Semana 16

Apple Hints Drive Speculation of New Notebooks, Mac Tablets
By Brian X. Chen July 22, 2008 2:41:59 PM
Apple touted healthy sales of Macs and iPods in a conference call yesterday, but it was a mysterious reference to future products that has created the most buzz today.
In its quarterly earnings call Monday, Apple's chief financial officer Peter Oppenheim alluded to a "future product transition" while explaining why Apple's gross margins will drop from 34.8 percent to 31.5 percent between July and September. That kind of teasing reference -- without any specifics, naturally -- has got analysts, tech bloggers and Mac fans busily speculating over just what those products will be.
Leading the list: A revamped line of MacBooks, or perhaps the long-awaited touch-screen Mac tablet.

Me parecio un buen articulo, porqe me gusta saber como van avanzando las Macs, los nuevos modelos, etc.

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Engineers to Establish 3-D Home Video Standards
By Betsy Schiffman July 22, 2008 4:04:11 PM



How long will it be before 3-D videos come to the living room? Unclear, but by some estimates, it could be another five years before the projectors are affordable enough to become mainstream. In the meantime, the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers is establishing a taskforce of engineers to help develop standards for 3-D home video, so that a 3-D DVD will theoretically work with all players.
"Digital technologies have not only paved the way for high quality 3-D in the theaters, they have also opened the door to 3-D in the home," said Wendy Aylsworth, vice president of engineering at SMPTE, in a prepared statement. "In order to take advantage of this new opportunity, we need to guarantee consumers that they will be able to view the 3-D content they purchase and provide them with 3-D home solutions for all pocketbooks."

Me parecio un buen articulo porque me interesa saber como va el avance de la tecnologia 3D, ya que me parece algo bastante innovador.

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EMusic Extends Into Social, Media Networks
By Eliot Van Buskirk July 22, 2008 4:12:32 PM
The eMusic MP3 subscription service has a new strategy that involves pushing its content out to social networking sites while integrating links to relevant online media from its own site.
Subscribers can now embed eMusic album art and song samples on Del.ici.ous, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter and 13 similar sites, with others apparently set to be added soon.
In addition, eMusic album pages now include links to YouTube videos of bands playing live, photos of artists on Flickr and links to bands' Wikipedia pages. Users will be able to interact with Flickr and YouTube without leaving the eMusic site, with the ability to forward media to friends, write reviews, bookmark or embed photos and videos.
"Stores like iTunes, Amazon and even the new Rhapsody are missing the boat," said eMusic CEO David Pakman in a statement issued on Tuesday. "Blogs and recommendations from friends are now more relevant in music discovery than what music critics have to say, but what's missing is a place that brings that all together. EMusic is that place. This is the first of six months of dramatic product improvements which we believe will set the bar for the way 'long tail' retailers -- and indeed all entertainment retailers -- must function online."
In addition to the above improvements, eMusic upped the resolution on its album art and surfaced its own editorial to make it easier to explore.
However, there doesn't appear to be a way to embed albums on an unsupported blog (I just tried), since eMusic doesn't appear to expose the raw HTML code. Instead, you must enter your user information for the social media sites into your eMusic account in order to to post albums directly. Still, overall, it's hard to see how eMusic's new stratagy of integrating both inwards and outwards with the rest of the web can fail to have a beneficial effect on the service.
EMusic subscriptions provide access to un-DRMed MP3 files from a catalog of over 3.5 million tracks from over 27 million independent labels. Plans range from $6 for 10 songs per month up to $75 for 300 tracks per month, with discounts available if you pay for a whole year in advance.



Me parecio un articulo interesante, porqe habla de la musica y las redes sociales, 2 temas qe me gustan e interesan mucho.


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Semana 15

Analyst: Investors 'Less Optimistic' About Apple's Q3 2008 Earnings
By Brian X. Chen July 21, 2008 2:22:42 PMCategories: Apple, iPhone, Steve Jobs

From an outsider's perspective, one would think Apple investors would find solace in the soaring success of iPhone 3G, but they're sitting on the edge of their seats over Apple's Q3 2008 earnings call to be held Monday afternoon. That's particularly because sales of the new handset aren't included in this quarterly report -- and also because of widespread concern over the CEO's seemingly diminishing health.
Investors will have to cross their fingers in hope of gaining from Apple's success selling computers, first-generation iPhones and AppleTVs between April 1 and June 30. Andy Hargreaves, consumer electronics analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, said investors are less optimistic about Apple's Q3 report than any other quarter in the past few years.
Hargreaves explained that Apple sold out of first-generation iPhones a month before the quarter ended. He said that in addition to discussion about Mac and iPhone sales, analysts will likely bring up the topic of Steve Jobs' health in light of the CEO's noticeably gaunt appearance at WWDC 2008. Shareholders are concerned that Jobs' health issues could spell out trouble for the company as a whole -- especially since Apple has no succession plan in place.
"There's a lot of concern," Hargreaves said in a phone interview. "Whether it's Steve Jobs' health, Mac, iPod, or iPhone, it's spread around."

Me parecio interesante porque es visible que no esta todo bien en apple, a pesar del nuevo iphone, y todo lo que eso incluye.

