roar out loud

is all about web 2.0

After I introduced Google AdSense to most of my friends, they just look at me with no expression on their face, like asking me, "So?"

I ask, "Don't you feel excited with it?" Ya I don't think so.

When I show flickr.com to the others, some of them just replied, what so special? Is just a photo management website.

When I introduce Google Calendar to my friends, some of them can't wait until I finish and walk away.

This time when I try to tell others about meebo, I am more careful. I am asking myself, am I short sighted? or some of them just miss out the important milestone of the internet.

They are web 2.0, but not just about technology, is how they design it. Java script exist for many years, now its power was unleashed.

Some people ask me how meebo make money? Why ask me? Ask them. There are many possibilities to get profited and they have to prove it.

meebo is not the first web base instant messenger, at-least there was already an e-messenger.net, but it is not so responsive. I don't know how far meebo can go, but is excited to know.

Coding is not easy

Today I read meebo blog, Elaine (one of the three founders of meebo.com) write in the blog, that she has been working for three years with Sandy (another founder) for the coding.

Even I found meebo still lacking a lot of functionality, but it is usable and is a great work to setup meebo.com. They have spent a lot of effort to get what we see now.

Many developers like coding like me.

Coding is fun. When you try to create some real life application, it is not that easy as what others think it is, especially for non developers, look at what meebo developers have done, you should know what I mean.

McNealy step down from Sun CEO

OOW005
Originally uploaded by Eddie Awad.

After 22 years working in Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy will step down as CEO, announce by Sun Microsystems on Monday (24 April). Sun Microsystems share price go up after the announcement.

Sun Microsystems doing well during dot-com era, but after the dot-com bubble burst, they company shares are all time low. McNealy is reluctant to reduce the engineer staff, which is not prefer by stock analyst, so is not a surprise their share price go up after McNealy step down announcement.

Recently Sun is aggressive goes into x86 server market, and McNealy promise to 'open' Solaris operating system in the future, seems like the goal has to be accomplish by his successor, Jonathan Schwartz.

The announcement shown that Sun had long stopped being a leader on the market, and McNealy has lost the trust from the share holders.

Yahoo Widgets

Yahoo Widgets
Originally uploaded by Maccise.

You can download the yahoo widgets, is available for Windows and Mac OS platform.

Widgets are just utility, which look simple and nice, normally connect to an internet service to retrieve some information, eg. weather.

Application are moving from desktop to browser, then back to the desktop (as widgets), and eventually it will go back to the browser. It is the services which make the different.

Link:-
CNet, Yahoo acquire Konfabulator.

decode calendar feed

Google Calendar provide a xml and iCal feed for 3rd party application. There is a private feed and a public feed, you need to enable the public feed for other to access, and you shoud not publish you private feed.

I do a quick and dirty hack, to write a C program to retrieve calander information from google, seem to be easy. I am using the libxml2.

I plan to write a plug-ins for JPilot, so I can integrate my google calander into my Palm, I don't think is difficult, but still take time, so I stop here for now.

Anyone is interested?

meebo trio

meebo trio
Originally uploaded by meebo.

The three founders of meebo.com, Elaine, Seth Steinberg and Sandy.
meebo.com is an integrated instant messenger using the AJAX technology, still in alpha, but is so coo1!

The first public release is on September 2005, meebo.com is funded by Sequoia Capital.

There is an interview with Seth Sternberg.

Apple Boot Camp

Apple Boot Camp
Originally uploaded by NBAction.

What is this Boot Camp? Boot Camp is a software release by Apple Computer, in the next release of Mac OS X operating system version 10.5(Leopard), allow users to install Windows XP (SP2) on Intel Mac.

Boot Camp, install Windows on Intel Mac

Earlier there is a hacking competition to install Windows operating system on Intel Mac, a user 'narf' came out with a method to install Windows on Intel Mac. (see here). There is screen shoot in flickr too.

www.flickr.com

Is hard to imagine, Apple Computer release such a software, because Apple always insist on their own software and hardware.

