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jasonadriaan

710 karma · joined March 9, 2011

I build neat things for the web
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jasonadriaan··on Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship
It's incredibly difficult to overstate the importance of this moment for science and humanity as a whole. The commercialization of space travel is the only way that we will ever see the stars, as no longer are we at the mercy of the fluctuating interest in space travel from the already over-extended tax payers of certain nations. This is a beautiful moment for humanity, and a damn awesome way to start the weekend!
jasonadriaan··on SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Webcast (starts at 12:00am PDT)
Elon Musk is South African
jasonadriaan··on Yahoo proves that Silicon Valley is no different to Hollywood
well put :) too bad yahoo is going to drag us all down with them though.
jasonadriaan··on Video: Quantum Levitation
not exactly, I just posted it to tumblr. It would be blogspam if I were running ads, but I don't.
jasonadriaan··on Earn money in your sleep
adii ftw!
jasonadriaan··on Redesign.techcrunch.com
Looks like 8-bit green vomit
jasonadriaan··on Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference
Well the post is my reflections on a number of conferences. That's why I said hundreds of people, because I've been to plenty of em. :)
jasonadriaan··on Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference
lol
jasonadriaan··on Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference
I guess I could to that but it would be an e-mail to like hundreds of people, easier just to blog about it. Also this is much more entertaining :P
jasonadriaan··on Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference
Hey @f. Firstly you're reading my tweets out of context. Yep I'm sure the environment is vastly different and that VCs and Angels are more salted in the States. The names on your list I would obviously PAY to see. But this doesn't hold true for the guys surfacing in Africa and asked to speak at conferences.
jasonadriaan··on Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference
Very true, I actually wrote about Umbono a while back. http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2011/04/20/how-googles-umbono-g...
jasonadriaan··on Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference
Also... 5.) Speakers who use the MS Office 2000 templates for their slides.
jasonadriaan··on Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference
Hello there from Cape Town :)

Thanks for the insight, yeah I agree totally. I'm sure there are a number of VC's/Angels worth listening to but the vast majority of them don't know what they're talking about imho.

jasonadriaan··on Types of Speakers to Ban from your Tech Conference
In South Africa it's weird, Social media people are almost always speaking at Tech Conferences. This annoys the hell out of me because they are essentially marketers.
jasonadriaan··on The Young Successful Drop Out – The Most Dangerous Lie in Tech
Play it safe I say and finish up at college.
jasonadriaan··on Why Facebook should Police their API
Took them days even after being published all over the news. Apps should be checked before they go public. Having said that the Bin Laden malware didn't use the API although many other apps do.
jasonadriaan··on War on Sony – 102 million accounts compromised
Agreed. It's becoming more apparent that individuals within Anonymous or outside are taking credit or making threats on behalf of the group. No one else has yet taken credit for the attack officially though.

Sony is ultimately to be blamed for what is happening here, they were not paying attention to security and now a hundred million people have fallen victim.

jasonadriaan··on Ubuntu Servers around the World
From this map one can deduce that Europe clearly doesn't love paying for Server software.