Posted by bordalix
Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:03:00 GMT
Everyone is talking about next week (Sept. 7)
Apple announcement, but no one really knows what is all about. Please take your chances:
a) iPod video with iTunes Music Store selling video clips;
b) switching iPod Mini to a flash-based technology;
c) flash-based larger-capacity Shuffles;
d) a totally new category of devices;
e) the Motorola iTunes phone;
f) a mobile OS.
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Posted by bordalix
Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:01:00 GMT
Could
this be the future of the Internet? Well, I thing it is, what about you?
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Posted by bordalix
Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:00:00 GMT
Everyone is talking about it. Some guys even had the courage to dissect it, like
Pedro and
Celso did.
I choose the user perspective, so I downloaded the client, install it, and then... well... then nothing: there is no one to talk to, there are no smileys, emoticons or shaking windows, no sex appeal. Ok, I can see my gmail contacts there, but hey, they already have a IM (MSN, Yahoo or ICQ), 90% don't have a gmail account, and they don't understand a nut about Internet, they just use it. Finnaly, the voice quality is worst than others, like Skype and VoIP Buster, so,
there is no reason at all for me to change to Google talk.
Guys, in the IM world, people don't care about technicalities. What they really want are those sissie features like a big face showing you the tongue, huge lips or annoying shaking windows. A success IM client must be specified by a marketing department, engineers don't have the skills to do it.
Remember Ericsson phones before the Sony joint venture: they were very good, robust and reliable, but ugly as hell. They were designed by engineers, for engineers. Market share, minimum. Now, add an excelent marketing department, some sissie colors and functionalities, and you get SonyEricsson. Do I need to say anything else?
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Posted by bordalix
Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:59:00 GMT
Please take a peek at
Voo2do, a simple, beatiful to-do lists, with an amazing license: "if you like it, smile at a stranger today". Already done it, felt good.
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Posted by bordalix
Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:58:00 GMT
Business 2.0 is saying that
Google will give free Wi-Fi access to everyone in the EUA. The money is in targeting advertising to a user's precise location, and in saving some million dollars per month in interconnection fees. So, Google is giving amazing search capabilities (with is search engine), advertising for everyone (with AdSense), huge storage capacity (with Gmail), and now, going down the OSI layer, access to everyone. Should we change the name from Internet to GoogleNet?
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Posted by bordalix
Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:55:00 GMT
Or should i say the
iKeyTypePro? Debut in first quarter 2006 (earlier then the Vista thing)
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Posted by bordalix
Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:54:00 GMT
Why all the buzz for something that will only be
ready in 15 months? In my home town we call this vaporware...
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Posted by bordalix
Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:53:00 GMT
Are you sure? Please read the following
article and remember, as your mother told you, never click anything unless you're certain is clean.
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Posted by bordalix
Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:52:00 GMT
From
Pedro, Apple re-invented the
mouse. And from
Rui, a "wear in the ear"
goldfish that give you a second chance.
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Posted by bordalix
Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:50:00 GMT
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl
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