This is a hot news on CNet and some Mac Podcast news. I am not so excited about Windows on Mac, but OS X on (other) Intel base computer.

Mac users are so proud of using Apple product. Compare with the IBM compatible PC in 80s, Macintosh has higher resolution display, a better (Motorola) CPU, a cool user interface, even the single reading head apple disk drive is better (for some mac users). Ok, the last one is a joke, but we know many of the reason why Macintosh is better, is not true for today. The user interface experience of MacOS user interface (which is the software) make it different from the others.

Anyway, Mac users will have more choices in operating system, with OS X, Linux and Windows.

Marc Fleury of JBoss

Marc Fleury of JBoss
Originally uploaded by niallkennedy.

Red Hat to acquire of JBoss for 350 million, plus a potential of 70 million, depending on the financial performance.

I think JBoss has a better potential in financial independent than Red Hat, simply because there are more rival in Linux distribution now, and each of them is doing better.

Link:-
cnet

Even Amber Chia can't help

Frank (not Frank Sinatra but a friend of mine) want to buy a notebook. He eying on FTEC notebook, because is very cheap, yet it is.

Frank Sinatra, a famous singer in 50s

Since I remember I read the blog from Paul Ooi, I told him, if he has the budget, try not to. Finally he bought a FTEC notebook.

He just use for less than 2 months, and having some problems. The machine will shutdown automatically, he ask me any possibility cause by virus attack? When he shown his notebook to me, I can't even power on the notebook, so I told him, better send it back to FTEC.

After he send it back to FTEC, confirm is a hardware problem. Even Amber Chia can't help this time.

Google Page Creater

Google Page Creater
Originally uploaded by fuyichin.

Finally I receive a mail from Google. I can create my own web page using Google Page Creater. I just give it a try and create my first web page in Google:

http://fuyichin.googlepages.com/

I have another account with Yahoo (Geocities), but since I am not good in deisgn webpage, blog should be easier for me.

flickr photo directory name

Recently flickr allow the user the choose your own directory name, so you photo link will be:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuyichin
other than
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11521159@N00

You can only change you directory name once, but the old directory still valid.

Affair

下午下了一陣豪雨，天氣很涼快。晚上驅車到加油站，無意間看見前面一輛車子的車牌號碼 1xx8 ，不正是友人的車子嗎？我猛按喇叭，他充耳不聞。我加快油門想越過他的車子與他打個招呼。沒想到對方的車子向右一拐，絕塵而去。

我正想咒罵一下，可是突然想到，或許他去偷情吧！只好會心一笑。

Fatal Attraction (1987)

RedTone sell Mobile Money International

Just talking with friends on Redtone and Mobile money during lunch time. Later my friend show me theSun newspaper, RedTone sell its 93% of Mobile Money stake for MYR14 million cash to Lee Eng Sia (managing director of Mobile Money) and Kuok Group (Robert Kuok, single largest share holder of RedTone).

RedTone will receive another MYR15 million to 25 million over a 10-year period, for intellectual property rights to Mobile Money.

The buyout is subject to shareholder approval.

I don't see any mobile money around, and anyone is using it. See what others talk on RedTone and mobile money here.

Link:-
Yahoo news.
Business Times.

立通國際1488萬脫售流動錢包
updated:2006-03-29 12:31:28 MYT
（吉隆坡訊）立通國際（REDTONE，0032）建議以1488萬令吉現金脫售旗下流動錢包國際私人有限公司（MOBILE MONEY INTERNATIONAL）的1395萬股或93%股權給李榮城和郭氏兄弟集團。 SinChew JitPo.

ChinaPress Mobile money news.

farmstay 2005

farmstay 2005
Originally uploaded by fuyichin.

I setup my blogger account and link to flickr.com long long time ago, but I never try out the function until today.

I can blog my photo in flickr and post it to blooger, just like what I am doing now, this is great!

Wh don't google buy flickr, but yahoo did? I hope this function will not be taken out.

flickr badge

What is a flickr badge? Is just like this.

www.flickr.com what is this?

farmstay in New Zealand, 2005
(deguang)

Some blogger put in their blogs. Is just a few clicks, you can generate you own flickr badge, then paste the code (generated by flickr) to you html page, just that easy.

