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Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
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12.01.2008
Mapple - The Simpsons
Ένα επεισόδιο των simpsons που ασχολείται με φλέγοντα ζητήματα!
Από το dailymotion και το cult of mac!
11.26.2008
11.23.2008
Cooliris!
Το συγκεκριμένο plug-in το είχα ανακαλύψει πριν από κάποιους μήνες και το έβαλα για πλακα στο firefox με σκοπό να το δοκιμάσω.
Το πρώτο πράγμα που σκέφτηκα όταν το είδα ήτανε 'Wow. This is technology!' ..
Είναι πολύ show off, το παίζει πολύ futura και αρκετά Tom Cruize σε εκείνη την ταινία... (mmm δεν θυμάμαι μωρέ αλλα καταλάβατε όλοι σας!)
Το θέμα είναι ότι αρχίζω και το ανακαλύπτω όλο και περισσότερο και με μεγάλη μου χαρά διαπίστωσα ότι λειτουργεί στο flickr (super!), στα blogs (όπως βλέπετε και στο video), στο facebook (για τον κουτσομπόλη μέσα σου) και στο drop.io (που τώρα τελευταία κάποιοι εδώ μέσα το χρησιμοποιούμε και μας αρέσει!:)
Το site του προγράμματος/ plug in είναι εδώ και παίρνει δευτερόλεπτα να το εγκαταστήσετε στο firefox, χωρίς προβλήματα (όπως άλλωστε και τα 99/100 από τα plugins του firefox)
Δοκιμάστε το!
11.04.2008
Check your Username
Δείτε σε ποια sites και services έχετε καταχωρήσει το username σας. Η αλήθεια είναι ότι κατάλαβα δυο πράγματα κάνοντας το. Πρώτον ότι ξοδεύω αρκετή ώρα στο internet χωρίς ιδιαίτερο λόγο (το ένα username μου είναι γραμμένο σε 18 services..) και δεύτερον ότι θα μπορούσα να.. ξοδεύω πολύ περισσότερο! (18/68) :pcheck yours!
6.27.2008
Universal Everything Showreel
Reel / 2008 from Universal Everything on Vimeo.
Τους Universal Everything τους έχουμε ξαναδεί εδώ κάποιες φορες αλλα μόλις πριν λίγες μέρες ετοιμάσανε το καινούργιο reel τους. Ο curator Matt Pike συνεργάζεται με διαφορους artists, designers και programmers από όλο τον κόσμο ανάλογα με το κάθε νέο project. Καταπληκτικές δουλειές με σκοπό όχι μονο το καλο design αλλα και το exploration νέας τεχνολογίας. Απολαύστε το και επισκεφτείτε το site για πιο αναλυτικό research!
6.22.2008
Web 2.5 Is Here
The new social web is an evolution from the Web 2.0 revolution, so shouldn’t we give it a new name?
The web, once just a repository for data, has transformed over the years to become a tool for connecting people. The tools that are the basic components to our everyday existence – email, IM, photo-sharing, blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. – have not succeeded solely because they’re easy to use. They’ve succeeded because they tap into our basic human need for establishing connections with other people. They are the tools of today’s social web.
Meanwhile, we’re waiting for the next evolution of web, something dubbed by pundits as “Web 3.0,” but it seems like that’s still far off in the distant future. Where Web 3.0 may bring us artificial intelligence and semantic search engines, it’s clear we’re not there yet. Instead, we’re firmly ensconced in the social web of Web 2.0.
Except maybe it’s time we upgrade it to Web 2.5.
The original Web 2.0 was a revolution that brought about rich user experiences, social networking, user participation, and introduced new types of communities and services, like wikis, blogs, and social networks. However, today, we’re growing these basic principles and new trends are started to emerge. Now, we want new tools to help us with our online Web 2.0 world. We want aggregation, data portability, and filtering systems.
These concepts are helping to define the next generation of the web, and while it looks nothing like the Web 3.0 that we once dreamed of, it is certainly an evolution from what Web 2.0 once was. The companies who are introducing these types of tools are already becoming wildly successful.
There’s a reason why the early adopters can’t stop talking about FriendFeed and its lifestreaming service. Where before all of our activities and those of our friends took place in separate areas throughout the web – social as they may be, there was no one tool that pulled them all together like FriendFeed does. This “lifestream” aggregates all your activities and then allows for more socializing to take place around those activities, something that is even turning the once king of the social web, Twitter, into an inbox of sorts for receiving messages about your shared content.
