24/07/10
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–Jay Bradner to high school students at graduation
Read for the first time on this tweet by @johnmaeda
26/12/09
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14/08/09
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This post started as a late night tweet summarizing (in less than 140 characters) the story of writing hence the title of the post. Here’s the original tweet.
The representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols is known as a writing system. Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration outgrew the power of memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form
Copywriting is the use of words to promote a person, business, opinion or idea. The term may be applied to any content regardless of media (print, radio, television, or online media).
A blog (a contraction of the term “weblog”) is a type of website with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Like in Facebook when u post stuff 2 ur friend’s wall such as:
sup? will upload pics from last party… check’em l8er
RT @my_tweep EPIC WIN ->I haz my pics O_o <-LOL or WTF?! :D
(If you don’t understand this last chapter you can check what people are saying right now at twitter.com)
21/09/08
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I just came from my small town’s antique street marquet where I saw a cool 70s jump-hour watch exactly like this one, except for the brand. The one I saw had the Sears brand on it.
At the stall, after checking that it still worked, I asked the price. It started at 70 €, dropped to 65 without asking and after a while it was already 50 €.
It wasn’t obviously new, a few scratches and wear here and there but the overall condition was good. While I was still thinking it over, it came to my mind that I could Google for it on the iPhone and check some background data about the model. Read the rest of this entry »
09/04/08
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An excellent mashup, or a geo-localized short story written on Google maps bubbles by writer Charles Cummings. I’m halfway through it and about to fly to Edimburgh. Don’t tell me the end!
19/03/08
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I wrote a while ago about a couple of tv ads “inspired” either by online projects or videoclips available on YouTube.
Well, history repeats. A couple of weeks ago I found a gem on YouTube called Daft Hands, where a couple of hands with text on it danced to Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (over 16 Million views as I’m writing this). The video spawned dozens of replies of people with text all over the body dancing to the tune.
My surprise was when a week ago I saw a commercial on TV by Spanish telecom Telefónica, where two hands with the terms of a special offer danced to a copycat of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.
Talking about Web 2.0 changing traditional media!
Here’s a nice video where you can see both and judge for yourself. First the commercial and next the original version.
Here’s a link to Daft Hands on YouTube.
Marvel yourself at Telefónica’s website (the 4th telecom in the world). God!
07/03/08
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Here’s the presentation to the students of the “Design and Web Programming” course of the ”
You can download the pdf in Spanish here.
You can see last year’s presentation here.
25/02/08
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Looking for some info on Google Maps API, I stumbled on this project where German artist Aram Bartholl plays with the Google satellite by placing physical Google Maps markers on the ground.
Here’s a picture:
Check Bartholl’s other projects where he explores the interactions between the web and the physical world.
23/01/08
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Looking for some naming tips I stumbled upon this funny name generator. It even checks the availability of the domain. Kewl.
19/01/08
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The data web, like the document web involves standards as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and so on, all this things were enabled by royalty free standards. The same on the data web.
What if you wanted to meet a friend for coffee at the best café next to her house?
Well, even if you had your friend’s address on Gmail, tagged the best cafés in the City in del.icio.us and made your GPS position available to an online web service, there’s no way you could get the right café straight away as technology stands right now.
All the information needed to find the perfect coffee is available online and available but not very usable. You could still pull it off after a few clicks and searches on your internet enabled mobile device but this is not the point.
The cool thing would be that some algorithm (AI?) cross-referenced the data and produced the right answer at the right moment and this is where the Semantic Web or Intelligent Web comes to rescue.
Think of what you could achieve by cross-referencing air-traffic information and nutrition patterns when triying to stop the spreading of a disease.
Learn all about it in this excellent Tim Berners-Lee video.
All about the Semantic Web in this 2006 article by Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee (PDF)