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Glassdoor: What Your Employees Think of You
July 21st, 2008 Category: Social Media

Glassdoor, a social website that lets employees rate and rank previous and current jobs, approval rating of your CEO (much like the presidential approval ratings) as well as share salaries, is slowly getting traction. I login every few weeks to see slow steady growth. If you’re in a management position or are in HR, I highly recommend you read the reviews and ratings that your employees are saying.
If you notice decision, and see a trend of similar complaints, there’s two things to realize: 1) Your internal feedback loop is probably not working, therefore employees are letting grievances air in public to customers, investors, and the board. 2) There are probably some issues that you may want to resolve and fix.
There are a few weaknesses with Glassdoor that we should take into account: 1) There’s still very little data, most companies just have a smattering of reviews, 2) All data is anonymous so it’s very difficult to track –or prove –that someone actually worked at the company. It would be interesting if they were able to anonymously approve accounts in LinkedIn thereby secretly verifying identities. 3) Unhappy employees and happy employees will reflect their attitude –and service– to customers, so be sure to acknowledge one of your most important assets.
Also, if a company is just getting smeared by it’s employees, a company should address these problems, as although you could block the site from work, people will access it at home.
For what it’s worth, I’m making it a rule not to publicly rate my current employer on these types of sites, although I’m likely to rate them after I move on. Instead, I’m more likely to be forth coming in internal discussions, in an effort to improve things, rather that say it in public.
As we move to new jobs, we’ll be looking at the reviews of future companies on Glassdoor (just as we review financials) before I accept a position, but will appropriately weight it depending on age of comments, number of total reviewers, and patterns for trends.
Although Glassdoor shows some data in public, if you’re curious to see what employees think of your company (or how much people make in other companies) you’ll have to register, and complete part of the submission process in order to see details.
Have you peered into the glassdoor? Were you surprised or did you get confirmation?

Me gusto mucho porque habla de una pagina en la cual podes dejar opiniones sobre directivos, u otras posiciones de tu empresa, y asi ellos se enteran de lo que piensan sus empleados.

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'Tongue Drive System' Controls Wheelchair, Computer
By Alexis Madrigal July 21, 2008 11:36:18 AM

Quadriplegics may gain a new degree of freedom via their tongues, if a new control system becomes widely available.
The new system uses that famously strong, agile and sensitive muscle, the tongue, to provide computer accessibility and wheelchair control to severely disabled people.
Designed by researchers for people with debilitating spinal cord injuries and diseases, the tongue-drive tech takes advantage of the nearly direct connection between the tongue and the brain via cranial nerves, which makes it particularly likely to remain functional, even after severe accidents.
The system has two parts: a small magnet, attached to the tip of the tongue via adhesive, piercing or implantation, and a headset with two three-dimensional magnetic sensors mounted on it. The headset picks up the location of the tongue via the magnet and transmits that information to a smartphone.
Maysam Ghovanloo, the lead Georgia Tech researcher, designed software that converts the position of the tongue into joystick or mouse movements, allowing the severely disabled to control a wheelchair or computer. The setup could provide an unprecedentedly simple and powerful means of locomotion for the disabled.
"This device could revolutionize the field of assistive technologies," Ghovanloo said in a release.

Me parecio un articulo interesante ya que habla de una nueva forma de comunicarse con una computadora, muy util para personas con discapacidades mostrices por ejemplo.

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Semana 14

Buscador de Caras
24/06/2008
Bueno creo que era lo que faltaba, un buscador de caras (rostros) que funciona con la tecnología de Google y Facebook.Ponemos el nombre y apellido de la persona, cruzamos los dedos, y si encuentra algún resultado te lo mostrará de una manera extraña, un carrusel.

Es increible como las diferentes paginas se combinan para generar algo como esto, un identificador de caran a traves de un nombre.

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El reconocimiento de voz en YouTube te permite realizar búsquedas de contenido hablado

Esto es enorme. Google ha añadido la capacidad de reconocimiento de voz en algunos vídeos de YouTube que te permite buscar texto hablado en estos vídeos.Para tratar tu mismo el reconocimiento de voz de YouTube, Añade este gadget a tu página principal de Google. La búsqueda se limita actualmente a algunos videos políticos pero este es un buen indicio de lo que está por venir en la búsqueda de Google.Si tu consulta de búsqueda coincide con algunos vídeos de YouTube, las posiciones se indican con marcadores de color amarillo, pasa el ratón para leer el texto transcrito como en la captura de pantalla.Google utiliza su propia tecnología de reconocimiento de voz para escuchar el audio del vídeo y, a continuación transcribir el discurso en texto.Y esto ocurre realmente rápido. Google puede buscar y transcribir el texto de los nuevos videos con horas después de que se han subido a YouTube.Imaginemos la utilidad de búsqueda de Google cuando se amplíe este reconocimiento de voz a otros contenidos de vídeo tales como programas de televisión, videos de noticias, podcasts de vídeo, etc.

Me parece genial como se mejora el uso de diferentes paginas de internet, de un uso tan masivo, como lo es YouTube.

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Cómo sacarle provecho a Yahoo Pipes?

Aunque el servicio de Yahoo Pipes es Beta y se encuentra en fase de prueba ha ganado popularidad entre los que utilizamos los servicios rss en la web; la facilidad de manipulación que permite en los feeds lo convierten una plataforma más poderosa que un navegador o un lector de noticias.

