I was driving home from work yesterday when i saw this car ahead of me with this huge apperatus on the roof. I sped up to take a better look when i saw the sticker on the side "google!! " I realized it must be the Google Street View Camera Car! I quickly whipped out my cheapo cell phone camera and snapped a pic. I wonder how long until they drive every road in town and we see it on google…
Added by Joe Segal on April 16, 2009 at 8:00am —
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A while ago, I watched a TV program on how incorporating Indian Mathematics in Japanese schools increased overall achievement in children. Indian Mathematics introduces cool shortcuts in math. The subject really interested me and I started to look into Indian Mathematics methods. Not all of them are easily explained but here are a few that I've learned. Note: This post won't be of interested to those brilliant mathematicians and techies on TechHui who can solve 8 digit problems in their head.…
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Added by Scott Murphy on April 15, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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I'm almost embarrassed to say this but my girlfriend brought
this arbitration case to my attention. It's not embarrassing that she told me about it, but of all the places (or sites) she could have heard about this case, it happened to be from the Perez Hilton site. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with Perez Hilton, I'm just not into gossip type sites or sites that I perceive to be gossip type…
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Added by Derek on April 11, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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A day after
my girlfriend (yes, that really is me with the mosaic-ed-out face and no she's not ashamed of me) wrote about
Twitter and SEO value, I read an
article in Pacific Business News about Google and Microsoft potentially interested in buying Twitter.
The article…
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Added by Derek on April 11, 2009 at 8:34am —
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Amazon
Amazon's file storage service is called S3 (or
Simple Storage Service). Files stored on S3 can be downloaded directly from S3 servers to your end user's browser. Amazon has a
content delivery network (CDN) called
CloudFront which can take your files stored in S3 and…
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Added by Truman Leung on April 10, 2009 at 9:30am —
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Ever since I started Tweeting (which isn't too long ago), I've been wondering how the urls inserted into tweets contribute to SEO. So I started digging and thought I'd share my findings here on TechHui! If anyone has further insight, please post them as I am curious about this.
Before I start, when I say Search Engine Optimization, I refer to it in the context of getting a website ranked high on Google's SERP. One of the factors google considers when determining the order of SERP is…
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Added by Alyssa K on April 9, 2009 at 3:58pm —
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Last summer, I made the switch to a MacBookPro as my main web development system. Since then I have been slack in testing my web designs with Internet Explorer. It's time now to start making sure my web designs are cross-platform compatible, not just Firefox-friendly. I have
VMWare Fusion installed on my Mac with Windows XP and Ubuntu. Running Fusion slows down my system (with 4 GB of SDRAM) so I use it sparingly. However, with Fusion I…
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Added by Truman Leung on April 8, 2009 at 10:36am —
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I debated with myself whether to blog about this on TechHui and as you can tell now, I've decided to do it although with reservations. Please see disclaimer at the end of this posting before reading. I've read the recent
Rescuecom v. Google decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and thought a posting on the topic might be of interest to some TechHui members. Be sure to read the disclaimer below the actual posting.
Anyone else who is interested in this…
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Added by Derek on April 7, 2009 at 10:22pm —
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I just read this post in USA today -
New Web Address endings could be start of turf wars.
The article is talking about the possibility of opening
Top Level Domains to anything from .a to .z. I could get scott.murphy. Or TechHui could change from TechHui.com to Tech.hui.
I'm not sure the benefits of an open TLD name space…
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Added by Scott Murphy on April 7, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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So I was browsing around at Borders with my brother the other day.
My brother was looking through this book called “Web Design for ROI” and asked me what I thought of a particular landing page design for auto insurance. I took a look, and it was a picture of a landing page I had designed a while ago!
