A friend of mine, Bernie Hogan, has created a Facebook application for capturing your social network of friends on Facebook as a UCINET data file so it can be imported into social network analysis tools. It is called My Online Social Network - Phase 1. Cool! There are also other Facebook applications that show your social networks, one is Nexus, which visualizes the social network as a graph. The Nexus app is cool, it generates the graph in real time and shows clusters or subgroups that represent your close friends together. The graph showed a cluster of my U of T friends, my University of Waterloo classmates from undergrad, my friends from TorCamp and my Nokia colleagues. You can also find a friend from the friend graph, change the layout to be radial instead of a spring graph.
Very cool, so try out these apps on Facebook!
On Technorati: Facebook social network, Facebook friend graph, Nexus
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Peter Kollock professor and sociologist known in the communities area just died http://ping.fm/j8auv I first heard of Peter when he gave a talk at Web-based Communities in 2006 in San Sebastian, Spain. I was impressed by his talk and his scholarly publications. He will be surely missed. Prayers and thoughts are with his family.
Monday, January 12, 2009
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First tech story of 2009: MacWorld
Well MacWorld is here, but Steve Jobs isn't. This doesn't mean that there aren't any new news from Apple. Quite the contrary, according to the MacWorld keynote, what was new from Apple was their 17-inch thinnest and lightest MacBook Pro which is the thinnest in the world (according to them). They also did some stuff to make the battery last longer. Another new thing that Apple announced was that iTunes is going DRM-free.
Even though if this year's MacWorld doesn't seem as glitzy and glamorous as previous years (like the iPhone and MacBook Air), this Apple gadget that didn't make it to MacWorld hopefully will make up for it.
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
Look ma, no keyboard!
Next tech story, CES in Las Vegas happening this week.
Even though if this year's MacWorld doesn't seem as glitzy and glamorous as previous years (like the iPhone and MacBook Air), this Apple gadget that didn't make it to MacWorld hopefully will make up for it.
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
Look ma, no keyboard!
Next tech story, CES in Las Vegas happening this week.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
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Reflections on 2008 and Happy New Year!
It's that time of the year. Time to reflect on the year that's about to be passed and look towards the new year. This is what I said for New Year's last year. So what were the most memorable moments in 2008? Personally for me, this year really was a year of ups and downs, but I'm glad to say the year is going to end up on a high note. First of all, the new year started for me and wife by spending the New Year in Hong Kong with my cousins at Time's Square in Causeway Bay. Then afterwards we had our wedding banquet for my wife's family and friends in Guangzhou. It has been a while since I spent my new year's away from home in Toronto.
Then, it was job search time so I was very busy in January throughout April with job interviews for faculty and industry research positions. In January, Bill Gates gave his last keynote speech at CES, so this was memorable for the tech industry. On January 17, Apple released the world's thinnest laptop, the MacBook Air. My father was admitted to a senior nursing home towards the end of December last year, so it was a tough time for me and my family to see my father deteriorate in his health (he had Alzheimers disease, Parkinson's disease and diabetes). Then on March 19, the inevitable happened which shocked our entire family, my father passed away. This was just so sudden that it was surreal, I couldn't believe he was gone. And I had to go to a job interview right after, which made it really difficult. However, I felt my father's spirit in me and with God, family and friends, they all helped me guide through that difficult time.
On the upside, I passed my PhD departmental exam on April 24 which was a significant milestone for me on road to completion of my PhD. In May, there was the Mesh conference in Toronto on social media and Web 2.0 which was really great and met lots of cool people in the industry and learned about what new technologies are out there. Towards the end of May, DGP turned 40 years old, the lab at U of T that started making an impact in graphics and video in the industry and academia.
Then Apple splashed up again with their new iPhone 3G in June which was probably the tech highlight of the year, and also the last time that Steve Jobs will give a keynote. Bill Gates had his last day at Microsoft on June 27 which was a momentous event in the computer industry. My conference trip report from Hypertext 2007 conference was published in the ACM SIGWEB newsletter in July.
