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.
What is it Snowden, Assange, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen share in common?
Below is a screenshot of the most interesting article of 2013, period. Written by one the most-influentials "good" guys of world, Julian Assange.
Collaboration 2.0, where are we?
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".
1Drop.io was bought by Facebook and this makes furious
Because now, all the links that I had disseminated through the web with mine and my wife's phd thesis are gone. Not a good thing for the sake of publishing, right? There used to be a time when I could feel a service would be good enough so that it wouldn't fail its users.
Moving from a file-system to a tweet-system
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.
Google is an advertisement company. Apple is a leisure-time company.
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.
Going to Codebits 2010
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
Tracking the impact of your business cards on your Google profile stats
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.
Android is for tasks and Chrome is for data.
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.
FWD: The state of the Webtop: where are we going?
I'm reposting this entry posted back in April, in order to test some problems I'm having with the commenting systems...
Hello all, it's been a while since my last post.
The state of the webtop: where are we going?
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 ...
Should I get an iPad or a Chrome OS for my mom?
The ipad is probably more expensive than the Chrome OS... but the browser experience is better, much better. I'm bending towards buying an iPad for my mom, so that she'll start using a computer, finally! She bought a laptop because she wanted to get in touch with her kids and friends through gmail.
On the Google Chrome OS and my mom
My mom sure could use one of those Google PCs.
She's a veteran school teacher. She doesn't like using computers and hates the fact that she has to configure them for the wifi connection.
My late 2003 vision seems to materialize: Chrome OS is here!
I transcribe here, literally, the kick-off post of Webtop mania, to remind our (few but dearest) readers what this blog is all about, what's his purpose and why it exists in the first place.
Is Cinch really better than Twitter and Evernote?
There were a lot of reactions around the last post on Cinch. And some folks might be curious about the service and the iPhone app. So I decided to write a follow-up post (the title is possibly borrowed from someone else by now).
Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.
Wow, it's been a looong time since I posted something here. Lots of spider webs to clean up...
Anyway, I'm posting this entry to tell the world about this cool new thing I started using out of lately. It's called Cinch and it's the best thing since sliced-bread.
My take on cloud computing
Update: if you want to check out what is cloud-computing in a secured sandboxed environment please follow this link.
When I first started this blog, I wanted to make a statement about my vision regarding the future of computing. I called this new thing the webtop. That was back in 2006.
The iPhone needs glasses
Yes, it's true: the iPhone actually needs spectacles to correct its vision on close-up shots. Otherwise they get blurry.
The Future Of Hand-Held Devices...
People don't realize this yet, but what they really want is a device that becomes a living extension of their body, while enhancing their own sensing limitations. It'll make them feel smarter, more powerful. And - that - is a very addictive feeling.
Syntax Highlighter
Hi, I'm testing a javascript based syntax highlighter for this blog.
Lolcats on my google mobile app
Google just launched earlier this week the new google mobile app with voice search. Now, we always went extatic in this blog, whenever a new web-based app with text-to-voice or voice-to-text features would come around.
Sapo codebits 2008
Last week I went to codebits, the 24/3 hackers contest organized by the portal sapo.pt. And it was awesome! I had loads of fun, learned tons of stuff, met a bunch of new and interesting people, worked on my tech social network, etc, etc...
Location and social networks on the iphone
Here are some location based tools that I use on the iPhone. Some are social canvas, some are useful tools.
Google Maps
I use it to:
Locate me.
Search places.
Bookmark places.
Find routes.
Navigate.
Unique features:
Built in iPhone.
Street view (coming to Europe, one country at a time).
Post - Shift'08
Last week I went to Shift.pt, a conference about new technologies, society and the web, organized and sponsored by Sapo.pt. There I've acquainted a bit more with Pedro Custódio and his team/friends, as well as a whole new bunch of very interesting people.
Shift.pt starting tomorrow
Here's an excerpt of a mail (addressee anonymacy kept) I wrote today that tells a long way about what are my expectations on shift, the web2.0 and society conference happening in Lisbon the 15th, 16th and 17th October 2008.
Dear Mr.
Wordle: beautiful tag clouds
Wordle is an instant, genuine, original, art creating engine that leverages on the single most creative content originator on the whole galaxy: YOU.
Wordle is BEAUTIFUL because YOU are BEAUTIFUL.
Fire Eagle and Tarpipe: two ways to avoid battery-drain on your mobile
One of the interesting things about web-wired mobile devices, is the ability to quickly geolocate the user, either by GPS, either by cell-tower antenna id, either by networked wifi ip.
Will Google collapse by 2011?
The people at thinkeyetracking have conducted a research on search behavior. They analyzed humans while googling by mapping their eyeball tracks.
Why is Chrome a big deal?
Google just launched today their new open-source browser called Chrome. They're now adding a new element to the browser wars along with IE, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera. This is a really smart move from Google towards building their Google OS.
Evernote: extend your memory beyond an elephant's.
Evernote is an interesting web service that stores all your notes, audio-notes, and snapshots and archives them for you. It then allows you to perform text search on them, even inside images.
The iphone 3G is a pocket satellite.
Ever worked with satellite engineering teams? I have. I had some experience in the AOCS (Attitude and Orbit Control Systems) subsystem team in the ESA-SSETI program, designing ESEO, a micro-satellite designed to take space pictures and do some simple science, while I was an undergrad student.
How to receive free SMS alerts using Twitter
In this post I will show you how to subscribe to twitter to receive free sms alerts on your cell phone. You can receive live soccer goals, weather forecasts, traffic alerts, the IST canteen menu, you name it ...
UPDATE 2008-08-27: DISCLOSURE 1: SMS ALERTS AREN'T FREE IN THE U.S.
Nostalgia
Nostalgia, originally uploaded by Guillaume!.
In memory of Jorge Luís Reis Martins, good friend and colleague.
3G iPhone on the 11th July, in a store nearby you in Portugal
Today was the WWDC, the famous Apple keynote by Steve Jobs at the Moscone center.
The Euro 2008 uefa cup twitter bot
Ok, maybe not everyone is aware but, while I'm mingling with numerical models and computational geo-fluid dynamics by day, by night I keep working on this rather low-profile web-project with some friends called PointPontoPt, which is Portuguese for the domain name http://point.pt.