October 2009
19 posts
[Google Fast Flip] Don't Gloss Over Stalin's...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Don’t Gloss Over Stalin’s Crimes, Medvedev Says Mikhail Metzel/AP Russians lay flowers on the Solovky Stone monument as they gather to remember victims of Soviet-era political repression, on Lubyanka Square, Moscow, Friday. By ELLEN BARRY MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Friday warned that Russians have lost their sense of...
[Google Fast Flip] Climate a weighty burden for EU
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Climate a weighty burden for EU By Laurence Peter The Brussels summit provided a sharp foretaste of the hard bargaining the world can expect at the crucial Copenhagen summit on climate change in December. There is still an east-west divide in the EU over national contributions to climate targets, with former communist countries such as Poland and...
[Google Fast Flip] Google's Wave Might Find its...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Google’s Wave Might Find its Real Home Inside Company Servers BY Kit Eaton 1 hour, 59 minutes ago Today it looks like Google’s expanding Wave to external servers. If your company has an internal communication problem. If no one else can help. Maybe you can try … the Wave team. The news has popped up over at TheNextWeb, speculating...
[Google Fast Flip] Cleaning up an Electronic...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Cleaning up an Electronic Wasteland Brett… : Grabbing a DROID as soon as I can and not looking back. Motorola’s back in the game with a… … : I did a video to explain Smart Grid technology a little clearer to everyone. It can be viewed at:… … : “G1…which may not update to...
[Google Fast Flip] How Google Voice Is Growing
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: How Google Voice Is Growing BusinessWeek ‘s review of information handed over to regulators shows the call-management service has more than 1 million users. It may be expanded abroad By Arik Hesseldahl In response to questions by US regulators, Google (GOOG) handed over information about the number of users for its Google Voice communication...
[Google Fast Flip] Droid Shatters the Competitive...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Droid Shatters the Competitive Landscape Not since the launch of the iPhone in 2007 has the announcement of a new product had as dramatic an effect on the competitive landscape of the smartphone business as did yesterday’s Verizon Wireless release of the Motorola Droid. The day after Droid, the handset, wireless networks, mapping, and navigation...
[Google Fast Flip] French Idealism Does a Face...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: French Idealism Does a Face Plant By STEVEN ERLANGER and MAÏA DE LA BAUME PARIS — Just as Le Corbusier’s white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Vélib’, Paris’s bicycle-rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for the era of climate change. A vandalized “Velib,” a public...
[Google Fast Flip] Another Murder in Russia's...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Another Murder in Russia’s Secret War The death of a millionaire opposition leader in Ingushetia is just more evidence that the region is at war. BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | OCTOBER 30, 2009 A few weeks ago, I visited the home of Maksharip Aushev — the 43-year-old scion of a wealthy and politically influential family in Ingushetia — on the...
Use your iPhone to drive your car - yes! It's...
Came across two interesting videos today A research project in Berlin where you use an iPhone to drive a real car! Is this totally James Bond or what?! Also, a cool way to spend a weekend, build your own RC track at the office! Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
Portuguese vs Portugese
Translating websites is all the rage, all the companies are doing it. Big and small Localization is a big deal, and a big business online. The time when you only had to read one audience (the “web) in one language (english) is gone. New players are joining every day, and Brasil is a major new player. I’m lucky in that sense, I speak the language. It does upset me mildly when I see...
Timelapse videos of clouds
Made these myself, tried to time the music to match the clouds, sun, etc. Still experimenting with time lapse videos… Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
[Google Fast Flip] Infographic of the Day: It's a...
Sent to you by joao.rei via Google Fast Flip: Infographic of the Day: It’s a Small World, Afterall BY Cliff Kuang Fri Oct 23, 2009 at 2:08 PM If you’re wondering how “close” two places are, a geographic map doesn’t help much anymore. If the airports are good—or if there’s a bullet train nearby—hundreds of miles might as well be down the street....
mobile phone symphonia
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What browser
What browser to chose when the new Windows 7 comes out in Europe? http://www.whatbrowser.org/more/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/oct/16/browser-ballot-firefox Posted via email from Joao Rei’s ramblings | Comment »
The Portuguese Duck - by Hans Christian Andersen
The Portuguese Duck by Hans Christian Andersen (1861) A duck once arrived from Portugal, but there were some who said she came from Spain, which is almost the same thing. At all events, she was called the “Portuguese,” and she laid eggs, was killed, and cooked, and there was an end of her. But the ducklings which crept forth from the eggs were also called “Portuguese,” and about that there may...
Oh the temptation - an experiment in delayed...
Recently, Stanford scientists replicated a classic experiment from the 60s, in which they tested kids’ ability to delay gratification. Researchers gave each child a marshmallow and told them that they would receive a second marshmallow — if they were able to wait until the researcher left and returned. Two important conclusions were drawn from this work: 1. Kids who were able to...
Google Wave, some more thoughts and screenshots
Some more first impressions on the (awesome) Google Wave.Ok, first of all, I’ll admit it. I was a huge fan of Google Wave even before I could get my hands on it. Ever since the Google I/O video came out and Lars was presenting it, I was sold. To rethink email as if it were designed today. Ambitious, but if someone was going to do it, it had to be Google.The concept of a “wave”...
Videos and screeshots of Google Wave
So far so good, I like what I see. Here’s a collection of most of the instructional videos you get inside your Google Wave preview. I tried creating a new wave, editing a wave, and searching for waves. I was kinda expecting that search would be in real time, but you still have to click the “Search” magnifying lens to actually search for waves See and...
My fist impressions of Google Wave
I got in!! A guy in twitter sent me an invitation yesterday! I got the invitation this morning to join the 100.000 or so users who are now previewing Google Wave. The best thing on the internet since sliced bread. My first impressions are that it looks rather simple for now. But I’ve only been using it for 5 minutes. Apparently you get a new email address @googlewave.com. Which probably...