Yahoo Pipes es un servicio muy útil que permite fundir varias suscripciones RSS o Atom, filtrarlas, modificar sus contenidos y hasta reutilizar el pipe resultante.

Está implementado en una interfaz Ajax, que nos permite crear nuestros pipes con solo arrastrar y soltar; por lo que no es necesario tener conocimientos avanzados de programación ni ser un experto en la esfera informática para utilizarlo, ya que todo se hace sobre una interfaz visual, sin necesidad de escribir ni una sola línea de código.

Me parecio interesante, porqe yahoo pipes es una pagina que nosotros utilizamos, y saber como sacarle mejor provecho es muy bueno.

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Semana 13

Dell Mini-Notebook Will Cost Just $300
By Charlie Sorrel July 16, 2008 7:29:51

Dell's E mini-notebook computer, first outed when Gizmodo's Brian Lam collared Michael Dell

sneaking one about the D6: All Things Digital conference, has got a price. The E not only lops a few letters of the name of Asus' rival Eee PC, it also drops a few dollars, coming in at $300.
Price has been the problem with these mini-notebooks, and Dell is very welcome to bring its budget mass-marketing chops to the party. While not official, the news comes from the usually reliable DigiTimes, which tells us that the E will be available in the last quarter of the year. And none of this hunting in the stores to find one like we have to do with the Wind's and Eees of the world. Dell plans to knock out two to three million units by the end of the year.

Me parecio un articulo interesante ya que es muy notorio como las tecnologias van avanzando y abaratando los costos de los productos.

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Predictions: What Technology will Replace
July 08th, 2008

My CEO, George Colony lists out a few products and services that have ‘disappeared’ due to technology in his latest blog post. He lists out encyclopedias, classifies, records, actors and even trans-continental flights. He asks what could disappear next. I’ll throw out some hypothetical situations that could cause some of the following dissipate:
Support for products could be transplanted by peer to peer support tools like GetSatisfaction where passionate customers self-support each other bypassing corporations
“Outside” Sales teams could be replaced by Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) s where customers define what they want, companies respond.
Printed photos/photo centers, at least in the eyes of Generation Y are already falling by the wayside
Physical printed maps are already being replaced by digital GPS systems in many cars
Restaurant review companies like Fodors and Zagat, instead replaced by peer review sites like Yelp.
Digital book readers, like the Kindle, although still in early generations could replace distribution of printed books
Keyboard and mice, what a slow and archaic way of input, which needs to evolve from voice/eye recognition
Movie Theaters can go away as home entertainment systems get bigger screens in HD, with great audio at lower costs. Coupled with streaming data, HD movies can be piped directly into the home
Gasoline powered cars

Me parecio un articulo divertido, ya que habla de las cosas que vana cambiar gracias a las nuevas tecnologias.

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E3 2008: Nintendo Announcements

Me parecio un video interesante ya que la wii es un gran avance tecnologicamente, y me gusta saber sobre este tema.

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Semana 12

Compile Software From Source Code

Most of the time, especially in the Windows and Mac OS X world, we end users don't have to compile our own software. The programmers of the software wrote the code, and then compiled it into a "binary executable" that's designed to run on our particular type of computer and operating system.
Increasingly, though, with the popularity of open-source software, where the source code is available for one and all to read and enjoy, the final step of compiling the code into a runnable program is left up to the user. It needs to be compiled specifically for the type of system it'll run on, and maintaining separate binaries for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X Tiger, Panther, Linux x86, and all the rest is a bother. Also, publishing just the code leaves users free to modify it, often with publicly available patches, before compiling, to customize it to their needs.

Me parecio un buen articulo, ya que habla de poder modificar un programa desde el usuario final, es decir, nosotros, para mejorarlo, o darle otros usos.

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Video: IPhone 3G Pwned and Jailbroken



By Charlie Sorrel July 16, 2008 5:22:08 AM
The iPhone Dev Team has tested its Pwnage tool on the actual iPhone 3G hardware and it works. There are still some kinks, but a public release is promised in the next few days.







Check the video:


2.0 Demo from iphonedev on Vimeo.
What you are seeing is the iPhone 2.0 firmware, with all it's associated goodies and bugs, running on a Jailbroken iPhone. This means you have access to all the official third party applications as well as all the unofficial ones you have come to love (Mobile Scrobbler!)According to the Dev Team's blog, getting the hacked firmware running on the 3G hardware was not as easy as just porting the cracked version of the 2.0 beta firmware, which has been available for some months. Far from it:
Many of our best hackers have been working in long shifts all weekend on this, and continue to do so as I write this post, we like to think of these guys as our very own master cobblers.



Me parecio un articulo interesante, ya que me interesa el tema de la nueva generacion del iphone.


