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Now Wind/KiteSurfers at Madeira island can receive Twitter alerts whenever optimal wind speed and direction are predicted.

3 day wind forecasts are calculated operationally for the Madeira islands using the MM5 meteorological model and using the GFS solution as initial and boundary conditions by the University of Madeira. Credits go to Rui Caldeira, Ricardo Tomé and myself.

The mashup itself was performed with some simple bash scripting and curl. More technical details are available at the archipelago wiki. I also aggregated all the twitter-bots into a single dapper application using Pipes, so you can add them as an iGoogle gadget on your frontpage.

Google Gears API Blog: Gearing up with Zoho Offline

I was moved when the other day I saw Zoho and Google, probable competitors for the web-office market, team-up informally in such a spontaneous and natural way when Zoho started using Google Gears, and trading details and facts about their own experience in web-development during an ad-hoc interview recently.

Zoho did it! They announced a read-only offline mode for their writer, the word processing unit of their full web-office suite.

Kirix Strata: Access and Manipulate Data from the Web

Not so long ago I relayed a cool screencast showing Orchstr8's AlchemyPoint. Today, a good friend of mine showed me a next-step essay of a specialized web-browser. Self-untitled "the data-browser", ladies and gentleman, let me introduce you to the next web2.0 world championship contestant, from Kirix's studios, the great Strata! (available in beta version).
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Online Office, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, CRM and more

This blog is all about reaching the webtop stage: a web-based fully featured OS with very powerful collaborative and open web-apps.

The Office suite is THE desktop killer-app. Whereas Google has been for the last couple of years a front runner in web-apps, Zoho seems to take the lead with its impressive suite of web-based office-like apps.
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Pipes: CineCartazPublicoPT

Yesterday, I showed how to use feed43 to create RSS feeds from old webpages. As an application I created 5 RSS feeds scraped from the CineCartaz Publico webpage. To quickly aggregate and publish them, I used RSS mixer, which is alright, except that its limited to 24 new items only. Lisbon's the city capital, so there's a lot more than 24 films going on movie theaters near me.

CineCartazPublico - RSS Mixer Prototype

It's amazing how people in Portugal still aren't aware of the possibilities provided by RSS. You'd be surprised by the number of respectable newspapers who go online but forget to add an RSS feed. Anyway, things are starting to change. Publico now has got an RSS feed. Unfortunately, the CineCartaz doesn't. It's the newspaper's movie theaters section. My wife asked me to make her a widget so she can see what movies are on theatres from her startpage.
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Slidecasting 101 � SlideShare

The guys over at Slideshare just took the obvious next step last week when they released a new feature at their site. They created the mashup between podcasts and slides that they called slidecast. Or in their algebra: slides + podcasts = slidecasts. For anyone familiar with these concepts (slides and podcasts), then you can probably guess what a slidecast is.
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