Exploring happiness

Posted by bordalix Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:19:00 GMT

The Black Swam by Nassim Taleb, and Darwinian Politics by Paul Rubin, were two books that changed my view of the world and humanity (for better, I think).

Today I found an amazing Ted Talk, by Dan Gilbert, titled "Exploring the frontier of happiness", which gave me a lot of helpful insights (and it toke me only 33 minutes). Dan speaks about our inability to estimate odds and value, and how than has an impact on our daily life. A must see:

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Wordpress 2.7 Coltrane

Posted by bordalix Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:34:00 GMT

The new Wordpress 2.7 admin GUI is just awsome:

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To all visionaries

Posted by bordalix Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:02:00 GMT

To all visionaries out there who have people laughing and mocking about their ideas and visions: resilience is your best weapon. Someday, somewhere, someone will give you the deserved credit.

For more than 2 years, Peter Schiff is making unbelievable accurate predictions (and warnings) about the financial crisis, and being mocked by other "experts". Guess what, Peter Shiff was right. The following video is a compilation of Peter's appearance in different TV shows. Watch Peter's accuracy and the arrogance of every other person:

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The Cloud Player

Posted by bordalix Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:40:00 GMT

The year is yet to begin, and the app to watch for in 2009 has just popped out: The Cloud Player, a "iTunes in the cloud" with friends sharing music. It's a all new ball game for the music industry, a brand new way of listening to music. Don't you love these spikes of evolution? Did I mention it's open source?

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Kinetic Typography with your content

Posted by bordalix Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:40:00 GMT

Vodafone Portugal recently launched a Christmas card which, I believe, must be the first ever kinetic typography video with some user generated content. The card is in portuguese only.

The following video of a Vodafone Christmas card was captured with ScreenToaster, a online service that allows you to capture your screen. I'm still evaluating it, as this was my first usage of the service, and first conclusion is: it should capture the sound.

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Zoetrope - learning with the past

Posted by bordalix Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:16:00 GMT

Everyone is capable of accessing a website and read their actual content, right?. But what about past content? How can I see yesterday CNN homepage, or last week "Tipping point" price at Amazon?

And how can one use these past content, correlate it with other sources of past content and generate insights and value? For example, is there (or not) a correlation between bad weather and heavy traffic? Or between weak dollar and stock increases?

It will be easy with Zoetrope, a new tool designed to help track such information by letting users browse backward through time. The tool is still not available to public consumption, but I'm sure it will be the next web revolution.

I'm having a hard time to explain this revolutionary tool by words, so here is the video that explains it better:

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Is Nokia becoming a Google?

Posted by bordalix Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:44:00 GMT

Excellent article from The Economist on why/how Nokia is transforming itself into a service company.

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All about Google

Posted by bordalix Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:54:00 GMT

An impressive presentation from faberNovel on Google's strategy, with solid grounds, concise and very well written:

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Meraki solar

Posted by bordalix Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:42:00 GMT

Meraki, a company that sells its mesh WiFi networks all over the globe, has just made the final step to the real wireless: solar powered routers. The implications of these are huge!

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Timesculpture

Posted by bordalix Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:15:00 GMT

An amazing advert from Toshiba. My brain is still wondering on how they did it:

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