Boxee party

Today 23rd of Jun, is big day for boxee and their investors, because since they are going to launch alpha version on application. This will follow aggressive campaign, that will have its peak on Christmas. Party is held at Yoshis for all you, currently at SF curently.

What is boxee? Its something like firefox for tv. You will get your boxee box, plug it in tv and broadband connection and have a lots of predefined channels build on top of existing video APIs.

What is so revolutionary about it? Simple, it moves program selection from TV broadcasting companies to user. Today we have more then 500 useless channels on cable. This will, in long term, take power away from TV corps.

Its gonna be big punch to existing corporate capital pile!

Drop.io its alive!!!

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I'm so happy, that drop.io is alive again!

This NY based startup is files sharing site. It had great future, but due to recession and bad economy climate all they where shutdown.

Fortunately for all of us its up again and running better then ever.
I wish them bright future. Good luck and thanks

Firefox 3.0 overtakes IE7 in Europe

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This day is historical!
According to web analytics company Stats counter first time since in history Firefox 3.0 is the most popular browser in Europe! Firefox 3.0 uses 35.05% of European users, less then percent more then second placed IE7 with 34.54%
Here is graph : http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-eu-weekly-200904-200913

Of course, IE6 together with IE7 holds first place overall, but gap is round 10% and closing.

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youtube is down. again!

I have been learning some Greek Lessons from youtube and suddenly I got:
Internal Server Error
blahblah
Apache Server at www.youtube.com Port 80

wtf! youtube is down again, it had failure during weekend and it repeats again
update:
If you go to youtube you'll get error message
http://www.youtube.com/oops/error.html

Toughts on bing

I made a comment on Fred Wilson's post about bing. You can read it out here. This king of "head though wall" tactics is sooo Gizmodo style.

Google holodeck

I use Google Maps a lot, especially Street View. Its awesome application, but I haven't seen any developer making application that connects all of those images into flow from point A to point B.

But, its already made and guess what it was built by google and its not an application but holodeck. Just like one in Start Wars, only it need some improvements in order to reach it.
It was presented during Google IO weekend and if we look at technology behind its already use in iMAX planetariums and Disney Circle Vision.
Enjoy:

This is REAL!!!

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Originally uploaded by Danny Choo

Yes, its happening in Odaiba, Japan. Full sized Rx 78 !!!
More pics you can find on
http://punynari.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/assembled-rx78-gundam-part-1/

njoy! its truly amazing!

Startup Metrics

Recently I've reposted post from Jude Gomila about mapping web startup. There I found a lot of useful info, but somehow too many charts. Everything is in its place, but not quite for Harvard Business School.
Once a year in San Francisco Web 2.0 Seminar is held. 2008 seminar had presentation from Hiten Shah and David McClure about startup metrics. This slide I found a light weight version of Jude post and somehow it somehow it should be read first.

Startup Metrics 101: a Product & Marketing Workshop

View more Microsoft Word documents from Dave Mcclure.

Good stuff. But, there are some part of presentation I would not recommend. Email under referral part should be left out, even though IT WORKS. Instead, time should be spent on creating quality product which should give value to its users. Main point is to give value to users, even some times it means less revenue. A lots of successful smart people would agree with this approach of creating product. Alway have to GIVE value. This is point missed in this presentation which is above spaming techniques and yes Entrepreneurship is NOT COOL.

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Latest Google Hype

If you think about latest Google hype called Google Wave presented at GoogleIO conference and how conference had perfect timing which moderated hype about latest Microsoft product bing.com and GoogleIO overlapped D7 conference which was covered only by organizers. Or if you think that I'm going to talk about free Google Android phones which every participant on conference got and how 4K developers was gathered in order to create buzz about Wave since they were all twitting about event ( #GoogleIO ).

Instead, I'll blog about other Google product - Google Calendar and its latest features - Tasks. It recently caught my eye even tough it was released on May of 13th. We have been waiting long for this essential feature Google was missing. And waiting for Task a Google lost a dozen of users that migrated to, mainly to adorable rememberthemilk.com. Delaying release of Tasks at least they could roll out quality product. It not intuitive, can't import list of tasks which is a must feature of Tasks. Currently, if you try to empty completed task list - it gets stuck (?!?). Rememberthemilk is way much better application with support for Google Calendar.

So, what this can speak about Google? That they can't roll out in parallel couple of quality products and waste resources on various products that never lived in public ( remember google microblogging service jaiku ). Its getting slow and robust. Hey, its natural they have 10K employees, decisions are slowly made ...