Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Friday, 28 September 2012
Today Interesting/Inspired News
Forcabdrivers.com
Facebook effect inspires Silicon Valley cabbie
( Source: San Jose Mercury News )
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Then one day, he picked up a Japanese documentary crew headed from the airport to Palo Alto to produce a feature on a startup long since forgotten. The Japanese visitors started talking about Facebook and Taye mentioned that Facebook was not that far from where they were headed. Let's go, Taye's passengers suggested.
"I showed them the entrance," he says. "They took pictures of the sign and me, their new cabdriver friend."
And it hit him: Cabdrivers needed a digital place to build community; a go-to site that could help with work and life; a place that cabdrivers would feel so much a part of, that they might want to take pictures of it some day.
"The idea came to me," Taye explains. "We are not connected. We don't know what's going on on the other side of the nation. If we could come up with a website whereby all cabdrivers can get together and exchange information and ideas, that would be a perfect thing to do."
So, he enrolled in an online Web design course. He started jotting down ideas for the site while waiting his turn to pick up airport passengers. He used Google to find oDesk, which he used to find a Web designer in Portland, Ore., to help with his site. He enlisted a local app maker to advise him on technology.
Now, 14 months after the Facebook trip, he's launched Forcabdrivers.com. It's a soft launch. Taye has cabdriver buddies and others checking the site out, sending along ideas. He knows he has work to do and he has no illusions of building some hugely popular or profitable site.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mike-cassidy/ci_21644782/cassidy-facebook-effect-inspires-silicon-valley-cabbie
Thursday, 27 September 2012
The World I Return
For many years,
I have been traveling
To no where but getting lost in maze
Making my life wearing and tiring
Tonight, I drink and go to bed late
Tomorrow morning, I will regret for my young time
Every evening I sit here and wonder
So fast my life passes
Spring has just gone then so the Summer
Of this Autumn day, in the afternoon
I listen to the gallop sound going far away when a day pass.
On my shoulders, the sun and the moon
Shining one hundred years, the world I return
( Quotes from the song Mot Coi Di Ve of Trinh Cong Son )
(English Translated by Anblog )
Original version sung in Vietnamese ( Video Clip Source : Youtube )
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
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