This is good news to all followers of global IT trends, especially tech bloggers who watch movements among technology companies: CrunchBase, the tech company database owned by TechCrunch.com, is now publishing their very own freely-accessible API!
To put it simply, CrunchBase is an impressive repository of IT companies and their technologies. It is an excellent starting point for researching into such companies. For example, if you were out to get an overview of Google Inc., you would do well to start here (go ahead, click on the link!).
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The Nokia N82 is one impressive mobile camera phone. While its predecessor, the N81, was a rather klunky music phone, the N82 definitely lives up to expectations.
Case in point: the N82 5-megapixel camera is equipped with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash, autofocus, plus a secondary CIF camera in front for video calls.
The photo of me here was taken with an N82. I didn’t apply any effects to it, except to resize and sharpen it. I know it’s a bit grainy — but that’s because my friend Rodney didn’t use the flash.
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Good news to Flash-crazy Webmasters: Google now indexes Web content found inside Adobe Flash® files! Until recently, search engines’ crawlers were not able to "see" Flash content — text inside Flash movies, Flash menu links, etc. Ergo, Web sites built with Flash did very poorly in search engine rankings. Well, that’s about to change now.
Ever since Macromedia rolled out their awesome vector-based animation platform, Flash has provided the Web designer with a way to wow their clients. Web sites that contained Flash movies became some of the best-looking online presences. But the problem was, Web sites built entirely with Flash — no matter how beautifully-crafted it was — were not searchable. For a huge number of Internet users, if a site is not indexed by Google or Yahoo!, it doesn’t exist.
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More and more, people are moving towards technologies that afford the user mobility and portability. The most shining example of this behavior is our proclivity for cellular phones. Not to mention, iPods, PSPs, laptops, etc.
People are now using their mobile gadgets for entertainment, business, work, leisure — practically in many aspects of their lives. I believe it’s come to a point where we probably won’t survive without our electronic devices.
Notice that pattern of dots and squares on this post? (There’s also another one on the sidebar.) It’s a two-dimensional barcode, which contains the URL of one of my blogs. If your mobile phone has a built-in barcode reader, scan the image and see what it contains.
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As this kind of technology is not yet pervasive in Davao City, not many locals are aware of the advanced developments being accomplished by a certain Davao-based software house. Cutting-edge technologies in industry-strength inventory systems, telephony services — these software applications are being designed and developed right here.
Lane Systems Inc. is a 12-year old company that has been involved in foreign projects, long before outsourcing and offshoring became buzzwords in the Philippines. Lane Systems (LSI), spearheaded by CEO Rodney Jao, is Davao’s showcase of success in the field of software development, and they are showing no signs of slowing down.
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I applied for it, thanks to Jayvee, and now I’m part of the ümobile-connected Filipino population.
As soon as I plugged the SIM card in, I was able to surf the Internet with no hassle at all. There was no trouble configuring my Nokia 6500, since ümobile automagically sent me the setup data via OTA.
Too bad, however, that the change-number function isn’t available on their website yet. I would really like to change the number to something more meaningful to me.
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When TechCrunch, ZDNet and other notable online publications and blogs trash a company or an individual, techies and people who spend a lot of time on the Internet will invariably take notice. But when it’s the venerable The New York Times that does the lambasting, virtually nobody will miss it.
In a recent article in this bastion of traditional journalism, NYT’s Joe Nocera published a scathing "open letter" addressed to Yahoo! CEO, Jerry Yang. It’s entitled "Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby" and alludes to Yang’s incomprehensible behavior during the months when Microsoft Corp. was batting for a Yahoo!-Microsoft merger.
Yang co-founded Yahoo! 14 years ago and, before the emergence of Google, it was the coolest outfit that hackers and users alike idolized. Perhaps Yang just couldn’t let go of his paternal sentiments for his company, even after it went public in 1996. Which was to his detriment, because it would seem (as NYT put it) that he never made the transition from owner to caretaker (i.e., servant to his stockholders).
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As I’ve written before, the new wave of Internet developments that we find ourselves in is called Web 2.0. And belonging to this overarching concept are blogs, cutting edge Web designs, social media, and the like.
Blogs are personal publishing platforms. For the most part, they reflect the individual opinion of their owners. There are such things as blog networks, too – blogs that are part of a conglomeration – but each blog that’s part of it is still considered as a personal site.
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I was blog-hopping via Technorati.jp and I chanced upon this cool new wristwatch, created by Tokyo Flash.
Japan, the land of trends and raves, has come out with yet another innovative contraption that’s sure to whet the appetites of gadget freaks and fashionistas. It’s a new timepiece with an intriguing, captivating way of telling time, and it’s called — dig this — Infection.
The reason for the name is the face of the watch, covered with patterns that, according to the makers, look like viruses.
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I’m very delighted to have been accepted by WOM World / Nokia as one of their gadget testers. For my first go at it, they sent me two units: a Nokia N81 8GB mobile phone and a Nokia BH-604 Bluetooth Wireless Headset, which is a beauty!
Music has not really been a big part of my life — I’ve just never been totally interested in collecting albums, memorizing lyrics, knowing about artists… I’d listen to music, yes, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to have my own CDs. Good thing, too, because I never had the urge to buy gadgets for music. Until now.
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