Ferdi Zebua
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Former CNET Asia blogger; gadget lover; and currently working as Country Editor Yahoo! Indonesia (Comments expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of my employer, Yahoo!). meme.yahoo.com/budip
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That's too bad if it's true! Like everyone, I really enjoyed this blog --thanks to Dan Lyons!
It took a year for anyone to figure out that Forbes (now Newsweek) writer Dan Lyons was the guy behind the Fake Steve Jobs blog. Now, a couple of years later, the blog is still going strong. And it remains very, very funny.
Now Lyons’ success in writing about Steve Jobs may lead directly to the blog being shut down, we’ve heard.
[via TechCrunch]
This is another approach in using Wikipedia: for student assignment's tool. There is no doubt it will spark a pros-cons discussion. A nice try though.
Journalism instructors Lynn Schofield Clark and Christof Demont-Heinrich said students are told to check their sourcing carefully, just as they would for an assignment at a local newspaper.
"There's a sense of anxiety about it, because professors have a pretty negative attitude toward Wikipedia," said Demont-Heinrich, who first assigned the Wikipedia writing to students in his introductory course taught during the university’s recent winter semester.
"Students are leery about mentioning Wikipedia, because they might be subjected to criticism. … But I tell them it’s an online source of knowledge that just has some information that might be questionable, but that doesn’t mean you have to dismiss all of [its content."
[via eCampusNews]
In technology and entrepreneurship landscape, there is no doubt that Russians are very talented. Some of them have launched successful global tech companies. Alexey Pajitnov, the inventor of computer game Tetris; Stepan Pachikov (software maker ParaGraph); Maxim Levchin (PayPal) and Greg Shenkman and Alex Milosavsky (call-center software giant Genesys) -- to name a few.
"You may not have heard of serial entrepreneur Serguei Beloussov, founder of SWsoft, but Western investors go ga-ga over his startups," Business Week wrote. With his college buddy Ilya Zubarev, he has launched a dozen technology companies. Today, they are both multimillionaires.Taken from his company website:
Mr. Beloussov is a successful self-made entrepreneur and business executive with an outstanding 17-year track record in building, growing and leading high-performing, multi-national high tech companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Noted as an innovator and a thought leader in virtualization, datacenter automation, and cloud computing space, Serguei is a frequent speaker at industry events
internationally. Serguei is currently the Chairman and CEO of Parallels (parallels.com). Parallels is a technology rich, high growth software company focused on enabling cloud computing services to SMBs. The Company is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud computing service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms. Under Mr. Beloussov’s leadership, Parallels (formerly SWsoft) has quickly grown to profitability and #1 market positions with its innovative Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Parallels Desktop for Mac and Parallels Plesk Panel product lines. Mr. Beloussov is also a founder, major investor and Chairman of the Board of Acronis (acronis.com), a global leader in storage management and disaster recovery software for consumers, SMBs and large enterprises.
Recently, I had a chance to sit down with him in a coffee shop, Temasek area, Singapore. "Read your blog," the 37-year-old Russian said to open the conversation. Thanks man. My first impression: he is a humble person.
Beloussov, who now lives in Singapore, told me how he expanded his businesses, to bring world-class products to most parts of the world. He also promises reinvesting some of his wealth in new startups. "I love Asia. This region's markets are growing fast now," he said. The Parallels' customers in Asia Pacific now, include Softbank IDC (JP), Telecom Malaysia (MY), Sri Lanka telecom, VDC (VN), IINet/ Westnet (AU) and China Telecom (CN). Any secret recipe on how to deliver successful companies globally? "Try to find a niche market and stay focus," Beloussov said. Thanks, Beloussov, for the great and insightful conversation. And the coffee. Really enjoyed it.
Agreed with @dirgayuza, Indonesia's MPs need to make one! The good thing is some Indonesian MPs have started tweeting. The following is a good sample from the neighbor country, Australia.
Tweet MP documents all Federal Australian Members of Parliament on Twitter and encourages all MP's to join in order to make government more transparent. With your help, we can make Australia an even better democracy. Start following and let the Government know your ideas and hold them accountable.
Follow @tweetMP on Twitter!
A recent study found that people prefer news portals —like Yahoo News, Google News, AOL — as their main online news sources rather than the online edition of major news outlets like CNN, CBS, and the New York Times.
[via Search Engine Land]
This is a brief history of the Internet: Initiated by the ARPANET in 1969; the protocol used on the Internet called TCP/IP was developed in 1974; Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge in 1983; a Massachusetts computer systems firm registered the first .com Internet domain name on March 15, 1985; and Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web in 1990.
First 10 .com domains:
[via SFGate]
Martin Marty Cooper (born December 26, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is considered the inventor of the first handheld cellular phone. Right now, he is using Droid mostly; also mentioned iPhone; and admitted trying every cell phone out.
Cspan: What kind of cell phone do you have?Martin Cooper: “It depends when you ask me. I, always have the latest cell phone, and I try every cell phone out, only because people like you keep asking me. Right now I’m using Droid, because I want to get some experience with the Android operating system, and I so far, have some pretty favorable results. I’ve had an iPhone, which I gave to my grandson, which he used for three months and then I had to upgrade to a better version. And I’ve tried many other phones. For my day to day conversations I actually use the Jitterbug. So I carry two phones, one very simple phone that I can flip open that has a very simple phone book and nothing else. But when I want to twitter - tweet, then, I use my Droid.”
[via Twittown]
Finally, Internet, the first non-human to be nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated. US President Barack Obama won last year's 10m Swedish kronor ($1.4m) prize.
However,
It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win.
[via BBC]
Just discovered an interesting list, 18 first different things on the Internet [brief] history, thanks to the TechReaders site!
Did you tweet during the Oscars broadcast recently? I agreed that sometimes tweets were more entertaining than the show itself, like the AP writer found:
Have you also found funniest tweets? Or created one? Please share here :-D
[via Yahoo! News]
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Former CNET Asia blogger; gadget lover; and currently working as Country Editor Yahoo! Indonesia (Comments expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of my employer, Yahoo!). meme.yahoo.com/budip
Former CNET Asia blogger; gadget lover; and currently working as Country Editor Yahoo! Indonesia (Comments expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of my employer, Yahoo!). meme.yahoo.com/budip
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