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Internet Video: A Stream Becomes a Virtual Deluge

June 29th, 2007 at 5:06 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Marketing, RIA, Stats, Videos



[Via Natiw]

70 percent of Internet users streamed video online in March this year…

Read the post from Natiw
Ahmet

Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

June 27th, 2007 at 10:19 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Marketing, Point of View



[Via: le monde]¨
Just a quick link to an interesting study from danah boyd about class divisions through Facebook and MySpace.
MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, “burnouts,” “alternative kids,” “art fags,” punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn’t play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. These are kids [...]

IPhoney – How your web creations will look on iPhone?

June 24th, 2007 at 2:15 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Mobile, Web Design



A useless toy to see how will your web creation look on iPhone…
iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your [...]

Mobile Site Checker

June 23rd, 2007 at 1:22 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Mobile, Web Design



Via Nokia Blog Forum. Some services to test if your website is ready to go for mobile or not.
As far as I know there are two service providers:

Bango
Ready.mobi

Bango gives you a score from 0 (not designed for mobile phone) to 5.
Ready.mobi gives a much better analyses of your mobile web site (Readiness, Size, Time & [...]

A mobile web developer’s guide

June 23rd, 2007 at 1:00 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Books, Mobile, Web Design



While reading Scott Janousek’s blog (a post about creating and testing mobile web sites with Adobe CS3), I followed a link to a free Mobile Developer’s Guide.
The book is interesting and gives a nice overview of what mobile developer can do to offer a better experience to their visitors.
In Switzerland it is definitely two early [...]

New Actionscript 3 tutorials

June 21st, 2007 at 11:25 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in ActionScript3, Flash, Flex, Tutorials, Videos



Tomorrow, I’ll have my last exam for this year, and then finish for University for some month ;)
During the last 3 month I haven’t published any new video tutorial about Flash CS3, but they are coming soon!
One will be about interacting with a Database, the other will be about interaction between javascript and actionscript.
I now [...]

Make phone numbers link clickable to dial on mobile phones.

June 20th, 2007 at 10:52 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Mobile, Web Design



Nice tips from Scriptygoddess on how to make phone numbers link clickable to dial on mobile phones.<a href=”wtai://wp/mc;8015551212″> 801-555-1212 </a>It works great :)

Ahmet

Irrepressible.info: Someone doesn’t want people to read this…

June 19th, 2007 at 7:17 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in General, Point of View



To check more, go to their website: Irrepressible.info

Artificial Intelligence Is Lost in the Woods

June 19th, 2007 at 11:07 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Books, Intelligence, Point of View



Very interesting article published inTechnolgy Review, written by David Gelernter (professor of computer science at Yale University) about the understanding of AI and it’s future.
Credit: Eric Joyner
Introduction:

Artificial intelligence has been obsessed with several questions from the start: Can we build a mind out of software? If not, why not? If so, what kind of mind [...]

I’m a Happy Dad!

June 13th, 2007 at 10:33 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Point of View



Friday 8 June 2007, my daughter was born :)
I’m so much happy, it’s really an incredible experiment.
She was waited for the 28 of june, but she thought that it would be nicer to come during my exam of algorithm and data structures.
Thanks to god everything went well and my daughter and my wife are going [...]