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Xbox Rock Band Instruments Work With New Guitar Hero
By Chris Kohler July 15, 2008 10:25:58 PMCategories

LOS ANGELES -- Own Rock Band instruments on Xbox 360? They'll work with Guitar Hero World Tour.
At Activision's E3 press conference Tuesday, Guitar Hero director Brian Bright told the crowd that if they already owned guitar controllers and drum controllers from "previous games" on the Xbox 360, they'd work with Guitar Hero World Tour.
What Activision didn't say is how that will actually work, considering that Rock Band drums have four pad inputs and Guitar Hero World Tour has five.
UPDATE: Here's how it'll work. Speaking with Bright after the conference, I found out that the game's five-button drum track, shown above center, will be compressed down to four inputs if a Rock Band drum controller is inserted.
There's also a MIDI jack on the back of the drum kit, Bright said, which will allow gamers to play Guitar Hero with any electronic drum kit by simply plugging it into the controller. You can also hook up a second drum pedal if you want to play two bass drums.

Me gusto porque demuestra como cada vez mas, lo virtual y lo real se conectan, en este caso, en una banda musical.

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Semana 11 (Por Sabiniita)

HTC Announces Touch Pro, a Diamond With a Keyboard

By Charlie Sorrel June 04, 2008 4:29:05 AMCategories: Phones

HTC has announced its rather smart looking Touch Pro, a hybrid touchscreen/QWERTY cellphone which is based on the Diamond. With a 2.8" screen and a real, physical keyboard, it looks like HTC is pushing this as a sometime laptop replacement. It even has a TV out port, and HTC wasted no time in coming up with a very exciting use for it:
TV-out functionality mean[s] you can[...] deliver the perfect PowerPoint presentation without a laptop in sight.
When not sending poor meeting attendees to sleep, the Touch Pro offers other diversions. A 3.2 megapixel camera (plus another VGA camera for video calls); HSDPA/WCDMA, GSM/GPRS/EDGE and Wi-Fi; and what HTC is calling TouchFLO 3D, which we think is some kind of homage to Apple's Cover Flow.
The Touch Pro will be available in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in late summer and in the Americas after that.

Me parecio que el articulo "vende" un producto interesante, simpático.

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Cannondale Concept Weds IPod to Bike

By Charlie Sorrel June 04, 2008 5:29:16 AMCategories: Bicycles, Media Players

This concept design is the fruit of Cannondale and Barcelona based designer company D-Tank. Amongst its more bike-like functions, the MetroPolite would feature full iPod integration, hooking it up to a rear view video camera and also displaying "technical bike info" -- that's speedometer to you and me.
Getting a video feed into an iPod might be a little tricky, but the rest of it should be simple enough; a kind of Nike+ for bikes. Add in a decent GPS unit, powered by pedalling and hooked up to the iPod and I'd buy it in an instant. One tip, though, Cannondale and team: Try using a flash-based iPod if you actually make this, or put it in a shock absorbing cradle. The set up in the picture would surely shake a hard drive to death. A death rattle, if you will.

Me gusto este articulo porque habla de la conexion de un ipod a una bicicleta, y de como el ipod puede transmitir diferentes datos sobre la bicicleta y su uso.

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Secrets of the 7 Basic Blog Posts
By Lore Sjöberg June 04,2008

According to some people, there are only 36 basic story plots that just get reused. Others say there are merely 20. Some people even say there's only one plot, but they probably just watch too many Michael Bay movies. I like the theory that there are only seven plots. It's a nice round number, and the plots are vague enough that you can shoehorn anything from Citizen Kane to a cereal commercial into them.

In the spirit of oversimplifying things so that you can smugly shove human endeavors into pre-labeled slots, I'd like to present my own, contemporary take on this premise: the Seven Basic Blog Posts.

Me parecio un post divertido sobre las diferentes formas de escribir en un blog, dependiendo de cada persona. Realmente me parecio un post muy copado.

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Semana 10

Adobe Dives Into the Online Office Fray
By Scott Gilbertson June 2nd, 2008


Adobe has launched a new online office suite that brings together several existing Adobe services under a new domain — Acrobat.com. Adobe’s online office tools include its Buzzword word processor, the conferencing app ConnectNow and a 5GB online storage area for sharing documents with other Acrobat.com users.
Coinciding with the online suite is a new version of Adobe Acrobat that features support for embedding Flash movies.
Most readers are no doubt familiar with Buzzword, the Flash-based Adobe word processor that we’ve looked a couple of times. Less well known is ConnectNow, which allows you to host live meetings over the web with chat, screen sharing, whiteboards, VoIP, and video conferencing features.
While Acrobat.com is available through your browser and is squarely aimed at competing with the likes of Google Docs and Zoho Office, Adobe is also offering a version that runs from the desktop via AIR. For the moment, the AIR version doesn’t allow offline document access and syncing, but Adobe claims that will be part of a future release.
Aside from a much slicker interface, Acrobat.com doesn’t offer many features above and beyond what you’ll find in Google Docs or Zoho Office. However, when the AIR version gains offline syncing capabilities, Adobe may possibly have a real winner on its hands. Other potentially interesting developments include the possibility of integrating Photoshop Express, the company’s online version of Photoshop, into the suite.
The new Acrobat 9 — due to arrive in July 2008 — will feature the ability to embed outside documents in a PDF file. Essentially Adobe is turning PDF into a file container format — think .zip, but without the need to unzip.
The idea is that instead of having to send a PDF, a separate Excel file and a Flash presentation, you could simply embed your Excel and Flash files in a single PDF file.
Perhaps I’m missing something, but the PDF Portfolios, as Adobe is calling them, seem (like so much of Acrobat) wholly unnecessary. After all, if you’re sharing your documents online via Acrobat.com, isn’t it far easier to just send a link that offers access to all your files, rather than bulking up someone’s inbox with PDF attachments?
Acrobat 9 will ship in a number of different versions ranging from the low end at $300 to the full-featured mothership for $700. As always, Adobe Reader will be free.
For now Acrobat.com is beta offering and Adobe has yet to announce pricing, but we can tell you that it will be subscription-based — most likely there will be a basic, free version with additional storage and features available for a price.