Across the social networks, another type of new Web 2.5 activity is also starting to take place – data portability. The concept is that your friends are your friends no matter what service you’re on, so there should be an easier way to add them than having to scour through your address book every time you sign up somewhere. The OpenSocial movement developed by Google is a set of common APIs built to provide a means of transporting your friend graph from social network to social network. Unfortunately, at this stage in the game, all the major networks are battling to become the winner here, each one wanting to be the default method you use to move your friends around the social web, so we have MySpace’s Data Availability vs. Facebook Connect vs. the OpenSocial-powered Google Friend Connect, all battling it out with no clear winner yet.
Finally, in Web 2.5, there’s the need more more filtering to come into play. Since we’ve now managed to aggregate our content, we’re also starting to become deluded by the flood. Systems that help the best or the most popular content rise up to the top are in demand. These filters can be something as simple as FriendFeed’s “best of” feature or a full-on filtering system, like AideRSS’s feed reader filter. There are sure to be more tools to emerge even later.
In all, these aggregation, data portability, and filtering systems are mapping out the next version of our web, a greatly improved version of Web 2.0 that makes the socializing aspect more useful, while also moving it to become the core of interactivity on the web. Being social is what today’s web is all about, but in Web 2.5, new tools make the social web a true layer to everything we do, not just an isolated activity.
source: shegeeks.net
The web, once just a repository for data, has transformed over the years to become a tool for connecting people. The tools that are the basic components to our everyday existence – email, IM, photo-sharing, blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. – have not succeeded solely because they’re easy to use. They’ve succeeded because they tap into our basic human need for establishing connections with other people. They are the tools of today’s social web.
Meanwhile, we’re waiting for the next evolution of web, something dubbed by pundits as “Web 3.0,” but it seems like that’s still far off in the distant future. Where Web 3.0 may bring us artificial intelligence and semantic search engines, it’s clear we’re not there yet. Instead, we’re firmly ensconced in the social web of Web 2.0.
Except maybe it’s time we upgrade it to Web 2.5.
The original Web 2.0 was a revolution that brought about rich user experiences, social networking, user participation, and introduced new types of communities and services, like wikis, blogs, and social networks. However, today, we’re growing these basic principles and new trends are started to emerge. Now, we want new tools to help us with our online Web 2.0 world. We want aggregation, data portability, and filtering systems.
These concepts are helping to define the next generation of the web, and while it looks nothing like the Web 3.0 that we once dreamed of, it is certainly an evolution from what Web 2.0 once was. The companies who are introducing these types of tools are already becoming wildly successful.
There’s a reason why the early adopters can’t stop talking about FriendFeed and its lifestreaming service. Where before all of our activities and those of our friends took place in separate areas throughout the web – social as they may be, there was no one tool that pulled them all together like FriendFeed does. This “lifestream” aggregates all your activities and then allows for more socializing to take place around those activities, something that is even turning the once king of the social web, Twitter, into an inbox of sorts for receiving messages about your shared content.
Across the social networks, another type of new Web 2.5 activity is also starting to take place – data portability. The concept is that your friends are your friends no matter what service you’re on, so there should be an easier way to add them than having to scour through your address book every time you sign up somewhere. The OpenSocial movement developed by Google is a set of common APIs built to provide a means of transporting your friend graph from social network to social network. Unfortunately, at this stage in the game, all the major networks are battling to become the winner here, each one wanting to be the default method you use to move your friends around the social web, so we have MySpace’s Data Availability vs. Facebook Connect vs. the OpenSocial-powered Google Friend Connect, all battling it out with no clear winner yet.
Finally, in Web 2.5, there’s the need more more filtering to come into play. Since we’ve now managed to aggregate our content, we’re also starting to become deluded by the flood. Systems that help the best or the most popular content rise up to the top are in demand. These filters can be something as simple as FriendFeed’s “best of” feature or a full-on filtering system, like AideRSS’s feed reader filter. There are sure to be more tools to emerge even later.
In all, these aggregation, data portability, and filtering systems are mapping out the next version of our web, a greatly improved version of Web 2.0 that makes the socializing aspect more useful, while also moving it to become the core of interactivity on the web. Being social is what today’s web is all about, but in Web 2.5, new tools make the social web a true layer to everything we do, not just an isolated activity.
source: shegeeks.net
6.06.2008
gmail new features
Το αγαπητό gmail, έχει 13 καινούργια features που περιλαμβάνουνε από links για συγκεκριμένα collections από emails και views, superstaring system (με περισσότερα σύμβολα πλέον εκτος από το απλό αλλα τόσο βοηθητικό αστεράκι), διαφορα κολπάκια για signatures και μια μικρή έκπληξη, το φιδάκι!Γνωστό σχεδόν σε όλους ποσο κατά είμαι σε anything snake, το συγκεκριμένο feature είναι super. Αφού ενεργοποιήσετε τα keyboard shortcuts (settings/ labs), πατήστε & (shift+7) και κολλήστε και εσείς!
