Tocmai m-am întors de la Stand-up Philosphy cu Adrian Ciubotaru în rol principal. Evenimentul a avut loc în Club A, unde, printre norii obi?nui?i de fum, am auzit ?i lucruri interesante. A fost ?i Andrei Ro?ca, la început, care ne-a spus din p?rerile lui. Adrian ne-a citit dou? din scrierile lui.
Discu?iile au fost interesante, pân? când au început întreb?rile existen?iale, de genul „Ce e p?catul”, la care s-a r?spuns la fel de existen?ial. ?i aici pe mine m-au pierdut. Am fost atât de pierdut, încât m-am reg?sit abia juma de or? mai târziu, undeva pe Magheru.
Fratele meu (@lkadi) m-a întrebat „Oare o avea vre-o leg?tur? cu Mel Brooks”? Uite ?i de ce întreba (Stand-up Philosopher din History of the World Part 1)
Una peste alta, a meritat plimbarea. Mul?umesc @dinamaria pentru sugestie ?i companie ?i @gabivlaicu pentru companie. Dac? Adrian î?i public? cartea, probabil c? o s-o r?sfoiesc.
Posted on December 18, 2008 by Liviu in Advertising
That’s an easy one – we don’t have any traffic, why bother?
This guy has a better reason for it – see here. I like @Jimconnolly‘s approach to business. Very clear and open about everything and that, to me, seems the best way to do it.
A?a zicea un nene azi pe strad?, la care ?i eu ?i fratele meu am decis c? e o vorb? foarte profund?. Este cea mai profund? fraz? pe care am auzit-o în ultimul timp. A? mai ad?uga c? pân? ?i piciorul ?la imaginar, pe care îl bagi ?i sco?i de atâtea ori pe zi, mai obose?te ?i doare.
I don’t know what Google is up to lately, probably survival, but it’s mojo is going away, fast. At least for me it is.”Don’t be evil” – my ass. Nobody even questions that they are a gigantic corporation, a monopole is search and online advertising, but until not so long ago they were trying to put on this cool “I’m just a giant start-up” show. OK people, game over, nobody believes this anymore.
So why is Google evil? Well, let’s stat with the latest thing. They’re trying to get this incredibly hard to replicate preferential agreement with various network providers. Basically they want their content to go faster in the web. Web Neutrality begone. See here for more details. They say “Anybody can do the same”. Let’s get real Anybody = Google, Microsoft and Yahoo?
Their the new big monopoly, the new Microsoft. Remember when Google backed down on the Google-Yahoo deal? Check here for more info. The main idea was that they backed down because they were afraid no to go down the Microsoft road with this.
For me, as a developer, there are few things about Google more iconic then the famous 20% time for personal projects thing. Maybe even more famous then their cook… maybe not, but anyway. It is so exciting to
David vs Goliath (source ZDnet)
hear how every programmer can have this wacky idea and maybe one day see it become THE thing. Maybe they still give the 20% but they are now focusing at a big level only on the really promising projects, the ones that can bring some… value. This is part of their financial crisis plan (more here – article in Romanian). Wait a minute, this ain’t startupy anymore.
By the way, is Google in a hiring freeze or a firing meltdown (I want to get all the credit for the bad word play, thank you)? Nobody seems to know. Officially no, in off the record, probably.
So google is not David anymore it grew into Goliath. It’s normal for Google to do what any big company has to do to survive – walk on the bodies of their competitors but the change is a little bit too sudden. Maybe the so much talked about crisis is contributing to this, who knows.
But I must give them this – they’re aplications rock, and as long as this is so I don’t care who they act as.
LE: Google tries to answer the Net Neutrality issue on it’s blog – see here.
Posted on December 16, 2008 by Liviu in Geek Stuff
Noi, z? Geex, am decis ca e momentul ideal sa ne punem pe facut cozonaci. Chiar daca e inc? post, am aplicat sfatul dat lui @metropoham si am folosit tehinca ochilor umezi si privirii nevinovate ca sa o conving pe mama sa-mi dezvaluie secretele cozonacului.