Este articulo me parece interesante porque habla de una nueva herramienta de adobe que junta muchas herramientas anteriories de acrobat.

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Video: Social Media in Plain English
June 01st, 2008


Lee Lefever does yet another great video, explaining the difficult to explain and what it means to people, business and industries. I liked how he focused on what’s really important, the change between people and institutions, not just tools. He’s even offering these videos for internal education at companies, go to his site to learn more. Lee has also been creating videos for others, he’s not just talking about social media but living it as a business.
I’ve got a whole archive of all his shows (or you can go to his site), I often send this to folks that are trying to understand this space.

En este video se explica lo que es la social media, algo que la mayoria de nosotros usa casi diariamente.

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Paralyzed Man 'Walks' In Second Life
By Earnest Cavalli June 02, 2008

Researchers at Japan's Keio University have created an experimental headset designed to monitor brain waves that allowed a man who had been paralyzed for more than 30 years to control a Second Life avatar using only his thoughts.

Despite his condition, a progressive muscle disease that prevents him from using a keyboard or mouse, the new technology allowed him to control a character using the same set of brain impulses normally used to move a person's arms and legs.

Additional research is in the works to allow paralysis victims to create text messages in virtual worlds by "mentally selecting letters."

Far from a gimmick, this research is believed to offer users a sense of accomplishment; an invaluable accomplishment for paralysis victims who are often too depressed and frustrated by their condition to undergo therapy.

Me parece interesante como va avanzando la tecnologia, y en esta nota se ve claramente como una persona que no puede moverse, puede moverse dentro de un mundo virtual solamente con sus ondas cerebrales.

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Avances (Por Sabiniita y Dansy10)

Ya tenemos:
En espaniol:
Datos generales
Como llegar (Google Maps y Mapa)
Autoridades e Instituciones principales
Personaje conocido que nació o vivió allí (Biografìa)
Actividad económica
Sitios de atracción
Hotelería
Imágenes
Enlaces (sitios web de medios, instituciones, etc.)
Una encuesta acerca del sitio
Video (you Tube)

En ingles:
Como llegar (Google Maps y Mapa)
Autoridades e Instituciones principales
Actividad económica
Hotelería
Imágenes
Enlaces (sitios web de medios, instituciones, etc.)
Video (you Tube)

Encuesta

Usos de internet-104 encuestados

1) edad

2) genero

3) cuantas horas diarias usas internet?

a) 0/1

b) 1/3

c) 3/5

d) 5/+

4) Que tipo de paginas usas con mas frecuencia?

a) redes sociales(facebook, fotolog, etc)

b) informativas

c) email

d) blogs

e) juegos

f) otras

5) Cual es el principal uso que le das a internet?

a) comunicacion

b) trabajo

c) informacion

d) entretenimiento

e) otras

6) tenes un email?

a) si, uno
b) no

c) si, mas de uno

7) subis informacion, tal como videos, fotos, textos, etc. a internet?

a) si

b) no

Semana 5

Nano Photos Rival Modern Art

Every six months, the Materials Research Society celebrates the most eye-catching images found in the course of their researchers' studies -- celebrating the serendipitous convergence of science and art.
Materials researchers may struggle for years with stubborn instruments, fragile crystals or difficult chemical reactions before obtaining a bit of precious data from the exotic substances they study. Now, the scrutiny of samples not only yields potentially important data, but also artistic inspiration.

Me resulto interesante como el arte moderno se relaciona con las nano fotos, tienen que ver lo que son!

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Windows XP Update Adds Features From Vista

The third service pack for Windows XP has finally arrived. As we mentioned last week, the 300 MB+ standalone installer will be available from the Microsoft Download Center later today. XP SP3 is also available through Windows Update, where it's just a 70 MB download.
The third service pack for XP gives you all the Windows XP performance updates, security updates and hotfixes that have been released since Service Pack 2 came out way back in August 2004. While Service Pack 3 may not be as big of a change as Service Pack 2 was, there are some noteworthy features from Vista that have been included in this release. Namely, NAP, a policy enforcement platform for limiting network access to secure machines, “Black Hole” Router Detection, a cryptographic module for the kernel and a new Product Activation module allows you to install XP without a product key.

Me parece interesante porque todavia hay mucha gente que no tiene el windows vista, y que al salir esta nueva edicion de windows XP con elementos del vista ayuda mucho.

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Miniaturize a Scene

It's called a tilt-shift effect. It's a favorite device of fine-art photographers and the Flickr crowd. The idea is to keep a narrow band of a picture in sharp focus while blurring everything else. The result: a sprawling photo-scape suddenly looks like a scale model. To pull it off you need an expensive tilt-shift lens -— or a simple Photoshop trick.

Me gusto este articulo porque habla sobre como agrandar una imagen, sin deformarla.

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Semana 9

A quien me parezco?

