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May 25, 2010
Photography is one of my passions. I have http://norai.net with some nice photos that I don’t actually update very often just because it requires and effort of, opening Lightroom in my mac, connect to the photo folder in my media centre, edit those that I think can go to the web, export them to 800px […]
May 21, 2010
Google officially unveiled Google TV at its Google I/O conference. Google is teaming up with Intel, Sony and Logitech for Google TV. The device is not designed to replace your cable or satellite box, but work alongside it: The goal is to be able to view web content and television content side-by-side from the same interface. This […]
May 21, 2010
Last Wednesday in San Francisco took place the latest Google I/O conference, in principle a conference for developers. Each participant gets a free android phone (well the probably cover the cost of the phone with the fees…). Many people expects this conference to be a consumer goods conference where things are explained in plain english […]
May 21, 2010
Five months ago I wrote a post about tools to control your diet. Now I would like to extend on a 125euro gadget that I might buy in the future: withings. Withings is a body scale that it is connected via wifi to internet. It is a smart body scale, you just step on it […]
May 20, 2010
Restaurant review site UrbanSpoon is slowly moving into OpenTable’s territory. About half a year ago, the company launched a very limited test of a basic reservations tracking system for restaurants in the Seattle area. At that time, however, restaurant owners could only use UrbanSpoon to tell their customers whether they had last-minute openings. Now, however, UrbanSpoon is […]
May 20, 2010
Springpad is an awesome app. Like Evernote, it allows you to save items in a virtual notebook of sorts. But the app doesn’t stop at saving information; it also pulls in actionable links. For example, if you “save” a movie, you also save links to buy tickets for a local theatre or add that film […]
May 19, 2010
I have reviewed and written several times about location services, giving you my thoughts and preferences on mobile applications such as foursquare, gowalla, tellmewhere, latitude and others. Now I would like to try to predict what what it is going to happen to what I think is one of the key avenues for social real time media. […]
May 17, 2010
Following with the series of Jeff Jarvis videos, here another video that discusses about the business of news which is changing radically. The old-time economics of supporting a big newsroom, printing the news on paper and getting it to people’s doorsteps seems increasingly unsupportable given the exodus of advertising dollars to internet sites. If you […]
May 17, 2010
Apple filed a patent in 2008 to have locations specific apps. What does it mean? If you go to a restaurant then a new app in your phone with the menu, or in a library with the books, or … you name it. Macrumors published this: Patently Apple points to a newly-published patent application from Apple […]