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It seems that these days people are actively packing up their facebook account over to google+. Different reasons aside, google+ is making a huge splash in the social scene.

One...

These days I am busy working on my own practice at Klik Logik. At the same time, I am also keeping my eye out for the next opportunity.

An interesting...

How to create a “tweet this” button for your blog post in WordPress? You have many options.

Twitter has become a social network sharing system and you should always provide...

saw it via twitter from Jeremiah:

@jonathanbrowne was telling me about this Japanese Web 2.0 list: http://tinyurl.com/6dv4vl compares and contrasts US vs Japan

I wrote a comment on the post but...

Back in 2004 I had a blog in wordpress that I kept for a class in university hosted on the school’s server. After graduating I decided to keep blogging...

Google reader now comes with search, and it also has a different loading graphic.

However, gmail is still using old school red ugly loading graphic:

Google’s blog post about the new...

so it seems like, craigslist is thinking a lot about money….

What’s with the Price after posting something for sale?….

it’s likely that Craigslist is thinking about paid posting?

I went to Salt tasting room last night. It’s a wonderful amazing place. If you like wine and you like cheese, this place is for you.

I also...

You must be kidding me.

Flickr is implementing new rules. You can only have 3000 contacts and maximum 75 tags for a photo? That is hilarious. Even though it might...

I am in the process of moving all my files and all the things I’ve ever put online to media temple. It’s a lot of work, since I am...

I am very excited today. Google just approved me for the beta of Website Optimizer, it will allow me to create different variation of landing page for my PPC...

I am not even kidding. iphone countdown.com

Can you believe it? People are really going crazy over the iphone.

I have recently started doing intense corporate Search Engine Marketing at Laplink. I manage the PPC accounts and make sure they are making lots of money. After dealing with...

Phoenix Sky Harbor has free wireless internet! I love free wireless! All airports should have free wireless.

I still haven’t figured out what’s in Phoenix exactly, as in, major attractions. I...

Image from: google

This is probably the cutest Google logo I’ve seen so far.

I was in Seattle for Yaris works which was hosted to promote Toyota’s Yaris. We had a Podcast Clinic session. We had a good time. (check out some pix...

Usability for Rich Internet Apps

Highly functional and responsive interfaces have long been crafted for the desktop, but bringing that same richness to the web is a still-maturing proficiency for...

Mobile Development Panel

Thursday, July 20, 4:30 pm 5:30 pm Category: Mobile/iTV/PDA

Mobile promises to be the next frontier of the web, but to web developers at first glance it looks...

Social Metadata and the Relevance Revolution

Consider this: * Google now uses over 100 pieces of information gleaned from your online behavior to serve you the most personally relevant ads. * Applications...

Thursday, July 20, 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Category: Trending Issues

A language of interaction has been opened to the community: the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/index.php. Its goal is to...

Designing for Social Sharing

Thursday, July 20, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Category: Design

In recent months, a term that has become increasingly popular is “social search”. In this talk, I will...

I love commercial drive, that’s why I live there. (and I live in a turret!)

But I found a link from someone who really hates commercial drive. wow. I am...

Cathy Wang Celebrates Italy’s Victory Originally uploaded by sillygwailo.

I live on Commercial Drive in East Vancouver. It’s famous for having tons of Italians and hippies. I went down to the...

A while back, I had a great conversation with uncleweed about podcasting. Uncle weed is a podcaster with lots of personality who lives in Vancouver. (You should listen to...

Hackfest! Originally uploaded by kk+.

After traveling and being on the road for so long, my trip to Seattle this week seems very short. Well, it was short. I went down...

It’s actually pretty embarrassing for me to admit this, but I really haven’t been writing anything on my blog.

Obviously it’s all links from my delicious. I wish I have...

I am at the podcast hotel seattle right now. It has been amazing. We had our first event last night with 3 bands playing: 3ce, blame amy, and fiasco....

I remember back in the days when everyone was using ICQ on their dial up machines, one night a big giant called microsoft suddenly took over the sky of...