El sitio web 2.0 MyHeritage nos permite entre tantas cosas, subir una foto, ya sea, desde una url o desde nuestra pc, y al cargarla captura el rostro facial de la persona y busca en su base de datos las imágenes que más se asemejan.

Me parecio una web divertida, por eso la comparto aca.

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Crea tu propia imagen 3D
May 19, 2008 01:08:00 GMT

Ante todo quiero agradecer a la gente de Proyección Digital por invitarme a participar de este magnifico Blog y decirles que intentare publicar articulos que espero que les agraden. En esta oportunidad quiero presentarles un recurso interesante:Make 3D convierte tu fotografia de dos dimensiones en modelos tridimensionales de flythrough. Luego de registrarnos gratuitamente, cargamos nuestra imagen y podemos generar un entorno 3D navegable a partir de nuestra fotografia.

Me interesa el tema de como cada vez se va simulando mas el tema del 3D con fotografias y tambien con videos.

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What happens when you become a Facebook Fan

May 25th, 2008

When a member becomes a Fan of a brand within Facebook, it signals an affinity giving the brand the opportunity to cross promote among the members network. I covered the opportunities and challenges of being a ‘fansumer‘ in this earlier analysis this year. This is not new, as I noticed David Berkowitz endorsing Blockbuster and he requests and opt out as the process appears to be difficult.

Facebook es una pagina que yo (y supongo que varios mas del curso) uso mucho, y es verdad que cuando te haces fan de algo, lo estas promocionando, lo que me parece interesante, porque demuestra como se puede "vender" algo a traves de una red social.

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Semana 8

Robot + Super Gun = 'Crowd Control'
By Noah Shachtman May 27, 2008 1:49:00 PM

What do you do with a robot armed with a million-round-per-minute gun? "Crowd control," naturally. For several months, Metal Storm, the troubled electronic gun developer, has been working with iRobot -- the makers of military machines and cute, semi-autonomous vacuum cleaners -- to arm some of their new, 250-pound unmanned ground vehicles. Last week, a defense trade show, the two firms showed off the results of their joint venture.

Se puede ver en este articulo como los avances tecnologicos no siempre son buenos para la sociedad, en este caso, a traves de un robot que puede disparar muchisimas balas por minuto, que militar y tecnologicamente son un avance importante, pero no socialmente.

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YouTube suit called threat to online communication

May 26, 11:05 PM EDT

A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.
Google's lawyers made the claim in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan as the company responded to Viacom Inc.'s latest lawsuit alleging that the Internet has led to "an explosion of copyright infringement" by YouTube and others.

Me parece interesante porque esta nota demuestra como paginas como youtube u otras generan conflictos legales en la sociedad.

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x-Channel Format Could Allow Mixing and Karaoke on MP3 Players
By Eliot Van Buskirk May 27, 2008 1:15:57 PM

A Korean company called Audizen has developed a six-channel digital audio format called MT9 that gives the listener way more control over how their music is mixed and enables the real-time creation of a karaoke backing track.
Normal MP3 players let you emphasize different aspects of a song or album by adjusting the EQ and balance, but MT9 takes the concept to the next level, allowing users to raise and lower the volume of up to six separate tracks containing voice or instruments.

Me parecio que este articulo muestra claramente los avances de la tecnologia en los ultimos anios, y este es un producto (el MT9) que realmente me interesa, porque tiene funciones que yo usaria.

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Semana 7

Toshiba lanzara portátiles con procesador de PS3
Santiago Vizcaino Veras , May 10, 2008 15:52:00 GMT'

Toshiba ha anunciado que comenzará a vender portátiles basados en chips gráficos de la consola PlayStation 3.

La Qosmio G40 se dará a conocer con la ToshibaSpursEngine SE1000 en algún momento en 2008, con otros modelos a seguir. El chip ya soporta los formatos MPEG2 y H.264, y Toshiba ha anunciado que va a trabajar con CyberLink y Corel paraasegurarse de que su popular software de reproducción de vídeo sea compatible. Toshiba SpursEngine SE1000 se basa en torno a cuatroelementos de procesamiento sinérgicos, de los cuales ochovan a tener el procesador utilizado por Sony en su últimaconsola de juegos.Toshiba ha rediseñado el circuito para reducir al mínimo eltamaño de sus chips, cortando casi una tercera parte. Elchip utiliza 128MB XDR de RAM dedicada y corre a 1.5GHz.El procesador Cell fue originalmente desarrollado por unconsorcio formado por Sony, Toshiba e IBM, denominadoITS.

Me parece interesante ya que es increible como una computadora esta copiando los graficos de una consola de juegos, cuando en realidad en un principio fue al revez.

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Apple Trademarks The Rectangular Box
By Charlie Sorrel, May 13, 2008 6:07:09

Apple has been granted a trademark for the shape of the iPod, essentially giving it exclusive rights to make a box with a screen and a wheel:
[T]he design of a portable and handheld digital electronic media device comprised of a rectangular casing displaying circular and rectangular shapes therein arranged in an aesthetically pleasing manner. [emphasis added]
Who decides that last point, we have no idea, but this will mean that Apple is likely to become much more aggressive in going after the knock-off iPod designs out there. One advantage of a trademark over a patent is that it doesn't expire. However, to keep a trademark, you need to defend it, which means lots of nasty letters to manufacturers. Otherwise, the shape of the iPod could end up like the name "Hoover" (now the English for vacuum cleaner).
Ridiculous? Perhaps. But if McDonald's can register "I'm going to McDonald's" and T-Mobile can lay claim to the color pink, then a pretty arrangement of shapes seems almost sensible.

