I’m happy to see TechNation keeping up its regular posts on Austrlian tech startups. An Australian specific tech blog is long overdue before TechCrunch’s Arrington became a star. Something caught my eye the other day, it’s another Australian’s first - startupcamp. Railscamp has had 3 successes already and barcamp also has 3, since 07.
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Some of my friends would know that I was burnt by this company 2 yrs ago. I’m sad to hear there’s more people in my same boat or had even bigger losses than me, but I’m also glad to see these stories surfacing. Some of the ex-employees including myself have kept quiet about the issues […]

This new customisable player from youtube is great!

The best websites I’ve ever used to buy plane ticket is www.ctrip.com. They are actually a public company listed on Nasdaq. One caveat is that they don’t accept overseas credit card. You’ll have to have a friend in China to buy it for you, or you can one a China credit card with Bank of […]

Hong Kong and China are definitely changing fast and getting closer and closer. Travelling to China from Shenzhen is definitely cheaper because they are domestic flights. It used to be abit troublesome to go through Law Wu (罗湖）and take the K568 mini-bus. That trip always have road congestions and its abit hard to plan […]

Officially announcing the launch of a new service that the team at RoRCraft has been working on for the past few months - Ankoder. It took us a few months because we’ve built it via our own transcoding server API. We’ve definitely learnt alot by developing a sample application through the API. We’ve added features […]

Yesterday, I wanted to add the new youtube video unit adsense to our site today. After a long search on their help docs to the mailing list group, I’ve come to realise “Google Video Ads is only Available for publishers located in the United States with English-language websites.”
Same goes with Amazon devpay - “Sellers […]

Realplayer must be losing alot of market share since youtube and all the flash based online video sites became available. Now they’re even using adwords to advertise themselves as a youtube video downloader. It is sad to see that they have to come down to this step. This company has been at the bottom ever […]