sincerely hope that Sun is no longer the place that promising ideas and projects go to die. To be fair they’ve been innovating and open-sourcing some great stuff like zfs, solaris and java. Of course, having a pony-tailed CEO is not the same as having a coherent strategy. If you consider the potential of [...]
I finally got my windows environment up to par though I still have some ways to go. In a sense I’m not really developing on windows since I log in to a regular UNIX server where I check out code and run vim remotely to write the web app. As long as I’m using putty, [...]
Now, read this post carefully before you go ballistic over the title alone. To my SU friends, please ignore and move on as it doesn’t concern you nor is it about you. Don’t get me wrong, I still love StumbleUpon.
It’s also a boon for smalltime bloggers that holds us through the “dog days” of blog [...]
