oceanlab

31 janeiro 2008

Thinking About Tomorrow

«How will technology change the way we shop, learn and entertain ourselves? How will it change the way we get news, protect our privacy, connect with friends? We look ahead 10 years, and imagine a whole different world.» Wall Street Journal

Source Ydreams Blog

30 janeiro 2008

Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous...?

«AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they're worth. They also divert design resources and prove (once again) that what's hyped is rarely what's most profitable.»
Useit / Jakob Nielsen

«Before I get carried away, I must say that Neilsen does have a point. There are rich internet applications that are confusing and poorly implemented.»
Inside RIA

29 janeiro 2008

Tagged in Motion | graffiti art


«Walls, trains or house fronts - graffiti need to be sprayed on solid, "real" backgrounds. Doesn't it?»

Next Wall

Dopplr | for frequent business travellers

«For those who don't believe that some spiritual force throws people together, however, there's Dopplr, a website for frequent flyers that takes the luck out of meeting up.»

DOPPLR
Source Time

23 janeiro 2008

Blogger Covers War in Iraq

«A former Special Forces soldier has created a loyal following on the Web with his accounts of frontline soldiers' daily work in Iraq.»

Source NY Times
Michael Yon
IHT

Getty Images Up for Sale

«Getty Images, the world’s biggest supplier of pictures and video to media and advertising companies, has put itself on the auction block and could fetch more than $1.5 billion, people briefed on the situation said Sunday.»

Source NY Times
Guardian

18 janeiro 2008

Zaragoza 2008

É já este ano e é mesmo aqui ao lado, Expo Zaragoza 2008.



www.expozaragoza2008.es

Panasonic's Interactive LifeWall

«Basically, it's a virtual transformation of a wall in your house. Everything from HDTV to Internet to live footage comes through the personalized wall. Instead of remotes, hand motions control the content. Facial recognition loads individualized settings»...

Source PopSci
Panasonic | CES 2008

17 janeiro 2008

Sun Buys MySQL for $1B

«Sun Microsystems said today it would pay $1 billion to buy privately held open-source database maker MySQL, a move that strengthens Sun’s ability to offer an alternative to proprietary software.»

Source Gigaom

Library of Congress Goes Web 2.0

«Armed with a belief in the wisdom of crowds, the Library of Congress has made two of its photo collections available on Flickr. The government library hopes that more people will be able to view the photos online — and help librarians organize them by way of user-generated tags.»
Library of Congress

Source Gigaom

14 janeiro 2008

CSS Text Wrapper

Not Just Rectangles Anymore
The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to easily make HTML text wrap in shapes other than just a rectangle. You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want. All you have to do is draw the left and right edges below and then copy the generated code to your website.
Get to it!


Tested in Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Netscape.

08 janeiro 2008

Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft

Novo Motor de Pesquisa

"Criado pelo fundador da Wikipédia e inspirado no modo de funcionamento da enciclopédia mais famosa da net, chega em 2008 o novo motor de pesquisa, search.wiki.com. Ainda em versão muito beta, promete com a ajuda dos cibernautas, tornar-se num sério concorrente do google."

04 janeiro 2008

2008 presidential candidate

Depois do Political Base...
«Glassbooth connects you to the 2008 presidential candidate that represents your beliefs the best.»
Glassbooth

Does this mean that Netscape is dead?

«You will still be able to download old versions of Netscape from the Netscape Archive. However, these products are no longer supported. Our recommendation for the nostalgic out there is to download Mozilla Firefox, and add on the Netscape theme and Netscape extensions»...
Netscape Blog

Internet é o canal mais utilizado para interagir com Fisco

"«mais de 80 por cento dos utentes do canal de Internet e mais de 92 por cento dos TOC» usam este canal de forma «frequente ou muito frequente» e que os serviços mais utilizados por quem recorre ao site da DGCI são a entrega electrónica de declarações de rendimentos e a obtenção de comprovativos."
Diário Digital

IE8 Expectations

«Microsoft recently announced that the latest dev builds of Internet Explorer 8 pass the Acid2 test.»
Snook

«As a team, we’ve spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. IE8 now renders the “Acid2 Face” correctly in IE8 standards mode.»
IEBlog

Start a Resolution

Uma ajuda para as resoluções de ano novo.
«Enter your resolution. The person who joined before you will coach you»
Start a Resolution