genieyclo

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Suess

Playlist.com: They’re Screwed…or maybe not

I don't know if anyone's noticed this startup by the name of Project Playlist, which calls itself a Social Music Experiment. It basically follows the whole music+social interface scheme alot of the music sites have adopted like imeem or last.fm. In playlist's story, you signup and search for music. In ...

Wuala: The Future of Popular File Sharing and Storage

There's a new file sharing service that essentially functions something like a socially-interactive p2p program called Wuala. It's a startup developed by Dominik Grolimund and a team of developers under the sponsorship of Caleido Inc. It's pretty interesting because it's quite different from it's competitors like Bittorent. It's a Windows program ...

SocialBrowse: The Future of Social Media on the Internet

SocialBrowse is a new Firefox extension built by Zack Garbow and Dave Fowler, 2 participants in the last spring Y Combinator session. This xpi is pretty amazing. It's an unobtrusive, intuitive, easy to use web app that sits on your sidebar in Firefox. You can submit pages that you find ...

i <3 posterous!

This is one of the most ingenious ideas I've seen come through over improving blog technology in a while. I'm speaking of a new blogging interface where besides the normal post a blog post feature, you can also "autopost" onto other sites, limited now to certain ones like Twitter, Flickr, ...

What I use: Genieyclo’s favorite Software and Hardware

This is basically a parody of a sorts on the LifeHacker team's post where they listed out what software and hardware they use, individually and categorized it all into the operating systems they "live" in, the hardware they rely on, the peripherals they utilize on a regular basis, and webapps ...

Ubuntu Muslim Edition

Wowzers. That's what I thought when I bumped into Ubuntu Muslim Edition on Wuala; a p2p/storage program. It's basically a distro on Ubuntu which you can install from 2 cds as a Desktop version (I haven't seen a Server version yet) on another OS like XP, a computer that doesn't ...

Matt: Multiple account twitter tweeting

This is a new project by Carsonified. It's basically a web app built in Python using Django that helps you twitter on multiple accounts without having to sign off. It's useful to some people who have multiple Twitter accounts; like one for work and one for home. I personally have ...

I’m back…

The title says it all... So, what have I been up to all this while? Well:  1) I finished school (yay!); so now I'm technically a sophomore! 2 more years left! 2) I killed the YCTP (Youth Computer Training Program) final with one of the highest scores in the class *w00t* 3) Been practicing my ...

November 12th 2008
Tags: Politics No Comments

A New Sub-Genre of Political Music: The Obama Rap

I was listening to NPR this morning in bed when I heard a program, Obama Hip-Hop: From Mixtapes To Mainstream, on Weekend America Sunday Edition. It talked about the history of hip-hop and its descendant, rap, in the political landscape and what it's done this election. Guest Mark Anthony Neal is ...
November 1st 2008
Tags: Social Media, Technology 2 Comments

Retweet: Twitter’s Biggest Doh!

I was in a discussion with friendfeeders here at about a comment which Robert Scoble tweeted (@scobleizer): “I wish Twitter had a "retweet button." For instance, I'd retweet @nytimes stuff a lot.” Unanimous aggreement preceeded. If you're not familiar with Twitter's user interface, there are two things you can do with other peoples' ...
October 6th 2008
Tags: Economy, Ethics Comments Off

Bailout: Bad, Bad Idea

We're pretty much fucked right now. The Dow is dropping faster than a rock-it's dropped below 10,000 right now. We're majorly in debt, we owe over $10,000,000,000,000,we're dropping faster and faster in a recession that's quickly getting uglier, and people's retirement and college money is going poof. Of course, companies ...
October 4th 2008
Tags: Random Thoughts One Comment

New Perspective for my Blogs

If some of you didn't notice, I've started writing at a new blog at Wordpress. This blog will be solely about social media and marketing, my newest venture, alhamdulillah. I'll still be writing at this Hadithuna blog, so no worries. Plus this one will be much more interesting, I hope. ...
September 18th 2008
Tags: Economy, Interesting, Politics 3 Comments

Unintended Benefits to the Current Financial Crisis

I've noticed that an uninteded benefit from the current global financial crisis is the fact that it has initiated alot of youngsters like myself (I just turned 15) into the world of finance and money in a way that makes them think about what the hell is going on with the ...

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