Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
- Yahoo! Hack U 2009
Last Friday, Yahoo! was back at the University of Waterloo for Hack U 2009. After a week of talks by web gurus, such as Rasmus Lerdorf and Douglas Crockford, came the 24 hours hack event. This year, we decided to do something useful and in this tough economic time, we ended up creating a mashup [...]
- Facebook VP at UW Homecoming
Yesterday was Homecoming at the University of Waterloo. For the occasion, Chamath Palihapitiya, Vice President of User Growth, Mobile and International Expansion at Facebook and University of Waterloo ’99 alumnus was invited to give a talk entitled “Pushing The Digital Envelope”. I filmed most of the talk so I thought I could share it with [...]
- DHTwitter: A Vision of a Distributed Twitter
First of all, I have to say that this post is about an idea, not code. Now that this is said, here is the idea. As I said in a previous post, Twitter is facing a problem that could lead to its extinction. More and more people use third-party clients to access Twitter, thus decentralizing [...]
- Privacy Piracy
Yesterday, a friend of mine received a letter from Videotron, his Internet service provider, telling him that he should stop downloading copyrighted content. He immediately called me in panic, not because he is afraid of Videotron’s menaces (he is in law school), but because he is worried that someone is observing what he is doing [...]
- Interface Lift And An Awesome WordPress Plugins List
As you probably have already noticed, depending on your sense of observation, I changed my blog’s design again today. The main reason for that change is that I wasn’t satisfied with the header and sidebar of the past theme. So here it is, a new theme, minimal again, but effective. There are absolutely no images [...]
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