Changkhui: Changkhui

We watched the Kapook press conference at http://duocore.ch7.com/xxxkapookcom with great interest. we were quite sure that not many people outside of the IT world would be able to understand the conversation, at least I don't know the term Black Hat that was mentioned a few times in the video. Also with after-press blogs from http://blog.aanthe.com/?p=28 and http://www.prachatai.com/05web/th/home/11656, we decided to talk about what the issue really was and pay more attention to the technical side, rather than the social implications.

From the TK Park event on Sunday that we mentioned on previous episode, we met quite a few interesting sites. One of the sites that we were interested in was SongBuri.Com, they were trying to be the musical web portal, they even tried to sell songs back in 2006 and found out the hard way that the business might not be there just yet. We talked to khun Nirun Chaiyadet, Web Application Programmer of SongBuri about the site business. You may want to find out more at http://www.songburi.com

From Windows Weekly (http://www.twit.tv), we went on to see the event at http://sessions.visitmix.com, this was a MicroSoft Web Developer seminar. We then asked Ford to share his knowledge on MicroSoft's SilverLight. The Keynote was interesting, it featured an interview between Guy Kawasaki and Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO). This was a rather technical episode. Also, we were invited by DuoCore (http://www.duocore.tv) to join a seminar at TK Park, Central World, on Sunday March 23, 10:30-12:30. There would be a few Thai internet TV producers there. If you are interested.

We first heard about Hero Master from the Manager.Co.Th site, this was a role-playing game developed by three Thai guys, who loved playing games. It was great for the facts that they did get a lot of exposure on IT media, they were mentioned in BlogNone.Com, DuoCore.Tv, BearTai TV and a few sites, all encouraging. Then a few weeks later, there was a post at DuoCore.TV that they might have to close shop much faster than they had anticipated. What happened, we had to ask. It was the same old story keep repeating itself in different industries, they has to succumb to the power of software piracy. So we invited them over to, at least, give them some exposure and share their thoughts on the situation. You could visit them at http://www.bigbugstudio.com, and our guest on this episode was Warit Achavanantakul.

Intrigued by what we listened from the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, Stanford University, iTunes U, we decided to make an episode about it. We referred to the episode on January 23, 2008. Ron Conway, Founder of Angel Investors LP, and Mike Maples, Founder of Maples Investments, talked about their thoughts on their careers. We can't help but think of SIPA projects when they talked about the importance of being at Silicon Valley.

I was away for a week due to heavy workload and I had a video to prove it. I was a part of the WiMax trial team at UIH (http://www.uih.co.th). Our president, Vichai Bencharongkakul took a few press to demonstrate WiMax capability by taking them on a cruise and demo internet connection at 1km away from the beach. Things went well as you could see on the video clip. There were some surprising moments here and there, but all were good. This clip could be a little bit personal but I think it's still fun to watch.

Ford attended the Bar Camp Bangkok 2008 on January 26, 2008 at the Indus restaurant, Sukhumvit 26. The event was widely considered a great success, considering the amount of people who turned up and the sponsorship received. Too bad, this went unnoticed from Thai mainstream media.

Inspired by two incidents, we decided to share our experience in seeing people from non-tech degree to perform fairly well in tech field. During an episode at BoagWorld.Com, the interviewee said that the reason she came into web design industry because she was pregnant and out of curiosity, she decided to explore what she could do on the Internet and she was a dancer! Passakorn also witnessed a pretty good technical presentation on computer security from a guy who had a degree in political science!

This was one episode where we did not really talk about the topic that we intended to. Inspired by Steve Job's presentation (again) on MacBook Air, Wiroon asked what would trig us into buying a new gadget. Then he talked about what to consider when getting a new computer.

We talked about the article that was mentioned in Digg, the TWIT podcasts and CNET. The article "The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry By Fred Vogelstein" was well-writen and insightful about the creation of iPhone from the business perspective.