The next great moment of this year for me was my acceptance of my full time research job at Nokia Research Center in Beijing. My wife and I moved on July 26 and this was a big change for me but the next chapter in my life. I had the wonderful opportunity to attend several events at the Beijing 2008 Olympics of which the most memorable was getting to be at the Bird's Nest and Water Cube. I even got the chance to watch the Olympic torch relay for the first time in my life under scorching heat (sure I got a headache but it was worth it!)
In September, Google announced their new browser to add to the browser wars, Google Chrome. Another great joyous moment in 2008 was on September 29 when my wife and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary which was so special to us. Then another great moment happened at my work at Nokia Research Center, I was accepted to give a talk in Helsinki, Finland about my research at Nokia Research Center Beijing in Mobile Web 2.0. It was my first time to Finland and I had a great time meeting Nokia people! My paper in the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia journal was also published in October, which was a great achievement for me and my PhD research.
Then the ultimate event on November 3, which was 5 years in the making, I became a doctor! I passed my PhD defense! A very momentous and joyous event in my PhD and life for sure. Another exciting tech event was at Nokia World when Nokia announced their new mobile phone which competes with iPhone and ups the bar for mobile social networking, the N97. On December 8, the computer industry celebrated the 40th anniversary of the invention of the mouse publicly shown by Doug Englebart. Also in December, Nokia Research Center Beijing turned 10 years and I was glad to be a part of the celebration.
And so now it is December 31, 2008. As you can see a lot of things have happened this year, which I'm so glad I made a record on my blog. I've certainly been blessed by God for this year and I look forward to the new year 2009. As this year comes to a close, I wish everyone a Happy New Year and may 2009 give you peace, happiness, blessings, and success! Like the video says, Happy New Year!
Happy New Year 2009
Then, it was job search time so I was very busy in January throughout April with job interviews for faculty and industry research positions. In January, Bill Gates gave his last keynote speech at CES, so this was memorable for the tech industry. On January 17, Apple released the world's thinnest laptop, the MacBook Air. My father was admitted to a senior nursing home towards the end of December last year, so it was a tough time for me and my family to see my father deteriorate in his health (he had Alzheimers disease, Parkinson's disease and diabetes). Then on March 19, the inevitable happened which shocked our entire family, my father passed away. This was just so sudden that it was surreal, I couldn't believe he was gone. And I had to go to a job interview right after, which made it really difficult. However, I felt my father's spirit in me and with God, family and friends, they all helped me guide through that difficult time.
On the upside, I passed my PhD departmental exam on April 24 which was a significant milestone for me on road to completion of my PhD. In May, there was the Mesh conference in Toronto on social media and Web 2.0 which was really great and met lots of cool people in the industry and learned about what new technologies are out there. Towards the end of May, DGP turned 40 years old, the lab at U of T that started making an impact in graphics and video in the industry and academia.
Then Apple splashed up again with their new iPhone 3G in June which was probably the tech highlight of the year, and also the last time that Steve Jobs will give a keynote. Bill Gates had his last day at Microsoft on June 27 which was a momentous event in the computer industry. My conference trip report from Hypertext 2007 conference was published in the ACM SIGWEB newsletter in July.
The next great moment of this year for me was my acceptance of my full time research job at Nokia Research Center in Beijing. My wife and I moved on July 26 and this was a big change for me but the next chapter in my life. I had the wonderful opportunity to attend several events at the Beijing 2008 Olympics of which the most memorable was getting to be at the Bird's Nest and Water Cube. I even got the chance to watch the Olympic torch relay for the first time in my life under scorching heat (sure I got a headache but it was worth it!)
In September, Google announced their new browser to add to the browser wars, Google Chrome. Another great joyous moment in 2008 was on September 29 when my wife and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary which was so special to us. Then another great moment happened at my work at Nokia Research Center, I was accepted to give a talk in Helsinki, Finland about my research at Nokia Research Center Beijing in Mobile Web 2.0. It was my first time to Finland and I had a great time meeting Nokia people! My paper in the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia journal was also published in October, which was a great achievement for me and my PhD research.
