ETech - exciting now and a peek of future

Posted by Charles | March 28, 2007 .

The 2nd day of ETech started with keynote from William Janeway, Vice Chairman of Warburg Pincus, Petter Bloom, Managing Director of General Atlantic, and Tim O’Reilly. The main topic is web 2.0 vs Wall Street, again. The following is what they’ve talked.
Things we’ve seen with web 2.0 has been seen on Wall Street for many […]

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ETech - Tim O’Reilly talks about emerging technology

Posted by Charles | March 27, 2007 .

O’Reilly had a keynote speech to officially kick off ETech last night.
This year’s theme is “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
O’Reilly talked about open source hardware. As example, Chumby, the open source gadget that can be hacked and make a long list of thing out it. He implied that the new age of […]

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ETech - from coder to co-founder -2

Posted by Charles | March 27, 2007 .

Here are some more pointers from the coder to co-founder session.
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You need co-founder to share the tasks and feed energy to each other. Employee, the first two or three employees set the tune for rest of the company. Don’t let anybody in until you are sure they will be able to set the tune you […]

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Adobe Apollo in ETech, quietly

Posted by Moxie | March 26, 2007 .

From the package given from the ETech, most of them are marketing materials from varies startups, there is a CD: Adobe Apollo Alpha 1 Labs Release. There is nothing else mentioning what Apollo is. Kinda interesting way of marketing. There are indeed good amount of geeks attending this conference. Also there are good numbers of […]

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ETech - from coder to co-founder -1

Posted by Charles | March 26, 2007 .

The first day of ETech is tutorial day. I went to Marc Hedlund’s From coder to co founder - Entrepreneur for Geeks session. Marc Hedlund is the cofounder of Wesabe. He had series of startup on his belt, some folded already though. Wesabe has been profiled extensively recently and looks will be Marc success story. […]

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going to Oreilly Emerging Technology Conference

Posted by Moxie | March 26, 2007 .

We are going to the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, ETech 2007, in San Diego. This is a very interesting year for ETech, after couple of years Web 2.0 drumming and marching. ETech supposedly help us look into future and set the tune for the next year. Expecting some quick (dirty) type-up from the conference from […]

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multiple file upload with ruby on rails Acts_as_Attachment

Posted by Charles | March 23, 2007 .

After playing with three file upload plugins, I decided to give Rick Olson’s Acts as Attachment a seriously try. By the way Rick Olson is working on another file upload plugin called Attachment_Fu (no more acts_as). It’s a total rewritten of acts as attachment. Great but just not mature enough yet. But I’ll definitely switch […]

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Apple iRack video - can’t be more funny

Posted by Charles | March 23, 2007 .

I don’t like to mix politics with technologies, even though it’s been doing this way more and more these days. But this one is just too funny to not share.

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