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cool places


13
Apr 07

Chopsticks for Masses = Forks for Incapable

    Non-Asian people are trying – "Ok, I am taking these two sticks, and trying to lift a piece of meat. Ok, I am taking these two sticks, and trying to lift a piece of meat. Ok, I am taking these two sticks, and trying to lift a piece of meat… Oh.. common screw that – give me my fork!"

    Asian people are laughing – "Look, they are eating with forks, how primitive those creatures are. Let us screw with their mind a bit more, let’s give them a chork…"

Chopsticks + Fork = Chork

 

    A clever idea – don’t you find? That is what Asian people, nowdays, call Chork, or "Chopsticks for masses". This training chopsticks will enable all "Asian wanna be eaters" to transition smoothly from something as boring as forks and knives.


11
Apr 07

GOOGLE: “If you’re watching a YouTube video, we know you’re watching that video.”

google radio and tv  

– Hey, mom, what channel is GOOGLE on today?
– You’re my silly boy… – on every channel. You see these little ads on the right of our 65” TV screen?

– Hey, mom, I am bored, can you turn on the radio?
– Sure, sweety.. Oh, your favorite "GOOGLE tunes"
– Yea, mom, GOOGLE knows what I like

Information right from the source

Google CEO Eric Schmidt on "How big is the market for all these Google ads":

Today, the vast majority of our revenue is in text ads correlated with searches. In the last couple of years, we have developed what are called display ad products, including banner ads, video ads, click-to-call ads, and things like that. And I’ve also said that we are pursuing the possibility of television advertising. By that I mean traditional television advertising. And we bought dMarc Broadcasting to do radio ads.

So let’s rank the probability of them being affected by targeted ads. There’s search: That’s 100 percent affected. What about radio? Is it possible to get a targeted ad right to your car right now? Not yet because we can’t target the individual receiver in your car. If two cars are next to each other, the same radio station cannot have two different ads. However, if it’s at a regional level we can do it to the zip code level. So let’s call that partial targeting.

Now, let’s look at television. Every one of the next generation of cable set-top boxes is going to get upgraded to an IP-addressable set-top box. So all of a sudden, that set-top box is a computer that we can talk to. We can’t tell whether it’s the daughter or the son or the husband or the wife in a household. All we know is we’re just talking to the television. But that’s pretty targetable because family buying patterns are pretty predictable, and you can see what programs they’re watching. And if you’re watching a YouTube video, we know you’re watching that video.

My point of going through this little treatise is to say, if the total available market is ($600 billion to $800 billion, we won’t be able to target all $800 billion. It will not be a 100 percent perfectly targetable, straight into your brain, but we should be able to offer a material improvement (in response rates) to many businesses.

 


6
Apr 07

Amazing Virtual Piano and Drumkit – Let’s Jam!

Thought for a while about creating a virtual band? Well, then you’ll need these virtual instruments :)

Once in a while my friends need to get something from these huge stores stuffed with electronics. So they drag me along to help them review whatever it is they are after. Since most of the time I buy that kind of stuff online, I quickly get bored walking down those isles, and stop at the one with all these cool pianos (keyboards). There I spent most of my time practicing, while my friends are looking for stuff.

Recently I was googling for something and found Colin’s blog, which had a cool link to this amazing virtual piano with several different modes: organ, saxophone, drums, flute, guitar, strings, bass, etc.

 

online virtual piano

Then I went further and found this great virtual drumkit which probably requires a real mouse, but gives a very realistic feeling:

online virtual drumkit

There are many more cool virtual instruments out there, so feel free to expand this list by adding more links.

Let’s get to jamming people!


31
Mar 07

Top 10 Open Source projects for the month of March ‘2007

Let’s go Open Source! Here is the top 10 Open Source projects for the month of March’ 2007 from the main OS repository sourceforge.net:

1. Azureus
Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client.

2. FileZilla
FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of
features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.

3. ADempiere Bazaar
Adempiere is an ERP Bazaar for Open Source Developers that contribute
improvements of Compiere, CRM, Shopfloor, POS, Helpdesk, Financials
Accounting, Supply Chain, Knowledge and Business apps in an open and
unabated fashion. Focus is on the Community.

4. ZK – Simply Ajax
ZK is Ajax framework enriching Web apps with little programming. With
event-driven components and XUL/XHTML markup languages, developing is as
simple as programming desktops and authoring HTML pages. Scripting
support Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy…

5. Gaim
Gaim is a GTK+ instant messaging application. It supports multiple
protocols, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster,
Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr, and SILC. It has many common features found in other
clients, as well as many unique features

6. phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the
administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop
databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any
SQL statement, manage keys on fields.

7. Openbravo ERP
Web based ERP for SMEs, built on proven MVC & MDD framework that
facilitate customization & maintenance of code. Already in production,
it encompasses a broad range of functionalities such as finance, supply
chain, project mgmt, manufacturing & much more

8. Inkscape
A Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring
transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and
more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc.

9. pydev for eclipse
Python Development Environment (Python IDE plugin for Eclipse). Features
editor, code completion, refactoring, outline view, debugger, and other
goodies – check http://pydev.sf.net)

10. KeePass Password Safe
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, light-weight and
easy-to-use password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords
in a highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master password
or key file.


31
Mar 07

Places to visit. Issue 2