Then the ultimate event on November 3, which was 5 years in the making, I became a doctor! I passed my PhD defense! A very momentous and joyous event in my PhD and life for sure. Another exciting tech event was at Nokia World when Nokia announced their new mobile phone which competes with iPhone and ups the bar for mobile social networking, the N97. On December 8, the computer industry celebrated the 40th anniversary of the invention of the mouse publicly shown by Doug Englebart. Also in December, Nokia Research Center Beijing turned 10 years and I was glad to be a part of the celebration.
And so now it is December 31, 2008. As you can see a lot of things have happened this year, which I'm so glad I made a record on my blog. I've certainly been blessed by God for this year and I look forward to the new year 2009. As this year comes to a close, I wish everyone a Happy New Year and may 2009 give you peace, happiness, blessings, and success! Like the video says, Happy New Year!
Happy New Year 2009
Monday, December 29, 2008
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Friday, December 26, 2008
Friend View and my phone - so happy together
First of all, I hope you all had a great Christmas with family. I know I certainly did with my wife in our first Christmas here in Beijing since our move from Toronto.
I tried to upload version 0.830 of Nokia Friend View on my phone a couple of days ago, but for some strange reason, I kept getting "Certificate error, please contact the vendor". As cryptic as that error message sounds, I checked my certificates that Friend View would use and using my engineering background, tried to reverse engineer from which certificate was causing the problem. After deciding not tinkering with removing the certificates with the risk of making other software on my phone unusable (as is like with Windows machines), I decided to remove Friend View and revert back to the one that did work which was version 0.823. But, alas, I got the same error and couldn't install. Same for Nokia Image Exchange.
All I wanted for Christmas was having my Friend View back, because I couldn't FV on my phone and had to use the web. But seriously, it was probably good to have that break since I'm beginning to be addicted to FV on the phone.
Well, I'm glad to say that my phone and I are back to normal with FV reinstalled after I decided to reinstall my phone by flashing it. Thank you Nokia PC Suite for backing up all my data, all I had to do was restore after installing Friend View and Image Exchange, and it didn't take that long (maybe 10 minutes) to do the restore and I had all my applications and data back to normal. Boy, I wish it was that easy with reinstalling Windows on my PC.
So all is well in Friend View land for me and me and my phone are now happy. Onto enjoying the rest of the Christmas holidays, and hope you are also having a great Christmas holidays too!
I tried to upload version 0.830 of Nokia Friend View on my phone a couple of days ago, but for some strange reason, I kept getting "Certificate error, please contact the vendor". As cryptic as that error message sounds, I checked my certificates that Friend View would use and using my engineering background, tried to reverse engineer from which certificate was causing the problem. After deciding not tinkering with removing the certificates with the risk of making other software on my phone unusable (as is like with Windows machines), I decided to remove Friend View and revert back to the one that did work which was version 0.823. But, alas, I got the same error and couldn't install. Same for Nokia Image Exchange.
All I wanted for Christmas was having my Friend View back, because I couldn't FV on my phone and had to use the web. But seriously, it was probably good to have that break since I'm beginning to be addicted to FV on the phone.
Well, I'm glad to say that my phone and I are back to normal with FV reinstalled after I decided to reinstall my phone by flashing it. Thank you Nokia PC Suite for backing up all my data, all I had to do was restore after installing Friend View and Image Exchange, and it didn't take that long (maybe 10 minutes) to do the restore and I had all my applications and data back to normal. Boy, I wish it was that easy with reinstalling Windows on my PC.
So all is well in Friend View land for me and me and my phone are now happy. Onto enjoying the rest of the Christmas holidays, and hope you are also having a great Christmas holidays too!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone
I'd just like to wish everyone and readers to my blog a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! May the new year bring us joy, more open standards and integration with social media and social networks, new gadgets (like the Nokia N97), new technologies, peace, safety, and security around the world.
