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Category Archives: International

Marissa Mayer flexes Google’s imagination muscle

When you focus on the things people use every day, you solve big problems.

iGoogle gadgets are a new form of advertising.
The orginary and the every day.
Occam’s razor for logic: the simplest answer is probably right.
The Google homepage. Sergey created the original homepage. What inspired him to make it plain?
“We didn’t have a webmaster. And [...]

Follow the Oympic torch

Carl Harris and I went down to see the torch at the Embarcadero, but the route was redirected. Here are some of his pictures taken with his iPhone:

It was pretty crazy to see the protesters.

geekSessions 1.3: PHP Scalability and Performance

Terry Chay is very good at gathering important people together, so when I heard about the lineup for a PHP-flavored geekSessions, I knew tychay had something to do with it.

As always, The Forbin Group and SF Beta hosted the event at the beautiful City Club atop 255 Sansome. Cindy was a great hostess.

geekSessions 1.3’s panel [...]

Hokie love from other schools

I was very excited to see other colleges and universities paying tribute to us
From FSU:

The Z Society at UVA:

More UVA love:

The Florida Gators are showing love:

MIT, Cambridge, Ma:

Penn State at their Blue and White game:

George Mason:

At William & Mary:

A candlelight vigil at Southern Methodist University:

From Texas Tech:

From Kentucky:

From USC:

From BYU:

From UNC Greensboro:

From Towson:

An [...]

FreeTube, The Real Cable Internet

YouTube is awesome. Anyone can create their own television station with a few clicks and a palette of patience. Time Magazine even named it “Invention of the Year” in 2006. Google gave up $1.6 billion of its shares to acquire it!
Well, if you are sick of personal video publishing, or just want to watch some [...]