As the first members of the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship, the beginning selection of young entrepreneurs will pursue innovative scientific and technical projects, learn entrepreneurship, and begin to build the technology companies of tomorrow, all with the help of Peter Thiel, the technology innovator who co-founded Paypal and invested early in Facebook. On Wednesday,
Monthly Archives: May 2011
As a web design company that builds very heavy-media websites, we were looking for a best solution for our clients and us to convert videos between formats. There are many choices on the market, but most of them are not enough good or paid. After hours spent on searching, installing and testing different video converting
LinkedIn, a rapidly growing professional networking site with over 100 million members is now worth more than 8.9 billion dollars. Opening at $83 dollars per share on the New York stock exchange, up 84% from the company’s initial public offer of $45 per share. Jeff Weiner, CEO, was quoted as saying, “This isn’t necessarily indicative
For wireless consumers worldwide, the release of Verizon’s new IPhone last January was as major as the initial release of At&T’s IPhone. In fact, a majority of wireless carriers reported positive results with new subscribers, and new revenue in the first quarter. T-Mobile was the only provider that had difficulty reporting a loss of subscribers
For $20 bucks a month, Google is allowing consumers to rent laptop computers that run its Chrome OS operative system. A senior executive from Google told Forbes that the Chrome OS does away with local storage and applications and uses the web browser instead. Students will be able to take advantage of the $20 per
The master mind behind Firefox, Firebug and the grossly popular IPhone Facebook app is going independent. Announced in his blog today (joehewitt.com), Joe Hewitt wrote that he’s leaving Facebook to “build tools for writers, designers, programmers, whatever.” After spending the last four years building communication tools that have reached millions of people on a world
Below a very useful snippet of PHP code that detects whether the person viewing your website is on a iPad or iPhone. Thanks to this solution you can redirect visitors to a different version of your website or just to another page. if(strstr($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’],’iPhone’) || strstr($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’],’iPad’)) { … }
Twitter, the social networking phenomonm has been in negotiations over past year to acquire TweetDeck.com the innovative bowser that keeps all your all your social media efforts on one page, making it easy to tweet like pro with your finger on the pulse. As of Monday, May 2 Twitter solidified the deal to the chirp
Spam from contact forms located on websites is a huge problem, and the only way to solve this issue it used to be putting a CAPTCHA. However, this solution has a very bad impact on conversion rate. There are studies which show that the company could lose out on 3.2% of all their conversions when
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced yesterday at a conference in Orlando, Florida that come this fall the creative minds behind (RIM) Research in Motion would launch the Blackberry Bold 9900 and 9930. As the newest and smallest phones to date, both 9900 and 9930 come equipped with the browser platform BlackBerry 7, and with Microsoft
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