LA Time: Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Google

Drew Houston’s wildly popular service allows people to access the latest version of all their digital stuff on any device no matter where they are. Every day 325 million files are saved on Dropbox. Drew Houston, 28, chief executive and co-founder of Dropbox, last fall pocketed $250 million from seven of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms. That eye-popping sum pegged the value of his company at $4 billion and his own net worth — at least on paper — at an estimated $600 million. (Matt Staver, Bloomberg / July 6, 2011) ...

January 17, 2012 Â· 1 min Â· 101 words Â· Omid Farhang

Never gonna come back down!

Don’t he rock?! This video is made years ago, but just recently is published in iTune. ...

November 21, 2010 Â· 1 min Â· 16 words Â· Omid Farhang

With the Jack PC, the computer's in the wall!

The Jack PC from Chip PC Technologies offers a neat and novel thin-client desktop computing solution where the computer doesn’t just plug into the wall, it is the plug in the wall. Running on power provided by the Ethernet cable that also connects it to the data center server, the computer-in-a-wall-socket supports wireless connectivity, has dual display capabilities and runs on the RISC processor architecture – which gives the solution the equivalent of 1.2GHz of x86 processing power… Continue Reading With the Jack PC, the computer’s in the wall! ...

November 4, 2010 Â· 1 min Â· 93 words Â· Omid Farhang

First 360° video on Youtube, ever!!!

Today Doritos Late Night presented the first 360 degree musicvideo on youtube. It’s the musicvideo of Professor Green with his latest hit: “Coming to get me”. Go and check it out!!!!

October 19, 2010 Â· 1 min Â· 31 words Â· Omid Farhang

YouTube Returns Blogs Some Link Love

You may have noticed that certain YouTube videos have a link below them pointing to a popular blog. This little “As seen on” link is Google’s way to thank blogs that have promoted popular videos on their site. If you’re wondering why this or that site hasn’t been linked, it’s hard to say, since there are no clear guidelines as to when a site will be given a link-back. From YouTube’s official blog: ...

April 9, 2010 Â· 1 min Â· 158 words Â· Omid Farhang