I don’t believe in Quality-of-Service (QoS). I don’t buy all the vendors FUDs about “oh..you need QoS or else the world is going to end so buy my this special QoS-enabled box! now!”. It is not that I don’t believe in quality for voice – I do – but I don’t think we need special […]
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ETech Day 2
Few more things I picked up at ETech Day 2 a) James Larsson, power hacker, showed some amazing hacks he done. Some stuff he did is amazing (and pretty dangerous!) Like turning his old CRT into a mouse trap (8Mb AVI :-) He delivered the whole thing in such a funny manner that everyone was […]
IDN Parody on verisign.com
Guilllaume Rischard setup a parody on verisign.com using the IDN spoofing trick. He managed to get one registrar to register verisign.com with a cyrillic S (U+0405) (ie xn--veriign-mog.com :-) Also check out Neustar website, the competitor to Verisign. This actually started in #joiito a couple of weeks ago after the Eric published the spoofing attack […]
ETech Day 1
Here are a few things I picked up on ETech Day 1 a) Daniel Hillis from Applied Minds demostrated some video clips with very cool user interface they developing. Looks like a huge LCD/Plasma on a table, it is able to display map, zooming in, out, pan and flip through ‘layers’ etc very intuitively. And […]
etech and Mac Mini Cooper
I am now in San Diego for O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. I bang into Marc Canter on my way to the registration. Marc is the co-founder of Macromedia but he is really more well-known as a “connector” – he is a social animal who literally knows everyone! We spoke a bit – need to get […]
Mobile Dating Sim
Looks like Mobile Dating Sim has reached in China (via xinhuanet) 记者日前了解到，曾经在年轻人中风靡一时的饲养电子宠物的游戏如今已有了“升级版”——用手机养“虚拟情人”成了现在最流行的一种玩法。有专家指出，这类游戏的流行不仅会损害女性形象，让人将感情培养功利化，更严重的会影响游戏玩家的身心健康和人格发展。 Mobile Games like 口袋情人 [Pocket Lover] (typical Japanese dating Sim) and SMS Games like 宠物情人 [Pet Lover] is getting popular in China and experts are concern about the social effects of such games on youngsters. These games don’t come cheap either – the […]
Blink
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (the author of The Tipping Point) Absolutely love the book. And I can relate to the many stories cited by Malcolm especially about intuition – sometimes people asked me how I know what technology to focus – I don’t know how but I just […]
Reflections on VON
Finally, today is the last day of VON. So many things happened here that I can hardly catch my breath. It is time to sit down and reflect what I learn about VON. 1. This is the largest VON ever – 6,000+ people! (congz to pulver.com). This huge turn out means VoIP is no longer […]
VON Blogger Panel
I have a lot of fun at the VoIP Blogger session with Andy Abramson, Dan Brekke, Jeff Pulver, Om Malik, Aswath Rao and Tom Keating. I am also pretty amazed at the numbers of people in the audience who read blogs and also blog themselves. Particularly, it is quite clear that most people read our […]
Michael Gallagher at VON
Michael Gallagher is the Assistant Secretary, US Dept of Commerce. Apparently, his title does not do him justice : He actually advises the President on ICT development in US. Anyway, he sound like campaigning for the President ;-) but it has been very informative filled with data, President’s policies and how it is affecting the […]