Εδώ, διαβάστε για τα καινούργια features, και μετά πατήστε το κουμπί στο gmail σας που λέει, take a brake.
Για 15mins off.
Πάω για ένα τσιγάρο στον ήλιο..
4.21.2008
Twitter?
Εδώ και κάποιες μέρες έχω βρει το καινούργιο μου παιχνίδι. Το Twitter. Μέσα στην πληθώρα των social networking sites, το twitter ξεχωρίζει για κάποια απλά βασικά πράγματα.
Το twitter δεν είναι σαν το Facebook. Δεν έχει αυτό το βρώμικο κουτσομπολίστικο χαρακτήρα του facebook που νιώθεις ότι κάποιος συνεχώς σε παρακολουθεί, αν και το βασικό focus (του twitter) είναι η παρακολούθηση!
Ξεχάστε το myspace και κάθε τέτοιου είδους sites που προσπαθούνε να γεμίσουνε τον κόσμο με χιλιάδες πληροφορίες που ουσιαστικά είναι ανούσιες (τις περισσότερες φορες).
Το βασικό target του twitter είναι ένα είδους online updatable status που μπορείς να ενημερώσεις τους φίλους σου (και αυτούς που σε ακολουθούνε) σχετικά με το τι κανεις, τι νιώθεις, τι σκέφτεσαι, ένα έξυπνο πράγμα που άκουσες, ένα website που θέλεις να προτείνεις. Είναι πολύ addictive, αλήθεια, και όσο περισσοτερους friends βάλεις, τόσο πιο interesting γίνονται τα πράγματα.
Το design του είναι customisable, το interface υπερβολικά απλό και effective και έχει διαφορα tools που μπορούνε να σε κρατάνε συνεχώς up το date μέσω κινητού, instant messaging (GTalk, Messenger, Yahoo κτλ).
Κάντε έναν λογαριασμό και θα καταλάβετε αμέσως πως λειτουργεί. Ο κόσμος το χει τούμπανο που λένε, οποτε βιαστείτε.
Kαι ακολουθήστε με.. είμαι ο oberdone.
Eλάτε να γίνουμε φίλοι. Ο George Kazz είναι ήδη εκεί!
4.10.2008
3.28.2008
3.13.2008
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters [1973]
"....at a certain point, Herbie thought we needed some change. Some point indeed."[a "σέντερμπακ-to-basics Series" left hand production by mao]
3.03.2008
2.05.2008
Microsoft vs Flickr
In response to Microsoft’s hostile acquisition bid for Yahoo, many Flickr users are expressing concern for what might happen if Microsoft is successful. They have even created a Flickr Group to address this issue, Microsoft: Keep Your Evil Grubby Hands Off Of Our Flickr, complete with photo pool of MS/Flickr takeover images, including some that envision what a Flickr website re-design might look like with Microsoft at the controls.
Source: Laughing Squid (great blog too!)
1.28.2008
1.27.2008
Understanding art for geeks!
Χάχα, ένα πολύ ενδιαφέρον flickr set από γνωστούς πίνακες, με κάποια ενδιαφέροντα additions που θα βοηθήσουνε τα geeks να καταλάβουνε κάποια πράγματα.Τέλειο!
1.17.2008
iA -Web Trend Map v3.0
About iA For the consumer, ease of use and product value converge. This has never been more obvious than it is today. Google, iPod, Wii – their overwhelming success is thanks largely to a simple and typical interface that provides full control over a powerful technology.
- The ease we experience when using Google translates directly into its product value.
- The iPod interface creates a product that is so typical in its shape, it doesn’t need a logo. The interface is its own defining mark.
- The pleasure we get from playing tennis on a Wii makes us overlook the fact that the console’s technical specifications are way below its competitors.
That these products look, work and sell so well is the strict consequence of intelligent design. Intelligent design markets itself.
In short: usability and brand experience are essentially one. This simple insight was the founding idea of Information Architects Corporation (iA).
Discover iA and have a look at this v.interesting project. Web Trend Map v3.0
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