Archive for the ‘Main Page’ Category
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Yottaa is looking for a rock star UX architect who can help make deliver an amazing user experience for various web applications.
Yottaa Inc (http://www.yottaa.com) is a Boston and Beijing based cloud computing company building a new generation of cloud services revolutionizing what we know about the Internet. With venture backing ...
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Nine venture-backed startups IPO'd in 2009, but just one of them was based in Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale security firm Fortinet Inc. (Note that Fortinet is led by Tsinghua University alumni, also co-founder of NetScreen).
Close-by, San Francisco's Open Table IPO'd in May.
Otherwise, it was all Massachusetts, Chicago, Seattle, and Texas. ...
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Saw this cartoon in the morning today. It is really funny and couldn't resist to re-post it here:
The World According to Americans
(Credit: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/world-accordign-to-USA.jpg)
The next cartoon is also quite funny:
(Credit: http://kelsocartography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/the-world-according-to-ronald-reagan.jpg)
Unfortunately I couldn't find a good cartoon for Chinese. So here is one that I sorta assembled (I ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
This is my 2nd post in the “Geek’s Guide” series about all the things that entrepreneurs hate to do, are not good at doing them, but have to do them anyway. These things include office space (My first post is on this topic), legal, HR, administration, banking, accounting, insurance, payroll, ...
Posted in Main Page, Tips, Yottaa, startup | 5 Comments »
Monday, November 9th, 2009
An interesting benefit for me in starting up Yottaa is to become a semi-expert in unexpected domains such as startup office space in Boston area, banking, HR and administration etc. I've learned some tips and thought they might be useful for my fellow entrepreneurs. This post focuses on office space. ...
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
October 11th 2009 looks like a bad weekend. It turned out to be a really bad one:
RedSox - what can you say? Swept. Soul crushed. Ortiz, Bay and Youk combined with 2-3 hits over three games. and Papelbon fell from the cliff.
Patriots - Ok. This one is not a big ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Based in Boston and Beijing, yottaa is a stealth mode startup in the area of cloud computing. We are not saying too much about what we do in public yet, but we can say that you will enjoy the deep computer science as well as the plenty “lost in translation” ...
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
Our little running team "white knees" (last year it was "red knees" for Toronto Marathon) ran the 15th annual Run To The Rock Half Marathon yesterday September 12 2009. Together with about 600 runners, the course started from the nearby town of Cedarville northward toward the home of the ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Some of the folks may know that I wrote some code last year (when I was really bored). One of them is called "Web Profiler", a 3-D web profiling tool that produces deep information about web performance.
Part of the inspiration of Web Profiler is due to my years of ...
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
This is a post echoing what a variety of people have been talking about for the last few weeks - I don't have a lot to contribute, but am compelled and felt worthwhile to echo other people's voice here.
On Februrary 21 2009, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times wrote ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
I am excited to announce the early beta release of Razor Optimizer, a JavaScript optimization tool for reducing code footprint and increasing runtime performnace. As a cross-browser web application itself, Razor Optimizer can be access either online as a service, or to be downloaded to run locally. ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
In order to understand how the front end, especially JavaScript, is impacting web performance today, some typical web pages were studied. The following table shows content composition of the front pages of two representative web sites, American Airline (www.aa.com) and FaceBook (www.facebook.com):
Table 1: Content Composition of Selected Web Sites
aa.com ...
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Bob Buffone sent out this annoucement to Apache mailing list related to XAP:
The Apache XAP Team (XAP is an open source Ajax project at Apache Incubator) is pleased to announce the release of the 0.3.0 of its Declarative Ajax toolkit. Downloads of the project can be found at http://incubator.apache.org/xap/download.html
Project ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
Back four years ago (2002), a good friend who works at Microsoft told me confidentially that Microsoft is working on something called "XAML". "Very similar to Nexaweb - watch out", he said. To the contrary, I was actually thrilled. Regardless of what it means from a competitive perspective, XAML validates ...
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
BusinessWeek 2.0 recently awarded Jonathan Schwartz one of the "Ten People Who Don't Matter" (http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/technology/10dontmatter.biz2/index.htm). Schwartz wrote a response in his blog (http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20060625), expressing his gratitude for being honored together with Steve Balmer and Linus Torvalds. The blog's title is "60 days into the Job", referring to the fact that he has ...
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