The missing thing(s) in the Geo Wars

January 20, 2010

Actually, it’s things, since by the time I was writing the title some other thing came to my mind.
So let’s see, you check in at some place. Foursquare says “Swing by and say hi!” I say: “don’t swing by if I’m in a business meeting, I might not care you came”
That was evil, [...]

To DM or not to DM?

January 20, 2010

Twitter lists have been around for a while. And I’m quite an active user of the feature. I know there’s many ways in which lists are used so let me remind you about mine:
I’ve just sorted out all the people I follow into lists so I don’t get my timeline full 24/7. And it’s a [...]

MIT Personas

January 13, 2010

 
Personas is a webapp built by MIT that basically defines “How the Internet sees you”
or, as the creators want to describe it:
“Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and [...]

Another TechCrunch myth busted

January 8, 2010

Off goes the myth that @techcrunch is for startups like Digg for websites. After 4 days since publishing this article, there’s roughly 100 actions performed.
See bellow:

 
My latest update minutes ago was photo # 118 (http://photocheck.in/pictures/118) after trying the service myself 4 times.
Wondering what caused this?
Is it the bad looking photocheck.in? The little interest of people [...]

Wildfire: Promotion Service promoting the wrong way

January 4, 2010

I just got this email from Victoria Ransom, Founder and CEO of WildFire, a service launched in March 2009 who is handling.. guess what? Promotions!

Hi Val,
Happy New Year! I hope that you have had a wonderful start to 2010! We have some very exciting things planned for the coming year, which [...]

100 things I did in 2009

December 30, 2009

As a follow-up to the post written by Dragos, I tried to build a similar list. And must admit, this was not an easy task.
While 100 may not seam a great number of events for a whole 365 days timespan, personally I had trouble to actually remember what mattered. If I were to restrict this [...]

35 Google open-source projects that ys.comou probably don’t know

December 27, 2009

http://blog.0×1fff.com/2009/12/35-google-open-source-projects-that-you.html
Posted via email from Val Vladescu
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Waving Goodbye to 2009

December 27, 2009

via thenextweb.com

Posted via web from Val Vladescu
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Android Holidays Mistery revealed – Nexus one easter Egg

December 25, 2009

In the last couple of days rumors have spread about the next Google Phone.
Here are some pictures, there are videos also, we have an official name: “Nexus One” and the Technical Specs of the device ( 1 GHz CPU is a must have in 2010 btw.. )
Anyhow, ever since I saw the picture of the [...]

Geo-freakiness

December 25, 2009

 
Geolocation is cool but can sometimes get really spooky. Check this out: I’m visiting my hometown once every few months. Last time I’ve been here I checked in with Brightkite. Now, as I browse the hompage unauthenticated, the very first (and only) thing I see in the activity line is one photo I posted 3 [...]

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