Microsoft Shares Your Pain

This is simply hillarious!! I’m in tears!

[tags]Microsoft, pain, coders[/tags]

LinuxCaffe

Portugal could use a place like this!

LinuxCaffe

More photos here.

[tags]Linuxcafee, Linux[/tags]

The .COM Scam

Bob Parsons, the CEO of GoDaddy.com, has this very incisive article about the monopolization of the .COM domains by VeriSign.

VeriSign wants to control the .COM registry forever.
VeriSign has somehow persuaded ICANN to propose a new contract where VeriSign will be the permanent and unregulated controller of the .COM registry. VeriSign would also get the right of presumptive renewal. This means when the new contract for the .COM registry comes up for renewal in 2012, it won’t be put out for bid – like the .NET contract was in 2005 – instead it will simply renew in VeriSign’s favor.

[tags].COM, VeriSign, ICANN, domains, registrars[/tags]

A question…

Since the begining of this blog, all my posts are written in English. I thought that writing in english I could reach a wider audience, because most of the portuguese readers that are interested on the topics I write about understand english and, for what matters, so is the rest of the world. But, am I depriving the rest of the potential portuguese readers? Should I write in portuguese? Does it make a difference? I would really apreciate some feedback on this…

— In Portuguese — Em Português — –

Desde o inicio deste blog, todos os meus posts foram escritos em inglês. Pensei que escrevendo em inglês poderia alcançar uma maior audiência, porque a maioria dos leitores portugueses interessados nos tópicos sobre os quais eu escrevo percebem inglês e, de resto, tambêm o resto do mundo. Mas, estarei eu a privar o resto dos potenciais leitores portugueses? Devo eu escrever em português? Será que faz diferença? Agradeço algum feedback sobre isto…

Skyping in eBay

Remember all the hype about eBay buying Skype?
Now we can finally see a sort of approach to Skype’s integration with online marketting: the new Skype Voice Services!

I bet that soon we’ll see a “Promote with Skype” option in eBay deals… better late than ever.

[tags]Skype, eBay, Skype Voice Services[/tags]

Tekken: Dark Resurrection – The next killer game for the PSP

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The new Tekken: Dark Resurrection will probably be the next killer game for the PSP.
Namco has proven great results for PS2 sales with the Tekken series and now this might reflect in the PSP market.
Tekken: Dark Resurrection has all the necessary features for a great portable game. The gameplay is fast, it has lots of playing modes and head to head wireless connectivity. The game will be released soon in Japan, which means Xmas for Europe and the USA.

[tags]Tekken, Tekken: Dark Resurrection, PSP, Namco[/tags]

Google Maps Nighttime

Google Maps Nighttime takes a 128 megapixel NASA’s “Earth Lights” image and adds a Google Maps interface to it using the Google Maps API.

[tags]Google, Google Maps, Google Maps Nighttime, Earth at Night, Nasa, Eart Lights[/tags]

Nintendo DS + Opera + TV Tuner

[tags]Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Opera, TV Tunner[/tags]

Opera DS

Opera announced today the release of Opera for the Nintendo DS.
The browser will use the 2 DS screens as well as the stylus bringing PDA like features to the handheld, something that’s not usual in a Nintendo console. Rumor has it that the browser will not be free because of its powerful commercial potential and, IMHO, because it’s an implementation of the Opera for Devices, one of Opera’s major “cash cows”.

You can read the press release here.

[tags]Opera, Opera DS, Nintendo, Nintendo DS[/tags]

The Next Big Idea

Web 2.0 is starting to repeat it self over and over.
Social networking, Ajax, IM, video, podcasts, RSS, all the mambo jambo technologies that gave the Internet a new boost are beeing used over and over again in ideas that are suposed to be new and one question now remains: Web 3.0? What will it be? A new set of tecnologies? An integration of all 2.0 gizmos in one? Will it become more or less OS dependent now that Vista is almost among us and Linux is getting terrain in the Desktop?

And how can an idea sell without making money from advertising? We’re getting almost everything for free, and our brains trained to ignore the ads being shown. What other ways can be used to pay the services we’re using besides “real money”? We’ve skipped the age of the popup and now we almost skipping the need of ad blockers, in fact we welcome them in a simbiotic way, it’s there because they pay the service you are using, but you’re not forced to look at it or even click it.

And the services provided? Do I really need 300 IM apps? 50 different photo galleries? I know, the more the better, more choice, but the net is getting saturated with millions of sites that provide the same things.

Things are going to change for sure, until then, initiatives like LIFT are welcomed and it would be nice to see something like it in Portugal.

[tags]Web 2.0, Web 3.0, ideas, LIFT[/tags]

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