It’s no surprise that Tokyo, Japan leads the bunch with over 11,000 tweets in a day. Second is New York and third, San Francisco.

For us Canadians, Toronto came in 14th while my home-town, Vancouver came in 25th.

Source: Twitterlocal

To see the most recently updated list, visit: http://www.twitterlocal.net/stats

Peter Kao

UPDATE: Mozilla will be launching it’s popular open-source browser, Firefox for mobiles! See http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20681/

There’s no doubt about it: Linux is still not mainstream, despite the many improvements by thousands of open-source contributors across the world. Luckily for us Linux users, this is all going to change with the launch of Google Android!

Here’s the top 5 reasons why:

1) Android looks damn nice compared to other Linux distributions. It’ll appeal to the masses who value asthetics above anything else.

Linux = Command Prompt?

Video of the Google Android UI in action:

2) It won’t break, and no configuration is needed. Cell phone manufacturers will ensure their phones will work with the platform by making the necessary installations and configurations, so consumers don’t have to.

3) It’ll drive down the price of a smartphone, pocket-pc or whatever a cellphone is called these days. Simple – no more licensing fees for crappy operating systems (can you say Windows Mobile?).

4) There are more people carrying cell phones than Internet users. Linux is having a difficult time converting Window users, who most likely have used the OS on their desktops/laptops their entire lives. However, this is not so for cell phones. Many of us are used to different OS on the phone (RIM, Symbian, Windows Mobile etc) so we’re more likely to try out a new OS, which is great considering there are so many cell phone users out there!

There are more cell phone users than Internet users

5) Android Apps are easily accessible without strict rules of which apps are featured on the Android App Market. Everyone is going to go crazy and start pulling their hair out when they discover that there are a plethora of different applications (that are super cheap or FREE) for their phone. They no longer have to stick to the software that comes on their phone. iPhone already offers this kind of an experience, but not all apps are available. For example, you won’t find a single podcaster app for the iPhone since apps like these are rejected and banned for duplicating the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes. Not so for the Android! So there will bound to be some awesome apps for your phone!

Apple App Store Dictorship

 
Bonus: 6) It’s from Google, so everyone will use it.

Let the spot-light shine on Linux!

Peter Kao

I love Google Video. They have all the documentries in the world there.

Here are some key points that I’ve made from Guy Kawasaki’s Art of Innovation presentation. If you’ve seen his Art of the Start presentation, then these will look awfully familiar to you. In fact, I think he even used the same slides…

1) The DICEE Concept

Deep – does what it should and antipicates what you need. A product that goes above and beyond in solving a need.

Intelligence – pretty obvious. Put some thought into your products/services!

Complete – great products/services also include the support infrastructure around them, such as support, forums, conferences, websites – everything.

Elegance – has to be easy to use without a 50-page manual.

Emotive – Your product/service should polarize people. Either people will love it or absolutely hate it, but the point is nobody will become indifferent to your product or service.

4) Tips for Your Pitches – The ’10-20-30 Rule’

10 slides maximum

20 minutes for all the slides

30 is the optimal font size

The rest is for Q&A and other miscellaneous things.

You can view the entire video (~50 min. long) here:

Note: Google Video embeds are known to screw up. So if you want to watch the video full-screen, visit the original link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3459408090550854446

Peter Kao

I read a lot of interesting crap on Digg.com, but this is one that I need to show you.

$700 Billion Bailout: How it Really Works

Peter Kao

UPDATE: Want to be convinced to vote? Watch this (made for US citizens but works just as well for us)

Today, I was talking to a friend of mine and I asked, “So, who are you going to vote for?” 

She said, “Obama.” 

The funny thing is, we were both on campus – in Canada. 

The point is that we focus so much on American politics (assuming you DO follow politics, if you don’t -YOU SHOULD) that we understand so little of our own.

I believe that more students like us will be driven to vote if we take more time to understand Canadian politics, and now you can do so easily using a web-app created for the 24-Hour Hacking Competition from Yahoo! Here’s the link: http://yahoo.summerhilldesign.com/index.php 

With this app, you can find every single incumbent Member of Parliament’s position on various topics. The UI is really well designed and makes learning about politics actually fun. Go check it out! 

REMEMBER TO VOTE ON: October 14, 2008 

Peter Kao