March 2007
48 posts
MonkeyJam - About →
Great piece of free software for StopMotion animation. Discovered via one of the projects at instructables.com
Instructables: step-by-step collaboration →
Great site! People collaborate over fun weekend hacks/DIY projects.
My Pairwise results!
I tried Pairwise after reading Justin’s post. Anyways here’s what Pairwise thinks about me vs. typical YCombinator founder. It got a few things surprisingly correct but made some mistakes. Still very impressive considering all that I did was to spend a couple of minutes picking some pictures.
Very accurate:
extremely high interest in tech
decision-making process is predominantly...
Scaling LAMP stack at Last.fm →
Presentation by Matthew Ogle at FoWA 2007
The Old New Thing : Summary of the recent spate of... →
/3GB switch MythBuster!
SQL Server: Achieve High Availability for SQL... →
Intro to high availability features of MS SQL Server 2005.
Business Week’s story on motion tracking...
Business week has a nice story covering all the cool applications of motion tracking technology (movies, eye-tracking billboards like the one in the picture above, driver drowsiness detectors, 3D avatars with realistic facial expressions). Don’t miss their slide show.
To help engineers,technicians, pilots, and Lockheed customers understand how the planewill perform, Rondot equips...
kuler →
It is impressive what a community can do to something as simple as color schemes.
Singapore Scotts Tower, Orchard RoadOffice for... →
Nexus 2007 roundup!
Nexus 2007 just concluded! The event was really awesome. Although some of the sessions didn’t particularly interest me much, I really loved the rest of the event especially the panel on “the future of the web” (panelists: Andreas Weigend, Bobby Napiltonia of Salesforce, Reza Behnam of Yahoo and Nat Torkington of OReilly) and another panel on global startups titled “Riding...
Planet OpenMoko →
Blogs of OpenMoko devs! Seriously what could be more fun than building your own phone from scratch!
Pithy Insights On Startup Marketing →
Dharmesh talks about “reducing TTE”. TTE (as he defines it) is “time-to-enjoyment” of a product. Instead of focusing on increasing the level of enjoyment, focus on decreasing the time required to enjoy the minimal benefit.
Ajaxian » Auto copy to clipboard →
Teaches you how to copy to clipboard automatically from a website. Uses Flash.
blog/2007-03-20-activating-a-workingenv-from-python... →
Recipe for setting up working env in Python
Popularity Might Not Be Enough - New York Times →
Rough estimate: to make $50m a year out of advertising from a website, you need 200 million page view a month.
Nexus 2007 GeekOut on Thursday
I’ll be going to Nexus 2007 GeekOut happening on this Thursday at the NTUC centre. Nat Torkington and Andreas Weigend will be present. A bunch of interesting Singapore startups will be demoing their products (including Muvee’s Schwup). For more info, visit the event wiki. If you want to come, just sign up on the wiki page! Needless to say, it is free!
If you’ve already signed...
GigaOM » 10 Things to Know About Short Codes →
Dedicated short codes cost anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000 per year and take two months to get it ready. More useful info on how short code biz works.
Sybase opens development center in Singapore →
Particletree » 5 Reasons to Create Your First... →
Really nice article by Wufoo folks. I so agree with point 1.
Startups by foreigners (ok frankly non-Canadian...
I just found this useful comment which lists down the options for an Indian student in the US if he/she wanted to start-up. Some discussion is going on about Visa problems for foreigners if they wanted to participate in YCombinator’s summer program. I’m indian, I’m about to graduate with a phd, and I have a job offer. My options for starting a startup: 0. Go back to india....
Lot of Schwag!
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DSC00836, originally uploaded by violet.blue.
Ok that’s probably the first time schwag scared me a bit….otherwise I love schwag!
Feedback loops in software development
Because our customer doesn’t know what he wants, he finds out from the people that want the system. He sometimes gets this wrong. Because I don’t know what to code, I find out from our customer. I sometimes get this wrong. Because I make mistakes while coding, I work with an IDE. My IDE corrects me when I’m wrong. Because I make mistakes while thinking, I work with a...
