Friday, September 29, 2006

Firefox 2.0 RC1

Here is the link to download, it looks VERY nice...

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2.0rc1-candidates/rc1/firefox-2.0.en-US.win32.installer.exe

New Google Reader is out!

Guys, this is the BEST Feed reader you can find on the web! They have done a major redesign and it looks great.

http://www.google.com/reader

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Google

This was the last week of my summer internship at Google. It was a great experience, I would encourage anybody to apply for next year. They also have internships during the academic year, so if your skills match with some of the company's projects I am sure they would like to have you there.

A few reasons why you would like to choose Google:

- you don't have to worry about food anymore. They have the best chefs cooking twice per day for their employees. The food is all organic with great quality. There are more than 10 cafes in the Mountain View campus. They organize BBQ's every week, and you can invite lots of friends for lunch or dinner. I would say I'd have to pay at least 50$ per day in order to buy or have the the same quality of food elsewhere.

- you get free Google t-shirts a few times per week.

- they have a very nice gym, the famous beach volley court, and two swimming pools you can use for free, and also you can have free massage on-site.

- you meet the most talented engineers and have the chance to apply your ideas to exciting projects. The atmosphere is mostly informal and people are very eager to listen to your ideas and discuss the best ways to solve problems.

- you do your best because you are self-motivated, not because somebody tells you what to do.

- you participate in projects that millions of people will use.

- you get free tickets for events and parties around the bay area.

- you meet hundreds of other interns and make great friends.

- after all, you are working for Google, so its cool!

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Rojo feed reader, Web apps conference

Rojo is a feed reader for blogs and news. It has very nice features, you can organize blogs by tags, and in my opinion the interface is much better than bloglines.

For those who are interested of web apps and the current buzz around those new technologies, here is an interesting conference in San Francisco (sept 13-14), with a lot of pioneers participating in it.

Friday, September 01, 2006

Jajah!

Jajah is a new startup, just moved their offices from Europe to the Valley, and they have a service for making free phone calls across the globe.

I've tried it, it works very well, you talk from your regular phone or cellphone to any other phone on the planet (no headshet or microphone required). They have some premium services which you can subscribe, but the basic communication at this point is for free.