Jared Kim’s Weblog

The team here at WeGame has been knocking out some cool GTA4 content. Check out Grand Theft Auto 4 Walkthrough: Missions 1-4!

Woah, look out for these cool games coming your way soon!

• Soul Caliber IV Preview
• Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Preview

Also, before you go! Check out Oxhorn’s newest creation:

• An Oxhorn Brand Medley

More videos from the WeGame team:

• The Force Unleashed Preview
• Ninja Gaiden 2 Preview
• Metal Gear Solid 4 Preview
• Gears of War 2 Preview

Really looking forward to these games. Now if I could only find some time to play…

Our guys at WeGame created a cool GTA4 preview. Looks like it’s going to be a cool game!

The WeGame team made a few videos that show you cheat codes to some popular games. Really cool stuff!

Starcraft Cheats

CoD4 Cheats

Warcraft 3 Cheats

If you play any of these games, definitely check them out! Even though SC and WC3 are old, it’s fun to watch the good old Blizzard RTS games.

is the best coding music by far. Techno is second. The key: no lyrics.

I’m really looking forward to this movie

YouTube’s head engineer gave a talk at Google about the scaling strategies they employed during their growth. This video clocks in at almost 1 hour and covers every single part of web scalability I can think of: web, database, file, and more.

So I walked over to the SF Apple Store today and bought an iPhone. 5 minute wait, not much of a line. They get restocked daily (I went at 10:30am).

Pros

• Beautiful display: best ive seen on a phone
• Awesome touchscreen, virtual keyboard is great
• Wi-Fi support! Fast access when you have access
• Safari browser == real web browser. Being able to browse websites and viewing them the way they are supposed to be viewed is great.
• Google Maps is already great online. Put it on the iPhone and add a great touchscreen, then you got an awesome product. Multi-touch zoom in/out is sweet using two fingers.
• Music: never need an ipod again.

Cons

• Cingular EDGE network is slow. If you’re not connected to WiFi, say goodbye to browsing the web for the most part.
• Mail application sucks. Lacks basic mail functionality like mark all as read. Hell, you can’t even select more than one email and do batch operations.
• No MMS. This usually wouldn’t be an issue for me, but I just found out I can only do mobile Facebook photo uploads using MMS.
• Can’t use custom ringtones. You are restricted to the 20 or so that it comes with.The interwebs says this is in preparation for ringtones tab in iTunes.
• No way for 3rd party developers to make apps for it. I really wanted to use the WiFi support and install Skype or something for cheap international calls, but no can do.

This is all I can think of for now (been using it for 12 hours). Overall, it’s an amazing revolutionary phone. If you have the spare cash, buy one. It will only get better with software updates.

Hey all,

The Associated Press wrote an article about Stalkerati and social networks earlier this week and it had a lot of quotes from me. It got syndicated to places like NY Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, and many many others. I’ve been getting a ton of e-mail regarding Stalkerati, so I just want to write a blog post that answers a few common questions.

• Stalkerati was a fun project that I made last year in May 2006. I pretty much stopped working on it by the end of June 2006 because I could not do searches on MySpace or Facebook after they implemented certain changes to their respective sites. However, even though I stopped working on Stalkerati in May 2006, I would still get sporadic interview requests from reporters every 1-2 months.

• Yes, I could have written a web crawler/spider to make it work on MySpace and Facebook, but I felt like it wasn’t really worth it. I don’t believe you can build a company that piggyback’s on another company’s data unless their is a formal way of doing it via an API or something. However, I consider Widgets & slideshow services a total different thing due to the fact they are not relying on user data that belongs to other companies. Therefore, they still have a stable market (unless MySpace wants to block them).
• I am no longer actively working on Stalkerati as of June 2006 (wow its been a year:). In January of 2007 I launched Yaqqer.com while in my freshmen year of college at UC Berkeley. In March 2007, I left UC Berkeley to start my 3rd company. I can’t say too much about what my newest company is going to do, but I can tell you that if you play video games on your PC, you’re going to (hopefully) like it a lot I have some awesome and experienced people working with me on this one, so I’m pretty excited.
• Yea, I know Stalkerati doesn’t work on Safari. If I remember correctly, it’s because Stalkerati uses the onLoad event on its iframes, and Safari does not support that event.

Hopefully that answers some questions. If you still have questions or just want to say hi, you can use the contact form on my About page.