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Monday, 10 June 2013
Ubisoft E3 2013 liveblog!
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Apple Upgrades AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule
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Slickdeals' best in tech for June 10th: Nook HD+ and 42-inch LG 3D HDTV
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10 Tech Accessories Your Dad Will Love
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iRobot’s Ava 500 Robot Is the Office Mate of the Future
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The Apple Store is down
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Comcast launching Xfinity-branded cloud-based home control, muni-fi services
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Insert Coin: BubblePod clockwork turntable lets your phone capture 360-degree images
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Apple to Stream WWDC on Apple TV
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Forma vs Función vs Intención
Andrew Kim (hace ya un tiempo) en su fenomenal blog con mucho contenido sobre diseño Minimally Minimal: Form vs Function vs Intention ,
Cuando Olympus presentó su cámara OM-D [uno de varios ejemplos utilizados] inmediatamente me sentí un poco incómodo con el diseño. Me encantan los materiales buenos. Me encanta la atención al detalle. Y me encanta la calidad de construcción. La OM-D tiene todo eso. Pero también tiene un diseño deshonesto que imita al de una cámara de hace 40 años [la Olympus OM-1 de 1972]. Tengo la convicción de que hay que avanzar siempre aprendiendo del pasado y no imitándolo como hace la OM-D con un visor en forma de prisma a pesar de tener un visor digital. Es un paso atrás. Diseño industrial de imitación.
Esta imitación del pasado en ocasiones se denomina en inglés skeuomorphism (y en los circos lingüísticos skeumorfismo) aunque no es más que imitar, engañar, copiar, simular, parecer o fingir.
Otro ejemplo de dependencia del pasado es cuando los coches eléctricos fingen comportarse como los convencionales.
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Firefox OS es la misma obra interpretada por los mismos actores
La idea de desarrollar Firefox OS es interesante en teoría: un sistema operativo bastante abierto basado en los estándares de la Web y con el lenguaje HTML como protagonista.
Pero se conforma con utilizar otro lenguaje para decir lo que ya hemos escuchado antes .
Lástima.
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Sprint Vital coming June 14th for $100: 5-inch 720p display, 13MP camera, 1.2GHz dual-core processor
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Google Doodle Takes Us Where the Wild Things Are
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Early hands-on with Samsung's latest Galaxy devices: GS4 Active, GS4 mini, plus 8- and 10-inch Tab 3
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The Engadget Interview: Mozilla Firefox VP Johnathan Nightingale
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RoboRoach surgery kit comes to Kickstarter: a remote control for real cockroaches
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iRobot teams up with Cisco for Ava 500 telepresence robot
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Fotopedia's Reporter App Focuses On Creation As Much As Consumption, Crosses 300K Downloads
Fotopedia has made quite a name for itself as one of the leading media consumption apps for travel, but the company (led by former Apple CTO Jean-Marie Hullot) is ready to zero in on media creation as well.
In April, the company soft-launched a new app called Reporter, in the hopes that the app’s user base would grow organically. And grow, it did! Fotopedia Reporter has already racked up 300,000 downloads, with a user base that is coming back every single day, says founder Hullot.
Reporter works like this: When you download the iPad app, you have the option to browse through various “magazines.” These magazines are stories (told almost entirely with images and a little text) that were created by other users around a particular event, passion, or just a day in the life.
Creating a “magazine” is just as easy as browsing. Users can choose their photos, select a particular design or theme from pre-created options, and then publish within the Reporter platform or to Facebook or Twitter.
According to Hullot, over 20 percent of the user base are creators as opposed to readers only, which is a solid figure. Consider this: the app has only been available for a couple of months and has already surpassed 100,000 stories on the platform.
But why Reporter? Well, Hullot explained that with the other apps out of Fotopedia, like Heritage, users loved the content but the magazines had to be created by Fotopedia itself. This wasn’t scalable, in the eyes of Hullot.
However, Reporter lets people create the stories themselves, which allows for more variation in content and much more content in general. Clearly, users are taking a liking to the idea of curating their own content, which has been specifically apparent with Flipboard’s launch of personalized magazines.
Since Fotopedia has troves of data concerning the way users interact with content on the iPad and web, Fotopedia was in a particularly advantageous spot when creating reporter. Their data set parameters like the fact that users can only create stories with 10 to 20 pictures in them, because that’s how many images users usually consume from other Fotopedia apps. The data also encouraged the Fotopedia team to take inspiration from Windows 8, “as weird as that sounds coming from a bunch of former Apple people,” Hullot added. “We want the images to be big and central, so that people click in a big way.”
