No Comments// Posted in Featured, Geek, Social Media by Rene Zuleta on 12.19.09.
Chris Messina makes an interesting proposal to improve microsyntaxis in Twitter, in particular the way we do retweets, include other people in a conversation and cite other people:
Change the RT: or the (via @user) to: /via @user — is more descriptive and you save one character in the second case.
Start using /cc @usuario to include somebody else t [...]
No Comments// Posted in Geek, Tech by Rene Zuleta on 11.14.09.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with creating the World Wide Web in 1989, doesn’t seem like a man who has many regrets. But he admitted earlier this month at a symposium in Washington that his decision to include those annoying forward slashes in http addresses was made on a whim. If he could change one thing about the Internet now, he says, he would slash the slashes, which are completely unnecessary.
No Comments// Posted in Fun, Geek by Rene Zuleta on 10.04.09.
Cool video showing a group of 36 skaters using neon lights and creating the most geek and cool human Tetris ever seen.
1 Comment// Posted in Featured, Geek by Rene Zuleta on 09.29.09.
Just yesterday I post about Google launching Frame, a plug-in for Internet Explorer so that Microsoft’s browser can use Wave.
Finally the plug-in was presented and the first results from speed tests are quite something. According to ComputerWorld, who used the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, Internet Explorer 8 works 9.6 times faster using Google extension that without it [...]
No Comments// Posted in Geek by Rene Zuleta on 09.28.09.
Google made an interesting move in the fight with non compliant standards and lack of support of Internet Explorer by presenting Chrome Frame, a plugin that, according to Google:
“is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer”
No Comments// Posted in Geek by Rene Zuleta on 09.27.09.
From Between The Lines, ZDNet blog, Larry Dignan brings this top 10 list which I found interesting (regardless you agree on all or not): The 10 biggest moments in IT history.
No Comments// Posted in Fun, Geek by Rene Zuleta on 09.23.09.
What happens when Steve Jobs - famous for his bad-ass presentations - has to present a product that was not manufactured by his company and that also sucks big time?
Don’t miss this video from Apple’s CEO making a demo of the Motorola ROKR and the faces he makes when the gadget doesn’t work as supposed.
René Zuleta