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When I was in high school I read about research at the University of Hawaii in small scale self contained ecosystems. The idea fascinated me so I started doing research on how I could build one. In Des Moines, Iowa, where I lived, there is a small rain forest contained in a geodesic dome called the Des Moines Botanical Center. A scientist at the center helped me with a design for a miniature version of the center with the addition…

"Information is the currency of democracy" - Thomas Jefferson

Well if information is the currency of democracy, you'd think we'd keep track of the handlers.

Information has become big business. Duh right? But no I'm not here to talk about Facebook privacy or.. how Apple is trying to establish a content empire.. or how your boss is watching your 4square checkins to track how long you're at lunch.

No I'm here to talk about the more traditional kind. News.…

Along with everyone else who's moved onto HTML5, I've spent significant time looking at the possibilities of the next generation of HTML. 

The Setup

Last year Samsung released an impressive line of Android smartphones on many different carriers.  At the time of release they seemed to be the Android front runner for competition with the iPhone on AT&T .  They even captured the top Android sales spot in Q3 of 2010 as well as …

With Apple's new iTunes subscription feature publishers can publish their digital content via the App Store and collect a recurring subscription fee. Users can easily organize, browse and manage their subscriptions in one place. That sounds great until you hear about the cut Apple is taking: 30% for the…

I realize its sacrilegious to say anything bad about HTML5, but I have to say I am really disappointed in its handling of widgets (i.e. combo boxes, lists, sliders, etc.) HTML5 introduces new form input types such as range, date pickers, color selector, etc. but they are completely opaque and have very narrow APIs. This is due to HTML5's approach of punting to the browser to render and manage the widget. Often the browser in turn punts to the OS. This was the approach Java AWT took when it…

Motorola Atrix

I've been heavily anticipating the release of the Motorola Atrix.  So much so, that I've been looking online for cases and accessories in anticipation of purchasing the Atrix.  If you haven't seen it yet, you've gotta check it out.

The Rumors

Earlier on there were some …

I recently had a somewhat crazy idea to solve a common problem.  It's currently half-baked, and it's related to a project I might be working on, so your comments and thoughts are appreciated.  

Here's the problem: big organizations have a ton of content that needs to go *somewhere* on their website, and often, the really important stuff gets obscured.  It's uncomfortable to visit a site like http://hawaii.edu/ and try and find something, and…

Today I posted Mathogen to Facebook. It's called My Math Coach. I'm happy to announce that it's now availabe 24/7 and completely FREE. If you like the game, please tell your friends with kids. I need 10 monthly users on Facebook before I can get into the Facebook app directory. If you're feeling kind please "like" the app :)

Mathogen is the first math game that doesn't suck. Mathogen is a speed based puzzle game. Pop the numbers falling out of the sky before they fill…

http://www.gdconf.com/

Hi everybody, just joined the community, was wondering if anybody is going to the Game Developer Conference in San Fransisco,  held on Feb 28 to March 4 ... Looking for some other friendly island developer to connect with ... Thanks

Dimitri

We're getting very close to launching our public beta of BegFor.iT . Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the launch and the beta access.

See you all there soon.

Mahalo,

Tim

Last year most of the organizations we work with moved to EC2 or Heroku for their web applications and 100% of those people are happier than they were with their dusty old server room. People always think hosting on-site will be cheaper and safer, but its almost always neither when you take into account labor, hardware failures and stress. Google and Amazon are better at this than you…

Startup Weekend Honolulu has been re-scheduled to the weekend of March 4, 2011.  Still to be held at Fresh Cafe.

Info and sign up is now available here.  Follow @SWHNL

Currently looking for sponsors, speakers, mentors & attendees :-)

April 1^st will be the first ever Hawaiian SQL Saturday in beautiful Honolulu.  Not only is the first SQL Saturday for the islands there, but it is also the first SQL Saturday in history to be held outside of the mainland…

Apple stock jumped again today. The company is now worth $336 billion. That is almost $100 billion more than Microsoft and well over twice the value of Oracle. They are now the largest technology company that has ever existed. Apple is also the largest content distributor and the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the United States. There are over 325,000 active apps in the App Store. They have been downloaded almost 10 billion times. Gartner expects the App Store will generate a stunning…

[crossposted from my fledgling weekly live call-in show at PeterKay.Com]

I've been loosely following the Net Neutrality (NN) issue for some time now and when I first heard about the general concept (which was that ISPs cannot discriminate IP traffic, i.e. packets are packets regardless of their payload) I was in favor of it. However, as I…

From: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-google-fiber.html

An update on Google Fiber

Form D filings per state. If you don't know what a form D is then you've never raised money.

http://www.formds.com/filings/by_state_map/

Hawaii doesn't even make it onto the map.

More details here.…

How a new suite of unencumbered technologies could elevate web development today and better prepare us for HTML5 tomorrow

The web development world is in an interesting place. HTML5 is the future, but its not quite ready. Javascript is the lingua franca of this brave new world despite the fact it lacks many basic…