This is an important trend I expect to accelerate playing a role in BRIC countries catching up to the West impacting their stock markets as well as their companies' valuations (self-perpetuating in this way) - Aydin Senkut via Bookmarklet
This is the reason I'm still using Exchange - somebody has to come up with a server that gets the same job done (ie pervasive push over air, no manual syncing required) - Aydin Senkut
@Hutch: This comes from crunchgear: iphone 2.0 launches today - Andre Heinrichs
Surely this will include the iLife apps via .Mac for home users? Guess we'll see - Jason Kaneshiro
"Kamen's arm, dubbed 'Luke' (after Skywalker, I assume), is an incredibly sophisticated bit of engineering that's lightyears ahead of the clamping 'claws' that many amputees are forced to use today. The arm is fully articulated, giving the user the same degrees of movement as a natural arm, and is sensitive enough to pick up a piece of paper, a wineglass, or even a grape without mishap." - Aydin Senkut
"extended the Optional Practical Training work period from one year to 29 months. ... Because extended stays are limited to those whose degrees are in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) fields, educators are speculating that the rule change will drive international students away from non-STEM majors" - Finally a positive move on immigration from current administration - Aydin Senkut
Great article on NY Times today about the upcoming releases of new browsers - Aydin Senkut
The old browser wars were about rendering engines. These days, rendering engines are reusable modules (IE/COM, Gecko, WebKit) that can be used in browsers (IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Galeon, Camino, Safari, Konqueror, etc.). I had expected the interesting innovation will be on the browser side, but the underlying rendering engines are evolving too, with WebKit doing the craziest (but possibly most useless) things. - Amit Patel
"the market is suffering from a social media hangover. Glam and Slide were valued in the $500M range, because the assumption was their growth would continue. But sentiment has changed, and increasingly investors are negotiating deals based on what happens to a company if its traffic is leveling off." - Aydin Senkut
Just listened to Barry Diller talk about new properties at IAC this morning, and how they consider themselves internally as an incubator of new services - this maps into their Zwinky site as well - Aydin Senkut
VC investment in mainland China increased 46 percent during the same period this year. - in the United States, venture investment actually dropped by more than 5 percent, year-over-year, due largely to the economic downtown and the weak market for IPOs and acquisitions. - Aydin Senkut
"U.S. online retail is projected to grow to $335 billion by 2012, and today 68 percent of all those retail transactions begin at a search engine. This translates to 3.7 billion commerce-related queries a month." - Aydin Senkut
I thought Bill Gates was to do no more keynotes? Must have been mistaken... - Eric Florenzano
think of it as the last tour of keynotes in his current role. - Nancy Babyak
Interesting MSFT deploys the Discover Card cash-back strategy - in this case they seem to be trying out CPA - interesting to see how that works out for them - Aydin Senkut
I have seen numbers on ideas like this in the past. It just doesn't hit scale to where individual users have meaningful incentives. - Sacca
"liking" for Sacca's comment....the MS news was very underwhelming - wonder if I'm missing something - Adam Kazwell
"visits to social networks comprise almost 41 percent of all mobile web traffic" In the U.S., South Africa and Indonesia, more than 60 percent of the traffic goes to social networks. Nearly a quarter of all worldwide mobile traffic goes to search engines and content portals - Aydin Senkut
Until they have a universal translation service as a utility which works real-time and with great accuracy, language learning will remain a large potential market - Aydin Senkut
Great stats about China's young internet users (age < 25) - no wonder gaming is so huge in China and QQ (Tencent) is such a household name & successful in the internet market. - Aydin Senkut
"In an email to employees today, Microsoft's Platform and Services Division president Kevin Johnson made the usual Microsoft (MSFT) promises about future Internet domination--and added that Microsoft will make a specific announcement about revolutionary search developments on Wednesday:" - Aydin Senkut
This *could* be big, but I doubt it. - Mike Reynolds
"BuzzCity has recently announced a 917 percent annual growth in the number of page views that users have accessed that show its ads, with 132 million pages being viewed in the US over the first three months of this year. It expects to reach more than 100 million US ad views per month by the end of this quarter. It has also landed big clients, including Coca-Cola." - Aydin Senkut
