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Brian Russo We're all in this together, so let's find the 'we'.

So I've been loosely following along with this whole Google Broadband initiative or whatever it's called, and of course the clamoring here and elsewhere that Hawaii be an option. Many reasons are cited.. all of which seem fairly good.

So, if Hawaii is such an ideal place to test out high speed broadband and so forth.. why don't we already have it? Why are we so far behind if we're the logical choice? It doesn't really make much sense if you think about.

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Added by Brian Russo on March 8, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Daniel Leuck Global Data Inflation and Sexy Statisticians

During an insanely bumpy plane flight today I read an excellent article in the Economist on data inflation and its implications. Apparently, the amount of data generated globally is, "...growing at a terrific rate (a compound annual 60%.)" IDC completed a study last year that estimated the world generated 1.2 zettabytes of data in 2008. A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes.


Some interesting data poin

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Added by Daniel Leuck on March 5, 2010 at 7:30pm — 10 Comments

R. Scott Belford Saving the DOE


In response to the 2009 recession, only Hawaii has reduced school days and, consequently, compromised its future. Below is an essay that I shared with our elected officials in hopes of inspiring change.

Saving the DOE
Sometimes the most simple solutions are right before your eyes. As you read this message, perhaps you will ask yourself:

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Added by R. Scott Belford on March 3, 2010 at 1:57pm — 2 Comments

Christopher Jetton Understanding Secure Sites and E-Commerce Transactions


Have you ever wondered what a secure site really is? This presentation will help explain what happens behind the scenes and how it helps protect the privacy of all parties involved.


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Added by Christopher Jetton on March 2, 2010 at 7:22am — No Comments

Joseph Saturnia Use Caution When Investing in Renewable Energy Projects

With the proliferation of solar energy projects here in Hawai‘i, there has been a growing number of offers to local investors to invest in local renewable energy projects. These projects usually involve tax credits, passive losses and other incentives with returns ranging from 10-20%. Investors should be cautious when evaluating such projects. Since the returns on a renewable energy project depend heavily on an investor’s ability to qualify and use

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Added by Joseph Saturnia on March 1, 2010 at 3:49pm — 1 Comment

Brian Russo Domain Squatting - Gaming the system or just another valid market?

Everytime I have an idea for a project I try to come up with a good name for it. While I know many will disagree, I've always felt that names matter. I'm not going to get into the specifics of that; but you need a strong and available identity that connects to your audience.

Anyway, of course for us part of that is domain name availability (!). Nowadays it's of course rather difficult to find anything common - you have to be creative. That's how we end up with names like ubuntu!
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Added by Brian Russo on February 28, 2010 at 9:00pm — 9 Comments

Daniel Leuck The Complexity of Regulating Web Access for Kids


Recently I've been involved in numerous discussions about how to protect young kids from inappropriate material on the web. The first was prompted by a friend concerned about what appeared to be violent adult material sent to her young son by a friend. Not bein

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Added by Daniel Leuck on February 27, 2010 at 7:00pm — 9 Comments

Gus Higuera Hawaii's Leaders of Tomorrow in March 2010 Edition of Hawaii Business

This month's Hawaii Business magazine highlights "Hawaii's Leaders of Tomorrow" and includes an article with Dan Leuck of Ikayzo. Look closely and you can see me and my co-workers trying to look busy in the picture behind Dan. My apologies for the crappy photos, they were taken with my Iphone

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Added by Gus Higuera on February 26, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

John Robert Egan A New Visa for Start-Ups?

There is interesting news from Washington, D.C. this week on the immigration front. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Indiana) have introduced a new bill in Congress to establish a new visa category for entrepreneurs who are ready to found a new business enterprise. They have titled this the Start-Up Visa, and hope to gather support from congressional colleagues interested in job gro… Continue

Added by John Robert Egan on February 25, 2010 at 2:37pm — 2 Comments

Scott Murphy So-Net SNS closes their Business

I just learned that So-net SNS, one of the largest user generated social networking services will be closing it's business this year. It seems that So-net and other So-net like 'create your own SNS' services haven't succeeded in Japan.

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Added by Scott Murphy on February 24, 2010 at 10:00am — 8 Comments

Arin Cranley We've finally released NanoMechs ONLINE WORLDWIDE!!

