Celso Martinho

Neste fim de semana prolongado risquei mais um item da minha TODO-LIST pessoal, fui passá-lo aos Açores à Ilha de São Miguel. A expectativa era alta mas a experiência não desiludiu, este pedaço de terra plantado no meio do oceano é um exemplo vivo das maravilhas que a natureza tem e do que este País tão frequentemente se esquece. Deixo-vos algumas fotos para se deliciarem. A voltar, numa onda menos familiar e com mais tempo para ver as restantes pérolas deste arquipélago.

A few days ago, I blogged about FOAF. Since then I've been more aware to simple solutions/approaches to the social face of the technical web. A few days after I stumbled across XFN /XHTML Friends Network), another very simple way to represent social relationships through annotations on the most used presentation language on the Internet: HTML. What else is out there ? In the lack of a widespread adopted mechanism to represent user data and human relationships, there are many proposals laying around waiting for fame and fortune: Personal Data Representation: FOAF - Friend of a Friend VCard - Electronic Business Card XMDP - XHTML Meta Data Profiles Profile JEP - Jabber Profile JEP proposal Relationship representation: XFN - XHTML Friends Network FOAF - Friend of a Friend XMPP - Jabber's Rosters Centralized Services: Orkut - Connects people through a network of trusted friends Friendster - Orkut's clone Yahoo 360 - Friendster's clone RubHub - XFN Relationship Lookup Engine

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While most may be thinking the Apple is finally rotten with today's announcement, the reality of the facts is that while IBM promised 3Ghz but didn't deliver them on time for Jobs to keep up with he's keynote promises, Intel has struggled and came up with a way better performance per watt than it's competitors leaving no choice for a company like Apple to announce the switch, or at least support it. Honestly I always thought Apple was the perfect marriage of a great OS with great exclusive HW and this was a bit disappointing from an elitist point of view. But given a better look, first it's impressive the level of preparation and antecipation this company has, second I'm quite sure Jobs knows exactly where he's heading, and third I'm also sure will turn this apparent hatch on the Apple religious culture and into a surprising feed of innovation and good news over these left months before the first Intel Inside sticker comes with a Powerbook (yaks, ugly). I'm also very curious about IBM reactions on this. They could have bought Transmeta btw, it was sold cheap to a Japanese Comic Books company

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