Blogs

From thinking up an idea to buying a domain, then designing a website, developing a mobile application, launching, marketing, search engine optimization, social media optimization and exiting... it is truly a thrilling ride.

For me, it has become an addiction. Founding and setting up KAYWEB and investing in multiple internet and mobile businesses along the way has meant that I have been, and continue to be, on that ride with startups in Sydney, Melbourne and New York.

Recently on my personal blog, I wrote a few articles asking fellow riders of the startup wave to consider a few things. I link to them below.

1. Build to sell, or not? - click here to read

2. Location, location, location - click here to read

3. Identify your weaknesses and plug them - click here to read

4. Quirkiness is cheap - click here to read

Happy reading!

What do you think about a 17 button mouse?

I am sure, if you are one of the many World of Warcraft (WOW) players like me, a gamers’ mouse is not the latest thing. But for amateur gamers, let me discuss this special mouse.

The Razor Naga is the ultimate Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming mouse that shifts the balance between keyboard and mouse by putting an unprecedented number of in-game commands in one place.

The mouse has been optimised with an extra 12 buttons which are customisable to keyboard settings on the computer. This multi-button mouse will place every command you need in the palm of your hand.

According to GamesCom, the mouse enables players to “run rings” around other players who rely on a conventional keyboard to move around, jump, dance, and thwart evil plots.

This would certainly make the games easier to play, give maximum comfort for long gaming sessions and make you a more competitive evil doer plot thwarter.

A trip down memory lane.

In 1979, Philips and Sony, through partnership, successfully developed the Compact Disc in 1983. A spin-off of Laserdisc technology.

While Laserdisc was too big, the Compact Disc, or CD as it is called today, was small and was a great technological marvel because at a diameter of 12cm it could hold a 74-80 minute audio capacity and a 650-700 MB data capacity.

With the advent of the CD Writer in early 2000, we have used the CD for audio materials and file backups. CDs have been widely use for almost anything; audio, videos and even greeting cards.

All of that changed when the DVD arrived. DVD, also known as Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc, is an optical disc storage media format, and was invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Time Warner in 1995. Its main usage is for video and data storage.

It has the same physical size as the standard CD but packs a 4 Gigabyte storage capacity. It comes in different storage capacity sizes and is pegged at 17 Gigabyte at a maximum. The DVD has also been used to make HD Videos, Hi-Def Videos using HD DVD - a different capacity format.

The future.

Blu-ray Disc is also an optical disc storage medium designed to succeed the DVD format. The format has a 12 cm (same as DVDs and CDs) diameter, 25 GB per-layer optical disc, with dual layer discs (50 GB) the norm for feature-length video discs and additional layers possible.

The name Blu-ray Disc refers to the blue laser used to read the disc, which allows for six times more storage than on a DVD. The term Blu was used because blue is commonly used in English and therefore not registrable as a trademark.

Blu-ray Disc was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representing makers of consumer electronics, computer hardware, and motion pictures. Every hi-definition game involves a Blu-Ray disc as its medium.

Technology is really moving forward and fast. What you thought impossible is now possible.

I can still remember when I used to play our gramaphone using a vinyl record and was fascinated on how the audio data was encoded there. Now having a CD or DVD that packs a lot of data is a common thing.

I say let's keep moving it forward with the web and digital content and delivery as the next great medium.