You might be tempted to figure out how many of your friends on Facebook have twitter accounts.

twitter does not support Facebook for finding people you know. There are no mashups that let you do this, because APIs provided by Facebook and twitter do not provide all the necessary information to perform this task.

You get hashed versions of your friends’ emails, however twitter does not let you find people using this information. What twitter needs to do is to hash all email addresses it has, and create a Facebook application to migrate the data.

From an interview with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child association:

You call your project one laptop per child, and you mean that every kid in the entire world is going to have a laptop. Is that realistic?

If I was realistic, I wouldn’t have started this project. It’s the dream, but we’ll get close…

We need more dreamers in this world ….

If you’re one of those people that spend most of their day in front of a computer, you should make an extra effort to exercise regularly. It’s not just for staying in shape and being healthy, exercising increases your productivity as well. If I’m feeling depressed and lonely, it means I need to exercise. If I’m too excited and can’t concentrate, it means I need to exercise. Know yourself, and how your body works …

Birkaç hafta önce izlemiştim bu video‘yu, Türkiye’de internet alanında girişimcilik ne durumda diye merak ediyordum. Silikon Vadisi’nden döndüğüm için her şeye yabancı gözüyle, eleştirel olarak baktığımdan olsa gerek birden aklıma geliverdi, oysa ilk izlediğimde beni bu kadar rahatsız etmemişti:

itiraf.com gibi sitelerin kurucusu Ersan Özer’e soruyorlar, “İnternet üzerinden yatırım yapmak isteyen fikir sahiplerine nasıl bir yol izlemelerini tavsiye ediyorsunuz?” diye.

Kendisinin cevabı ise içler acısı: “Buna esinlenme mi denir, çalma çırpma mı denir bilmiyorum ama…” diyerekten başlıyor, sonra devam ediyor: “Zaten Amerika’da olağanüstü bir fikir veritabanı oluşmuş durumda… O fikri alsınlar, Türkiye’ye uyarlasınlar. Yeni fikir falan aramasınlar özetle, yurtdışından baksınlar, hangi fikir kafalarına yatıyorsa…. Yurtdışından fikri alsınlar, buraya uyarlasınlar.”

Imagine what you could do if we had establish standards on certain products regarding barcodes. Mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous, and they are not just phones any more, they have computing capabilities and internet connection. This opens a plethora of opportunities to make our lives easier.

Case 1: What if product barcodes were easily recognizable by our phones, then when we’re in a store, we would just scan the barcode, and our phone would search within 5 miles of distance using location based services and find us stores that offer the same product for a cheaper price.

I attended CloudCamp at San Francisco, it was an “unconference” about cloud computing. It was so exciting to be there among 300 developers, enterpreneurs and businessman. Being in Silicon Valley is one of the best parts of my U.S. experience, you can feel the innovation that is going on when you see all these passionate people talking about new technologies.The event was organized by a bunch of people, and they did it in less than 3 weeks. Sponsor money was used to provide food and cover other small expenses such as printing posters, name tags and t-shirts.

1 year later:

 “Remember remember the fifth of November
 Gunpowder, treason and plot.
 I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
 Should ever be forgot”

Here is an amusing letter:

Herbert A. Millington
Chair - Search Committee
412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University
College Hill, MA 34109

Dear Professor Millington,
Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me an assistant professor position in your department. This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field of candidates, it is impossible for me to accept all refusals. Despite Whitson’s outstanding qualifications and previous experience in rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at this time. Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor in your department this August. I look forward to seeing you then.

In a recent report, Turkey stands out among 30 OECD countries as the country with the most expensive broadband price per megabit/sec with $81.13. And Turkey is not one of the high income countries either.

Do you want to join an exclusive/beta site that requires invitations? Try InviteShare, a hub where people share their invites to many popular sites like pownce, joost, moola, 8apps, spock etc. They have an abundant number of invites, I was able to receive my invitations to all of these popular sites within a few minutes. I’m glad that someone took the initiative to start such a website to connect people with invitations to those who do not. I think the defining theme of Internet is becoming collaboration.