Archive for September, 2008

Google and prof Motwani replies to the "3rd founder"

Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:01 No Comments

As you may already know the news about Hubert Chang claiming that he is the "3rd Google Founder" are all over the web the last 24h hours. The majority of the commenters pointed that this (if it was true) was a decision made by him and there was not a reason for those videos. [...]

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Shocking development? Hubert Chang - The third Google guy?

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 17:19 24 Comments

Until know we knew the whole story behind Google’s success. We know everything about Larry Page and Sergey Brin. BUT. A new video appeared a coupe of hours ago claiming that there is a third person behind the Google creation. Hubert Chang is the guy that claims he solved many of the development problems , [...]

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Pleo’s wild side - Pleosaurus Rex video

Friday, September 12, 2008 11:50 No Comments

One of the most interesting features of Pleo, the cute robot dinosaur, is the ability of upgrating through personality firmwares provided by Ugobe.
The latest personality update brings confusion to the world, as it transforms our little friend into a monster
Ugobe descibes it as
Pleosaurus shows his wild side and does his best impersonation of [...]

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Obama’s future photos on flickr (?)

Friday, September 12, 2008 2:15 1 Comment

Went to Obama’s FlickR account to watch the latest photos and realized that something was strange with the their titles. Hmmm, August 2009?
When clicked to see additional information about the photos

“Uploaded on September 11, 2008″ but “Taken on September 12, 2008″ ?
Seriously, i think that someoneĀ  has to reconfigure that camera’s date/time information I [...]

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Google employees break Guinness record on Syrtaki dance

Thursday, September 4, 2008 13:21 9 Comments

2500 Google employees gathered yesterday at Kallipateira athletic venue in Rhodes Island (Greece) and danced Syrtaki (zorba song) in front of Guinness Record book representatives
Until now the record was held by 1608 from Australia

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UPDATEGoogle Inc turns 10 on September 7. Maybe this is the reason for 4,000 Google Employees traveling to Greece
One [...]

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Manhattan virtual 3D (iTech Project)

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 15:43 No Comments

iTech is a service provided by motiva (Spain) through which they transform any scene in a virtual 3D model that has complete freedom of movement. The outcome is something like Google Earth in fly mode but in a more, much more, realistic way
Watch the demo video featuring a 3D model that represents Manhattan [...]

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