“Breaking Barriers with Sound” — amazing vocal app on mobile devices
July 3rd, 2010
Following is the presentation on youtube: (watch closely especially at 17min)
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Non-technically, why ISP cannot use a cache to reduce P2P traffic
January 20th, 2010
P2P is a bandwidth killer, and ISPs could benefit from any method that can reduce P2P traffic consumption.
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PPSP: peer to peer streaming protocol
January 13th, 2010
This is a standardization effort by IETF. source: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ppsp
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A story about database people
December 22nd, 2009
I have been slow to have just noticed the post (Databases are hammers; MapReduce is a screwdriver.) by Mark C. Chu-Carroll, a Google employee. But it mentioned a story about database people, which is really interesting, so I want to post it here.
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Real case price of using Amazon EC2 cloud
November 24th, 2009
When a firm like Extrabux can process 40Gb/day, loading and indexing 70 million constantly changing input records for MapReduce by processing on Amazon’s EC2 cloud for less than $5000 per year – with no DBA – others will follow. (See the September issue of Charles Brett’s Insight-Spectra for details of this case study.)
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Analytical DBMS startups
October 9th, 2009
In recent years, with the explosion of data, a bunch of analytical DBMS startups have emerged. Here I take a note of the company names:
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Economic and business dimensions: Entrepreneurship during a slump
July 21st, 2009
Consider this list of companies: GE, IBM, Microsoft, Shell Oil, AT&T, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, Skype, Kodak, Polaroid, HP, and Adobe. What do they all have in common? They all were started during an economic downturn, some during the Great Depression.
Why do recessions give birth to some of the greatest, longest lasting, and best-run companies of the world?
3D CSS Visual Effects demo using pure HTML
July 14th, 2009
The demo reminds us that cool effects in a web browser don’t have to rely on Flash, or its Microsoft opponent silverlight, if you know how to exploit the potential of hardware-acceleration provided by WebKit, a joint venture of Apple, Google and a few other companies, aiming at standardizing the next generation web browsers. WebKit has long been used in Safari, including Safari on iPhone.
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Apple gains 36% profit on iPods
March 9th, 2009
I recently read an article, which discusses the impact of globalization on the sharing of profits. Does it benefit the home country of the innovating firm, the country where the innovative product is manufactured, or the countries that supply the key high value components?
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Awesome Comment Filter System of Slashdot
January 29th, 2009
slashdot.org, started in 1997, is a famous hi-tech news website. All its articles are submitted by readers, and get published after editor’s reviewing. However, the most interesting part about Slashdot is its reader comments.
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