Europe exec confirms Google Phone | News.blog |... →
Google phone vs. Apple iPhone…now this will be something new and fun to watch!
What VCs love about Skype, MySpace, and Flickr -... →
Just learned a buzzword - “freemium”!
The Third Bit » Blog Archive » Beautiful Code →
Essays on beautiful code compiled into a book by OReilly.
A little bit of PowerPoint history
PowerPoint was further developed by Bob Gaskins, BNR’s head of computer-science research, who took the idea to Forethought, who released the first version in black and white for the Macintosh only in 1987. Not long afterwards, the company was purchased by Microsoft for $14 million, and PowerPoint for Windows was released in 1990. PowerPoint spread like the plague, and the rest, as they say,...
Introduction to Venture Capital » SlideShare →
opensource @ Joost™ →
Funny page which describes what Open Source tools Joost uses (read the Java part right at the end!).
Sergey and Nobelist Murray Gell-Mann at TED...
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Google’s secret new book-scanning technology, originally uploaded by Esthr.
Demonstrating how Google’s book scanning works :)
Adobe’s more agile development effort for...
Did it change the way you put out betas? An automatic process builds the program every night and runs a set of tests before posting the build on our internal servers for QE to test. We could take almost any of those daily builds and use them for demos. The public beta was basically just “whatever build is ready on date X”. There were only a couple of “we really gotta fix...
jkanstyle » Personal guidelines I wrote down last... →
Jeff Hawkins’ talk on Numenta’s technology
[original Google Video page] I have read his book “On Intelligence“ long time back - one of the best books I have read. Seriously if you have taken an AI course in college, it somehow feels like something is wrong with the whole approach. Now I don’t know if Numenta’s approach will work well, but atleast there’s something fresh to play with. Technorati tags: ai,...
How to spot a VC in autopilot mode
What about China and India? (Kudos to Chris for that one)
Why won’t [arbitrarily insert Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/Oracle here] do this?
What do you need to add to the team? (Kudos to Dave)
What should I be asking, but am not?
Why don’t you raise $Y instead? (Note: $Y is a random number between 1/2 and 2-times the number you asked for.) Source: Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed:...
distellamap | ben fry →
distellamap is a series of visual representations of executable code from different Atari games, such as Air Raid, Combat and Pac-Man.
I want the N800!
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Gnumeric rocks on the N800!, originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen.
My list of things I want to buy after I get that first pay check:
1. MacBook Pro
2. OpenMoko phone (if it comes out by then!)
3. Nokia N800
SecondLife server infrastructure →
Some interesting facts: As of March 2007, they are using 2000 AMD/Intel boxes running Debian capable of supporting 100,000 sessions at a time. They’re using MySQL for data persistence and currently they’ve around 34TB of user generated content.
robubu » Safe JSON →
Interesting discussion on the security issues involved in releasing a JSON API for private data.
Radixs and VelvetPuffin
Why all the excitement in the Singaporean web2.0 community today? VelvetPuffin became the first Singaporean company to make it to TechCrunch. VelvetPuffin is a service launched by Radixs, a startup funded by EDB Singapore (around $10 million). I heard about Radixs long time back when they presented at DemoMobile 2003.
What does Radixs do? Radixs figured out a way to distribute full-blown...
A Sign From God
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A Sign From God, originally uploaded by Armante.
Scaling Python for High-Load Web Sites →
Presentation from PyCon 2007
jacobian.org : Five things I hate about Python →
By one of the Django core developers.
Tim Sneath : Comparing WPF on Windows Vista v.... →
Informative post if you’re a developer interested in using WPF for your new app.
Transactional Vista: Kernel Transaction Manager... →
Transaction support for file I/O and registry changes in Vista.
Advanced Django →
Presentation on certain advanced features of Django by Jacob from PyCON
Python usage at Google (article from 2005) →
Burrp! - Let it out →
Reviews of restaurants, bars, etc in Indian cities.
TODAYonline - F1 Grand Prix most likely to come to... →
This is great news (if it is true!). I always wanted to watch F1 (by that I mean not on TV like I do normally).