Karan S Kumar
Curious Entrepreneur, Tech enthusiast, Web addict, Persuasive Learner
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Moonbeam - Moonbeam Music Episode 041. Dj Phil G. - TRAVEL MIX. Moonbeam - Moonbeam Music Episode043 September2010. Moonbeam - Moon Magic Episode024. Moonbeam - Moonbeam Music Episode044 October 2010. If the Radia tapes were on TV….. » POV. iOS 4.2 available today, brings the iPad into the multitasking era. Apple's iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch Major Software Update Brings Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay & AirPrint to iPad CUPERTINO, California-November 22, 2010-Apple® today announced that iOS 4.2, the latest version of the world's most advanced mobile operating system, is available today for download for iPad™, iPhone® and iPod touch®. iOS 4.2 brings over 100 new features from iOS 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 to iPad including Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay® and AirPrint.
"iOS 4.2 makes the iPad a completely new product, just in time for the holiday season," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Once again, the iPad with iOS 4.2 will define the target that other tablets will aspire to, but very few, if any, will ever be able to hit. " iPad users can now run their favorite apps and switch between them instantly, while preserving iPad's legendary battery life. Technology Story | W3C Says IE9 Is Currently the Most HTML5 Compatible Browser. 15+ Flash Websites For Inspiration | Web Design Dev. Flash websites have started to get very interesting these days. There was a time when I used to strongly discourage flash but now I think that with time, people have learned how to get more innovative with their ideas.
I have compiled this list of 15+ flash websites for design inspiration. Have a look at them, get inspired, and let us know how you feel about them in your comments. Waterlife ( Forza Agency Net ( Yoshinoya ( VOB Nedir – no longer available Grobots The Creative Fridge ( Damman Pearce ( Subspecies ( Dasai Creative Engineering ( ARBOmedia ( Mindsmack ( Kasulo ( This website is fantastic. Oddo Design – no longer up SoInteractive ( DigitalKick ( How Long Should We Ban IPs? There are all kinds of reasons IPs get banned.
A forums manager might ban an IP because the user at it is spamming. An admin of an email server might also ban IPs for spamming. A web service might ban an IP for using an API in an unapproved way. On this site, we used to ban IP's in the forums all the time (the new forums have been much better in spam prevention). I also sometimes ban IPs from inside WordPress. There is a setting to "blacklist" IP's in the admin area on the Settings > Discussion page. At the time of blockage, and IP address might belong to Danny Doucher, but after sometime, the IP address might be reassigned and now belong to Susie Supercool. So, how long should we ban IP's for?
Most IP addresses should not be blocked more than a few hours, since the malicious user will probably move on by the time the block expires. IP addresses should almost never be indefinitely blocked. I can get on board with that. Anyone else have any theories or research to share? Share On. Evolution of Websites: A Darwinian Tale. The web is constantly evolving. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see how quickly new technologies are being adopted and how fragile design trends are. While the web is still an infant relative to other mediums such as print, TV and radio, and still has fair amount of growing up to do, it has already amassed a rich history.
Let’s take a look at how the medium has evolved throughout the years. A Matter of Carbon Dating Evolution is inevitable. As British philosopher Herbert Spencer put it — inspired by Charles Darwin’s theory on natural selection — it’s "survival of the fittest. " If we examine any aspect of web design, we can see that trends and technologies being discarded, improved on, or superseded by something better is common. Certain web browsers tend to be more evolved than others!
Code The idea of virtual reality and 3D objects fascinated developers. Web Browsing Devices The second core element that dictates the web’s progress are web-browsing devices. Trends and Conventions. So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar… Yesterday I was tipped off about a “secret meeting” between a group of “Super Angels” being held at Bin 38, a restaurant and bar in San Francisco. “Do not come, you will not be welcome,” I was told.
So I did what any self respecting blogger would do – I drove over to Bin 38, parked my car and walked in. in the back of the restaurant in a private room was a long oval table. Sitting around the table, Godfather style, were ten or so of the highest profile angel investors in Silicon Valley. These investors, known as “super angels” because they have mostly moved on to launch small venture funds of their own, are all friends of mine. I certainly didn’t think anything was amiss and I expected a friendly hello and an invitation to sit down for a drink or two before being shooed off while they talked about whatever they thought should be kept off record.