Even though we all love our tech gadgets and love to blog, FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku, Flickr, etc., we all need to remember what is most important in life. And that is God, our family and loved ones. So, spend time with them, tell them how much you love them and enjoy the holidays. Let's remember the true meaning of Christmas, if you haven't read the book The Purpose of Christmas by Rick Warren (author of The Purpose-Driven Life), I'd strongly recommend you to read it.
For some Christmas humour, check out this song and video.
God bless everyone for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
圣诞快乐！
Joyeux Noel!
Felix Navidad!
Even though we all love our tech gadgets and love to blog, FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku, Flickr, etc., we all need to remember what is most important in life. And that is God, our family and loved ones. So, spend time with them, tell them how much you love them and enjoy the holidays. Let's remember the true meaning of Christmas, if you haven't read the book The Purpose of Christmas by Rick Warren (author of The Purpose-Driven Life), I'd strongly recommend you to read it.
For some Christmas humour, check out this song and video.
God bless everyone for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
圣诞快乐！
Joyeux Noel!
Felix Navidad!
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40th anniversary of computer mouse and hypertext
I've just heard that this day in 1968 was the first public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking, and shared collaboration technologies by Douglas Engelbart from his famous SRI demo (otherwise known as "Mother of all Demos"). These technologies have changed the world forever and started the computer industry and computer research today as we know it. Thank you Doug and you can see the original demo post and videos here.
On Technorati: mouse, Mother of All Demos, hypertext, SRI, DougEngelbart
On Technorati: mouse, Mother of All Demos, hypertext, SRI, DougEngelbart
Saturday, December 06, 2008
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The genie is outside of the bottle: Nokia N97
So everybody already knows by now that the new stunning, QWERTY keyboard, touch screen, iPhone competitor is out from Nokia at Nokia World. It is the N97 and it looks really nice. Wow it has 32 GB of onboard memory! My, that's like a server on a phone! It expands till 48 GB if you add a microSD card, just simply amazing! This phone was definitely made for video. It does 16 X 9 resolution. Promo video of the N97 phone is shown below.
Here's a demonstration of one of the videos of the N97 in action at the NYC flagship store:
Robert Scoble (from FastCompany) has a blog post about the N97 compared to the iPhone and his viewpoints which he says has many features better than the iPhone, especially video.
Ah, ooh, and there is mention of doing Facebook on the phone as well. So, how will the N97 fare with consumers compared to iPhone, well only time will tell.
Many people are saying how they want to retire their N95 or other phones to get the N97. Seeing that the price is around $600 US starting, it's certainly expensive for the average consumer but I can see where business people would want to get it.
Just imagine the possibilities you could use this phone for Mobile Web 2.0 and mobile social networking!
On Technorati: Nokia N97, Nokia World 2008
Here's a demonstration of one of the videos of the N97 in action at the NYC flagship store:
Robert Scoble (from FastCompany) has a blog post about the N97 compared to the iPhone and his viewpoints which he says has many features better than the iPhone, especially video.
Ah, ooh, and there is mention of doing Facebook on the phone as well. So, how will the N97 fare with consumers compared to iPhone, well only time will tell.
Many people are saying how they want to retire their N95 or other phones to get the N97. Seeing that the price is around $600 US starting, it's certainly expensive for the average consumer but I can see where business people would want to get it.
Just imagine the possibilities you could use this phone for Mobile Web 2.0 and mobile social networking!
On Technorati: Nokia N97, Nokia World 2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Mobile Mondays Beijing event
Right now I'm in the meeting at Mobile Mondays Beijing. This event was started by Benjamin Joffe of PlusStar. The meeting tonight is about foreign firms in China. The speakers for this meeting are Lin Song from Opera China, David Sullivan from Alliance Development Group, Karl J. Weaver from Gemalto China, Dan Wong from Nokia China and Allen Yang from LemonQuest China. There is such a great turnout here at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, around at least 100 people! The speakers are now talking about why they entered into the Chinese market.
