Archive for December, 2006
9th Annual MIT Venture Capital Conference Videos
Videos of 9th Annual MIT Venture Capital Conference are now available. You can watch them here: 9th Annual MIT Venture Capital Conference .
List of Videos:
- Mobile Innovations : The World Beyond Walled Gardens
- Decision Making in Biotech Innovation: Who makes the Ideal CEO?
- Investing in Energy Technology Innovation – How Long Does it Really Take?
- Keynote Address: Rebecca Henderson
- Monetizing Social Networking Businesses
- Keynote Address: Alan Spoon
- The Future of Digital Media: Are Companies Overprices and Overhyped?
- Lunch Keynode Address: Jeff Taylor
- Commercializing Web2.0 – Hype vs Reality
- MIT Innovation Showcase
- Global Ambition and Global Sales
- Corporate Venturing – Present and Future
- Venture Capital in India and China – Invest Globally, Innovate Locally
Google Web Toolkit – Build AJAX apps in Java
For those who want to create lively Ajax based websites, mostly inspired by looking at Google applications like Gmail, Google maps, this is a great news. Google has opened to public its Web Toolkit that is being used to build its own websites. Wow!
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript’s lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.
GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.
Source: Google Web Toolkit – Build AJAX apps in the Java language
TIME’s Person of the Year: You
Time’s Cover Story for Holidays and almost the Retrospective Climax for year 2006 is all about YOU. It named ‘YOU’ as the Person of the Year 2006. The YOU behind the explosion of Web2.0. That means, I am the Person of the Year 2006. (:-)) Time for celebrations !!!
All the Video I shared, all those videos I watched, all those posts I blogged, all those comments I have ever written, all those social profiles I have created, all those people I met online, all those pictures I shared, all those bookmarks I shared, all those blogs I read, …………………………… deserves a big pat on the back and the Award as ‘Person of the Year’.
Thank you Time for the Award!
America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We’re looking at an explosion of productivity and innovation, and it’s just getting started, as millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.
Source: TIME.com: Person of the Year: You — Dec. 25, 2006 — Page 1
Teens Taking Charge of Mobile Content
Latest M:Metrics report on usage of User Generated Content and Social Networking indicates that Teens are taking Mobile Content to a new level. Figures mentioned for All Mobile Subscribers are also very encouraging. I expect these number to grow substantially during holidays in Nov and Dec.
M:Metrics examined the usage of photo messaging, video messaging, IM, chat, dating and usercreated content, including video content and ringtones, among mobile subscribers age 13-17 and 18-24 in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
User-Generated Content and Social Networking Application* Usage: October 2006
Source: M:Metrics, Inc., Copyright © 2006. Survey of mobile subscribers.
Source: M:Metrics News
Great Minds Think Alike, Really?
Frontier Visionary and Leadership Interviews for hardware, software, system related business and academia : Past, Present and Future. For some of the interviews, MP3s are also available.