In the article from WolrdChanging Blog it talks about Fractal Democracy.

small numbers of people, let’s say somewhere around 7 form the base cell of the organisation. Out of these,...

As I mentioned in 43things, I would like to be more involved in physical and online communities. I have actually taken action in doing that. I am building a...

In the SAFE: Design Takes on Risk exhibition, James Patten from Tangible Media Group had a very ethical project called the Corporate Fallout detector that helps people make better...

What’s the 80/20 rule? Looking at the income distribution, we can find the existence of power law distribution. We all understand the idea of Pareto’s law of economics, which...

The idea of hub exists not only in the social network; moreover, it can be considered in an online space. Even though it is suggested by Barabasi that hub...

A real network is usually governed by the laws of growth and preferential attachment. The assumption of a network from Erdo and Renyi does not perfectly describe how real...

From the reading of Barabasi, the goal of graph theory can be considered as an aim to discover and catalogue the properties of the various graphs. I would like...

we have noticed the preferential attachment law in application while we search on google. It is more likely that we click the hub.

I have found this other search engine...

Network connects different diverse maps together by following a common blueprint. “A string of recent breath-taking discoveries has forced us to acknowledge that amazingly simple and far-reaching natural laws...

from small world network from the Santa Fe Institute Bulletin, Volume 14, Number 2 (Fall 1999). I think this image illustrate the idea of different networks better than any graphs...

I found this article called Cyberspace, Cybertexts, Cybermaps” by marie-Laure Ryan throught the Patrik’s Sprawl (which is an amazing blog that I read everyday and would recomment everyone to...

The concept of rich-get-richer is an application of the preferential attachment. In a sense, it’s the seniority of the first-comers. Because the first-comers have been in the network for...

When we think about the spreading of virus, we have to think about AIDS. It is a failure of classical epidemic model. We realize the power of hub through...

Ever since the ipod shuffle and mac mini being launched there are so many jokes about mac. (I really don’t want to go into the topic of Mac mini...

Because of the nature of our interconnectivity in a complex network, if one of us fails all of us fails. The example of a power network breaking down causing...

I remember everyone was having this hype of having wearables that flashes words at people. “hey i think you’re hot!”. Nokia – Xpress-on Fun Shells Main pageis the next...

Even after reading and creating a whole project relating to Fibonacci series, I never really got the real essence of it.

Finally here comes a great illustration from : What the...

I am thinking that it must be a bad weekend for servers or there is a huge attack on internet that brought down lots of nodes. It’s weird enough...

While reading the 4th link – small world from the “Linked” by Barabasi, a quote triggered me. “Such coffeehouse philosophy rarely leads to serious research.” Six degrees of separation...

Complex network is vulnerable because it’s strong interconnectivity. It might be one of the biggest characteristic and one of its best features; however, it becomes a vulnerable point where...

Chomsky proposed that there are two kinds of people. One where they shapes our society and one where they do what they have been told. I suppose the old...

An Atlas of cyberspaces – topology Maps is a great website that gives a lot of information on network mapping and the topology of the web. It’s really worth...

Why do we say the web is fragmented? We have to understand that all directed networks break into the same four continents. The continents include central core, IN, OUT,...

If we have to talk about open source media, we would definitely have to look at pegasusnews

Pegasus News is a local news company that has reinvented the broken content...

USATODAY.com – Green chemistry takes root

(Via WorldChanging.)

If we look at the concept of green chemistry I think we can look at it as an open source technology going around...

After reading Microsoft To Patent Instructional Feedback To User Responses – Robin Good’s Latest News I started wondering if the emergence system described in the Microsoft’s attempt is killing...

Future Now: Open source and the production of knowledge:

“The assumption that contributors share a common understanding of what defines a decent article on a subject, what constitutes important facts,...

While most of the systems in nature follows a bell curve, which is a distribution of that’s similar to the peaked distribution characterizing random networks. By looking at the...

While I was searching for marco Dorigo I came across Computer and Information Science Papers CiteSeer Publications ResearchIndex. It’s a scientific literature digital library. It’s an awesome...