You can choose different style and layout for your badge, eg. html/flash, vertical and horizontal... Is easy just try it yourself and have some fun.

PS. Since blogger don't allow script tag, I have hard coded the pictures, if you direcly paste the code from flickr, the picture will be randomly displayed when the webpage is refresh.

Everything is just something

I found out I can use my Gmail web site to send instant messenger to Google Talk application. If the browser support Macromedia flash, it will show you the chat option on the Gmail web page.

Google talk in Gmail

I find it interesting, but my friend told me, is nothing excited, his colleague can send message to MSN through web too.

I told another friend, skype bought by eBay for 2.6 billion. My friend told me, skype is just VoIP and peer to peer technology, is nothing special.

I told the other friend, watch out for Alibaba.com because it has a lot of potential. Then he told me, Alibaba.com is just online Yellow Pages... Ya I think Google is just search engine, AdWords is just online advertisement.

ICQ is just instant messenger acquired by America Online for $287 million USD in cash.

hotmail is just webmail sold to Microsoft for $400 million USD.

I think these 'is just' company is worth look into it.

Why working so hard every day but still complaining, invest in stock market for extra income? and not working on something which is just something and sell it to those cash rich company? Simply they are not just something.

Opera co-founder pass away

Opera community blog release an announcement, Geir Ivarsoy has passed away after a long battle with cancer.

Ivarsoy co-found Opera Software together with Jon von Tetzchner in 1995. They write a browsing software call MultiTorg Opera while working in Norwegian state phone company, Telenor, later the company drop the project, Ivarsoy and Jon von Tetzchner get the rights of the software and from Opera Software company.

Geir Ivarsoy

Opera browser is popular for its light weight and quick response performance, it is available on all majar operating system like Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris. Opera browser has been ported to embedded device like PDA, mobile phones and recent to the Nintendo Game console (Nintendo DS browser)

Palm TX hack, add microphone

This is an old news(November 2005), but sound interesting to me.

A Palm OS programmer Dmitry Grinberg, hack the Palm TX hardware and add a microphone to it. Check it in palminfocenter. there is a video you can download from here(avi, 4.2MB). Don't know how true it is.

So you can't run a skype on Palm TX because it don't even have a microphone build in.

Link:-
palminfocenter forum.
There is some picture, before and after.

Writely believe it or not

Oh! There is a web base version of MSWord-like application, writely.

writely, a web base word-like application, still in beta version

So it is possible have port office application to the web.

Google has bought writely.

Will google have an web base office application online?

link:-
Google Acquires Writely Online Word Processing Service, informationweek.

Super saver plan

Is friday night, go for a movie, no moviemate, just alone.

Mid Valley GSC show time

Case 1:
Leave office at 7pm, drop by Mid Valley Megamall while going back, pay $1 for the parking. Queue 1 hour for movie ticket, 21:20 show sold out, buy the 23:45 show, cost $10. Spend anather $25 in Mdm Kwan's Restaurant.

Spend another $12, take an ice blended green tea at starbuck, while waiting the show to start, can't go anywhere, shops close at 2200.

Starbucks Coffee

Go back home at 2am. Total spending $48.

Firewall Moive, staring Harrison Ford

Case 2: the super saver
I get a complimentary ticket from 20th Century FOX, but limitted to weekdays only, valid for the move "firewall".

20th Century Fox

I leave office 1840, drop by Mid Valley Megamall while going back, pay $1 for parking. Reach at 1910, no need to queue, get the last ticket at 2120.

I have dinner in McDonald, just beside GSC cinema. Take Mc Saver, excluded McChicken (no chicken during bird fleu season), still have 2 choices, no soft drinks, total cost $2.65 (tax included).

Everyone like McDonald

Is just 1930 after finish my Mc Saver. 2 hours to shop at Megamall.

After movie reach home 1145.

Total cost of entertaiment $3.65. The super saver plan.