Arquivo para June, 2013
The Facebook went offline on Tuesday
20
Jun
The Facebook went offline on Tuesday (18/06) for 
about 15 minutes as it was the height of the demonstrations and networks are being intensely used, there were protests on Twitter, while the site had the message: “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. “.
So far there has been no explanation, but the fall also affected countries such as Chile, Argentina, Mexico and even the United States.Facebook has not yet ruled on the matter.
While the problem occurred, many users turned to Twitter to complain about the situation, and took the opportunity to expand the call for demonstrations.
Well as capital, medium cities of Araraquara, Bauru, Pocos de Caldas, Foz de Iguaçu and many other events also occurred.
In Cotia town, in greater São Paulo, there were 10,000 people around the Raposo Tavares highway, on Tuesday when I returned home.
Politicians praise, but send the police, the fund has fear that discover all the people that make outrageous with public funds, but the crowd agreed.
Why protest in Brasil?
19
Jun
The Arena Brasilia (Football Stadium) is now the sixth most expensive stadium in the world, 
behind the mega-stadium Rogers Centre / Toronto (Canada) U.S. $ 930 million and in front of fharaonic Emirates Stadium which cost $ 770 million, the stadium of Brasilia, which started the Confederations Cup cost $ U.S. $ 790 million, see website Curiosando to see the top 10 most expensive stadiums in the world.
The government of the Federal District (Brasilia) has set aside the R$ 400 million that would come from BNDES, money denied by TCU (Court of Audit), and I am the money Terracap, state owns the land belonging to the government of the Federal District, which therefore is public money, our government who swore they never would use.
The other stadiums all “took” money from BNDES (National Bank of Development), most somewhere around U.S. $ 400 million, giving a total of more than £ 3bn of public money. Today more U$ 400 million is liberated to Itaquerão Stadium.
Another tap visible corruption is now Delta, the largest contractor of the project PAC (Acceleration Plan of growing), which is suspected of having links with bookie Carlos Cachoeira, which is protected by the government and opposition, the company is subject to an administrative controller General (CGU) of Brazil.
The company left the consortium reformed Maracanã and forced the government to sell it, of course after injecting money BNDES in the work.
In spite of all the company Delta was contracted without tender to build a terminal four of R $ 85.7 million in Guarulhos.
Want more reasons to be unhappy people, food prices and corruption.
Castells, hope and ticket-free
18
Jun
Castells’s new book is called “Networks of indignation and hope,”
he said in his meeting Boundaries of Thought in 2013, in Brasil.
He explained that when a fact provokes the indignation, and many feel the possibility of being together, they feel like many may think are outside the institutional framework, cool but not always morally right, there comes the hope of doing something different.
Stating that are not just a fact that triggers a process of discontent in our case we have: corruption, insecurity and inflation begins to give the guys, but why this happens.
According to Castells, is because citizens of the world does not feel represented by democratic institutions.
Can no longer appeal to the old story of real democracy, not now, networks keeps everyone informed and institutional propaganda and reality is totally transparent.
According to Castells, is against this democratic practice in which the political class appropriates a form representation, but that is not accountable in no time and justify anything based on the interests that serve the state and the political class, ie, the interests economic, technological and cultural, aaccording to their own interests.
They do not respect the citizens but would not keep blatantly chains corrution and traded today in the eyes of all the public and press.
Wireless internet free for all
17
Jun
The design is from Google, according to Wired magazine, and the idea is that they would be releasing balloons in the stratosphere, the second layer after the atmosphere located between 7 – 17 and until 50 km altitude about.
According to Wired magazine, the company
is already sending balloons into the stratosphere in order to allow access to the internet anywhere on the planet, even if it is in a desert or something sea, being part of a project called Loon, who has just the “balloon”.
According to the same magazine online, the search giant already is developing an experimental project in South Africa, with the aim of connecting a billion people in sub-Saharan Africa, and then expand to Southeast Asia, connecting over a billion people.
Google intends to build huge wireless networks across Africa and Asia, using high-altitude balloons and balloons.
To give visibility to the campaign, Google has amassed an ecosystem of low-cost smartphones running Android in microprocessors low power consumption.
Without using the traditional infrastructure, the signal Google is performed through high altitude platforms – balloons and airships – which can transmit to the areas of hundreds of square kilometers, according to a blog post African.
Violence in Brazil who? Look at the numbers
15
Jun
In defense of freedom of expression and democracy, expressed my opinion.
The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) friday issued a statement strongly condemning the “deliberate targeting of military police to the press” during the protest Thursday against the fare increase for public transportation in São Paulo, several journalists were beaten and treated as criminals, in fact the police have acted with the same force against gangs of thugs that are in the news every day.
