February 2010
1 post
DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation →
January 2010
2 posts
People ain't no bad
It may not be unanimous the opinion that people are mostly good - I know some of you are skeptical about it. However from time to time we learn stories that remind us that goodwill exists and people will help strangers without expecting a payoff.
I took a cab last night to Grand Central Terminal and as I enter the car I notice there’s a laptop on the back seat. I show it to the driver and...
September 2009
2 posts
Sir Ken Robinson speaks about creativity and schools and how they aren’t usually together. Very funny and inspiring presentation at TED.
August 2009
7 posts
Volt 230 Mpg? Sticker shock →
OnlyOnce: Stuck in Legal →
Augmented Reality on the Rise
Augmented-reality is catching up and everyday we see a new ‘demo’ that promises to change the way you will see the world. AR, in the hype cycle that Gartner plots is right on ascension getting close the the apex - which in their analisys is when a technology is 2 to 5 years to reaching mainstream.
Right on the bleeding edge - more than 10 years to mainstream adoption - is...
NoSQL: no future for RDBMS?
Tokyo Cabinet is cool name. I think of some 80’s punk band every time I hear it - specially because it’s always associated with the NoSQL movement. In fact there’s a number of key/value stores out there that are really interesting for a large number of particular applications. Don’t think that RDBMS will die or get replaced by this approach. It’s almost like...
Another update, now from Yellowpin
Just a couple quick updates at YellowPin that we wanted you to know about:
First, our new Buzz feature was launched last week! Buzz gives you the ability to automatically receive text messages about your favorite places or friends, giving you real-time updates as to what’s going on around you so you’re never left wondering what to do. For instance, you can set Buzz to get a text...
TigerTag private beta has started
After months of preparation - countless hours of development, strategy, messaging and meetings with partners like Amazon, Motorola and FedEx - we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our private beta version of TigerTag! As friends and family of TigerTag, we’d like you to be the first to try out the site and the service - simply go to www.tigertag.com to get started. If you...
July 2009
10 posts
Gibraltar airport →
Bokode: Imperceptible Visual Tags for Camera Based... →
Good old blogging-times →
We Choose the Moon: Epilogue →
Does Social Networking Breed Social Division? →
Wal-Mart's Twitter Terms of Use →
Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google... →
keynotetweet - Google Code →
June 2009
7 posts
Brazil: Social advertising’s next frontier |... →
How to Write a Spelling Corrector →
Spelling approach from Google
Film - Iranian Directors Like Abbas Kiarostami... →
Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are... →
N-gram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
beautiful fonts with @font-face at... →
Opera Dragonfly | Take a peek into the future →
May 2009
13 posts
Official Google Blog: Went Walkabout. Brought back... →
Chrome Experiments - Detail - Colorscube →
Command Lines - Joe Walker →
Google Code Blog: Monster Mesh - A Google Chrome... →
The Web Sockets API →
HTML 5 →
CS193H: High Performance Web Sites →
Steve Souders - High Performance Web Sites →
XCS193H High Performance Web Sites | Stanford... →
High Performance Web Sites :: Flushing the... →
Choose Your Own HTML 5 Adventure →
Yahoo! YSlow for Firebug →
Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O -... →
April 2009
7 posts
Pet Stick: A 'Worst-Case' Case Study →
Ronaldo must get a spot back in the Brazilian team.
Using Web Hooks →
Lord of the REPLs →
When is Good →
blekko's ambient cluster health visualization... →
Facebook's photo storage rewrite →
Yellowpin getting some love →
YellowPin: This service is unusual simply because it tries to make GPS available to all by letting people text their location. This is great if you have a phone without GPS (or are concerned about privacy and want your location updates to be intensely proactive,) but texting your location with the early adopter crowd seems kind of like the equivalent of Marge Simpson doctoring her single Chanel...
March 2009
10 posts
How to create your own SSL Certificate | Yet... →