The Philippine Online Chronicles

Wow.  Quite a few diverse issues today.

Over at Infinite Loop, they have this whole thread on the secret of Apple's new iPad A4 Chip:

"In all, the A4 is quite comparable to the other Cortex A8-based SoCs that are coming onto the market, except that the A4 has even less hardware. The iPad doesn't have much in the way of I/O, so the A4 itself can do away with the I/O that it doesn't need. In contrast, the typical Cortex A8-based SoC has more I/O hardware than a mobile phone can use, because you never know what customers will need which interface types."

But that's not the salient part of what Jon Stokes wrote:

"a chip that's really aggressively optimized for the iPhone might give the phone a real battery life and performance advantage over the competition."

I find this most interesting.  More battery life is always good on a device like an iPhone or an iPod Touch.

On the AppStore, I was told by @incusmalleus on Twitter that Assassins Creed II Multiplayer for iPhone is Free (link opens to AppStore)! Yes, free as beer, well, for 48 hours, so go check 'em out!

Emil Protalinski wrote that Firefox may never hit 25 percent market share.

Can I just say that I am pro-Webkit?

Shawn Blanc wrote about iPhone's Missing Feed Reader.  To be honest, I think feed readers is going the way of the dinosaur.  IMHO, reading the Web should be app driven.  Marketwatch has its own app.  The New York Times has its own app.  The Straits Times has its own app.  Engadget has its own app.  For me, a feed reader on the iPhone is just well, cumbersome.

There's apparently a new security hole.  Canadian medical researches are talking about the risks of medical information suddenly set out in the wild via Peer to Peer networks (p2p).

Dunno if you guys will be interested in this: MIT has an 100K Entrepreneurship Competition Special.

Edward Kim wrote about an Android Success story: US$13,000 per month App Store:

"If Android development is something you've been mulling over, I encourage you to make the leap. Though my experiences are clearly not typical, I definitely think Android is the ideal platform to be in for an individual developer."

Yep, people should be encourage to write their own apps. I hope teachers, schools, and entrepreneurs are noting this down.

On TechCrunch, Erick Schonfeld wrote about Twitter turning on the firehose for real-time search startups:

"Search engines need it more than others to be able to index and serve up results in realtime. Today, smaller search startups are also getting the firehose. These include Ellerdale, Collecta, Kosmix, Scoopler, twazzup, CrowdEye, and Chainn Search (which has not yet launched)."

Over at Mint.com, they talk about How to Save Money During the Early Days of a Startup.  IMHO, very important: you might also want to check out Jason Calacanis' How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) from 2008 to compliment Mint.com's list.

Also check out github on Introducing GitHub compare view.

What else? Picnick was acquired by Google.

Y Combinator is looking for iPad startups.

Over at SmugMug, Don MacAskill wrote about ZFS and MySQL/InnoDB Compression Update:

"Conclusion? Unless you care a great deal about eking out every last byte (using a RAM disk, for example), LZJB seems like a much saner compression choice. Performance seem to improve, rather than degrade, and it doesn’t hog your CPU. I’m switching my ZFS volume to LZJB right now (on-the-fly changes – woo!) and will copy all my data so it gets the new compression settings. I’ll sacrifice some bytes, but that’s ok – performance is king."

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iPad image is owned by Apple and licensed via their media kit.

Assassins Creed II Multiplayer AppStore page is a screenshot.

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