2009 was a fun year. I traveled to 42 cities, 4 countries and logged over 100k miles. I also found time to stay at home and do stuff. Looking back on the year, some things really stand out. For instance:
Up’s tear-jerking silent vignette. With each new film, Pixar finds some way to top itself. The [...]
Raduchel recently did a post that inspired me to speak up as I’ve been carrying around both an iPhone and a Droid for the past few weeks (since Droid’s launch) and comparing the two. I’ve set the Droid as my main phone so i’m forced to use it more and get used to it. My [...]
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Just was reading about Google Maps, specifically their turn-by-turn, and its impact on the maps market.
As many people know, there are 2 main players in the map market: Tele Atlas and NavTeq. Google licensed both of them for Google Maps for years. While they licensed, they also sent cars all around the nation [...]
A startup really consumes your life. Luckily i have a suite of sweet tools to keep my efficient and productive. My favorites:
Balsalmiq. This is sick wireframing software. It’s so easy and intuitive, it can allow anyone to make fairly decent wires. It’s also a great way to get ideas across to other people. Doing [...]
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I had no idea why Google would buy a company, reCaptcha, that does captchas. For those of you who don’t know, captchas are the little squiggly text that people enter to prove they are human. The word “captcha” actually stands for: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers [...]
There’s been a lot of buzz about a month ago about how YouTube loses money and is a horrible business. Most of these articles came after Credit Suisse’s published an estimate of YouTube’s losses at $470M a year. This is a large number and people pounced on it. However, there is a good report i [...]
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I did an interview last night for USC business school where i was asked a lot of questions about Qloud and its beginnings. Questions like “What advice would you give to aspiring entrepreneurs? What have you learned?” Well here goes…
i often hear people talk about “doing something big.” While I admire their desire [...]
I spent the week at MWC in Barcelona this past week. I made my way to a bunch of booths and companies. It was a huge show.
Here are some thoughts:
Phone Operating Systems
There were many new phones released at the show. LG announced 50 phones, Samsung had 22 more, Sony/Ericcson announced a new suite of [...]
I got quite inspired when reading this post by John Borthwick. First of all, the YouTube data really surprised me in that YouTube is now the 2nd largest search site online, bigger than Yahoo! at over 3 billion searches a month.
Second and more importantly, i started thinking about real-time search. Finding out what is happening [...]
A new feature was released today from Google called Google Latitude. It’s allows you to post your location onto Google Maps and to see your friends’ locations. It’s done using GPS and other technologies (Gears, etc.) and works really well. Here are some thoughts i have on it
First, I like the way it looks and [...]
