Posted by bordalix Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:13:00 GMT
Who said E3 was dead? After Microsoft's project Natal, Sony responds with his new motion controller for Playstation Eye:
Millimetric precision, almost instant response, and above all, a live demo with the technology, not an environment controlled, video manipulated demo like Microsoft did. So, Santa, wait up for my Christmas request, will you?
Posted by bordalix Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:27:00 GMT
While the buzz from Microsoft these days concentrate on Bing, their new "not a search engine but a decision engine" service, I think the real breakthrough technology people should be looking and talking about is the new project named Natal for XBOX 360.
It's a all new ball game in the human computer interaction, where one does not need a controller to play and interact with the XBOX 360. Just be there and play. Watch the demo:
Natal is the portuguese word for Christmas, does it means it will be available in Christmas? If so, Santa, I know is a bit early to ask for presents, but unless otherwise, this is what I want.
Update 4 hours later: Johnny Chung Lee has some technical insights of this project in his blog.
Posted by bordalix Thu, 28 May 2009 18:24:00 GMT
Google will launch in a few months a revolutionary new product, named Google Wave. Last time I got so excited about a Google product was on Gmail's launch. But what is Google Wave? Via the Webmonkey blog:
Wave is a web-based application that marries multiple forms of communication and collaboration, including chat, mail and wikis, into a unified interface. Everything inside Wave happens in real time: You can even see a comment being made as the person is typing it, character-by-character
The Webmonkey blog post also has a screenshot of the service - since some lucky souls are already beta testing it - which I proudly stolen:
That's a terrific productivity tool, instantaneous (latency of low milliseconds) and licensed as open source. It becomes now clear why Google isn't interested in Twitter.
Posted by bordalix Fri, 22 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT
A few days ago, a link fell in my mailbox, covering the 50 significant moments from the internet history. While reading it, I thought how would be nice to have this information in one, read once, graphical timeline. And since I love to design timelines, I decided to get my hands dirty and create one:
tip: click the image above to see it in a larger version.
I extended it to 65 moments, based on the honorable mentions by the original article and my own opinion. Feel free to use it, has anything else publicized in this blog, is licensed in a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Posted by bordalix Fri, 22 May 2009 09:49:00 GMT
Thomas Baekdal wrote a highly insightful article, powered by a very interesting diagram, about the history (and future) of information sources for the average user:
For a in-depth analysis of the diagram, jump to the original article.
Posted by bordalix Tue, 12 May 2009 13:45:00 GMT
The new creation from Dr. Stephen Wolfram, named WolframAlpha, is being heralded as possibly the most important technological invention of the the last decade. And why is that? The scientific community is referring it as an "answer engine" or "knowledge engine", rather than a search engine, since it provides users with the ability of typing a question and being given an answer. Note, that's an answer and not a list of websites.
It doesn't simply return documents that (might) contain the answers, like Google does, and it isn't just a giant database of knowledge, like the Wikipedia. Instead, Wolfram Alpha actually computes the answers to a wide range of questions - like questions that have factual answers such as "How many Internet users are in Europe", "What is the weather in Lisbon?" or "What is the 307th digit of Pi?".
The service will opens to the public on May 18. Meanwhile, you can take a peek on this blurry video from Youtube:
Is Google in danger due to WolframAlpha? There's a growing discussion about it in the community, some call it the next Google, others say they complement each other. And since WolframAlpha as (yet) no known business model, I guess we'll have to wait and see...
Posted by bordalix Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:13:00 GMT
Just a kick post to tell everyone excentric is on the short list for digital agency of the year 2008 by Meios & Publicidade (only in portuguese).
Posted by bordalix Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:46:00 GMT
It's not me, but Microsoft itself who's saying it on his "Europe Logs On" study, released yesterday. In 18 months, people will spend more time browsing the web than watching TV. Other key findings of the study are:
This and much more is available in the study.
Posted by bordalix Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:29:00 GMT
Just found BumpTop, a nice looking 3D desktop, like a real desk, but better. Still not sure if it's good for me, but I always like to see innovative products. Well, actually it's not for me, currently it runs only on the Windows platform, and since I'm a Mac user, I will have to wait to give it a try. But, hey, there are still very good people out there using Windows. Here is the demo video:
RSS readers should click here to watch the video.
Posted by bordalix Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:14:00 GMT
It's that time of the year again. It's 9 A.M. GMT and I already found some nice stories around. Here's what I've found so far:
What else do you see out there?
Update: via comments, other pranks out there:
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