Marcelo Toledo

startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia

2008

EarthLink to Sell Off its Muni Wi-Fi Business

Tell me something new: “Last November, EarthLink announced it would not make any further “significant investments” in its muni wireless business and that it would “begin a process to consider its strategic alternatives.” Yesterday, the company announced that the alternative it has settled on is to sell off the business altogether. The news came when EarthLink released its Q4 and Full Year 2007 financial results. While the company has committed to a plan to sell its muni wireless assets, which it values at $40 million, as yet, there are no takers. The move did not come as a surprise to…

Text editor’s future

I remember when I created my first website, totally different reality from today, the only tool to create a website for “normal” people was geocities and it was not as easy as to create a blog nowadays. Blog was a tool used exclusively by geeks, no normal people had one and it was not a very common word, my first website had one, coded with my own hands with comments and other resources, and since I used Emacs for everything I needed an interface to blog from Emacs. I created one and worked smoothly, it had syntax highlighting differentiating the…

Phone Spam

It’s growing the number of unsolicited calls I received lately, once I went to a night club and they asked for my phone number, biggest mistake of my life, seems like they are going to call me every weekend. I’ve just created a contact called Spam in my iPhone, now I just want a replica of that website that stores spammers phones and a tools to sync with iPhone. Save us Phoneman!

Classical Computer Science Texts

A compilation of classical computer science texts, from people including: Brian W. Kernighan Donald E. Knuth Ken Thompson Dennis Ritchie Sergey Brin William Henry Gates III Paul Graham Peter Norvig … Source: http://e7l3.org/classics.html Idea: http://www.tellesfera.com/?p=27

Where are the hackers?

I grew up in the middle of hackers, people that learned assembly before even speak, intelligent gentleman seeking the understandings of computers and systems, real computer lovers. Being in front of a computer 20 hours a day couldn’t be considered work, we grew, the first one of us started working, then another one, until one day everyone was well employed and starting a business life. I always though that we were the beginning of many similar generations, that in ten years we would see ten times more hackers doing brilliant things for the world, but I was wrong, months ago…

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