startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia
My friend Camilo Telles did his master thesis on this exact subject, he projected this camera entirely in wood and cheap web cameras, he also wrote a software to integrate all the images in one single, it’s not his work, but it’s similar and very interesting. Reference: http://adn.blam.be/papervision/
Some author did this research and here is the result: Sun buys MySQL, $1 billion, 2008 Sun now has their hands on the world’s most widely used open source database. Red Hat buys Cygnus Solutions, $675 million, 1999 Red Hat started the open source acquisition race early when they bought Cygnus Solutions, providers of open source software support. Citrix buys XenSource, $500 million, 2007 Considering how hot virtualization is right now, we can see why Citrix bought XenSource, the company behind the Xen virtualization software. Yahoo buys Zimbra, $350 million, 2007 Yahoo already have their own email services, and with…
People know that I am not a fan of most of the current social networks, they are normally a waste of time, BUT, I think social networks have a powerful value when used with intelligence, I think you can extract very valuable content from people, you just need to solve the problem of trash/spam, as you don’t want to display stupid/offtopic information. Today I saw an interesting social network, aNobii, it’s focused in books, I always wanted a web platform to keep track of the books I read, to see what others are saying, get recommendations and also set the…
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…
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…