Lin Song is talking how Opera started as a narrow facility and then how it expanded in the mobile browser market. Allen Wong says their main reason to come to China was to bring research and development together, produce in China, and then market abroad. LemonQuest does development of mobile games. Karl J. Weaver is now saying why Gemalto came to China because it makes sense to come to the largest market in the world. In fact, I did not know that Gemalto was the original developer of the SIM card that is used in GSM mobile phones. It makes sense to go to China to go to the largest subscriber base. David Sullivan is now explaining that it is important to choose your partners, working with Huawei and ZTE, it's having your engineers work with others. He says that you become "customers of your partners". You must maintain speed and the technology roadmap, you need to have offense to protect your defense, in football speak.
Benjamin is now talking to Dan Wong, VP of Software and Services of Nokia China about how Nokia is getting into the services area. IPR for services and software is more complex, one of the important things is how to protect IPR for your business, one way to do this is to look at China. In China, it is easy to copy products, as people are familiar with. China created free software but charge for time to connect with the server, that is the business model that works, according to Dan. The deeper question is can you develop a business model that is IPR proof, it is broader challenge for developing services globally. Nokia's vision is that OVI provides a very differentiated experiences via just the hardware. According to Karl Weaver, you cannot stop IP, you cannot stop the flow of technology, there are strategies that you can compete. According to David Sullivan, a lot of foreign companies use the same model to start up shop in China, but it doesn't work. Services are becoming very important and critical in China, if you get the service model right then you can protect yourself. You need to keep staying ahead.
How do the foreign companies keep staying ahead, is the next question addressed by Benjamin. According to David Sullivan, it is important to identify the ecosystem and then identify the suppliers, there is a need to be much more creative. From Lin Song of Opera, you need to have a great product and get constant feedback from users.
Third question: What kind of difficulties have you found in growing the business in China?
Karl J. Weaver: Chinese companies treat information as secret, which is frustrating in trying to grow the business in China.
Allen Yang: Foreign companies can never act local when they are global, they say act global stay local.
David Sullivan: A lot of companies go into China and see the level of investment needed, and decide not to come. The challenge is localization, you need to find the Chinese partners and the language. The challenge is also talking with headquarters.
Dan Wong: The biggest challenge is market challenge, the biggest market in the world. In China, there are 2000 models, the level of competition is at an entire new level from the regulatory environment, the unique standards, and the market structure. The biggest challenge is the combination of all those things.
According to David Sullivan, there are companies that are starting to develop with the China market first and then bring it globally, that have 95% of the development work in China. From a consumer demand, Nokia's Dan Wong says want to compete in the services arena in a different way, it is not to replicate this. For mobile music, people in China will pay for downloading music, Dan says we are seeing pockets of opportunity.
Question: What are some failures and success stories with your companies?
Lin Song: There is an importance of finding the right people, it is not that they are not competent, it is the element of trust.
David Sullivan: A lot of companies project their experiences but have no idea what is going on, which results in failure. when companies find the right technology fit and right partner, and commit to that localization, then there is a lot of opportunity for success.
In the end, a great talk and discussion, I've never been to an event where there was so many people listening to the speakers, and there is internet access, and power where my seat is! Now, it's time to network and eat a light buffet!
Lin Song is talking how Opera started as a narrow facility and then how it expanded in the mobile browser market. Allen Wong says their main reason to come to China was to bring research and development together, produce in China, and then market abroad. LemonQuest does development of mobile games. Karl J. Weaver is now saying why Gemalto came to China because it makes sense to come to the largest market in the world. In fact, I did not know that Gemalto was the original developer of the SIM card that is used in GSM mobile phones. It makes sense to go to China to go to the largest subscriber base. David Sullivan is now explaining that it is important to choose your partners, working with Huawei and ZTE, it's having your engineers work with others. He says that you become "customers of your partners". You must maintain speed and the technology roadmap, you need to have offense to protect your defense, in football speak.
