Archive for February, 2006

Mobile Emergency Mobile Power

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Mobile phones will run out of battery power. This is practically a given.
However, there are circumstances when we are low on battery power and are making an emergency call. The worst thing that can happen is loosing battery power before you located or before you can give an address.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have […]

Hollywood-Built P2P Networks?

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

In a Cringley article, I caught at slashdot.org. Cringley says that data centers will not be able to cope with the growth of both content and user’s capability to download them. Data centers are just not becoming big enough. In the Slashdot article, the author postulates that future belongs to Hollywood firms building P2P networks […]

Possible Projects for OJTs

Friday, February 24th, 2006

The summer season is fast approaching and OJTs will be knocking at companies’ doors once more. Now what interesting projects can we give them? After some chats and discussions, Here is a short list of possible projects:

Nutch-based Crawler that aims to know what people linking to you are talking about. Wouldn’t it be nice to […]

WhereIs(tm)? The Whois+GoogleMaps Mashup

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Here is a little mashup cooked up with PHP, GoogleMaps and the Whois Service (which is the painful part of the script because each whois has its own format). Also this service is limited to returing maps for the US and Canada since that is the only area with pretty complete GoogleMaps.

Locate?

This […]

Doesn’t Culturerank Also Give High Scores to Non-Culture Match Sites

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

I just had a chat with Jon Fernandez, a co-faculty member in the Computer Science Department, on my idea of Culturerank. He noted that it was possible for non-culture marked sites (non-pinoy) sites to get a high culturerank score by hyperlinked (or some criteria we can define later) often by culture-marked sites (pinoy sites).
Well… […]

Hello World!

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Due to RJ’s kind donation, this site will finally take shape. Thanks RJ!
I started blogging about a year back. It was hosted in my CNG website. It used to be at the right navigation bar above the google search bar. I stopped because maintaining the blog engine and the site itself became tiring. After a […]