Me: Hey! I’ve never seen a more guilty looking group of people. So what’s wrong with this? Collusion and price fixing, that’s what. Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels [Email] Scaling the Microfinance Debate. Are You At Risk For “Toasted Skin Syndrome”? A new scourge threatens a generation of laptop users. “Toasted Skin Sydrome” is the result of having a hot laptop pressed to your skin for hundreds of hours. You say, “sure Devin but can’t they just put a pillow under it?”
But I say, “Call the lawyers, we’re suing Blizzard and Dell for gross negligence.” The Latin name for the syndrome is erythema ab igne, and it’s getting some attention today because the latest sufferer is only 12. This really brings up a couple things. First, where are the parents?! This kid has a hot laptop on his legs for enough hours a day to cause a rare disorder; don’t you think they might have objected, or at least had the common sense to say “hey, maybe you should have something between your legs and that burning-hot machine?”
Second, it’s interesting that it’s such a young kid — the idea that a 12-year-old spent so much time on a computer is indicative of the huge cultural change the world is going through. [via CNET; image: IR City] White iPhone 4 emerges in NYC, delays said to be caused by supplier colour discrepancies. 15 October '10, 12:30pm Follow The guys over at PocketLint were in for a surprise when they visited a press event in New York City, happening upon a new white iPhone 4 being used by a mysterious jacketed gentleman. The jacketed gentleman wasn’t all that mysterious, it was the sighting of the long awaited white iPhone 4 that had the guys wrestling to take a sneaky snapshot of the device, to prove that white iPhone 4 units were out in the wild. PocketLint made some enquiries about the device and it appears that Apple has a large collection of white iPhone 4′s at its HQ in Cupertino and that a friend working at Apple had managed to secure a white unit for him to use.
The gentleman also stated that the reason for the launch delays was down to color discrepancies between suppliers, who were unable to match the white colour of the home button to the finish on the device itself. Google reportedly to purchase entire NYC block for $2B. 27 October '10, 09:22pm Follow According to Fortune (which sourced The New York Post), Google is “in the final stages” of purchasing the entire building that it uses for its New York City headquarters, and which comprises an entire Manhattan block. The price tag? A mere $2 billion, about half of what the property would have sold for pre-recession. The 111 8th Ave. building lies between 8th and 9th avenues and 15th and 16th streets in the Chelsea neighborhood and is 18 stories tall, covering 3 million square feet of office space.
Google currently rents out about 550,000 square feet of the building (built in 1932 but that has a Telx ISP facility – i.e. pretty darn fast Internet), and there are other large companies such as Nike and Armani in the building as well. Maybe they’re just thinking of filming their own version of “Mad Men” for Google TV? Twitter is NOT a Social Network, Says Twitter Exec. Kevin Thau, Twitter's VP for business and corporate development, announced during a presentation at Nokia World 2010 today that everyone's favorite micro-blogging network is not actually a social network. It's not, you say? No, says Thau: Twitter is for news. Twitter is for content. Twitter is for information. To those of us in the tech industry, proclaiming that Twitter's main focus is not its social aspects, but its news-delivering mechanisms, is a bit like stating the obvious.
But it's important that Twitter is now publicly acknowledging how people's perception of the service have changed in this regard, not to mention how their usage patterns have changed too. Yes, says Thau. "The guy who saw a plane land on the Hudson River right in front of him didn't think to send an email," says Thau. Thau also wanted to assure Twitter users it's OK if you think you're not interesting enough to have your own Twitter account. Twitter is still growing, too. Where do ideas come from? Where do ideas come from? Ideas don't come from watching televisionIdeas sometimes come from listening to a lectureIdeas often come while reading a bookGood ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of themIdeas hate conference rooms, particularly conference rooms where there is a history of criticism, personal attacks or boredomIdeas occur when dissimilar universes collideIdeas often strive to meet expectations.
If people expect them to appear, they doIdeas fear experts, but they adore beginner's mind. A little awareness is a good thingIdeas come in spurts, until you get frightened. Dreaming a Startup – Join us at NASSCOM Product Conclave 2010. Immortal signals promise perfect web video - tech - 07 September 2010. A perfect stream of video delivered down your broadband connection without irritating blips may seem as likely as uncovering the elixir of youth. Now a team of optical engineers think they have discovered the secret to both. They've devised a way to revitalise light signals being sent down optical fibres, enabling them to send more information down the wires.