Benjamin is now talking to Dan Wong, VP of Software and Services of Nokia China about how Nokia is getting into the services area. IPR for services and software is more complex, one of the important things is how to protect IPR for your business, one way to do this is to look at China. In China, it is easy to copy products, as people are familiar with. China created free software but charge for time to connect with the server, that is the business model that works, according to Dan. The deeper question is can you develop a business model that is IPR proof, it is broader challenge for developing services globally. Nokia's vision is that OVI provides a very differentiated experiences via just the hardware. According to Karl Weaver, you cannot stop IP, you cannot stop the flow of technology, there are strategies that you can compete. According to David Sullivan, a lot of foreign companies use the same model to start up shop in China, but it doesn't work. Services are becoming very important and critical in China, if you get the service model right then you can protect yourself. You need to keep staying ahead.
How do the foreign companies keep staying ahead, is the next question addressed by Benjamin. According to David Sullivan, it is important to identify the ecosystem and then identify the suppliers, there is a need to be much more creative. From Lin Song of Opera, you need to have a great product and get constant feedback from users.
Third question: What kind of difficulties have you found in growing the business in China?
Karl J. Weaver: Chinese companies treat information as secret, which is frustrating in trying to grow the business in China.
Allen Yang: Foreign companies can never act local when they are global, they say act global stay local.
David Sullivan: A lot of companies go into China and see the level of investment needed, and decide not to come. The challenge is localization, you need to find the Chinese partners and the language. The challenge is also talking with headquarters.
Dan Wong: The biggest challenge is market challenge, the biggest market in the world. In China, there are 2000 models, the level of competition is at an entire new level from the regulatory environment, the unique standards, and the market structure. The biggest challenge is the combination of all those things.
According to David Sullivan, there are companies that are starting to develop with the China market first and then bring it globally, that have 95% of the development work in China. From a consumer demand, Nokia's Dan Wong says want to compete in the services arena in a different way, it is not to replicate this. For mobile music, people in China will pay for downloading music, Dan says we are seeing pockets of opportunity.
Question: What are some failures and success stories with your companies?
Lin Song: There is an importance of finding the right people, it is not that they are not competent, it is the element of trust.
David Sullivan: A lot of companies project their experiences but have no idea what is going on, which results in failure. when companies find the right technology fit and right partner, and commit to that localization, then there is a lot of opportunity for success.
In the end, a great talk and discussion, I've never been to an event where there was so many people listening to the speakers, and there is internet access, and power where my seat is! Now, it's time to network and eat a light buffet!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
University of Toronto CS department featured in ByteClub
The University of Toronto Computer Science department of which where my PhD comes from, is featured in this video from Byte Club which is a Toronto-based web show featuring technology companies and their culture:
It's a great show, showing the cool things in Computer Science happening in University of Toronto and what the students are doing. Who said Computer Science was just for geeks?
On Technorati: UniversityOfToronto, ComputerScience, ByteClub
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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I'm trying out this new service called Ping.fm for posting to multiple social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and FriendFeed. This allows you to avoid having to go to the individual social networking site in order to write your message. It's quite nice, and they also have a feature to post to Blogger which I'm doing right now.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, November 03, 2008
It's now Dr. GadgetMan
Yes, that's right, you heard me. I successfully defended my PhD today with just minor changes. Finally, after 5 long, hard, blood and sweat years, I've been able to arrive at this milestone in my life. Thanks to everyone my family and my committee for being there and supporting me. And especially thanks God for providing me the strength to do the PhD, God is so awesome. Also, my wife who has always supported me in everything I do, thanks honey!
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Finishing the final preparations for my PhD defense
I'm right now finishing up my preparations and rehearsal of my talk for my PhD defense tomorrow at 10 am. I hope everything goes well. Please pray for me in your prayers tonight and tomorrow, and once I know the result of my defense I will let you all know on this blog, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, Plaxo, MSN, Google Talk and all my other social networks.
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