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 […]
State of Blogosphere
David Sifry posted an updated on the state of blogosphere with some interesting information: As of March 2005, technorati is tracking 7.8m weblogs (937 millions links) growing at 30k to 40k per day. Another interesting part is this paragraph: There is a dark underbelly to these numbers, however: Part of the growth of new weblogs […]
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 […]
Breakfast with Dave Farber
Dave Farber (and his wife) was in San Jose for another event and I snatch the opportunity to meet up with them for breakfast this morning. I am glad I did because I really enjoy our breakfast conversation.
Innovation in DNS business
[ This entry is also on CircleID. ] One thing that amazed me about the ICANN community is the creativeness in finding new business models. I am not even talking about new technology like Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), the number of business models created from the vanilla DNS (actually just .com) are just mind boggling. […]
Creative vs Apple
Went to University Ave @ Palo Alto (just outside Stanford U) for dinner and saw this Soundworks (aka Creative Shop) selling Creative.
Infocomm Technology Roadmap 5
While I am in US this week, IDA1 concluded our 5th Infocomm Technology Roadmap (ITR5)2. The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) today unveiled its fifth and most significant Infocomm Technology Roadmap (ITR5) to date. This inaugural 10 year Technology Roadmap discusses the next era technologies such as sensor technology, biocomputing, nanotechnology and other emerging […]
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 […]