Bandwidth-hungry video streaming applications are prompting changes in the way that information is sent across the internet via its network of optical fibres. Conventionally, data is sent as a series of on-off light pulses, where each pulse encodes a single bit of information. However, light signals are gradually distorted by interacting with the fibre – a process known as attenuation. Mix it up Their device makes a copy of the attenuated incoming signal, and "mixes" it with a laser beam in a length of specially designed optical fibre.
Phased approach Journal reference: Nature Photonics, DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.203 More from the web. Social Strategist Aren't Thinking Strategically! Today’s social strategies are not strategies. The evidence of this is reflected in a recent Altimeter Research report which indicates that the #1 objective for corporate social strategist in 2011 is “website integration.” Is web site integration a strategy? The difference between a strategy and a tactic is the difference between thinking and doing. If what we do isn’t of strategic importance or tied to a strategic aim then what we do becomes a waste of time, effort and money. Worse yet doing the wrong things with “social” could cost you more than you know. Simply integrating “all things social into your web site” without thinking and defining the business and organizational strategy for using “all things social” is an accident looking for a place to happen.
A Strategy Without Leadership Isn’t a Strategy While the demand for social media talent continues to rise there is a huge disconnect between the demand and the leaders behind the organizations hiring “social media gurus”. References: Why Twitter Is Massively Undervalued Compared To Facebook. Editor’s note: In this guest post, Naval Ravikant and Adam Rifkin argue why Twitter is undervalued. Naval was an early investor in Twitter and owns Twitter shares; Adam does not.
They have not discussed the content of this article with anyone inside Twitter. The views expressed are their own. They can be found on Twitter @naval and @ifindkarma. Twitter was valued at one billion dollars in its last round of financing, but we believe it may in fact be severely undervalued relative to Facebook because Twitter’s value proposition is less obvious. Facebook has utterly dominated the definition of the “social graph” to the point that conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley says that they have “already won social.” Few analysts seem to notice that the particular definition of “social graph” promulgated by Facebook—people you already know in real life—is not the only possible social graph. An interest graph differs from the “people you know in real life” social graph in that it is: Regarding That Facebook Phone That Still Isn't Being Developed. It's been four days since Facebook denied rumors that a Facebook phone was in development. We still believe that the social networking giant doesn't currently have a branded mobile device in the works, but it's worth re-examining the situation.
TechCrunch yesterday conducted a thorough interview with Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding the rumor. A crucial part of the discussion occurs when Zuckerberg says: "…we invest differently in different platforms depending on how big they are, and how many users are there. The statement is a concise overview of Facebook's current approach to mobile, especially as it pertains to hardware. The story should have ended there — but, of course, it didn't. Bloomberg's report was enough to make TechCrunch question its own interview with Zuckerberg.
When INQ Mobile released the INQ1 back in December of 2008, the level at which Facebook was integrated led many at the time to describe it as "the Facebook Phone. " Twitter, Facebook, and social activism. At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away.
“I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair, said to the waitress. “We don’t serve Negroes here,” she replied. The Woolworth’s lunch counter was a long L-shaped bar that could seat sixty-six people, with a standup snack bar at one end. The seats were for whites. By next morning, the protest had grown to twenty-seven men and four women, most from the same dormitory as the original four. By the following Monday, sit-ins had spread to Winston-Salem, twenty-five miles away, and Durham, fifty miles away. The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. These are strong, and puzzling, claims. Some of this grandiosity is to be expected.
What makes people capable of this kind of activism? At 99.5, Sachin Tendulkar's 2010 average matches Don's - The Economic Times. Obama and team rely on made-in-India software - The Economic Times. Team India to don new kit from Kochi ODI - India vs Australia 2010 - Cricket Next. A Survival Guide to Microfinance's Next Year | Social Entrepreneurship | Change.org. Applying The Five Stages Of Adoption Towards SCRM Projects. Bienvenue sur Facebook. Share photos on Twitter. Mahindra Satyam, Microsoft form Windows Azure Center of Excellence.
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