What if you were arrested in Egypt?
May 3, 2008 6:17 pm
categories:
Technology, World, cyberculture
Now, that’s an incredible history.
James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone: “Arrested”. Within seconds, colleagues in the United States and his blogger-friends in Egypt - the same ones who had taught him the tool only a week earlier - were alerted that he was being held.
Obviously this is another incredible real history about Twitter and the many ways it can become a usefull communication tool. Holly swiss army knife, Batman!
Read the full history about James Karl Buck and twitter at CNN.
Claro sucks
April 25, 2008 11:47 am
categories:
Technology
Today my mobile woke up with no signal at all. My mobile carrier said that things will be alright only after lunch. Yesterday I noticed that Google Calendar works only with Oi and Tim, no with the Claro carrier. Now this…all day off. It really sucks!
Just waiting next year when it will be possible to change the carrier and keep the same phone number to start testing another carrier.
The music world may change a bit
April 10, 2008 6:39 pm
categories:
Music, Technology
Today I took notice of a great, great invention that may shake the music world. It’s called so far as Direct Note Access, acronyms DNA no innocently. It’s a little complicated to explain, but basically Peter Neubäcker created a way to split notes from a recorded chord and manipulate each note separately. What you already can do in a MIDI file you will may do in a WAV file.
And by this I mean that it will be possible to anyone change music notes, changing chords from minor to major, music scale, pieces of harmony, timing, pitch, arrangements, whatever! with a click of a button. Sounds crazy? Let’s see what they say at their website:
Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. The unique access that Melodyne affords to pitch, timing, note lengths and other parameters of melodic notes will now also be afforded to individual notes within chords.
Examples of use: tune a guitar after recording, correct harmony vocals that are out of tune, or fix their timing, turn major chords to minor (and vice versa), switch tone scales, mute single notes, remix volume levels, etc. – all after the performance is already taped!
Enough reading…watch the video!
Via Daniel DP.
Twitter, the earthquake, and the future of breaking news
February 27, 2008 10:35 am
categories:
Business, Technology, World, cyberculture
As I told before, Twitter is changing the concept of publishing breaking news. Today I read two good articles by Josh Catone about this that worth the reading:
Earthquake in UK? News Broken on Twitter
The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse
Is microhoo already settled?
February 25, 2008 7:54 pm
categories:
Technology
Today I had a newer version of Yahoo Messenger installed on my computer. I got surprised when saw the new interface of the buddy info window. The old one used to bring me just some little info about the one I was looking, but this new one it`s completely overcrowded with useless buttons. It’s the Allan Cooper’s Dancing bear principle, it seems that the guys thought in every single thing a user could want to do and put it all there.
The point is: the newer version brings so much information that you spent more time to scan and identify what the hell is going on there! A precious IM button now lives with ugly brothers like “Call”, “Call mobile”, “Call work”…
Maybe I was just used to the older interface and got shocked with the new one. Maybe it’s really easier to click on a buddy and have more interactions options to choose. But I think the first impression is the most important, and I really got confused.
In fact, I’m wondering if Microsoft have already bought Yahoo and nobody told me…
The millions of buttons at the Buddy info window of the new Yahoo Messenger