So I looked up the book online, and coincidentally, the entire chapter on form design was available to view online.
http://www.wd4roi.com/images/WD4ROI-CH8-Sample.pdf (look at…
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Added by Alyssa K on April 6, 2009 at 10:30am —
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If you just got out of a long relationship and plan to burn all those photos of your partner, Recruit in Japan just released an AIR application to do just that. The program is called
失恋ゴミ箱 (Brokenhearted Trash Can). After installing the AIR application, you select the photo you want to burn and the program will actually light the photo on fire. You watch it until the photo turns to ashes (w/ sad background music) and the program will permanently…
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Added by Scott Murphy on April 6, 2009 at 8:30am —
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Catch Dr. V's Weird Science Show on KGMB9 Sunrise every Tuesday.
Dr. Vinod Veedu has been involved in the development of nanostructures and devices for many years. He is involved with various projects in developing nanocomposite materials at
Oceanit including NanoConcrete, which…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on March 30, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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This is the first post in what I hope becomes a continuing blog with answers to the basic tax and accounting questions you technical specialists may have. Just ask away, and when I get the chance I'll answer your posts so you can run your companies right.
To get us started, my first blog post is on the subject of choice of entity. As with all of them, I'm going to keep it brief.
Most venture capitalists prefer C corporations for two primary reasons: they're self-contained…
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Added by Douglas Levin on March 28, 2009 at 11:11pm —
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Over the years I've seen some really interesting font technologies come and go including Apple's GX font morphing, AAT state tables and Adobe's Multiple Master Typeface technology, some of which was rolled into OpenType. These technologies struggled because of the enormous investment required to create a font that makes use of their features, and the limited return on investment for typographers. The latter problem is largely due to the…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on March 26, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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I'm posting this here on techhui as a second article in a series of tips about social media optimization. These tips came about as an afterthought/extension of a workshop I had the opportunity to give at UH Manoa Outreach College this weekend, "
How to Boost your Traffic and Success Online with Social Media Optimization"
For my second set of five SMO tips, I'm going to talk about social media…
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Added by Beau Mueller on March 24, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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This morning my thoughts are with Laura Ling and Euna Lee, American journalists for online media network
Current TV, who are
currently being interrogated in Pyongyang. These brave journalists were reporting on the gallery of horrors at the border of China and North Korea which include, amongst other things, starving families fleeing for their lives. I…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on March 24, 2009 at 8:27am —
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I'm working on a project pro-bono (yes, as in "free beer") for a state department with a very interesting problem. How many programs (as in "food stamps", not as in "vim") do you think the state offers? I don't know either, but I know there are plenty. How many people in the state actually understand the rules used to administer these programs? Far fewer than you think. The rules are complex even when they can be understood and reconciled with each other, which isn't always.
So, say…
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Added by Joe Dane on March 23, 2009 at 3:27pm —
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Have you ever wondered what supermarkets of the future would look like? Did you ever consider an online alternative to getting your groceries?
I am a surfer. I like to surf in the mornings. Then, sometimes, I do my grocery shopping. Once inside a supermarket, it is always the same thing. Looking for favorite brands, hunting for good prices, standing in lines, etc.. On average, a supermarket trip takes about 1 hour door to door. Does it have to be this way? Is there an…
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Added by Konstantin A Lukin on March 24, 2009 at 2:23am —
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Here is an interesting case of music technology making history.
Last week the number 4 album in Japan's billboard charts (oricon chart) was by
a virtual singer. The album called 'supercell' was released by Sony Music as a compilation of songs created using a software called 'Hatsune Miku'.
Hatsune Miku (初音ミク)is a music software released in later 2007 that uses
vocaloid technology developed by Yamaha. Using Hatsune…
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Added by Scott Murphy on March 21, 2009 at 12:00am —
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Social business cards called
Poken seem to be spreading in Europe and now they are expanding into
Japan. Poken is a little usb key chain that stores your social media informaton. At social events, you can quickly share this information with other Poken users by touching each others Poken. You can then go home, plug in the USB and you are…
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Added by Scott Murphy on March 18, 2009 at 9:30am —
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