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Archive for June, 2009

Reflections on SemTech 2009

Posted under Uncategorized on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 by Karen Myers
SemTech 2009, along with W3C's significant participation in it, is now behind us. Besides catching upon on emails, I have spent the past week reflecting on the enthusiasm, presentations, and flurry of activities that constituted this year's event in San Jose, 14 to 18 June. One strong...
Reflections on SemTech 2009

WCAG 2.0 in your mother tongue

Posted under Uncategorized on Friday, 26 June 2009 by Shadi Abou-Zahra
I come from Egypt, live in Austria, work in France, and when I start speaking, some people think I'm American. I speak fluent German and English, but no matter what I do, some expressions and thoughts will always be easier for me in Arabic than in any other language. The expression "mother...
WCAG 2.0 in your mother tongue

OPENforum 2009 was a smashing success, and we’ve got the video to prove it!

Posted under Start Ups, Venture Capital on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 by eoetjen
Semantic Seed covered OPENforum 09 this past Saturday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and posted up all the video to YouTube. The staff and volunteers were wonderful and put on an amazing lunch. Tremendous business intelligence was transferred that day.And we uplaoded it all to you...
OPENforum 2009 was a smashing success, and we’ve got the video to prove it!

Android Fun & Games — Three really awesome (and really free) must-haves for the inner nerd

Posted under Gadgets, Mobile on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 by dteter
So you have this great new phone. It has a video camera, it's synced up with Google, you have YouTube in full quality, the phone knows exactly where you are in town, the whole nine yards. You've got your widgets and applications for all of your social networking needs, your e-mail contacts all...
Android Fun & Games — Three really awesome (and really free) must-haves for the inner nerd

Android Fun and Games — A Bunch of Free Soundboards

Posted under Gadgets on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 by dteter
In this article we focus on a breed of touch-screen mobile phone applications known as Soundboards. Soundboards are programs that people write to annoy other people and laugh about it. There is no other explanation that correctly sums up the purpose of these applications. Head over to YouTube...
Android Fun and Games — A Bunch of Free Soundboards

fBabble for Android

Posted under Gadgets, Google on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 by dteter
fBabble is an application for Android that allows you to login to your Facebook account and update your status, chat with friends, and upload pictures from your phone to share. The interface is pretty simple: You begin by entering your login e-mail and password for your Facebook account. Other...
fBabble for Android

Bootstrapping 101 – Entrepreneurs Need To Know

Posted under Business, Sales & Marketing, Start Ups on Monday, 8 June 2009 by henri
Over the last five years approximately 600,000 entrepreneurs pitched first tier venture capital firms in North America and about 15,000 received funding. Your chances of getting funded are 2.5%. This is a fact. Many of those that were funded became quite wealthy and many more failed. Venture...
Bootstrapping 101 – Entrepreneurs Need To Know

Answerbird Flies High

Posted under Africa, Social Networking, Start Ups on Tuesday, 2 June 2009 by appfrica
In the first of a series of profiles on my staff’s projects and works in progress, today I’m featuring Felix ‘Kayt’ Kitaka and his Facebook application found at Answerbird.com. Answerbird was built out of his frustration from getting answers to questions with a purely local slant. He...
Answerbird Flies High

SMSONE.IN- A local sms alert system in India

Posted under India, Start Ups on Tuesday, 2 June 2009 by pvmoorthi
SMSONE is impressive networking model that also creates employment for dropout students and other unemployed. The SMSONE provides local community news letters over SMS for the subscribed customers. SMSOne management recruits different levels of employees all over the state like State wide...
SMSONE.IN- A local sms alert system in India

G2: The HTC Magic Running Google Android — A Not-So-Technical Review

Posted under Gadgets, Google on Tuesday, 2 June 2009 by dteter
Last week at the Google I/O Developers' Conference, I was lucky enough to snag the hottest phone money can't buy (at least, not for a little while). Google may not have an iPhone killer yet, but if this little piece of awesomeness is any indication, they sure are trying. Powering up the phone...
G2: The HTC Magic Running Google Android — A Not-So-Technical Review