startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia
“New Israeli startup IRSeek is indexing public Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels at the rate of 6 million conversations a day. 300 million conversations have now been indexed by the company. The most popular networks, including EFnet, DALnet, Freenode and QuakeNetUndernet, are all being monitored – IRSeeK is now “listening” to 2000+ channels across 10 networks.” Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/30/will-irseek-have-a-chilling-effect-on-irc-chat
“MTV Networks, the biggest division of Viacom Inc. has announced plans to make every South Park episode available online for free as part of a plan to make the show available to a larger audience.” This is hapenning everytime more, imagine the amount of content that has been published in the past that you would to see again. How many content become obsolete in one day? The fact companies will share this specific content will not hurt their business, actually I see this as a healthy new business.
Why every computer geek in a picture is a fat guy with glasses? I believe this is changing, at least in my department everyone knows how to eat well, drink water often and do sports. This picture is to motivate people!
Ulrich Drepper works for Red Hat, is the lead contributor and maintainer of glibc, telling you this I don’t need to comment how talented he is. Last year he gave a talk in Red Hat Summit in Nashville about CPU Caches, in his opinion the time for the talk was not enough to transfer all his thoughts about the subject, after this he worked around six months on a document titled What every programmer should know about memory, 100 pages of pure high quality knowledge, Drepper released it in PDF for free.
Three years ago Amazon set out to design and build an eletronic paper display, a convenient, portable reading device with the ability to wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers. The result is Amazon Kindle, just launched. There is no doubt that this is the future, specially when it is pushed by such a strong company like Amazon. They had the content, but not the device, why not doing exactly like iPod/iTunes. At first sight, the gadget doesn’t have an interesting design, it’s white, ready to get dirty, has a 15.2cm display, a keyboard that steals screen’s space and the…