Me parece una nota interesante porque haciendo eso, apple generaria que la creacion de imitaciones de Ipod sea mucho menor, o directamente desaparezca.

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Científicos rusos desarrollan un sistema para operar las computadoras con el poder del pensamiento
Santiago Vizcaino Veras, May 07, 2008 22:42:00 GMT

Los científicos de la Universidad Federal del Sur ganaron
750,000 dólares de premio por el desarrollo de los sistemas
de control mental del ordenador. Para los próximos 18 meses
Rostov junto a sus colegas Taganrog y Saint Petersburgo han
estado desarrollando programas y realizando una
investigación que les ayudara a crear un sistema de este tipo.

El sistema consiste en trabajar de esta manera: un equipo
especial que captura las señales del cerebro que van a través
de un casco metal con electrodos. Luego, con la ayuda de un
potenciador de señales la señal irá a la computadora. Esto
hará que la vida de las personas con discapacidad mucho más
fácil. Esos que no pueden moverse serán capaces de escribir
cartas por correo electrónico e incluso mensajería
instantánea a personas en todo el mundo.

Una persona, que no puede hablar, será capaz de apuntar a
la imagen »Bebidas» o «alimentos». 'Aquellos, que no
pueden moverse, tienen la oportunidad de escribir mensajes
de correo electrónico e incluso conducir en silla de ruedas por
la mente el poder », - dice el jefe del Instituto de
Investigación de Neurocibernetica Boris Vladimirskiy. Él
agrega que para controlar el ordenador una persona tiene
que indicar con claridad el pensamiento de mando, por
ejemplo, imaginando cómo se mueve el cursor del ratón
sobre la pantalla del ordenador.

Me parecio interesante porque lo considero un avance muy importante para el mundo de la informatica, ya que con la tecnologia que plantea la nota, las acciones que los usuarios necesitan que las computadoras realizen son mucho mas faciles de transmitir.

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Semana 6

Social Network Spending to Increase
May 05th, 2008

Social Networks continue to show a strong future of growth.

We polled interactive marketers with the following question: “Assuming that the economy is in a recession in the next six months, how would you change your Investments in the following marketing channels?” Over 40% of them indicated that they will increase spending on social networks even in face of a recession during the next 6 months.
Josh writes: “Social networks will get the largest number of increases, over 40% of those using it, along with user-generated content, blogs, and that old standby, email marketing.”

Realmente a mi me interesa mucho el tema de las redes sociales, y todos nosotros somos conscientes de como estan creciendo, y este articulo es la muestra de esto.

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Análisis detallado de seguridad de Windows.
Apr 28

Usando la aplicación ESET SysInspector que sirve para analizar la seguridad de los sistemas Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. Esta herramienta hace un análisis de los posibles riegos de seguridad en partes del sistema como: el registro, las conexiones de red, servicios, controladores… Y los clasifica en distintos niveles de peligrosidad según una base de datos interna.Además integra técnicas de descubrimiento de objetos ocultos como rootkits en: MBR, entradas del registro, drivers, servicios y procesos.Esta herramienta no elimina las entradas encontradas, pero da importantes pistas de que componentes hay que eliminar y en que sitio se encuentran. Solo ocupa 3.68 Mb y no necesita instalación lo que la hace ideal para llevar en una memoria USB.

Al usar una computadora corres riesgos, asique esta aplicacion te ayuda a minimizarlos, me parecio interesante por eso.

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Many Eyes: Sistema de visualización de IBM
May 04, 2008

Es un software de visualización en línea enormementepotente y te permite crear y compartir las costumbresvisualizaciones interactivas de datos en una ampliavariedad de tipos de un país o comunidad.

Me parecio un articulo interesante, porque ayuda a crear estadisticas de una forma mucho mas simple.

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Semana 4

El MP3 player de 500,000 GB

¿Te puedes imaginar un reproductor de MP3 con una capacidad de 500000 GB? Va mucho más allá de las creencias. El MP3 player de más capacidadhoy en día sólo puede almacenar unas 40000canciones, que podría apenas hacer mella en estenuevo MP3 player. La cosa es, podría ocurrir fácilmente. Los científicos de la Universidad de Glasgow han creado un gran avance en el campo de la nanotecnología que podría aumentar la capacidad de almacenamiento 150000 veces. Podría significar 500000 GB en un solo chip de pulgada cuadrada.

Me parecio un articulo interesante, ya que si existe un chip con una capacidad de 500000 GB, los sistemas se volverian mucho mas flexibles, tanto de una forma fisica como tecnologicamente

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Stop Motion que deja el ojo cuadrado!

farfar son los creadores de esta obra para nokia Ngage, simulan un juego en stopmotion, les recomiendo que le echen un ojito y le dediquen un ratico de su tiempo.

Me parecio un muy buen video, y un muy buen juego, es un juego hecho con humanos, me resulto genial.

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Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote

Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008.

