About

Founded in February 2009, TechXav is a technology blog written by a group of young and zealous teenagers, ranging from the age of 11-16. We cover different aspects of technology – social media, latest technology news, reviews of start-ups, useful apps, and gadgets. Our main objective is to share our knowledge and personal thoughts, especially from a youth’s perspective, to adults and even our fellow peers too.

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Founder and Co-Editor

My name is Xavier Lur, and I am the founder and main editor of this tech blog. Together with Zhou Tong, we co-founded AskForia (a social Q&A platform) and xWaylab. While on the computer, I will usually be on Twitter, reading the latest news and managing my social profile on Facebook.

Currently, I am just a 16-year-old student who loves blogging and keen to share my tech knowledge with all you guys via this blog. Running this tech blog is just one of my interests and a place for me to kill time.

I blog on TechXav about Web 2.0 apps, online tips and news. I have vast experience in technology (especially the Internet), search engine optimization (SEO), web designing, the blogosphere and even the Twitterverse.

I live with my family in Singapore and study in Maris Stella High School. Besides having a strong passion for technology, I also enjoy sports like badminton and soccer.

Careers Goals:

Most of you guys will think that I’ll make a living from blogging or something related to technology. However, you’re wrong. I’ve planned to put professional blogging as part of my hobby and my main careers goals is to become a financial investor just like Warren Buffett and maybe a psychologist.

CEO, Web Designer and Developer

My name is Zhou Tong, and I am a 15-year-old student who has a lot of interests and experience in nearly all IT elements. I am born in China and now I am on a scholarship in Singapore, trying to brush up my English.

Different from Xavier, I am not a professional blogger, but I really love to share my opinions with you guys via this blog. Blogging is a way for me to know more about the whole Internet and also to help me to improve my English. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to be an author in TechXav. My posts will have a special style because I always keep my eyes on small changes around the Internet. I have co-founded a project called xWaylab, and AskForia.

Currently, I am a student in Maris Stella High School, and it is great to be Xavier’s friend. Please support me and also TechXav! Have a nice day ahead!

Main Achievements:

Age 4: Started to use computer.

Age 7: Started to study IT and use Internet. Developed good experience in using E-Mail, IM.

Age 8: Finished my first website. I could install an OS by myself.

Age 9: I registered my first Webhosting and developed some websites. Won the first prize in IT in school.

Age 10: Successfully created my first Local Area Network at home. Knew further about Network Engineering. Finished my first dynamic website with database(A simple forum).

Age 11: Started to learn HTML, CSS and something about HTTP. Successfully configured a server with Windows Server 2003. Created a website for my classmates (A CMS site with study resources)

Age 12: Started to learn C Language. Registered my first domain name. Successfully planned and created a Local Area Network for a middle school.

Age 13: Took part in NOIP (National Olympics for Informatics in Provinces) in China and won second prize. Started to learn PHP and MySQL. Used PHP+MySQL to create my first web program. Started to know Virtualization and Cloud-Computing. Started to study Linux in command-line mode.

Age 14: Successfully configured a server with CentOS 5.1 and a server with Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS(incl. LAMP). Got the chance to study in Singapore

Further Plans:

1. Continue studying Programming. (PHP+MySQL, C/C++, etc)

2. Keep my eyes on Internet. (Rich Internet Applications, Virtualization and Cloud-Computing based on Internet)

3. Keep focusing on Web 2.0 and share them with others.

4. 3 periods of xWaylab in the future:

a. A living team with a few members, take part in the competitions and try to let more people know xWaylab.
b. A developing team with a few projects, and be ready for corporatization.
c. A investment corporation with a few investment objectives.

5. Adhere to Open, Free, Fair.

Co-Editor

Hi, my name is Jake Smith. I am a student in America, in the 8th grade. I am your average kid, but I have a passion for writing. I have been writing online for 3 years now. My first website was using Website Tonight, but I have come a long way. In the three years writing I have learned so much about social media, computers, and gaming. Away from the computer I play soccer and basketball. I also enjoy fishing and drumming. My main goal online is to try my best, and share everything I can. You can follow me on Twitter @JakeOSmith

Writer

My name is Reuben Wang and I am a 15 year old geek which is currently studying at Maris Stella High School here in Singapore, the same school as Xavier. I am a avid gamer and I game mainly on my xbox with my online alias, “stupidpower95″, or stupidpower for short.

I love technology, and has been using the computer since I was 2. Currently, I am part of my school’s “Future Maris Stella @ Singapore” program, which allows me to use a Macbook to enrich my lessons.

If you need me, you can find me at powerofstupidy.blogspot.com.

Writer

Hi, my name is Matt and I’m a 13 year old tech-addict from Cambridgeshire, England. I spend most of my time on Twitter, or playing with Photoshop. I code websites in my spare time, although I also love a bit of gaming on my Xbox! I’m also an admin on a private design forum, and has helped design small parts of many sites.

My artwork has been featured multiple times on the deviantart page, won many competitions, and I’m currently practising icon design, so you probably won’t see much activity from his dA! I’ve won all three IT awards at my school, 2 of the three art awards, and one for my essay on bully’s psychology.

Writer

The name is Alexander Long I am Malaysian teen who does not aspire to be the next James Bond or anything of the sort. Wait.. with the exception of the girls! Xavier has actually helped me to construct my own blog http://www.zotcool.com that will hopefully be published very soon! Surprisingly Xavier asked me to join him and well I will try my best to type useful posts from ‘A consumer’s point of view.’

I have to confess that I am not technology’s best friend and it is not uncommon to see me hacking away at my PC with a jackhammer or sometimes, if that is unavailable the computer mouse ( or a real one!). I am however an amazing consumer who loves all those darling gadgets out there and my parents are constantly bugging me that I am wasting space on the PC with useless applications. Anyway, back to the point, I hope that all of you reading this will enjoy my posts. Cheerio.

Writer

My name is Dustin Snider and I am a 14-year-old web developer, entrepreneur and student in Central New York. I am the teen who thinks sitting outside in a chair programming a website is a fun time. I started out at age 12 playing around with FreedWebs slowly learning HTML and later other versions of programming. As time went on I started to learn more and more about web development.

So, I got very interested and started building websites just for fun. I later got the privilege to work with Livingston Technologies. While working with them I managed CoolText.com. I worked with them on two other projects before leaving to start my own company writing scripts for Ning Networks.

I later was looking for a cool way to expand my work on Ning.com . I joined up with SitePower (a 3rd Party Developer Company) together we made few cool addons for Ning Networks with Javascript. Ning later changed there 3rd Party policy’s and stopped allowing Javascript development. I took a break from custom development on the web for 2 months. In that 2 months I just built sites for friends. As I went on I learned PHP, JQuery, Javascript, Java.

Currently, I am the CEO of SocSos, Co-Founder of Yazzem, Community Developer for 12 Fruits and VP Engineering for Teens in Tech Networks.