Archive for January, 2008
Geek Book Review - The Search by John Battelle
The full name of this book is actually “The Search - How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture”. The author of this book John Battelle was the co-founding editor of Wired Magazine and is now the founder and chairman of Federated Media, a company that manages advertising for [...]
Geeks are the new Rock Stars!
Who can tell me the name of the CEO of Coca Cola, or even the name of the lead singer in the rock band, Greenday? I bet not many can but I’m very sure that most people reading this blog can tell me who the CEO of Facebook is, or who the founder of Apple [...]
Conference Bay goes for a complete Facelift!
Start-up company, Conference Bay, first launched their portal in July 2007 and aims to be a one-stop shop for all conference goers. The site allows users to search for conferences, bid for seats and purchase tickets for selected conferences. The company has gotten a lot of media attention for providing the world’s first conference [...]
Bloggers mock Singapore’s attempt at a Search Engine
Singapore’s premier research facility, A*STAR (Agency for Technology and Research) has launched a competition called “The Star Challenge 2008″ last week to develop “a rich media search engine that will be smart enough to identify text, audio and video containing any word, even if that word, or search term, has not yet been tagged in [...]
Few Hours before MacWorld, is this the new Ultraslim Macbook “Air”?
A few days ago, this signboard was placed at the entrance where MacWorld is going to be held. This signboard then led to a big frenzy about the new MacBook “Air”. It is quite baffling why Apple would name its newest product same as Adobe’s proprietary technology - Adobe AIR so perhaps the speculators may [...]
