Archive for August, 2006
Kiko - online calendar app built on Ruby on Rails founded by 2 young entrepreneurs was sold on ebay for $253K USD. This is a much better result than the base price of $50k. Apparently the founders have already received funding for the next ‘big’ idea that they just couldn’t wait.
Some lessons learnt:
- Richard White’s […]
He founded Gapminder, which is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development.
TedTalk video
Flash visualisation tool.
gabminder.org
Excellent use of technology and idea. I am really touched by this kind of non profit projects.
Latest Entries
- Getting things done.
- Free city broadband quietly shelved
- The truth comes out about Omnidrive.
- Big coffee
- Know your plastics
- (L)CHINA campaign
- Capitalism will lead us to death
- This sums it up…
- Another documentary - “Brits get rich in China”
- Interesting documentary on China’s democratic primary school.
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I am the founder of RoRCraft Ltd., a web consultancy firm that develops usable and speedy web applications for our clients.
Based in Sydney, I travel to Hong Kong and HangZhou China to meet with my team regularly. I love exploring new technologies and business ideas that helps making our world a better place.
An online video conversion tool. It allows everyone to freely convert their videos for ipods, mobiles and flash.
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Job board for Ruby and Rails developers.
