From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Google Docs: Changing the Way I Work

April 28, 2008 · 35 comments

Final exams are around the corner and I can’t help but think how useful Google Docs has been for me this year. They may not have implemented the print layout view (although it is surely nearby) I have been longing for, but Google has completely turned Docs around since their acquisition of Writely in March 2006. [click to continue…]

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You Need Business Cards

April 23, 2008 · 49 comments

As a pseudo-followup to my post about establishing an online identity, I want to talk about creating your in-real-life (IRL) brand. Meeting people at business networking mixers, tech events and conferences is a lot like trying to pick up a girl at a bar. You need to sell yourself in the minute after you shake hands. Talk to anyone that frequents such networking events and they’ll tell you most people forget each others’ names immediately unless they have met before. [click to continue…]

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Versatility Made Twitter What It Is Today

April 21, 2008 · 16 comments

One of the all-nighters I have pulled for school work in the last week has been for the last computer science course I need to take at Georgia Tech. It’s called Design of Online Communities and while essentially a slightly toned down version of a graduate course and the most reading-intense computer science course offered here, it is also among the more interesting. [click to continue…]

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Community Design: Points as Motivation

April 17, 2008 · 21 comments

Building a community-driven site? You should consider implementing a points system. Why? I’ll try to show you why in this post, but in a nutshell points systems are an ingenious way of taking something with no tangible value and turning it into a prized virtual currency of sorts. [click to continue…]

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The Shuttle KPC, An Affordable PC

April 13, 2008 · 16 comments

Among the more popular posts on this blog are my DIY $200 PC posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). There are a few compromises with that route, such as it involves using a motherboard with an integrated 1.2GHz Celeron processor, which isn’t exactly good for much more than file serving and basic web browsing. [click to continue…]

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First Impressions: Dash Express

April 11, 2008

Last July I first laid my hands on the then-dubbed Dash GPS navigation beta unit while visiting friends in San Francisco. As I was with a friend that had just moved there and was not familiar with the roads, the Dash proved indispensable. Naturally, so would any GPS navigation device – not quite. The revamped [...]

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Flickr Video: Thoughts from a Beta Tester

April 9, 2008

The cat’s out of the bag and Flickr has officially launched their foray into the video world. I was fortunate enough to be a part of the “super secret” beta test along with ~260 users a few weeks ago (Thanks Richard!). In that group we were given info about the video

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How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2

April 5, 2008

Amazon EC2 is among the more potent items in Amazon’s web services arsenal. You’ve probably heard of many of the other services such as S3 for storage and FPS for payments. EC2 is all about the “elastic compute cloud.” In layman’s terms, it’s a server. In slightly less layman’s terms, EC2 lets you easily run [...]

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Trend: Free Music Streaming Sites

April 2, 2008

As cliche and trite as I might sound saying this, music streaming services are hot right now. For the past week or so I haven’t even used iTunes. I’ve just been listening to the Muxtape playlists of friends and random people. If that doesn’t do it for me, I tune into The Feel Good and [...]

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