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Feedspot resurrecting RSS?
25
Sep
In January died only 26 years, the creator of the RSS (see our post) Swarz Aaron, who at 16 had already made his wonderful Feed.
Now is the Annunciation Feedspot I have the joy of being one of the evaluators, receiving this news from one of its creators: Anu who sent me the message:
“I’d like to invite you to beta test Feedspot”
Readily accepted and asked him a release and he sent me a post from your blog.
There I read with satisfaction the mission of the new feed: “Our mission is to bring RSS back to its early glory days. For this, we are rethinking the product RSS reader and construction of an entirely new platform from scratch. RSS was never ordinary users of the Internet. “Large, bright … c’mon.
So they want to turn the “RSS reader in a social product, sharing and integrating deep social functionality in the core product. The way Tumblr blogs revolutionized the category by adding a social layer, our goal is to do exactly the same thing to the RSS reader market. ”
He added: “The aim of Feedspot is to apply the same logic to the RSS reader and do it … appealing to the mainstream. ”
The goal seems wonderful, let checking and giving more tips Feedspot.
Deal between Twitter and CBS
24
Sep
First network television, the American CBS struck a deal with Twitter to display cross-promotions on social networking
and entertainment channel.
According to the site GigaOm, are shown videos of news programs and in the News Feed of micro blog, such as: ’60 Minutes’, ‘CSI’ and many other shows have small spaces on the site.
As a business model, tweets video show business and brands can still count on promoted tweets to expand the disclosure made on network television.
The deal with CBS comes as the micro blog is preparing to launch its actions, its IPO to be launched in 2014, having in charge the bank Goldman Sachs, which estimates a capital estimated at $ 10 billion.
The company’s stock must be initially offered on the stock exchanges in New York, the NYSE.
Someone stumbles reinvent blogging for people who do not like stupid commercials.
Use of Big Data with Hadoop 2.0
23
Sep
As said Merv Adrian, an analyst at research of the Gardner, Hadoop 2.0 is “an important step”,
making it a technology with “an operating environment data much more versatile,” and now also works with traditional SQL tools.
Hadoop is one of several projects of the Free Software Foundation Apache, the most widely used software for servers, was built in Java, uses distributed computing HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and works with the concepts of MapReduce and GoogleFS (GFS) concepts bigdata important to treat.
The design of high-level Apache was built by a developer comunicade, that even includes Yahoo, see the wiki contributors in the Apache.
So far, though Hadoop has been used mainly to reduce huge data sets for analysis, but only in batches, not flows (Workflow) is now possible.
According to research by Gartner in 720 companies, made in June, 64% were investing in bigdata, representing 58% compared to last year, and Hadoop 2.0 promises a simplified treatment for small and medium enterprises in control of Workflow.
Apps for free SMS
19
Sep
I already blogged earlier this year about the growth of WhatsApp, app to send free SMS quite popular,
which recorded more than 18 billion messages at the beginning of the year.
But now a competitor gained weight the WeChat, who claims to have reached the milestone of 100 million users and the service is already among the most popular AppStore, but is available for all platforms.
The Chinese company Tencent, says that the advertising campaign starring Lionel Messi and version 5.0 that fell in popular taste, leveraged the application.
There are some interesting differences: the feature “get people” shows a list of the closest users with whom you can talk, and you can filter the search by sex, has a role similar to that of a Walkie Talkie for two people talk, and you can also chat with video, and has almost all the features WhatssApp.
Disadvantages: the scheme to turn the conversation on PC is somewhat complicated and requires reading QR codes, have figurines similar to Facebook, but the packages are priced at $ 1.00, and the main course is the number of users it is still unpopular in Brazil, 100 million worldwide, for a network is still little.
New Kindle is announced
05
Sep
Amazon, the giant global online sales, and that generates many conflicts in the publishing market, announced a new device with the highest quality from their devices: the paperwhite, sense of color and light in the printed electronic device.
The advertised price is also inviting, the price of the sixth generation of the Kindle e-reader Paper, the United States will arrive on September 30 to $ 119, according to the website The Verge.
Among the new features of the device include the antireflective of sunlight and the ability to take notes in marl leaves of digital books, the long-awaited features.
