PHOTOS OF THE DAY

Billionth app

FASTER STARTUP

Holy grail: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible

The Lean Startup at Web 2.0 Expo

View more presentations from Venture hacks .

IPHONE APPSTORE SECRETS

To advertise or to not advertise

iPhone AppStore Secrets - Pinch Media

View more presentations from pinchmedia.

Bonus link:
iPhone app buyers survey

AppStore on the Web as it looks in iTunes

4 SHORTS - iPhone the King

Apple's huge NAND order
Apple has ordered 100 million units of 8-gigabit and 16-gigabit NAND flash memory chips, mostly from Samsung. Do they target mass market already ?

Top 100 paid iPhone apps
Play all day for 99 cents

Apple iPhone in the enterprise - evolving story
As of Jan. 2009, almost half of Kraft Foods’ mobile team were using iPhones

Top 20 free and paid iPhone apps according to Apple
the gang in Cupertino are gearing up to celebrate their 1 billionth app download

BONUS:

Video: iPhone game development

Cost structure for iPhone development

Google goes web app way
Sidestepping Apple store

NEW SECTION: 4 SHORTS

Keep innovating my publishing venture


I am introducing new content section on my blog.

It will be called and tagged 4 SHORTS and it will contain 4 quick web links / comments / stories about things on my mind or what I found on the Web that catches my eye but without extensive story.

4 quickies, pure jewels.
Not shared over twitter, luckily.

Where 2.0 conference
The past five years have seen significant changes in the geospatial web. Its importance and functionality have matured—it's not just maps anymore! Where 2.0 2009 will take the exploration of "location aware" even further.

Boxee
on a laptop or connected to an HDTV, boxee gives you a true entertainment experience to enjoy your movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like Netflix, CBS, Comedy Central, Last.fm, and flickr.

Hyperlocal news
a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer.

Web photos with shopping links
Everingham's vision ultimately became Pixazza, an online advertising startup that converts photos on Web sites into interactive advertisements.

HAPPY EASTER

To all readers of this blog. Zec aka Rabbit

TURN OFF YOUR BLOODY CELLPHONE

I share, therefore I am

San Francisco- In this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the experience we're having right now is less interesting than what we'll tweet about it later.

Warp illusion

Instructions:
1. Stare at the image for 10 seconds
2. Look at something -- your hand, a book, your friend
3. Enjoy!

via Spiegl

CLOUD COMPUTING BY GOOGLE

Exclusive futuristic view ;))
Might look like this

WEB TREND MAP

Information architects did it again. Version 4.


TOKYO- This is perhaps one of the most concise and best structured summaries of the 2009 technology world. New version of the Web Trend Map.

A yearly publication mapping 333 web domains, and 111 influential people on a Tokyo Metro map. Read more or download it here

Each “line” on the map is a different category: Application, Publishing, Opinion, News, etc. The map is certainly overwhelming, but pretty fun to explore. You can even send IA an email now to reserve your copy of the printed poster.

Heights represent success in traffic and branding. Subway lines are colored by area of interest. For example, take the orange line to find the creatives. Notice that there are several colors passing through Apple.

VIRTUAL COMPANY AND COLLABORATION

Virtual Inc.




DJURDJEVAC- Setting up a virtual company is easy.

You need tools to manage your , usually, small group of people from all over the world in a consisten way. Robin Good posted excellent list of these collaboration tools available online for free or for a small fee .

It's basicly everything you need to work on a project from your home and collaborate with other people in the virtual company.

The mix of these tools depends on the type of project you work on. So, here's my selection of these tools for simple online collaboration based on my experience, familiarity, practicality and value ( relative price ) :

E-mail, IM, web phone, chat:
Gmail ( Google account )
Skype
Meebo
Tinychat

Project management:
Basecamp
Zoho Project


Event scheduling:
Google Calendar

Collaborative writing:
Google Docs
Zoho writer

Video conferencing:
Meeting24

Document sharing:
PBWiki
Google Docs

WorkGrouping:
Google groups
Meetup
BarCamps

Web presenting:
Slideshare

Co- browsing:
PageShare
Pocket Meeting

Whiteboarding:
Dabbleboard

But the aim is to keep it simple, easy and uniform. To be clear, these are basic collab tools ( for internal process ) and do not include ''external'' web services you use for other business purposes like PR, marketing, sales or business productivity ( Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics, AdSense, SugarCRM, Highrise, YouTube etc. )

BONUS:
Entrepreneur's toolkit

My sunday's game

Make a game | Zec Sniper | Free games | Pictogame

DEVELOPERS IN DEMAND

Talent rooster


DJURDJEVAC - As soon as I start my new project, unknown timeframe, but sometimes in the future, I will look for developers with 10 skills that have been listed by Justin James in an article '' 10 skills developers will need in the next five years''.

Let the headhunting begins. I will be picking up only '' kings'' and ''lions''.

ZEC FINANCIAL

2 days late




Zec Financial is up and running ;)
Catch me if you can ! :)))

17 August 1976, Columbus (NE) Telegram, pg. 19, col. 3:
“Buy when blood runs in the streets,” said Mark Nobel, quoting baron Rothschild.

NETBOOK AND MOBILE INTERNET PLAN

Mini laptops to rock


What's the catch with netbooks ? NY Times writes about this phenomenon that will reshape PC industry. Great research. Still, wireless plans seems to be problem these days ( slow connection ).

A netbook (a portmanteau of the words Internet and notebook) is a class of laptop computer designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet.

I used to write about mobile internet devices on this blog before which is something similar. Part 1 and part 2.

What does the current economic crisis look like ?

The shop is closed.

Last week, Slate launched "Shoot the Recession," a project in which they asked readers what the economic crisis looks like to them. The response on the photo-sharing site Flickr, where they set up a group page to collect contributions, has been bullish. As of this writing, Flickr pool is home to more than 200 pictures.

Trouble with Twitter

Weekend video break

Funny clip : Trouble with Twitter.

Do we need Twitter at all when we have new Facebook homepages ( newsstream-book anyone ) ?

Palm Pre

Palm's comeback

New York Times about Palm Pre plans and release.

My quick online game

User-generated, social, casual game made by myself and shared on my blog

The head is really mine in this game ( real life picture ). The goal of the game: Shoot me down and collect points. It is made out of ''SuperMe'' game template and powered by PlayMyGame.

Link: PlayMyGame

G1 reviews

Some G1 reviews from the industry press:

Mobile magazine

MacNews World

Sydney Morning Herald

Information Week