Skype just launch their 2.0 beta which comes build in with Video support a week ago. From their FAQ: * Best ever call quality. * One-to-one video conversations with anyone, anywhere in the world. * Contact list grouping – organize your Skype contacts anyway you like by creating groups for ‘colleagues’, ‘friends’ and ‘family’,etc. * […]
Month: December 2005
Merry Christmas
Christmas Eve Dinner for Two plus One. A quiet Christmas dinner with my wife and little daughter…and marveling at One billion Internet Users. Merry Christmas!
The Internet Is Broken
Got this article from Dewayne Hendricks: At the same time, the Internet’s shortcomings have resulted in plunging security and a decreased ability to accommodate new technologies. “We are at an inflection point, a revolution point,” Clark now argues. And he delivers a strikingly pessimistic assessment of where the Internet will end up without dramatic intervention. […]
Thinking about AJAX
I remember attending Supernova last year and there is this small company demostrating a little web-based Email client they developed which looks and behave like Microsoft Outlook except it runs on a browser. After a very boring presentation which shows us nothing what Outlook cannot do, I remember Marc Canter finally not so politely shoo […]
30 years of personal computer
My Dream Machine..when I was a kid Arstechnica has an article recapping the 30 years of personal computer history. (via Slashdot) Very nice article with photos of old computers (oh gosh, how I missed them…) and also market share chart!
Murder Incorporated
This story apparently has been floating on the net since early this year. I just got to know about it recently as a friend forward me an article published in Sept 05 issue of PC Gamer. At 5am on APril 18, 2005, the CEO of the Ubiqua Seraph corporation (Eve’s equivalent of a guild) emerged […]
For La Idler
Just got back from the wake for Sondra aka La Idler. She is one of the editors of Tomorrow and went missing several weeks ago. Many of us was wondering where she went and was very worried. We were just told this morning she pass away… I don’t really know her well beyond her blog […]