My QR Code vCard

I found a very useful web site: http://www.qrcode-monkey.com/ You can create I guess any kind of QR codes for free, with embedded logo. Tried several kinds and they all worked well. This is my vCard. Scan and you can save me in your Contacts. Didn't know QR code can do that. :)

Unseen Corners

I had a chance to check some unseen corners of our building. Pictures from top down are: the roof, emergency diesel generator, fire fighting pump room.

another firefly today in my bathroom

another firefly today in my bathroom

firefly found in my home

firefly

Google Maps Street View Japan AD

Taipei Now on Google Maps Street View

My home. Interesting and scaring.

Hillarious "Fake" Facebook Page

Check this out! PC World got this really funny Facebook Pages We'd Like to See article. Ha ha!

Great Post-It Animation

Taiwan Plurk User Map

在較大的地圖上查看台灣噗友地圖

See who plurks in your neighborhood on Google Map. Follow mine at www.plurk.com/rwcutter.

Microsoft Project Natal

This is absolutely the coolest introduction I've ever seen from Microsoft. I wonder how real it is already and how soon we can see it in shops. Also check out this promo on YouTube.

Jayson Werth steals 4 bases

Not much time to watch baseball or any sports game since child born...(sigh)

Funny YouTube - Job Hunting in China

I think it's a commercial of job hunting site, but it's funny anyway.

DEMO09 Winners Announced

DEMO 2009 is finished. Perhaps influenced by the economy tsunami, only 39 companies attended this event. This is almost 50% loss compares to previous records (I think it must be a dilemma for Chris Shipley to find a balance between companies that are willing to pay and those that really worth it.)

Among them, there are 7 DEMOgod winners and 1 People's Choice. I am interested in the above solution and is going to try it.

Sci-Fi Movie

What kind of movie will you expect when you see the title "IP MAN"? To me, it is definitely a sci-fi Matrix-like movie. Wrong answer! It is actually a Hong Kong martial art movie about the master of late martial art movie star, Bruce Lee. Ip Man was the name of the master in Cantonese. I wonder if he would be a hacker today if he's not dedicated to martial art.

Toda Yasuhiro

A Japanese drummer who lives in Kaohsiung filmed this video to introduce the city he lives and works. Toda Yasuhiro fell in love with the city and married a Taiwanese girl. I lived in Kaohsiung for 18 years and although I rarely go back now, it's still a pride to see someone from another country cherishes my hometown.

Great HD VIdeo of 2009 Taipei 101 Fireworks

Found this great video of the 2009 fireworks show at TAipei 101, shot and edited by Alez Wu.


2009 Taipei101 Fireworks show @ Taiwan from Alex Wu on Vimeo.

Yoshi and iPhone 3G

Allie bought an iPhone 3G today. My son immediately said, "Mommy bring phone" as she enters the door. He knows how to wake the phone one and almost unlock it. If a boy less than two years old know how to use it, it must be a good design.

Media Coverage on Awind's DEMOfall Presence

We got a lot of attention and coverage attending this DEMOfall. It was an amazing experience to talk to people from important media like CNET or Mercury News, among other journalists or bloggers from around the world. Here are some of them:

http://twitter.com/cshipley/statuses/914021524
Chris Shipley
12:36 AM September 09, 2008 from web
Awind is charming the audience with its wireless high-definition display technology. www.awind.com

http://twitter.com/dgmandell/statuses/914021875
the AWIND demo from #DEMO is THE video to watch. Trust me!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10034909-52.html
September 8, 2008 9:45 AM PDT
Awind takes controlling presentations mobile
Posted by Daniel Terdiman
SAN DIEGO--If you're the kind of person who runs a lot of PowerPoint presentations, you probably are very familiar with trying to connect your computer to a million different projectors.
But a Taiwanese company called Awind showed at DemoFall today a product called MobiShow which is designed to take the difficult and complex connection problem--what if you don't have the right cables--folks like this face on a regular basis.
MobiShow is a mobile-phone and Wi-Fi based projection controller.
The idea is that with MobiShow running on your mobile phone, you can use that device as what amounts to a remote control for the presentation.
You would run MobiShow--which would be connected to your computer via Wi-Fi--and then use your mobile phone to set the proper screen resolution, as well as to easily click through various slides in a PowerPoint presentation.
This would be extremely useful for the road warriors who until now have been forced to try to always remember to bring the various cables and connections they need to hook up to clients' projection systems. Instead, they can rely solely on their computer and their mobile device.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/11865/print
DEMOfall '08: Back to the (paper-enabled) future
By Frank Hayes
Created Sep 9 2008 - 1:06am
* Awind had something that got these presentation-oriented business users oohing and aahing: MobiShow, a box that lets a Wi-Fi-enabled smartphone display presentations or even video on a full-size screen in full-size resolution. The phone can display its desktop in the usual itty-bitty size, but can do full-size PowerPoint displays. The streaming video was especially impressive, even when a demonstration video of fireworks took a while to download and made the crowd think the demo had crashed. (It started up eventually, and looked very sharp.)

