Posted by: bigsurf on: June 29, 2009
via gizmodo.com
Love him or hate him. A remarkable man indeed.
Posted by: bigsurf on: June 29, 2009
Unemployment for 16- to 19-year-olds is at its highest rate since 1992 — at 22.7 percent in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is causing some teenagers to rethink their notion of work and to embrace entrepreneurship.
via nytimes.com
Posted by: bigsurf on: June 26, 2009
In memory of michael Jackson I’m drinking singapore’s “michael Jackson” drink: a combination of chin chow and soya bean.
Posted by: bigsurf on: June 26, 2009
According to Malaysia’s national university, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), its students will soon enjoy what its officials call a “21st Century education experience” following the rollout of a new high performance communications solution.
via mis-asia.com
Talk about laggards or simply naive PR trying to position something for the future but forgetting that hey it’s already 2009!
Posted by: bigsurf on: June 26, 2009
A major progress marker since last June has been adoption of the cloud not just by scrappy, broke startups, but now major enterprises. Said Vogels, “I have not seen in the recent history of technology something that had such a disruptive influence on the applications that are being built and the future of technology.
via gigaom.com
Amazon’s [...]
Posted by: bigsurf on: June 26, 2009
via gigaom.com
Yes the realtime web is upon us!
Web 2.0 has morphed into the RealTime Web.
Broadband ubiquity, Cloudscaled Services are all enabling this to happen.
Posted by: bigsurf on: June 25, 2009
Southeast Asia trends
The top 9 countries using Opera Mini in Southeast Asia are Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Singapore, Cambodia and Laos.
From May 2008 to May 2009:
Overall page-views in the top 9 countries listed increased 459%.
Overall unique users in the top 9 countries listed increased 119%.
Overall data transferred in the top 9 countries [...]
Posted by: bigsurf on: June 25, 2009
It is remarkable that the most powerful company on the Web would feel threatened by one that has yet to turn a profit
via wired.com
Facebook vs Google.. well in Silicon Valley, your worst nightmare comes from behind…. hahaha
Posted by: bigsurf on: June 24, 2009
via en.wikipedia.org
As old school as it is. I think this was the first computer game I every played. Had to keep switching floppies.
Posted by: bigsurf on: June 16, 2009
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/behold-the-new-facebook-headquaters/
it's not too bad
definitely much more spacious than downtown PA
well this is nostalgia..
like when google first bought the old silicon graphics HQ and created the google plex
it's a milestone.. towards a liquidity event?
frankly i'm surprised they are still in PA
i wonder which part of PA is this at
