The elite bloggers shared their latest findings: Blogbard, and BlogRadioTalk! What a bunch of cool apps!



The first one, Blogbard, is all about providing text-2-voice to RSS feeds. I tried it with this blog, and a couple more, and I found it really cool! The voice matches quite well with the text, and, you get to improve your own punctuation with time. How about that?

I do have only one wish: make the voice 2 text for more languages! So far, it works only for english. But, I'd love to see some portuguese (pt AND br), and some french, soon. In the meantime, please enjoy! Here's this site with voice!





The second cool app is blogtalkradio. Users simply make a call, provide some speech, end the call, period. Then they can listen to their recorded voice in an instant podcast from an RSS feed at http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/phonenumber. So simple! Truly great! Wishlist: Make this app in Portugal.

So there you go; two great apps showing a new generation of applications build on top of RSS feeds. Indeed, as the semantic web thrives on (RSS, Microformats, opml, and others), and new disruptive web-enabled devices, such as iPhones, Chumbys, and what not, start to appear, smart people, all over the world, immediately build new trends on top of them.

Hence, a new disruptive trend has just kickstarted: the rss to voice and the voice to rss. For your blog, and, for your iPhone! Boy, the web doesn't stops. Look at it go, wow!

I'd just would like to make a comment to all portuguese startupers and entrepreneurs: creating a version of both of these for the portuguese market could work. Maybe, with a slowstart first, but it will eventually thrive... Think about it. Please.
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Below is a screenshot of the most interesting article of 2013, period. Written by one the most-influentials "good" guys of world, Julian Assange. The article deals about the promiscuity between Google top-notch executives and the White House, and how it affects both institutions policies, at the expense of the people's freedom and will. Below the article I share with you some notes I've taken.

Assange sums it all up to us in two words: "Jared Cohen", and a question "Who is he? ". It's worth it to check him out. I googled him to find out he's a futurist thinker, thinking about the disruptive reach social networks and, now, context networks can attain, world-domination-wise. A megalomaniac thinker surely, with the wits, the will, the intuition, the perception and the goal.

Back in 2005 I was really excited about the web2.0 concepts, the web-based APIs, mashups, and all the new publishing tools that was later to be known by 2008 as "social-media". However, back then, it really wasn't the modern facebook-ish "social-media" model that was tingling my neurones; it was rather the emergent nature of these disruptive new tools such as blogs, wikis and web-based productivity apps such as Google Docs or Zoho.
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Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook ... what is the REAL future of computing, as seen from 2010?

I don't know, exactly. In my last post I simply summed up Google to an advertisement company and Apple to a leisure-time company. And indeed, I still think it is what they are, and what they focus first to become, consciously.

Somebody wrote a while ago:

Google is an advertising company that builds popular services that command large audiences.

To which I add:

Apple is a leisure company that builds popular media-platforms that command large audiences of media-consumers.

And, to my insistence, beyond games/apps, music, movies, tv-shows, books and magazines, Apple will try hard to become a vacations, travel and experiences re-seller. It's the natural next-step for them ...

I just got accepted to the most awesome workshop in the whole world, organized right here in Lisbon, the Codebits 2010, promoted by sapo.pt,

I'll be staying three days, in a row, in a big room packed with free wifi and free cable net access, unlimited free pizza, free cokes, free chocolate bars and a horde of PT finest geeks. I'll participate and assist to the biggest festival of creativity in PT geekdom. Missed it last year.

One of the biggest pain in the butt after an exciting conference/workshop/meeting is inputing all your fresh new contacts business cards info into your digital mail/phonebook. This is a problem. An unsolved one too.

Another problem, is that you don't know who, from the meeting, after you gave them your contact, actually checked you out afterwards. You can't tell how many checked on you neither.

Here's an elegant and smart solution to alleviate this problem, provided it gets widely adopted.

Android is for tasks, life-hacks, body-hacks, and Chrome is for organized data, information.

At some point in the foreseeable future I expect to see an elegant merger where a next-gen browser will be the sole platform. But first, the life/body-hacks platform will need to walk the walk it has to walk, and I expect it to be, at least, a five-years march.

Hello all, it's been a while since my last post. These last months were spent mostly dedicated to finish my unfinished thesis - Ever heard of PhD comics? No? Well, it works better than Dilbert for me. Here's a nice one ...
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