Check it out on the appstore


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Added by Arin Cranley on February 24, 2010 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Burt Lum Unconferenz 2010 - Feb. 27, 2010

Third Annual "Unconferenz" Coming to Kapi'olani Community College

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 18, 2010

The third annual "Unconferenz" is coming to Kapi'olani Community College on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010, for a full day of peer-driven exploration in technology.

An "unconference" is a gathering where there's no set agenda, no keynotes and where the attendees are the speakers. The topics
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Added by Burt Lum on February 22, 2010 at 9:38pm — 4 Comments

Joseph Saturnia The Missed Opportunity of the Feed In Tariff

Much has been made of the proposed Feed In Tariff for renewable energy for Hawaii. Unfortunately, the Feed in Tariff is another example of a policy that draws big headlines but does little to move the State
toward energy independence.


For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a Feed In Tariff (or FIT) is type of incentive used to encourage the development of renewable energy. A FIT mandates a local utility to purc

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Added by Joseph Saturnia on February 18, 2010 at 6:00pm — 3 Comments

Matthew Buscemi Matt's "Magic: The Gathering" Card Database and Price Guide

I recently got back into a fantasy trading card game that I dropped when I was in college called "Magic: The Gathering". A lot has changed since I was an undergrad. Back then, the primary place for trading cards was the card shop. Nowadays, there are numerous online vendors and many card stores regularly accept online orders, mailing cards to distant locales. However, the navigation method for many of these sites is clunky, and browsing through all the cards that meet a qualification set like: "… Continue

Added by Matthew Buscemi on February 18, 2010 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

Michael Whalen HEA++, an enhanced Honolulu Estimated Arrival (HEA) system

Aloha Techhui, I just finished rebuilding the HEA system from TheBus with some enhancements, and would love feedback! It's certainly an alpha, but it's usable and (at least in my opinion) already offers a handful of improvements over the current HEA system. You can check it out here - http://thebus.ws. If you're interested in learning more, read on!


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Added by Michael Whalen on February 16, 2010 at 3:30am — 11 Comments

Daniel Leuck Why Hawaii is an Ideal Choice for Google's Gigabit Network

Hawaii, home to nearly 1.3 million people, is the most isolated island chain on earth. We are 2,390 miles from California, 3,850 miles from Japan, 4,900 miles from China and 5,280 miles fr
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Added by Daniel Leuck on February 15, 2010 at 8:30am — 35 Comments

Brian Russo Brick & Mortar was supposed to be obsolete by now?

Supposedly there weren't supposed to be many stores left anymore. Of course that was the idea years ago when internet shopping really started to take off (as it is still is of course).

After Amazon took off.. we were supposed to be buying food online.. and well.. all sorts of things. Yeah the food thing never really took off. I still see tons of bookstores everywhere.

Convenience? Customer Service? Expediency? Maybe it's just because I live in Hawaii and can't ge… Continue

Added by Brian Russo on February 15, 2010 at 12:00am — 4 Comments

Keith Cronin Hawaii PV Market Calcified

It seems the Hawaii PV market is facing some significant challenges with its intent and goals. With the recent filings by the utility here via the PUC, it seems unless there is some impasse, the market here will stall.


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Added by Keith Cronin on February 13, 2010 at 9:17am — 2 Comments

Daniel Leuck Hawaii Needs a Cabinet Level CTO & Google Apps

Having chatted with a number of my colleagues who work in state offices, its clear that our state spends an insane amount of money on completely unnecessary IT and redundant development efforts. Hawaii needs a cabinet level CT
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Added by Daniel Leuck on February 11, 2010 at 3:00pm — 45 Comments

Shawn Drost Brief thoughts on Google Buzz

I was excited to hear about Buzz. I don't like having lots of sites to check. That's a big part of why I'm not active on Twitter and Facebook.

But in the few hours since it's been active, I've gotten really sick of the bolded "Buzz (10)" notification in my email client. It's a constant distraction, which is really irritating, because Gmail is the center of my workflow.

I've come to the conclusion that I dislike it. What do you think?
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Added by Shawn Drost on February 10, 2010 at 11:43am — 2 Comments

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