Rezultatul este pe www.cozonac.info. Ca un adevarat Geeksberg ce sunt, am pus cap la cap partile esentiale ale procesului si cu ajutorul maiestriei mamei mele, care face cei mai buni cozonaci din lume, am realizat si un filmulet.
Sper sa va fie de folos si lasati un comentariu daca da!
Posted on December 13, 2008 by Liviu in Uncategorized
08.12.2008 Top 10 Siliest Yotube videos of 2008 -here- via Washington PostGift Wrapping – here - via @guykawasakiExperienta Silocon Valley – aici - via @vladimiroane si @startups_ro Top 10 everything in 2008 by Time magazine – here - via @steverubel Site for Exchanging ideas – here - via @guykawasakiThe LED Island - here - via CNET 09.12.2009 40 de ani de la inventia Mouse-ului – aici - via Ziua Scientist find sugar in the Milky Way – here - via @guykawasakiMicrosoft Release Open Source Blogging Platform – here- via Read Write Web Outlook Replacement? Unison Brings Ad-Supported Email To Small Businesses – here - via TechCrunch Firefox, Chrome virtually tied for JavaScript speed - here - via CNET Finger in a box gadget - here - via CrunchGear 10.12.2008 After the crisis – a paordy of corporate logos – here - via Twitter (sorry, don’t remember the name) Cel mai mare glob de craciun – aici - via Twitter (sorry, don’t remember the name) Un expert sustine ca a fost marginalizat de BBC pentru ca a negat schimbarile climatice - aici - via Sora Mea. Burger King – taste sampling – here - via Twitter (sorry, don’t remember the name) 11.12.2008 Browser Security Handbook – here- via Para (author on this blog)MarioLand Shake-up – here - via @ramona22 The Stories behind Hollywood Studio Logos - here - via @typemicah 12.12.2008 HOW TO: Add Facebook Connect to Your Blog in 8 Minutes – here- via @Octane Consumers Want, and Are Skeptical About, Eco-Electronics – here - via NYTimes Monoface – here – via @typemicah How students communicate - here - via Read Write Web Ad Sense for Domains - here - via Daily Blog Tips Excavation of an Ant Colony – here- via Boing Boing
Posted on December 9, 2008 by Liviu in Uncategorized
Cei de la Mozilla si cei de la Google s-au pus serios pe treaba. Isi imbunatatesc viteza de rulare a JavaScriptului cu fiecare noua versiune. Lucru foarte bun, daca ne gandim la cat JavaScript are o aplicatie AJAX. Safari ar trebui sa fie pe faza, ca nu era chiar asa in urma cand a aparut Chrome.
Iar IE, ar face bine sa se trezeasca naiba. Una peste alta, Firefox a venit tare din urma si chiar a depasit un pic Chrome. Mai multe detalii aici.
Ador razboaiele astea dintre browsere. In sfarsit e si Microsoft obligat sa bage sub covor aberatia de IE 6. In acelasi timp, stateam eu si ma gandeam zilele trecute, ca IE6 asta nu ar fi asa de rau daca ar respecta standardele…
Posted on December 9, 2008 by Liviu in Uncategorized
Just finished reading Seth’s latest blog post “Warning: The internet is almost full“. He makes a good point – technology may keep up with the exponential increase in content, especially big bandwidth consumers like videos, but can we keep up? Sometimes I do feel full. Just finished scanning through 400 feeds that accumulated in the last 8 hours Google Reader was untouched. Any of us reads more in a single day then most people would read in a year, not so long ago.
The weakest link in this data increase thing is us. We will crack down if we don’t find a smarter way to filter information and read /watch / listen to stuff. This is why companies like UberVU have most chances to be the next Facebook + Google Reader + Wiki combined thingy.
I’m full for today! Too bad there is no information toilet where you can take an info shit.
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