Why China? Have you guys seen any phones from china that looks exactly like the real phone except the ugly interface? I personally believe that would change because of android. Why? Here are some of my reason.

* Operating System - These small mobile company made their own mobile os simply because they could not use Symbian or Windows Mobile os or Apple due to the license stuff, dont know about Symbian now that they are open source. So it would be wise for these company to stop making their own and just use something that is already build then just remodify some part of it.

* Cost - Making your own mobile os with all the programmers that you will hire to do all the stuff that will make your mobile work is way too expensive for these company compare to using something that is already build. Not just they have to pay for their people to do the software, they also have to pay over the maintenance of it, translation of the manual and some technical support to their client???

* Revenue - Over the 3rd world countries, mobiles from China are hot, why? Not just because their cheap but because of the features but some people especially the one who can afford to buy 2nd class phones would not buy them, why? Not because they think its cheap but because they hate their first experience they had with these phones because of the interface. So using android would make them more richer.

* Innovation - This is purely my imagination, but i forecast that the Chinese people will not just make android on smart phone but on different gadget as well, like PMP, PDA, and Laptop computer (they might port it, these people are freakin awesome and insane)

I believe that smart phone will be huge and China will pay a major role on it. But what’s with Google on this? The more android phones they got, the more people will have use their services, the better standing they will get not just in China but over the globe. So its better for everyone after all.

This stuff is so cool and this could be the future of tech and business.

This robot is amazing.

Just when people think that yahoo is the thing of the past, then came their cool sites, some are build within and some are brought by acquisition. Here are some of their cool sites.

Delicious - A Social Bookmarking site, no need for further introduction. An interesting note here is that this site is a search site in disguise, i usually search cool stuff here since the search feature here is a lot better than digg.And btw I got to admin i love the new interface more then the old one, and unlike other programmer i don’t care what language they use as long as the service is good.

Flickr - Online photo management and sharing application, certainly one of the best photo sharing sites out there. I’m just glad they killed yahoo photos for this site.

Yahoo Answers - Ask a question and people will answer you. This site is incredible for finding answer to some of your question, and like delicious this is a search site in disguise.

Yahoo Buzz - Digg like site. This site is fast becoming the number 1 digg like site (I like reddit the most).

Yahoo Live - Live video streaming, something like ustream or justin.tv. I think this site will have a strong presence on the video space but not as big as youtube, the interface is a lot better than other video streaming site.

Yahoo Shine - This is sometimes have some good article about something that you may not know. What i dont like about it is that they have 2 search box at the top.

Yahoo Upcoming - Event management site, this site is cool coz you can invite everyone on an event, so if your throwing a party and you want to invite everyone then this is a good site to consider.

Yahoo Pipes - A powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. This site help ease of mashing out sites.

Omg - Daily celebrity gossip, good interface.

Fire Eagle - Twitter like site. I don’t know the use of the site, i just think its cool because of its interface. haha

Here are some that use to be cool for me.
Yahoo Groups - Nothing changed since 1998? haha. Full of nonsense groups.

Geocities - Everything is the same??? as when i first use it back in 2000, well except the colors from blue to purple?

Other yahoo sites can be found at
http://everything.yahoo.com/

Pandora, my previously favorite site until the music industry blocks it from the rest of the world might consider to shut down or discontinue their service. While the music industry thinks that they are making the right decision by taxing internet radio, they didn’t realize that these internet radio are actually doing them a big favor of slowing down the pirate scene. Now if pandora, which is considered as one of the biggest internet music site, will shut down, imagine where those people will find their music? Some will find other services that are like pandora, but most of them will return to being a pirate.

The music industry don’t know that they face more opponent now then before, previously they only have to face p2p and music downloading sites. Now they need to oppose p2p, torrents, file sharing sites like rapidshare and megaupload, video ripping site like vixy.net, sharing files via instance messaging, sending music files via mail (gmail,yahoomail), passing files through bluetooth, sharing memory sticks full of mp3s (used to be cds), forums, mp3 searches like baidu.com, etc. Now how the heck could they battle all of that?

People will pirate when they don’t have alternatives (this is my reason why i switch to linux) and not when they just want to. Pandora is a good alternative that they will kill and when that happens its the music industry will suffer not the listeners.

Read more http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/16/perhaps-pandora-must-be-our-sacrificial-lamb/

This is a bad news for ISO and Microsoft in a whole, first ISO will be looked as a corrupt entity and for MS while this might be a good business for them, the downside is that more people will hate them, and i believe currently this is not what they want.

Here are some of the reasons why the whole process of making OOXML a standard is questionable:

* Votes from 4 countries changed from originally No to Yes
I’m not shock on the Philippine’s vote coz its so corrupt back home
http://topicmaps.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-norway-vote-what-really-happened/
http://www.universal-interop-council.org/node/25
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39375179,00.htm

* There is already an standard in the name of ODF
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/07/how_a_standard_can_kill_a_stan.html

* No wide use of OOXML
This leads to the question, an iso standard that is not widely used?
http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/Google%20XML%20Q%20%20A%20(2).pdf
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/050306-iso-approves-odf-standard.html

* Use of non w3c recommendations
Use of DrawingML and the transitional-use-only VML instead of SVG
Use of Office Math ML instead of MathML.

20 more reasons why you have to say no to OOXML
http://www.noooxml.org/open:rejectooxmlnow

Comments on Slashdot Article
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/15/1749252&from=rss
It is not about "We hate Microsoft", it is about the fact
that something like WordWrapLikeWord95 should not exist in
an ISO standard.
BTW: There was a very interesting graph in the German
magazine c't. The essence was as follows:
XHTML: ~100 pages, ~400 days of standardization process
ODF: ~800 pages, ~900 days
SVG: ~600 pages. ~1050 days
SOAP: ~200 pages, ~950 days
...
OOXML: ~6500 pages, ~350 days.
WTF 350 days only???

After all this stuff, can we still believe in ISO?

I had created an experiment about the current status of the video and audio tag of html5 in different browser, it seems opera is leading the way

head over my experimental/labs site to see the other results
http://monmonja-labs.appspot.com/html5/?content=html5FirstTry

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The interface of the new Developer Center of mozilla is sweet. you can try it out here
http://devmo.dekiwiki.mozilla.org/En