In terms of generating revenue, Fotopedia reporter is working with advertisers to offer a few different ways to promote within the Reporter app. Brands, such as Rolex, can create their very own magazine within the app using all of their own content. However, certain brands might benefit more from aggregating user-generated content within the Reporter app and pulling it into a central story (which happens to be another option for brands).
The Fotopedia Reporter app was updated just this morning to version 1.1, to help users deal with the abundance of content in the app. Feature additions include a “My Feed” section, letting you curate stories to your own interest, the ability to create your own aggregated magazine from your interest, and subscribe to personal magazines. Reporter also hooked in to Flickr so users can pull in their own images for magazines.
The Fotopedia Reporter app is available now on the App Store.
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Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote to be streamed live on Apple TV
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Obama mira tu correo
Obama is checking your e-mail está haciendo las rondas por los tubos de Internet; un tumblr temático de humor «diferente», a la luz de los acontecimientos .
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SK Hynix teases 4GB LPDDR3 RAM for high-end mobiles due end of this year
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Angry Birds-Maker Rovio Picks Up A New COO In Nokia Veteran Teemu Suila
Rovio is continuing to cycle in new executive level management with Nokia veteran Teemu Suila taking over as chief operating officer after former COO Harri Koponen stepped down after about two years in the role.
Koponen is moving on to do business development for the main investment company behind Rovio, presumably controlled by chairman Kaj Hed, who is the father of CEO Mikael Hed and owns and 70 percent of the company.
Koponen isn’t the only longtime senior exec at Rovio to move on in recent months. They also recently brought on a new executive vice president of games in Digital Chocolate’s Jami Laes after Petri Järvilehto also moved on. Järvilehto is taking time off.
Another Rovio SVP of brand marketing, Ville Heijari, also recently went to gaming monetization network Playhaven.
I’ve reached out to Rovio to get more background on the moves. The new COO Suila used to oversee startup activities and corporate strategy at Nokia after working for the Finnish handset maker for almost 20 years ago. That experience working on relationships with startups could help Rovio as it has been quietly scouting for studios to acquire for game development talent.
Koponen held the role for about two years as the company scaled up to make $195 million in revenue in the past year and roughly 650 employees throughout Helsinki, Tokyo, Shanghai, Los Angeles and Seoul.
Revenue doubled-year-over-year into 2012 with $71 million in net income as the company focused on a heavy merchandising strategy. Games revenue was about 55 percent of the company’s overall in-take last year, but Rovio has been making extra strides in doing more licensing deals with soft drinks and amusement parks. They also recently added Mika Ihamuotila, the CEO of Marimekko, a globally-known design company, to the board.
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PSA: Acer Iconia W3 up for pre-order at Office Depot, Staples starting at $350
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Mover un gigantesco puente de 3.400 toneladas era más barato que reconstruirlo al completo
Este time-lapse muestra cómo se elevaron y movieron las 3.400 toneladas del Puente Sellwood de Portland (Oregón, Estados Unidos) de una sola pieza: toda una proeza de la ingeniería.
¿La razón? Los pilares estaban en muy mal estado y desde hace tiempo se consideraba inseguro. Pero reconstruirlo de nuevo era más caro que aprovechar la plataforma. De modo que se optó por la opción más económica: construir nuevos pilares y desplazar el puente, de casi 400 metros de longitud, unos 10-20 metros hacia uno de los lados – girándolo levemente para coincidir con el nuevo diseño de la carretera.
Para elevar las más de 3.000 toneladas que pesaba el puente se emplearon con 40 gatos hidráulicos capaces de levantar 150 toneladas cada uno.
(Vía The Presurfer.)
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Samsung Announces 4-Inch Galaxy Ace 3
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36 Embarrassing Google Street View Sightings
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Esta app para Android enciende y apaga la pantalla del móvil automáticamente
Automáticamente en base a gestos y movimientos. Por ejemplo, la app enciende la pantalla al levantar el teléfono de la mesa o al sacarlo del bolsillo. Y apaga la pantalla ella sola al dejarlo sobre la mesa o al meter el teléfono en el bolsillo.
Para funcionar Gravity Screen Off utiliza los sensores de movimiento y de proximidad del teléfono. Tanto la versión gratuita como la versión de pago (1,19 €) tienen numerosos ajustes para adaptarlo a las preferencias de cada uno. Genial, útil y muy cómodo. Vía Redmond Pie.
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