Me parecio un video super interesante, porque muestra como a travez de un control de una consola(Wii) podes generar un pizarron digital, y un visor 3D, y solo con un control de 40 dolares y unos anteojos de 10, lo que abarataria mucho los costos de esta tecnologia.

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Semana 3

Twitter Is My Social Computer –How it could extend to be yours

Computers exist everywhereIt took me a while to figure out that wherever I go, whenever I want, I’ve access to one of the world’s most powerful computers. It’s not an IBM Mainframe that spans my whole living room, nor Google’s search engine, and not the latest Alienware box. It’s Twitter.
Social Computing DefinedAt Forrester, we define Social Computing as: “A social structure in which technology puts power in communities, not institutions.” and this is true for social networks –esp small and fast ones like Twitter.
What Google can’t doWhile Google is great for finding information and websites, it’s NOT great for getting opinion, hearing nuance, or telling me relational information. With Twitter, I can ask information about opinions, and receive responses from real people (many I know, most I don’t) that often have first hand experience with the question at hand. Lastly, real people understand detailed and complicated questions and situations, and the more people answering, the more chance of you getting your answer.

El articulo trata sobre un buscador que te ayuda a encontrar articulos con opinion, no datos, como normalmente te muestra google, lo cual me resulta muy interesante, porque en el momento de buscar un articulo de opinion, google no te lo da, y en cambio twitter si, a travez de respuestas que te da la gente que lo usa.

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Square Shooters: Four 5-Megapixel Camera Phones Judged and Rated

Square ShootersTime to scrap that old point-and-shoot. The next generation of cam-phones pack enough megapixels (5!) and editing options to produce shots worthy of placement in a photo gallery. Oh yeah, feel free to make calls with them, too.

este articulo muestra lo nuevo en camaras de celulares de 5 megapixels

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¿Alguien escucha tus llamadas?

¿Crees que tu línea telefónica está segura? ¿Crees que nadieestá a la escucha de tus llamadas? ¿Crees que los datos de tuteléfono, todos tus contactos, mensajes y fotos están segurosy que tu navegación en Internet es segura? Si lo crees, talvez deberías pensarlo de nuevo.
En Medio Oriente, un reconocido experto en seguridad anivel mundial habla en dicha región de acerca de redes deseguridad dedicada en una conferencia en HITBSecConf,acerca de cómo puede ser roto el cifrado del GSM en tansólo 30 segundos gracias a la tecnología ampliamentedisponible en la actualidad, o en 30 minutos a través del Usode equipo por un valor de sólo $1000.
Presentado por el renombrado especialista de seguridad deredes, Skyper, la audiencia tratará de la forma en que laseguridad, la tecnología y los protocolos de GSM operan.Skyper también explica detalladamente cómo construir unescáner para GSM con menos de $1000, así como amenazasfuturas a las redes GSM del mañana.
¿Entonces crees estar seguro?

Me parecio super interesante, ya que creo que todos nosotros tenemos un celular con tecnologia GSM, y si pueden interferir nuestas comunicaciones o no, es un tema que deberia importarnos, ya que a travez de las llamadas o mensajes pueden saber muchisima informacion nuestra.

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Mi lugar

Macabilandia

Yo elegi Macabilandia, que es un campo que tiene Macabi(el club al que voy) en La cumbre, Cordoba. Elegi este lugar porque ahi vivi cosas muy importantes en mi vida, y ahi fui los ultimos 6 años de campamento todos los veranos, y el invierno pasado. Es un lugar magico, hermoso, y mi segundo hogar :)

Oyeme atento, te la voy a presentar,
se llama Macabilandia y muy escondida esta
Va a ser facil que la encuentres pues veras que al llegar
en tu corazon chiquito una pierta se abrira
Su panza es el Feldman
y su ombligo grande es el barranco
Pronto la veras y parte de ella te sentiras
Yo te puedo hablar mucho pero no va a ser igual
lo importante es que la veas y la sientas de verdad
y asi ya a tu regreso veras lo que va a pasar
en el brillo de tus ojos Macabilandia estara
Su panza es el Feldman
y su ombligo grande es el barranco
Pronto la veras y parte de ella te sentiras


Comarca maravillosa,
llena de encantos mil
Macabilandia, deliciosa
donde siempre soy feliz

Comarca maravillosa,
tierra de juventud,
renuevas las ilusiones
con sierras, arroyo y luz.

Marco de sierras natura te dio
y el Tiu Mayu frescura
y en la dulzura de tu soledad
yo te quisiera cantar:

Comarca maravillosa,
llena de encantos mil
Macabilandia, deliciosa
donde siempre soy feliz



El famoso Mauricio "Tata" Furmansky, dejó durante sus años de activista en Macabi Argentina un importe muy especial por su dedicación a la juventud, siendo el alma mater en la reapertura en 1973 del curso de líderes que incluía una visita a Israel. En 1976 realizó su aliá y en Israel ocupó el cargo de Director del Departamento Latinoamericano de Macabi Mundial. En el año 1998 se jubiló y desde entonces, sigue igualmente activo y recibiendo delegaciones juveniles de la Argentina y de países latinoamericanos. Su forma de conectarse con la juventud es muy especial y sus charlas quedan grabadas en la memoria de quienes estuvieron en contacto con él.