Monthly Archives: March 2008

Who Wants A Shot At Re-Designing Deep Jive Interests?

Thanks to everyone who has left a kind message about wanting to help here at Deep Jive Interests.  I’ve been kind of bit busy as of late, but now that I have a temporary breather, I will be replying back to everyone who has expressed an interest.  In particular, I’d like to thank J. Angelo [...]

OFFTOPIC: A Look At What I’m Up Against

So today I had a mock / real exam of sorts which was painful, because its always difficult to hear how you need to improve, but excellent at the same time because we don’t get a lot of chances to *do* mock exams. The Royal College exam in Internal Medicine has both an oral [...]

Deep Jive Interests Is Changing. Here’s How You Can Help.

Hi guys and gals,
In the upcoming weeks (and perhaps months) there is going to be a slow change at Deep Jive Interests in terms of its content (I think) and its author(s) (I hope).
For those of you who didn’t already know, although I blog about new media issues (a catch-all term for “whatever I think [...]

Want Some Free Research? Mahalo’s Worker Bees Will Do It For You

So an interesting fact, trailing the hubaloo over how Jason Calacanis does (or does not) treat his startup squad at Mahalo (working them like slaves or merely encouraging the best out of them) — turns out that the Mahalo worker bees are looking for just about any content/fodder to create indexable pages, and that includes [...]

I Got DropBox Invites — Who Wants One?

Update: March 14, 2008
Sorry guys, it looks like the backdoor has closed. :P I am closing the comments, but if you want to be on the list in case it ever opens again, or in case I get any other invites or goodies to other Web2.0 Applications, just leave your email (I promise not [...]

Review: DropBox — An Awesomely Simple And Elegant Online Storage Solution

So, this is a quick review, mostly because DropBox is getting Digged, TechCrunched and Redditted all at the same time — and I’m finally allowed to blog about it, as they’ve dropped their request they bloggers not do so. I’ve been in the private beta for almost two months now, and DropBox is pretty [...]

Crunchyroll’s VC Windfall Enrages Fansubbing Community

Well, it looks like the anime/otaku/fansubbing crowd doesn’t read Techmeme or Techcrunch, for that matter (this blog too, obviously, but that’s something I’m willing to overlook :), but someone had, and it looks like the word is spreading about Crunchyroll’s success, and it looks like they are not pleased.
So here’s the recap: Crunchyroll (a You-Tube [...]