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_10415773?nclick_check=1
DEMOfall conference highlights innovation
By Troy Wolverton
Mercury News
“Taiwan-based Awind is developing a device called the mobiShow, which will allow users to send video and presentations from a smart phone to a TV or digital projector. The idea is that instead of lugging around a laptop, jetsetters can store their PowerPoint presentations in their phones. The device not only connects with smart phones; it also upconverts the video stored on the phone for display on larger screens.”

http://etech.eweek.com/content/mobile_and_wireless/live_from_demofall_08.html
Monday, September 08, 2008 3:26 PM/EST
Live from DEMOfall 08
“Drawing the most applause from the crowd (full of people who probably do their fair share of presentations), was MobiShow from Awind. This was a small wireless projector that made it possible to drive fully functional and decent resolution from a mobile phone.”

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1815927645;img;9629;ssid;1
15 cool new technologies at DEMOfall 08
Jon Brodkin (Network World) 09/09/2008 10:55:00
Company: Awind Technology: mobiShow connects your PC or smartphone to your television set using a wireless transmitter, allowing you to stream high-definition movies, your desktop or any video format to your big screen. "Born of expertise in delivering high-definition, PC-based presentations to the television screen, mobiShow makes it easy to discover and watch IP-based video," DEMO organizers say. "But it's the transcoding of PC-based video into high-definition video scaled to fit the television screen that makes Awind's offering remarkable."

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3770116/DEMO+Web+20+Is+So+Yesterday.htm
DEMO: Web 2.0 Is So Yesterday
A sneak peek at a flexible display; power presentations from your cell phone and how to save your DVD collection.
September 8, 2008
By David NeedlA company from Taiwan called Awind got the crowd's attention with mobiShow, a book-sized hardware device that lets you use a cell phone to give presentations via Wifi. In its demonstration, Awind showed how the mobiShow can stream a presentation, wirelessly, or an IP-based video for that matter, to a big screen with a range of transition effects typical of a Powerpoint presentation. The technology can also sharpen the image from what appears on the cellphone display to high definition on a big screen.
We can bring anything you want to a TV screen," said Richard Chen, program manager of Awind, who claimed that it's a much more effective way to access and manage video than Apples TV, for example. And yes, he said, mobiShow will work with the iPhone.
No word on when it's coming to the U.S. market, or price. Chen did say the company is opening up the software to developer and Web designers to further tap its potential.

http://www.dantynan.com/2008/09/08/demo-live-continued/
A-wind MobiShow
MobiShow box about the size of a Palm connects video from iPhone to projector — no wires required. Increase resolution to show at large sizes with “presentation to go” (PTG) software on phone. Transition effects, simple animation. These guys are total geeks (and they know it), the slides are Dork City, but this one looks pretty damned cool. Turns phone into media server. Not clear what wireless technology they’re using. Oops, video demo crashed. But still, impressive.

http://www.giiks.com/?2008/09/12/1423-demofall-08-xumii-et-awind
DEMOfall 08 : Xumii et Awind
par Sophie dans General
Awind est une sympathique start-up taïwanaise qui a fait forte impression avec sa box MobiShow de streaming mobile vers un écran TV.
La box d’Awind se connecte en WiFi ou Ethernet au réseau et crée un point d’accès pour le mobile.
Connecté en VGA ou HDMI à la TV, l’application mobile permet l’affichage intégral de l’écran du mobile sur le téléviseur.
Le mobile devient alors un vrai media center qui streame vidéos, musiques et photos.
Awind propose un format adapté de présentation mobile streamée sur TV : le Powerpoint To Go (.PTG).
Une fois formatée à partir du PC au format .ptg, le mobile se transforme en télécommande de diaporama en grand écran.

http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/blogs/yi-jian_ngo/archive/2008/09/11/top-6-startups-at-demofall-2008.aspx
Top 6 Startups at DEMOFall 2008
Had a blast at one of the startup world’s biggest shindigs, getting to know lots of interesting companies and the fiercely passionate entrepreneurs that run them. Here are my favorites:
Awind allows mobile phone users to wirelessly transmit content (slide presentations, video etc.) from their phone to a standard monitor, projector and certain TV sets. Their solution consists of a modem-sized box that connects to the display plus software that lives on the mobile phone.
Even as the compute power of mobile phones increases exponentially, the mobile user interface is still constrained by the size of the device. Awind’s solution represents part of a broader ecosystem of technologies that can liberate the mobile user interface from its physical constraints, opening up new use cases that could enable mobile phones to become the primary personal computing device of choice in the future.

Awind demo video on DEMO.COM

Here is the demo video, and here is the official page of us on demo.com.

We Are DEMOgod

We won DEMOgod. Unbelievable. DEMOgod awards are chosen by the DEMO staff. 10 companies are chosen from the 72 demonstrated, and 2 teams out of three from Taiwan won DEMOgod award. I think that helps on promoting Taiwan in someway.

DEMO is a really cool conference not like any other trade shows. However, the internet in Sheraton sucks. It costs 11.95 a day for room guests but the speed is like a 33.6K dial-up.