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Tim Berners-Lee is the primary inventor of the World Wide Web, making his first proposal on it in March 1989. He wrote the original Web software in 1990 and made it available on the Internet in 1991.

Web architect David Galbraith wrote to Berners-Lee, looking for the exact location where the Web was invented. "The reason I’m interested in this is that recognizing the exact places involved in the birth of the web is a celebration of knowledge itself rather than belief, opinion or allegiance, both politically and spiritually neutral and something that everyone can potentially enjoy and feel a part of," David wrote on his blog.

According to Berners-Lee:

I wrote the proposal, and developed the code in Building 31.

I was on the second (in the European sense) floor, if you come out of the elevator (a very slow freight elevator at the time anyway) and turn immediately right you would then walk into one of the two offices I inhabited. The two offices (which of course may have been rearranged since then) were different sizes: the one to the left (a gentle R turn out of the elevator) benefited from extra length as it was by neither staircase nor elevator.

The one to the right (or a sharp R turn out of the elevator) was shorter and the one I started in. I shared it for a long time with Claude Bizeau.

I think I wrote the memo there.

Since we should celebrate the people that matter like the inventor of the Web, this story is really worth telling. Thanks David for this great post!

Yeah, I am a long-time Nokia fan. Since the beginning of 2000, as a tech journalist (then blogger), I witnessed how all Nokia portfolios rolled-out here in Indonesia.

But frankly speaking, Nokia seems a bit slow in addressing user needs, particularly smart-phone enthusiasts. A bit disappointed on this, I must say.

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I am and my colleague Jimmi Kembaren having business trip in Surabaya, East Java. Yesterday, we visitted AsianPlus office. AsianPlus is a weekly entertaintment tabloid focuses on Korean, Japanese, Chinese celebrities news and gossip. AsianPlus is one of our content partners for Yahoo! Indonesia OMG! - entertainment channel that's just launched on June 9.

Today, we plan to visit another partner: KapanLagi in Malang. AsianPlus and KapanLagi are the only partners office located outside Jakarta. Other partners including Vivanews, Okezone, Cek & Ricek, Antara and Tempo Interaktif.

OMG (http://omg.yahoo.com) is Yahoo! Entertaintment channel, originally launched on U.S. market. Yahoo! Indonesia OMG! offers entertainment and celebrity news, photos and blogs. For its international celebrity news, Yahoo! Indonesia OMG tries to emphasize on Asian stars news, photos and gossip.

June 25, 2009 started off as an ordinary day in the L.A. offices of TMZ.

In fact, when TMZ got its first tip at around 1 p.m. PST that Michael Jackson was being taken to the hospital, “it was not that alarming,” recalls Harvey Levin, explaining the singer had “been taken to the hospital many times before” for non-life threatening ailments.

“We didn’t think it was a life/death thing,” says Levin, until he received the next tip that Jackson had gone into full cardiac arrest.

And that’s when a “minor” Michael Jackson hospitalization piece turned into a “huge story.”

Check-out the Gossip Cop Interview

Columbia Pictures just released the very first teaser trailer for The Social Network, aka "the Facebook" movie. Directed by David Fincher, written by Aaron Sorkin and Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg, the movie will hit theaters this October.

What do you think of this upcoming movie? Will it be the box office?

I'm not an Apple user, but I am a big fan of Steve Jobs, the man behind the world's coolest company. Like others, I always impressed by what he did and contributed to the tech world. The company's products always become cultural "lingua franca". Check-out the link below in order to know what does it mean and how to achieve it.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/147/apple-nation.html

The media business is in tumult: from the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry. Keeping up with these changes is time-consuming, as essential media coverage is scattered across numerous web sites at any given moment.

Mediagazer simplifies this task by organizing the key coverage in one place. We've combined sophisticated automated aggregation technologies with direct editorial input from knowledgeable human editors to present the one indispensible narrative of an industry in transition.

It's worth reading, I think. How do you think?

[via RWW]

TechCrunch's piece on how Indonesians' startups companies keep struggling and growing. One for sure, according to the article, Indonesia is absolutely unique among other countries --in term of the nature of start-ups companies. And their expectations.

What is the Biggest Challenge Indonesian Web Entrepreneurs Face? Surprisingly, no one I asked said capital or exits. The relative lack of big, lucrative coding jobs from the multinationals like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft and the lack of venture capital have kept developer wages and costs of building a startup incredibly low. No one seems to feel a real pain for venture capital, because none of these companies are started with an expectation of it. This makes Indonesia absolutely unique among the 11 or so countries I’ve visited in the last two years. Instead, the pain point is finding developers.

Never before has a social media website played such a central role in a conflict, informing even as it amplified the hate on both sides.

[via The Globe and Mail]