Tech Whiz Kids: 10 Overachievers Under 21
- Ben Casnocha, 19 - The Serial Entrepreneur
- Stephen Yellin, 19 - The Youngest ‘Old Pol’, DailyKos
- Ashley Qualls, 17 - The MySpace Millionaire, Whateverlife.com
- Andrew Sutherland, 17 - The Quiz Master
- Garrett Yazzie, 16 - The Junkyard Genius
- Anshul Samar, 14 - The Alchemist
- Sean Belnick, 20 - The Chair Man
- Matt Wegrzyn, 19 - The Master of Domains
- George Hotz, 18 - The iPhone Hacker
- Catherine Cook, 18 - The Social Director, myYearbook
In a recent article published by Dan Tynan, he had summarized the tech industry most recent young and bright minds, who has somehow made an impact in their fields. Personally, I think the iPhone hacker is the top out of the 10 young entrepreneurs listed.
Well you be the judge, read more of Meet the whiz kids: 10 overachievers under 21.
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Catch All South Park Episodes Online
Catch All South Park Episodes Online
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So You Want To Be A Blogging Star?
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Quoted from the same title post from NYT: So You Want to Be a Blogging Star?. Here’s a quick list to guide you.
- Don’t expect to get rich. (I should stop dreaming on this)
- Write about what you want to write about, in your own voice. (Business/Technology related, startups, random stuff)
- Fit blogging into the holes in your schedule. (Well, timing is very flexible on my side, I just need some inspiration to blog on some subjects)
- Just post it already! (Yeah!)
- Keep a regular rhythm. (It is not easy, but I’m trying)
- Join the community, such as it is. (Well… trying to fit in)
- Plug yourself. (Is spamming a blog community a good one?)
Talking about making a career out of blogging and generating money are no easy feat, as I’m relearning (tried it before back in 2005, but gave up) my way to write the stuff that interest me and my visitors, at the same time trying to make money and having a blast?
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Digg This: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg And His Girlfriend
If you haven’t actually know or see it before, the above photo is actually Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his Asian girlfriend, Priscilla Chan.
More pictures can be viewed here, Facebook security lapse exposes Mark Zuckerberg’s private Facebook photos.
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Learning Computer Science The Google Way: Google Code University
Do you know that you can now learn the fundamentals of computer science from Google? Google Code University now offers such opportunities for those newbies wanting to pick up computer science as their future careers. Currently, there are four courses available:
- AJAX Programming
- Distributed Systems
- Web Security
- Languages (C++, Java and Python concepts are being covered)
Also included is the introduction to databases and MySQL. Embedded videos found on the site also makes learning and understanding a lot easier.
Below is one of the videos found on How to Break Web Software
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Rare Meteorite Crater Discovered On Google Maps
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Another day, another new discovery found in Google Maps. This time a rare meteorite crater was discovered by Dr Arthur Hickman. A crater credited to his name.
Measuring 260 metres wide and up to 30 metres deep, the divot is thought to be between 10,000 and 100,000 years old and was stumbled upon in the rich, rust coloured landscape of the Hamersley Ranges in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
If confirmed, the Hickman Crater will become just the 30th officially-verified meteorite impact crater in Australia and the first such discovery since 2005.
Sudden impact: Google unearths rare meteorite crater
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Google’s Early Success: Free And Delicious Food
You see most food lovers who often watched those cooking / food show, knows Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Anthony Bourdain, and blah blah, but have you heard of Charlie Ayers? Charlie who? He was an important person who played an important role during Google’s early infant startup days. As the first Google chef hired, his job is to cook and provide healthy and yummy delicious food for free for all Google’s employees.
It began in 1998, when Page and Brin started Google in a friend’s garage near Stanford University in California. A few months later, they recruited Ayers. “They said: ‘We are not going to charge for food here, ever.’
“I said: ‘That’s crazy.’ They explained my job was to create this ambience, to build this captivated audience where people wanted to come in super-early and stay super-late.
“They interviewed me above a bicycle shop. They thought they were going to go global. I thought ‘Good luck.’ The way they were playing with children’s toys, riding around on scooters, I had no idea they were doing any work.”
Fish fats does help engineers work more efficiently and smarter.
“The fat found in fish helps make the cell membranes round the brain more elastic and more able to absorb nutrients easily.”
I bet at that moment when he signed up, he could be thinking that this crazy startup wouldn’t last long with all these free food and the fun that the engineers had. Anyway here’s the full story on it, Google’s free beer and ‘big-ass’ barbies
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Mozilla’s 500 Horsepower
Feel the power!
Source: Who says there’s no money via Valleywag.
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