The FBFund started receiving applications August 2008 and receive 600 applications. 25 of these received $25K from Facebook. The real excitement is that the FBFund is divided into 2 stages, and Stage 2 is only open for developers who have won Stage 1.  Price money for Stage 2? a cool $250K.
I also wanted to point out [...]

Pay you to learn from Google’s best. What are you waiting for? sign up! 
When: Tuesday October 28th, 2008 1:00PM-10PM
Where: Singapore Management University
What: Google will be holding a DevFest Singapore. Join us for a day of coding and fun, where we’ll cover topics ranging from OpenSocial & App Engine to YouTube & the Google Maps API.
Who: You! Developers. Any [...]

A bungled con-job by CEO Paul Thomas Johnson, 40, and CFO Parrish Jones, 39. Both tried to make up numbers to attract venture capital. In dark times like these i suppose a shitty company needs all the made up numbers they could possibly get. Here is what they “faked”
2006, true $500K, false $4M
2007, true $1.4M, [...]

GEW or Global Entrepreneurship Week is a week long celebration of entrepreneurship with events.
visit www.gewmalaysia.com for more details. YOU can participate in the activities as a Partner or an Attendee, so check it out.
It is also the reason why i’ve not been blogging recently because ive been busy as hell helping them out.  It’s been an [...]

(creepy photo from Linda Gavin’s photostream on Flickr, its a little out of date, but im sure the sentiments above are echoed by the ones who got laid off) 
This is the latest in a series of revamping measures taken on by ebay. Some of you might have heard or are aware of ebays changes to [...]

Wide Touch Screen, Slide out keyboard, Trackball
American carrier Tmobile has revealed the G1, scheduled to hit markets on the 22nd of this month (oct). The G1 is then scheduled to be released to the UK in November and other Eu nations the following year. I’m sure we will start seeing the first few hacked units [...]

Warhammer online is a newly launched and pretty popular MMORPG. Other famous MMORPGs include names such as World of Warcraft (WoW), Lineage, this list goes on forever. Anyway, one thing that they all have in common is that studies show that 22% of players(Deadalus Project Survey) on an MMORPG platform have bought or will buy [...]

Japanese manufacturing company Murata creates a creepy girl robot that rides a unicycle.
she looks creepy as hell with one glowing green eye. Creepiness aside, its a pretty impressive technological achievement with the gyros and balancing. It takes millions of small corrections per second to achieve the kind of balance in the rather un-impressive video you [...]