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15 People Who Changed the Internet

Posted by Brusca under Google

1. Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google Inc.)
2. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Created World Wide Web)
3. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
4. Shawn Fanning (Napster, Rupture)
5. Kevin Rose (Digg)
6. Matt Mullenweg (WordPress)
7. Bram Cohen (BitTorrent)
8. Pierre Omidyar (eBay)
9. Mike Morhaime (Blizzard Entertainment - World of Warcraft)
10. Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia)
11. Craig Newmark (Craigslist)
12. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen (YouTube)
13. David Filo and Jerry Yang (Yahoo! Inc)
14. Jack Ma (Alibaba)
15. Jeff Preston Bezos (Amazon)
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Sydney Apple Store Grand Opening

Posted by Brusca under Apple

The first official Apple store in the southern hemisphere will have it’s grand opening Thursday, June 19 at 5pm in Sydney. The Sydney store home page has all the opening times.

In true Apple style the store looks incredible. Check out this gallery uploaded to Flickr. The store cost approxamtely $15M to build and will not coincide with the launch of the iPhone 3G in Australia, due to be launched on July 11.

The store is expected to be inundated with Mac addicts likely to camp out overnight to be amongst the first to get into the new store. Apparently a free T-shirt is on offer for the first 2500 people to enter.

webdu 2008

Posted by Brusca under Adobe, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Google

It’s been another whirlwind webdu. As per usual webdu gives anyone with a passion for this kind of work the added motivation to continue to grow and explore new realms as they arise with technology growth within the web world. Sometimes aspects of your work can be demotivating, thankfully there are exciting times ahead.

Flash CS4 has some very nice features. One of them being the use of inverse kinematics. You can now create bone structures to help animate characters from within flash and the bones can be accessed using actionscript.

An example can be seen here at The Flash Blog

New Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS4 beta versions are now available and we got a sneak peek of those at webdu 2008. Some very nice feature like webkit built directly into Dreamweaver.

Google Maps API for Flash. Google have finally released an API for Flash. Meaning we can stop using the Yahoo maps application on the Steve Irwin Day events page and use the much better mapping system from Google, that’s right Yahoo, there is a world outside of the United States.

All in all a good conference, and some very nice new features and toolsets to help us at Australia Zoo deliver RIA’s through the browser and on the desktop.

Now time to sleep!

The New iPhone 3G

Posted by Brusca under Apple

Everyone is frothing at the mouth as the launch of the new IPHONE 3G nears. Only 4hours before Steve Jobs launches into his keynote. Bring it on!

There have been some great fakes, and also some legit posts. This box appeared at an Apple store in Sydney. We’ll find out tomorrow the exact contents.