http://www.panyuicacongress2009.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:43:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More Super Techies interviews Marc Benioff taunts the awakened dinosaurs Benioff takes stock of software shifts In the interview, Benioff discusses his early work developing games for the TRS 80, Apple II, and Commodore 64, and his turn as a summer intern at Apple in 1984, coding in assembly language for the Macintosh. Benioff ... http://www.panyuicacongress2009.com/2010/09/04/marc-benioff-from-assembly-programmer-to-software/ "There's no way to prevent it," Zdziarski said of the screenshot caching, according to a Wired report. "I'm kind of divided on it. I hope Apple fixes it because it's a significant privacy leak, but at the same time it's been useful for investigating criminals." The device records screenshots ... http://www.panyuicacongress2009.com/2010/08/30/iphone-ispy-hacker-says-device-captures-it-all/ The article, which was briefly available here but is now apparently offline for a while, also makes the argument that full-bore IP and domain blocks may gradually fall off in favor of more refined filtering of actual content. James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic and a blogging resident of ... http://www.panyuicacongress2009.com/2010/08/24/china-keeps-information-in-not-just-out-with-int/ q&a Last week, business reviews site Yelp (famous for its wild parties and opinionated members) announced that it had raked in $15 million in Series D venture funding--and that the San Francisco-based company would be opening a new office in New York. I caught up with Yelp co-founder and CEO ... http://www.panyuicacongress2009.com/2010/08/21/yelps-ceo-a-5-star-rating-for-new-york/ The 2008 Webware 100 Awards program is under way right now. At this point we're collecting nominations for your favorite Web 2.0 services. We've got a database of several thousand, but we want to make sure we're not missing any cool site or service. So nominate your favorite ... http://www.panyuicacongress2009.com/2010/08/21/webware-100-nominations-close-friday/ This post was updated at 9:11 a.m. PST with comment from Nick Denton. Facebook isn't too happy with Gawker Media founder Nick Denton over some screenshots of a member's profile that he posted on Gawker.com on Tuesday, Portfolio.com reports. The social-networking site reportedly plans to send a warning letter to the ... http://www.panyuicacongress2009.com/2010/08/21/report-facebook-threatens-to-ban-gawkers-denton/ The New York Times has inked a deal with LinkedIn to deliver targeted headlines to members of the networking site. A LinkedIn user who works in the energy industry would, for example, be shown articles relevant to that area. Targeted stories will be displayed on the paper's site (Credit: LinkedIn) Times readers will ... http://www.panyuicacongress2009.com/2010/08/21/targeted-times-articles-coming-to-linkedin/ Here is a sampling of green-tech and energy news over the past few days: Goldman's Murti says oil 'likely' to reach $150 to $200 -- Bloomberg Oil is now at about $120. Will $200 drive more investment in clean tech? Grease bandits strike as biofuel demand rises -- The Christian Science Monitor Grease thieves are ... http://www.panyuicacongress2009.com/2010/08/21/green-tech-news-harvest-rising-oil-prices-ethano/ commentary Whatever you do, don't rile the community. I posted an innocuous suggestion earlier today that had this as its basic conclusion: For those in the commercial open-source world (and that's most everyone now), we need to focus on finding ways to draw more people into the cash/code bargain without sacrificing the ... http://www.panyuicacongress2009.com/2010/08/21/the-community-is-angry/ The much-heralded clean-tech revolution needs a bigger army. The absence of technical and managerial talent in the clean energy sector is putting a strain on the development of the industry, a survey finds. Research firm New Energy Finance and recruiting firm Heidrick & Struggles queried 75 executives in clean energy companies ... http://www.panyuicacongress2009.com/2010/08/21/lack-of-technical-talent-slowing-clean-tech-indust/