Demo 2006: riya

| Posted in General Techologies

Now I think this is one of the kewlest companies I saw today.
It uses facial recognition to automatically tag photos that you have. Once you train riya, it goes through all your photos to auto-tag all other photos that have the same face that you used for training.
It also recognize text inside the photo as [...]

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February 7th, 2006 | Jian Zhen | No Comments

Demo 2006: Cnet coverage, etc

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Andy and I are roaming around demo..check out our picture. Cnet also has up to the min coverage.

Check out vivid sky, really kewl concept…sorry…too much to type on the lil treo keyboard..

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February 7th, 2006 | Jian Zhen | No Comments

Demo 2006 continues (tue)

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Ok so we have seen several demos today in the show, blurb, moobella, mp3cars, accomplice..etc..etc.
The only consistent theme I got so far is that none of these companies have really figured out how to make $$ yet. They are all here to debut their betas and seek funding.
Though I do see some interesting potentials…i can [...]

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February 7th, 2006 | Jian Zhen | No Comments

Demo 2006 continues

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Blogging from the treo for the first time, using wordpress’ blog-by-email feature. It’s quite a nifty setup.
It’s been a busy day here at demo 2006. Lots of rehersal and testing of the setup for tomorrow’s full day event.
Met some interesting companies today. Many are taking advantage of the web 2.0 hype to launch some nifty [...]

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February 6th, 2006 | Jian Zhen | No Comments

DEMO 2006

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Flew over here to sunny PHX on Sunday to attend the DEMO 2006 conference, the leading conference for launching new products and services.
It’s my first time attending the conference and it’s interesting to see how organized they want you to be when doing a demo. You must have the whole demo script ready and sent [...]

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February 6th, 2006 | Jian Zhen | No Comments

GLTerminal

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wow…this is really kewl!
It’s a terminal program for OS X that emulates to old amber or green terminals that I used back at Purdue!!
Running it on full screen on a small monitor would really make this a pretty awesome setup!

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February 4th, 2006 | Jian Zhen | No Comments

Cisco CS-MARS Undocumented Root Account Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS), which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to CS-MARS appliances being shipped with a default password for an undocumented administrative root account that is intended for debugging purposes. This can be exploited [...]

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January 12th, 2006 | Jian Zhen | No Comments

Leveraging Operational Intelligence

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Found this interesting quote in the abstract of Leveraging Operational Intelligence - The Battle of Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes (1914)

A commander’s ability to leverage operational intelligence remains a cornerstone for managing the uncertainty, fog, and friction of war in this era of seemingly endless advances in battlefield awareness and information dominance. Operational intelligence, properly understood [...]

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January 7th, 2006 | Jian Zhen | No Comments

LogLogic Career Fair

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**CAREER FAIR**
Wednesday, January 11th at 4-8pm
LogLogic, Inc., 3061-B Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95134
www.loglogic.com
We are hiring! Interview with Hiring Managers & VP’s for the following positions:
Loglogic is a premier start up, funded by leading VC firms (Sequoia Capital, Telesoft Partners, Worldview) with a broad range of both domestic and international customers. Our customers include Fortune [...]

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January 6th, 2006 | Jian Zhen | No Comments

Retrieving logs incrementally

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Going through one of my sleepless nights again. So I figure I post a question here and see if I get any response.
I’ve always wondered what is the best way to incrementally upload logs from files that gets updated all the time. For example, application A writes to a log file. It continues to write [...]

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January 5th, 2006 | Jian Zhen | No Comments