The newspaper Folha de S. Paulo announced that seven reporters the company were hit, and two were shot rubber bullets in the face during the protest, the journalists were hit with gunfire Giuliana Vallone and Fabio Braga. Photographer Sergio Silva, Futura Press Agency, was hit by a rubber bullet in the left eye and is hospitalized, according to his wife journalist Katia Passos, who said he has little chance of regaining vision in the injured eye.
The photographer of the Terra, Fernando Borges was also arrested while covering a demonstration in late Thursday. According to AFP, the demonstrations in the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro against the rising prices of public transport caused at least 55 injured and 160 arrested.
According to a report from reporter UOL, Janaina Garcia, police fired indiscriminately on protesters, bystanders and journalists to work. “There was no output via the cross, all surrounded by shock.” Who lived in the absence of freedoms can not tolerate an abusive use of repressive force.
A thousand places to see in Street View
14
Jun
Google announced on Thursday over a thousand places for you to visit via Street View, they include images of the Santuary Lady of Aparecida, near São Paulo, and Belmiro stadium, stadium of Santos Futebol Clube, according to site Engadget.
Other locations in Latin America include the Bosque de Chapultepec, in Mexico City, the famous Valle Nevado ski resort well known in Chile, and many others, such as Mark Twain Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
New destinations in Europe include the famous Cathedral of Seville, or exploring historic Vermont State House where for 150 years lawmakers gathered during the winter in Montpellier, France to discuss the laws of Vermont, as they were known.
Google buys Waze
13
Jun
Even with extraordinary Maps and Earth applications increasingly integrated and accurate, Google materialized on Tuesday (11 06) the purchase of Waze, maybe the reason is the collaborative feature (the user can feed given traffic situations, for example) and the huge social characteristic of the Israeli app (Waze owners).
With the app you can redirect your path, from routes users to suggest taking frequent destinations, and find the cheapest gas station along the way, knowing blockages or accidents.
You can report information even via voice command hands-free, that are activated waving a hand in front of the screen of the smartphone (or start proximity sensor smarphone).
Users gain points when contributing with information about road and accumulate points by changing its classification in Waze.
Since the points are designated users starting with “Waze Baby” and going to “Waze Royalty”, a user with many points.
The Waze has 28 million users and according to the website Blomberg purchase was $ 1.1 million.
Crowdsourcing and knowledge models
12
Jun
Crowdsourcing is increasingly helping to channel the collective knowledge 
of the scientific community to find solutions to significant challenges in medicine and other fields, the collective models are more successful in the polls.
Sage Bionetworks and Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM) are hosting free software, changes in big data computing, top changes in statistical thinking, learning machines, and discoveries in computational biology, new predictive models of disease, appear The Scientist.
Teams compete with each other, but the competitions also encourage collaboration needed to respond to emerging biological
issues, according to Stephen Friend, founder of Sage Bionetworks: “The Meshing of these data with clinical outcomes for the development of indicators of what is likely to respond to therapy or who is likely to have an aggressive disease is a problem that needs to boldly great work and ideas of each other. ”
The model of scientific work using crowdsourcing, adapted the model collective and collaborative science to the use of an “overly intellectual” available in the crowd.
iOS 7 is already the butt of jokes
11
Jun
Announced in yesterday at the opening of WWDC, Apple’s annual conference, iOS 7, 
among other news at WWDC, the company’s annual conference, the operating system of iPhones and iPads became the target of jokes in social networks.
In profile Jony Yve, Redesins Things, in allusion to the head of design at Apple, in Tubmlr there playing with the designs simple, minimalist design of iOS icons made no texture, were some of the games,
According announce the event, iOS 7 will be available “in the fall” (Spring in Brazil, from September) models from the iPhone 4, iPad 2 and iPod Touch 5th Generation, also versions of the iPhone 3GS, but the old iPads and iPods Touch 4th generation before did not receive the update system.
But beta release to developers, can now be downloaded, surprised by this joke´s design .
Radio Service, novelty of WWDC
10
Jun
The news is the site Blomberg, among rumors 
that precede this year’s WWDC would be the details about service of streamming music online, the iRadio.
A note from Bloomberg, for example, Apple would be restructuring its advertising system iAd mobile devices to adapt to the new.
The Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), will make the opening of the annual event for developers at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and will have a talk from the company’s CEO, Tim Cook, at 14h (GMT).
For the music service, are happening agreements with record labels Universal and Warner, so the service is offered by Apple as free streaming to the user, with the revenue the ads and commercials.
According to sources, the radio service will be integrated with iTunes, to allow the purchase of tracks played with ease, and the team of iAds, as it is called the application are working for him to be ready at Apple’s annual event.
