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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