Posted on August 17, 2009 by Johny Ho
I just read the brief but interesting Mashable article on “Microsoft’s Plan to Win the Search War“.
Made me think about how there’s a a general sense of geeks setting the new trends, but at the same time there’s a generalization of geeks. At least in the circles I run with the separation is not as [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Johny Ho
It’s something curious to follow news and stats about social networking websites, and Orkut owned by Google (since around 2006) don’t appear as much under the radar. This social networking website commemorated its 5th anniversary, last monday (Jan 26th, 2009).
Personally I suck at these networking websites, where I never really fully use its features or [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2008 by Johny Ho
Project 10100
Google’s 10th Birthday Present: World-Changing Ideas.
Back in September 24th, Google announced its 10th birthday celebration endeavor, called Project 10^100 (as in “Project 10 to the 100th”).
The project works as follows: you send Google your idea by October 20th; it’s done by simply filling out a submission form, add a 30-second video if you like. [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2008 by Johny Ho
For some weird reason, I’m incredibly excited for the G1 (aka. Gphone), not so much about how the device can be compared to Apple’s Iphone, but mostly for the things that the Android software will be able to provide.
And I wonder, if this one is called G1, will the following generations or upgrades, be called [...]
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Posted on September 8, 2008 by Johny Ho
A World Without Google. – The 10 years of Google.
Don’t have much to talk about it, jsut thought this was a great piece reflectin about this subjects, just like how mp3 changed the way people enjoy music, Google is part of something of the change from recent years. And day after day, is hard not [...]
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