Nil Karaibrahimgil iPhone Application

3 months ago I have completed the first phase of the iPhone application for *Nil Karaibrahimgil which only demonstrates some possible functions and a basic interface, acting as a skeleton for the real project. After contacting with Nil and waiting for feedbacks about the demo for some time, Read the rest of this entry »

Acta non Verba

These days i see so many things that i’ve thought  years ago. In this post, you won’t find me supporting my incredible ideas. Every thinking creature in this universe has things in the mind, many of these may be nonsense, but everyone has an idea. You may have found something incredible, but probably someone else had already found it; it may not be existing yet. You may see many people, from your friends, family, tv,.. saying “I’ve thought about it!! I swear! I could do it!”. YES, BUT YOU DIDN’T.

You have to be aware of the fact: You are not one in a million. ( ok, you are.. according to the point of view ) If you think that you find something (you can be sure that you are not the first one) and if it’s not yet done, do it! Don’t speak and stand still! Nothing is a unique, one-of-it’s-kind idea, but everything is undone.

• Before facebook was even heard, i’ve made a site that is same ( except application system ) with the facebook and for the same purpose; it was a private site, only for classmates. After a while, after my classmates looses their interest in the site, i’ve stopped doing it, later we saw facebook. This was not a unique idea. Probably many people did similar things.
• Before youtube was even heard, i’ve made a site that is similar to the youtube. Those days, it was a secret converting videos automatically for a web site. I had stopped doing it (it was working and usable), after i satistfied my desire for making a site/system kike that.
• I’ve even made a photo sharing site that you can use everything from 1 page without leaving and everything is movable (drag/drop). Those days, these were not that easy. Today you can  put a jquery line to your code and do it in 5 seconds.
• ….

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Harmless Future Optimizations for xillions

Recently, there has been found a bug in iPhone’s camera roll display system. It’s related to the number of images taken with iPhone; if you take at least 10000 photos, you’ll face with this problem. Before returning to this topic, i want to tell about some similar problems:

When i was working for Nokta Inc. (www.nokta.com) and creating a clustering system for uploaded images, i wanted to extend possibilities and push the limits for image and user counts. Any technic might work, but according to your solution, there might be so many works that you can not handle in necessary time; not feasible. So this could ruin the project’s evolving process and project plans. You might have to re-write many codes, redesign the whole system, maybe shut the sytem for a while… Because of this, i thought “what if every person in this world uses this system with more than one account”, people laughed at me in Nokta. But i designed it in my way ( in the same time duration ). Currently i’m not working in Nokta, but if they don’t rewrite the whole code, they won’t be facing with problems related to uploaded images system for a really long time. (However.. trying to seperate images and putting them into UN-real cdn systems would break and make developers to rewrite the whole code for image system).

(Kızılay, ANKARA)

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Ill Men

I’ve written a small writing related to the (Ill Men) bussiness and it’s administrations in Turkey and possibly anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, it’s currently only in Turkish. It can be reached from this link: “Hasta Adamlar”

Natali Yeşilbahar, one of the warriors

Natali Yesilbahar is one of the real ‘sector warriors’. Sadly, many people start to sleep after reaching a good position in business by making one or all of their dreams come true, which is wrong for sure! But this problem can not be achieved by just hoping. However there are many people trying to reach somewhere, trying to extend possibilities in our life, trying to make that popular “innovation” things, it may not be enough. However we’re doing good, “OTHERS” may keep on sleeping which will certainly ruin the sector because of their big market share and background. Sector warriors keep  poking those OTHERS which makes everyone awake (hopefully). As one of these people, Natali Yesilbahar is really keen on doing this poking and recently she has been awarded with “Best/Favorite Blog” of the year 2008 award in Turkey’s “Golden Spider (Altın Örümcek) Web Awards”. However this award was not necessary to motivate her or let the people know that she’s doing good, it’s good that people are aware of one of those warriors. If you just learned about her, well it’s not to late to do something good!

Congratulations Natali, keep fighting!

Near future of Gittigidiyor, Amazon, Ebay, Yemeksepeti

There is “really” small amount of “new” technology, but there are always incredible amount of “new” inventions. New Inventions are generaly combination of old technologies. This post is about some of those possible inventions i’d like to dream of.

There is already 3D.
There is 3DTV (even you don’t have it in your home).
There is WEB.
There are animation technics.
There is cinematography.
There is anti-sociality.
There is sociality.

There are shopping / e-commerce sites.

This post will be limited to a specific concept. 3D surfing experience!

With the combination of current technologies and with some new methods, now shopping sites can be a 3D computer game!
( This is not fiction and it’s possible right now )

Amazon, eBay, Etsy or Gittigidiyor.com, Yemeksepeti.com, Kitapyurdu.com,… These are just a few of the sites that you can imagine. Imagine that you are entering a 3d modeled library! You are going to (virtually walking to) the related shelves. You are searching for a book, you don’t remember it’s name exactly.. But you know it’s cover picture… You look up and down to the ordered books with your mouse. You find it, take it and go to the cashier, you can see many different payment options there visually! PayPal? You’ll see a post-box, you’ll open it’s door.. You want to talk to the person in charge? Go ahead and ask to the the employee..

Ok, you want to sell your camera, you want to list it in second hand sites. You enter the shop and you pass through a special room; that room is only for sellers, you are making your arrangement and putting your photocamera to one of the shelves of the related department.

Ok, you don’t want to sell or buy second hand things, because you are hungry!! You go to yemeksepeti.com which is at the 2nd street of the cyber-city. (yemeksepeti.com lets you order your meal from partnered restaurants like Pizza Hut, Burger King, etc..) When you enter to the cyber restaurant building, you’ll see those meals around! Someone should have paid more to put their meal to the store window (; But you don’t like it, you keep walking.. You see chinese food, and want to give it a try, when you try to reach it, some virtual person turns to you and says “Welcome, thanks for your concern, if you want to buy our special rice, you can take the food you are currently holding for free!”…

There are nearly no limits.. Actually the popular game “Sims” can integrate it faster than anyone (:

I want to leave it now for you to think about it yourself. (: 

You got the start! Now do something before anyone else!

Ok. No. This is currently possible, yes. But if you do it, don’t expect to earn money immediately. You need people to use it and since it’s totally a new habit, it’ll be hard for people.. (it’ll be more hard for people from older generations). You can not simply change well-known ways, attitudes, habits and people, suddenly.  If you do it now, you’ll be one of the first people/companies and you’ll have an incredible start. So it can be done in spare time, or if any company is brave enough to assign dedicated staff to do that, i don’t think that they’ll loose. Even you can’t run it, you can sell it!

I think that someone out there is probably already doing it silently, but if not, after doing the project, please let me know it and give me a credit if  i lend a helping hand. Why i don’t do it? Well, give me some money so i can do it (:

( YES  again, it’s currently possible and you can dynamically interact with 3d worlds and the browser any time. One of those attempts comes from Google with O3D  . There are a few different studies and products related to this. This = two-way immediate interaction, 3d environment systems )

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”, Walt Disney

Randy Pausch – Brick walls are only there for others

Today, i’ve read ( learned ) about a man from “The Incredibles”.. His name is Randy Pausch.

Probably many people already knew about him. But for those who has never heard of him or did not watch/listen his lectures, you HAVE TO..

Here is his site: http://www.randypausch.com and here is the summary of his adventure.

We have to watch & watch these videos again and again during our life…

Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management

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