Month: October 2010
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Flickr says Hello to Google Account!
Oke, this is what you need to know right now: You don’t need to have/use Yahoo! ID to join Flickr. That’s right. Today, Flickr allows new signup using Google Account. With dozens of different login usernames and passwords out there on the Interwebs, who needs to add yet another one to the list? To help…
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Flickr Helps You to Connect with Friends
I haven’t used this Flickr’s “People you may know” feature yet. If you’re using Flickr, you will see another box there on the sidebar giving you some contact suggestions. It seems Yahoo! wants to make Flickr more social these days. As a Flickr user, I can find also find friends based on their data on…
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Wyoming saves $1 million and Virgin America saves system costs by about half
This is one benefit of having Google Apps for Business for big companies (or when a service involving big numbers of users). Wyoming will save Wyoming taxpayers $1 million annually by moving all state government employees to Google Apps for Government. The decision to go Google was the result of a transparent and competitive evaluation…
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The Commuter, new Nokia film in mobile HD (Shot using Nokia N8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ME5_ZzeKI
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Good Bye Paul The Octopus
Paul the Octopus, who correctly predicted the outcome of games during this year’s World Cup soccer tournament, is dead. His caretakers set him up to make predictions for a particular match by draping boxes in his tank with the national flags of teams that were set to play each other. The boxes contained food for…
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Taking Photos using Nokia N8 (Personal Experience)
The first thing I did after having Nokia N8 (product details in Bahasa Indonesia) in my hands last week was taking photos. I have been following this phone for months, and feel so lucky because I now have chance to try it myself. First impression: Love it! Nokia N8 offers a great improvements on its…
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Some people
“Some people can only talk and do nothing. Some are doing something, silently, because they’re too busy to talk and boast about what they’ve done.” ~ @beradadisini (Hanny Kusumawati) [link]
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Dick Costolo is now Twitter CEO
Dick Costolo became Twitter’s new CEO. “This is why I have decided to ask our COO, Dick Costolo, to become Twitter’s CEO. Starting today, I’ll be completely focused on product strategy.” ~ Evan Williams “Our #newtwitter was designed to be easier, faster, and richer but our #newtwitterceo is faster, older, and balder!” ~ Biz Stone
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Some Facebook statistics
So here are a few more statistics about Facebook: All told, users spend 8 billion minutes on the site every day. There are 3.5 billion pieces of content shared weekly. 2.5 billion photos are uploaded every month, and 1.2 million photos are served up every second.
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Photos should be much better now (on Facebook)
This is a good news for those who love to upload photos to Facebook. Facebook now offers a better improvement on its photo-related features. Until today, its greatest feature might be the photo-tagging. Okey, these are some improvements that will be rolled for all Facebook users: Higher resolution — If you feel 720 pixels is…
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Kumi and Mozilla Indonesia Community Meetup
Last week, I joined Mozilla Indonesia Community meetup at Blitz Megaplex, Pacific Place, Jakarta. Lots of people confirmed to join this event, and the news mentioned about some goodies for those who came earlier. I got there almost at 7 PM (blame the heavy rain and flood!). I was surprised because lots of people already…