found this kewl video in TED by Rives – star of the “Ironic Iconic America,” which tells a typographical fairy tale that’s short and bittersweet – this definitely made me =). http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Rives is a storyteller & a poet.
MoreFacebook has just launched it’s core product experience – Open Stream API, which allows user’s content be more dynamic. the Facebook homepage is currently designed to focus on the stream of information about the user. with the Open Stream API, developers can connect to their users’ streams and let their users read their streams wherever […]
Morewe must admit that we are in an era of social connectivity, this either via facebook, friendster, or twitter. Jeremiah Owyang of Web Strategy, has interviewed 24 of the top social web companies and came up with the five future social web eras: 1) Era of Social Relationships: People connect to others and share2) Era […]
Morein an effort to expand it’s social dimension, YouTube just announced a new “real-time” service that tells your friends what videos you’re currently watching. there’s actually a similar service that does this called tubetrail. all you got to do is install this as a browser plugin (currently works only with firefox only), this will then […]
Moreyahoo! has announced it will be closing geocities soon. geocities is one of the original web-hosting services which was acquired by yahoo in 1999. however with newer (and better) social platforms in town (like facebook, multiply, friendster), geocities found a hard time catching up and a steady decline of its usage was recorded by ComScore. […]
Moreafter news of china-based hackers cracking the u.s. pentagon’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet program design, now it’s been revealed that the NYPD system is getting around 70,000 attempts (into it’s system) a day! Raymund Kelly, NYPD commissioner, said the perpetrators have yet to succeed, but their relentless activities have prompted the force to raise […]
MoreRefine your image search with visual similarity! Google Labs just launched a new tool – Similar Images, which allows users to to search for images using pictures rather than words. all we got to do is click the “Similar images” link under an image to find other images that looks like it. learn and watch […]
MoreOracle Corp. has just announced that it will acquire it’s rival, Sun Microsystems for $9.50/share or about $7.4Bil. “This combination is a natural evolution of our relationship and will be an industry-defining event,” Sun’s co-founder and CEO Scott McNealy said. this came about after the talks between IBM (Oracle’s competitor) and Sun failed to materialize […]
Moreaside from facebook, twitter is admittedly the biggest thing right now with 9.3mil users in the u.s. alone, this includes the most recent known member – oprah. co-founded by Evan Williams and Biz Stone on 2006, twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging tool, which allows 140chars of text-based posts. so why the big […]
MorePhilippine Senator Alan Peter Cayetano just filed a resolution to grant Php100Mil to IT PINOYs who can hack the automated poll system. this is in response to COMELEC‘s claims that the automated poll system set to run for next year’s national elections is hack-proof. “COMELEC should cancel the contract, save the P11 billion and sue […]
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