Hello, World!

After much blood, toil, sweat and tears: Lintech! It's alive!!! Seriously, this is a brand new day! This is "Hello, World" reborn! This is Goooood Morning, Manila!!! Would you believe that the sun's up?

I'm getting ahead of myself.

What's Lintech?

We are a technology blog that caters to the geek and non-geek.

Consider this piece the start of our Content Curation.

What else do we got? We'll have gadget reviews!

“How many gigabytes?” he said. “Is it Purty?” she said. “Is it Crunchy?” Kulit said. They’ll tell you about the latest stuff and all the whatnuts in between. Oh, yeah, don’t worry, Martin and Patti promise to properly feed The Kulit some PB and OJ before they review stuff.

“Yes,” pointing to that dude in the back, “you, representing people who want us to review their latest and greatest gadget, I can confirm that feeding your stuff to Kulit is not part of the stress test.”

Anyway, did I mention we’ll have gadget reviews?!

Snap! Snap! We'll have an expert talk to you about photography, and we'll blog about photoshop tricks.

We'll talk a lot about games. Like, really, a lot. How a lot? DS. PS. Xbox. PS3. Wii. PC. Our gamers talk your language. In our first meeting, people who didn’t know each other until that day whipped out their DSes and started talking shop.

It. Was. Amazing.

Oh, we'll argue, "Mac!" Because I’m a Machead and I absolutely think it is the greatest thing since Legos. I’m pretty sure a lot of you will be vehemently opposed to that!

So anyway, I hope this bit of news from Macrumours on “Valve’s Steam heading to the Mac?” becomes true. I mean we need a gaming App Store! We Macheads need games too!

Oh, if you’re new to the Mac, we’ll have stuff for you too, like what things you should know when you're a Mac noob and a switcher. Are you scared? Unlearn you will all that Windows garbage!

Of course this is a democracy. (Drat!) And someone out there will argue, "PC!" We'll have app lists for you and a lot of PC stuff that we’ll dish out in due time!

What else do we have for you? Oh, we'll have highbrow, geeky, and fun discussions!

We’ll have posts on and about your favorite social network. Do you Twitter? Do you Facebook?

Check out the blog of the social computing class of UP Diliman. One student wrote:

“It’s regarding a search tool where I can get updates from two different social networking sources namely Twitter and Plurk. The interesting part here is if I can support the regular expressions and geotags in the searching process.”

This is the kind of stuff kids should be running with. Awesome to read this kind of push.

Gigaom has a piece by Mathew Ingram on using social media to track the Chilean Earthquake. Ingram says:

“As with the earthquake in Haiti, social-media tools such as Twitter and other web-based resources have been a key source of information about the disaster, helping family members find out about their loved ones as well as letting authorities know where there are problems that need to be dealt with.”

Mathew Ingram primarily talked about Twitter because it is the best way to report or find out what’s the latest for natural disasters. Twitter’s really quick compared to Facebook.

Oh, speaking of Facebook, ReadWriteWeb has this awesome discussion on Facebook being granted a patent on its News Feed. Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote:

“Implicit actions are a very big deal. LinkedIn contacts making new connections or changing their jobs would be the most immediate example that comes to mind. If offering a stream of updates of the non-status messages of friends is something Facebook alone could deliver, that would be a major loss for the rest of the social web.”

I agree.

Dave Winer on the one hand wrote:

“Think about how you're treated by airlines. By insurance companies. If you have to go to a hospital. That's the kind of relationship you have with Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc. Sooner or later there will be a massive oil spill or a massive network-wide security breach. Expect these companies to be every bit as bad as the ones in other industries. Probably worse because they've come so far without much oversight or scrutiny. Recently Google was given permission to trade energy. Who are these companies? We have no idea.”

Maybe.

We'll be going for Virtualization, and the cloud. We have one coming up on Virtual Box! Buzzwords that definitely you’d want to know more about. We'll talk about the love of code and maybe get you to fall in love too!

Speaking of which, the Scobleizer has an interesting post on the new worldwide startup:

“So, what’s changing? A lot.

1. The infrastructure needed to start up a tech company is now decentralized. You can use cloud servers from Rackspace, where I work, or Amazon or other companies. That infrastructure didn’t exist five years ago and before then if you wanted to start a web company you would need to build your own data center. Not every community has datacenters, but today everyone has access to the same cloud hosting services.

2. PR is being decentralized. Thanks to blogs, Skype, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook you can get onto TechCrunch no matter where in the world you are.

3. Costs are coming way down. Associated with first point. No longer do you need hundreds of thousands of dollars in servers to start up, you just need a few hundred bucks on a credit card to buy cloud servers.”

Oh, and he mentioned talent is grown all over the world. Spot on. So when are you going to start changing the world?

That said, we love open source! So yes, we’ll talk about that too!

Oh, and the US government rescinds its "leave Internet alone" policy:

“Internationally, the Internet Governance Forum – set up by under a United Nations banner to deal with global governance issues – is due to end its experimental run this year and become an acknowledged institution. However, there are signs that governments are increasingly dominating the IGF, with civil society and the Internet community sidelined in the decision-making process.

In this broader context, the US government’s newly stated policy is more in line with the traditional laissez-faire internet approach. Internet Policy 3.0 also offers a more global perspective than the isolationist approach taken by the previous Bush administration.”

Speaking of Big Brother, have you seen spy agencies on the Web? J. Nicholas Hoover wrote:

“U.S. Intelligence agencies are using the Web to share information and engage the public. Some offer mobile versions and social networking tools -- others badly need an update.”

Cool.

Seriously, we'll have our team of geeky writers dish out opinions, like what's with the New Friendster? We'll have a conversation on blogger rights, and your Internet rights in between all those juicy app tricks and howtos.

If it's about Tech, we'll be there to curate for you.

Don't soil yourself.

We've just begun, young padawan.

Let's have some fun! “Hello, World!”

Cocoy

Contributing Editor

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