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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Archive for the ‘media’ Category
Google Retaliates Against Microsoft Bid For Yahoo! With Another Tier of Google Office Apps: Team Edition
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I can’t help it. I love this rivalry.
However, to tell you the truth… it’s getting ugly folks.
In case you are just joining us today, here is the backstory… Microsoft and Google continue to fire “warning” salvos.
Sun buys MySQL, shoring up network computering. Oracle grins. Microsoft panics that things are shifting towards network computing faster than expected.
Microsoft reacts by bidding for Yahoo! at premium to speed up the deal during an election year. Google issues a hurriedly-written release objecting the merger.
And then, (just like in Final Fantasy when Active Time Battle in Final Fantasy), Google tells students, “you know what, dudes? You really don’t need to buy Microsoft Office this year since we are going into an economic slowdown. Get Google Apps Team Edition instead.” Teeheee.
Here is an excerpt from the press release:
Google Apps Team Edition lets colleagues and departments at work, or
study groups at school, immediately begin sharing information within a
domain. In addition, the Team Edition can easily be upgraded to Google
Apps Standard, Premier or Education Edition for full administrative
control, such as the ability to set default sharing options, decide
which applications are available on the network, or determine who has
access.
This is getting good.
The Rush To Mediocrity That Is Wikipedia
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
I came across excerpt of a user profile on Wikipedia that I could have sworn was written by me. I have already discussed the consequences of the “new economy”, where people who have nothing better to do sit and stalk their pet rock Wikipedia entries and persistently edit on topics they know nothing about.
The user’s profile is Yug.
I leave wikipedia for several reasons, the biggest being that make an efficient work on wikipedia become every day more difficult because of the inevitable presence of people with strong will to edit, but clear lack of knowledge and mediation abilities. … It time for me to stop my involment here since I clearly want involve my energy and leadership ability in more efficient places, in real tasks, to improve the world around me.
This post to his profile shows his complete understanding of the system, which is scary but also calming.
It is also a warning to Jimbo that he had better get his Wikipedia in order as more editors, unemployed (with nothing else better to do) and uneducated (without the urge to actually learn anything outside comfort zones), will soon drown Wikipedia in a sea of mediocrity.
Think I am exaggerating? Look at what happened to Mozilla’s Open Directory Project, basically dead-on-arrival after editors started gaming the listings.
Primezero Chinese Seal Chop Widget Demo Posted
Monday, February 4th, 2008
I am testing a new way of presenting new products and services. I try to keep the presentations less than a minute or two mainly because I really have nothing important to say… hence the lack of audio.
Primezero Mobile Chinese Tools Is A Useful Chinese Dictionary … Sorta
Monday, February 4th, 2008
Well, Primezero Mobile Chinese Tools is not really a dictionary … it’s a dictionary tool that searches other dictionaries and human translations.
In fact, I cannot claim to be the best mobile Chinese Dictionary, but I can say that I have the most unique one to-date. You should be able to quickly link to the new YouTube website, the improved Flickr albums and several search engines including Google and Yahoo! ^^ More versions and features coming soon …
New versions will be available offline as well … stay tuned.
Mobile Chinese Tools. Point your browser to: http://m.primezero.com/
Way of The Samurai - Scythe Demo
Monday, February 4th, 2008
You can buy Way of the Samurai
Using Miro To Post SuperBowl TV Ads Good Alternative To YouTube?
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Miro is a great way to share the crazy SuperBowl ads. It is an open-source platform and it is simple yet flexible. Spiffy!
Tom Brady Versus Lucas McCain: Who is the better rifleman?
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Chuck Connors: The Lucas “Rifleman” McCain (from an era when TV shows were really TV shows).
Tom Brady
Phil Hendrie Points Out That It Is What It Is: People Still Hear What They Want To Hear
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Phil Hendrie is a modern-day Homer (not the Simpson, the poet…). He has summarized everything that is completely wrong with a country’s attention span in about 5 minutes. Listen to the clip twice and you hear what might have really sorta happened. More later..
Hey!! There Is A Hole On Your Shirt
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Hey! ^^ There is a hole on your shirt.
You cannot see it?
Look closely…
This was on live TV in Hong Kong during a holiday fundraiser. Funneh.
Deal Or No Deal: Flirty Non-Verbals?
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Non-verbals are always affect translation.
He gives the strong gaze and a compliment with a slightly deeper voice.
She adjusts her headset… or does she? .. a chance for miscommunication.
Translation can be vertical or horizontal. It can be encoded then decoded, decoded then encoded or encoded twice and decoded once. That is human translation.
Transformers: War Within Animated Series Debuts. Good Start.
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
This is a nicely animated short based on the comic. Great start.
YouTube Adds Intra-Channel Video Search
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
You can now search for videos within a specific channel. Very cool.
Phil Hendrie Is Back! Posts Great YouTube Clip!
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Hard to explain everything, but basically Phil is a comic genius with tremendous sense of timing and understanding that people hear only want they want to hear.
Video Tutorial: Installing Chinese Seal Chop Widget For WordPress
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
It appears that most of the bugs have been squashed in 0.7.4 of the Chinese Seal Chop Widget; so, hopefully I can release a truly stable version shortly. In the meantime, here is a video I quickly threw together (with no audio) and placed on YouTube. The idea is … “OK, I have the video tutorial to supplement replace the documentation and some FAQs”.
Here it is!
Digg Labs Is To Swarm As YouTube TestTube Is To Warp Factor 1, Captain
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
On Digg Labs, you can visually peruse topics using Swarm.
Now, on YouTube TestTube, you can use Warp, a new feature in test …
Web Development Should Be Fun. No Matter What.
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Do what you love.
Even if they say NO.
Class Design Is About Allowing Your Web Applications To Transform … Effortlessly
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Just Relaxing Between Major Projects. I don’t blame him at all.
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Just Relaxing Between Major Projects. I don’t blame him at all.
Another HKBN Commercial Featuring Bell And Two Guys From Hell, This Time Totally Online
Friday, December 7th, 2007
Bell and the two knuckle-heads from hell are at it again in this latest online HKBN Commercial. The cartoon is in Cantonese. 
Quite funny.
Latest Commercial Here: http://www.hkbn.net/26timescomic/
Developer’s Notes:
It appears that they are test-marketing storyboards online prior to spending money on new commercials with similar characters. If that is true, this is a smart move and a great way to get attention of subsets of customers (some will enjoy; some will not ).