Two other big news is a vocabulary list, and being able to make footnotes that appear as a pop-up, it is possible to keep active new words while reading, and is connected to a dictionary with Wikipedia X-Ray built.
Amazon recently acquired Goodreads, which is a social network for shared reading lists 
and comments on them.
The new Kindle device Paperwhite, weighs 206 grams (less than the iPad mini 312 grams) with battery “lasts for weeks, not hours” as stated by the manufacturer and processor promises to be “25% faster”, we hope to give .
The American version 3G (cost U $ 189) will have a free data plan included, and the unit has 212 ppi resolution and measures 16.9 cm high and 11.7 cm in length, with 9.1 mm thick.
Microsoft buys Nokia
04
Sep
A very special smartphones company Nokia , sold his shares and
cellular operations as Microsoft’s own advertising company on 07/02/2013.
The Finnish Nokia will sell its operations with phones and smartphones to the U.S. group Microsoft for $ 7.183 billion dollars (5.440 billion euros, or more than U.S. $ 17 billion), the Finnish company announced.
Nokia was the beginning the most important factory phones and smartphones in the world, but was losing a lot of room for competitors like Apple and Samsung, which have modernized very quickly and fell to the taste of the users.
Recently made an attempt to use the Windows Phone system in an attempt to leverage and modernize equipment.
This was done with the Lumia line, which uses the Nokia and Microsoft, the Windows Phone, but did not reach the desired number of sales.
The sale will include all the patents in the sector, which will now focus on services and networks, “the best way to move forward, both for Nokia as its shareholders,” the group’s president, Risto Siilasmaa.
Ordinance encourages brazilian mobile apps
03
Sep
An ordinance of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Communications of Brazil has
determined the criteria for exemption from tax of smartphones manufactured here in Brazil.
According to this ordinance the Brazilian government, only those devices that come with a minimum of five national applications will be reduced to zero tax rates.
The paper considers application developed in Brazil that was developed by one person or entity resident in the national territory.
The package should include applications in different areas such as education, health, sports, tourism, gaming and productivity.
The electrical and electronics industry Brazilian companies ask for help with tax rates.
Facebook and relevance of news
26
Aug
Facebook and relevance of news Facebook announced on its blog post that
had your News Feed´s algorithm modified to highlight the “quality” of the news, your News Feed.
Earlier this month, the “Face” had announced the change in the news feed algorithm, which decides which system should prioritize the publications page of social network users, was promised to improve the way that old posts will reappear in the feed Facebook.
The grade of the post says: “The system uses thousands of different factors such as the frequency with which the content of a particular page is reported as low quality (for example, hiding a publication), how complete the profile page and as the fan base of a page overlaps the base of a page known as a high quality, “says the post explaining the novelty.
The change was made based on users questions, ask where the relevance of content, reliability of supply, the desire to share om friends and complain if he saw that content in your feed.
The login is also undergoing change where the user can decide on its contents and determine whether to publish them.
Google makes internet failure fall 40%
20
Aug
In last Friday between the hours of 20h37 and 20.48 (GMT), all Google services suffered an outage.: Gmail, Drive, Maps and clear the search, the company said in a statement that lasted “between one and five minutes .
Google said on your page that, during the period of interruption, “50% to 70% of requests Google received” error messages, but the service was corrected after four minutes and was restored to most users on a minute.
According to the company GoSquared there was a 40% drop in global internet traffic that
night and studied showed that, after the fall of a few minutes, internet traffic soared logos after restoration.
During the fault, according to the Google page, “50% to 70% of requests Google received error messages”, but did not report the source of the failure.
The failure showed how the internet is still fragile and the possibility of even temporary damage is not a fallacy.
Apple would have bought Matcha
16
Aug
According to the site Venture Beat, Apple is acquiring
startup company recommendation videos Matcha.tv and developer of the app, which provides an overview of programs available on cable channels like Comcast, video streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.
The Videos app also allows the user to record what you’ve watched, see the recommendations of videos and connect to social networks to see what friends are watching and enjoying.
Venture Beat also said that Apple reportedly paid $ 1.5 million for the company, but estimates that the value may have been higher because the Matcha.tv recorded steady growth and is among the top 15 entertainment apps from the Apple Store but the site was just anticipating since other sources suspect this value and immediately countered.
Probably not coincidentally, the app was disabled almost all day.
