Tag: Technology

Played a bit with Gapminder (via Loic ). A lot of very interesting countries data can be extracted from the tool, particularly compared country against country and over time.

From Yahoo News: “The trouble is I don’t understand the language. I don’t really understand what a Web site is,” he told a London court during the trial of three men charged under anti-terrorism laws. Prosecutor Mark Ellison briefly set aside his questioning to explain the terms “Web site” and “forum.” An exchange followed in […]

The New Yorker has a great article about US Free Trade agreement and the IP provision (DMCA) that comes with it: Why does the U.S. insist on these rules? Quite simply, American drug, software, and media companies are furious about the pirating of their products, and are eager to extend the monopolies that their patents […]

Haven’t joined #joiito for a while but this reminded me why it is so fun to hang out there jseng: love what the lifehackers did : http://r0.sharedcopy.com/3dphril ivan`: oh jesus ivan`: i think that sums up web 2.0 jseng: haha

It was very exciting time for all of us at SharedCopy since we have being featured on the followings: We even had a very cool screencast made by Demogirl. Together with the the other bloggers, the usage of sharedcopy went up dramatically. While we know we had a nice niffy tool, we never expect the […]

I have been working with Choonkeat on a “stealth” project for a few months now: SharedCopy. It is not exactly “stealth” because we open it for testing quietly a month ago to a few friends. Also quietly, we acquired users from the chinese and spanish (??) community. But yesterday, we got featured on Killer Startups […]

The latest news in India is that they are close to making $10 laptop. Okay, they either made an incredible technology break through or this is up-one-man-ship gone too far. Already $100 laptop is stretching what we can do with currently technology but $10? Maybe in 20-30 years time.

I was talking to a friend just now reminded me of a project I done a decade ago (96/97): Intermud Communication Protocol. So I decided to Google it and found: http://www.intermud.org/. Okay, this is scary. People still using this after all these years? And they actually kind enough to credit me. Thanks.

mrbrown and me was discussing what we can do with twitter last week. We thought it would be cool to have a shoutbox on seewhatshow linked to twitter so anyone can instantly feedback how good or bad the show they are watching via their mobile phone. I went to do some research and find a […]