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WebM, an Open Video Format for the Web

Posted: 19 May 2010 08:45 AM PDT

Google is about to launch WebM, an open video format that will use VP8, the flagship video codec of On2. As you probably remember, On2 has been recently acquired by Google.

"The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone. The WebM launch is supported by Mozilla, Opera, Google and more than forty other publishers, software and hardware vendors."

"WebM is an open, royalty-free media file format designed for the web. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec and audio streams compressed with the Vorbis audio codec. The WebM file structure is based on the Matroska media container," explains Google.

WebM's site says that the new codec will be supported in Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera and you'll be able to play YouTube videos by enabling YouTube's HTML5 experiment.

Google is expected to launch WebM at the Google I/O event, which is about to start in a few minutes (9:00am PDT). Don't miss the opening keynote, which is streamed live on YouTube.

{ via CNet }

The Internet is for porn

Posted: 14 May 2010 07:27 PM PDT

Partychat Hacking

Posted: 19 May 2010 08:25 AM PDT

I've been a user of Partychat for a few years now, both in its previous hosted-on-a-server-in-someone's-living-room implementation and in its current App Engine-based one.

Needing a fun side project (and having a few itches that I needed scratches), I've spent quite a few evenings over the past month making changes to the source code. So far I've managed to:

/share command
  • Make the homepage friendlier (and slightly prettier), especially the room creation form.
  • Improve web-based room management (building on what David started), so that you can join, leave, or request an invitation from the room's web page (here's a sample room for the current developers).
  • Prettify the plusplusbot display in the web UI.
  • Add a /share command that makes it easy to share URLs and give some context.
  • Clean up some data layer issues and fix some inconsistencies.
  • And of course, quite a few bug fixes (nothing like scanning the AppEngine logs looking for NPEs).

Like with all fun side-projects projects, they can also turn not fun once usage picks up. For example, yesterday a user invited room A as a member of room B, and vice-versa. As an unintentional side-effect of a change that I made to make the setup process more user-friendly, it became very easy to set off an infinite loop of messages. By the time I realized what was going on, we'd run out of App Engine bandwidth quota. Thankfully after some budget rejiggering and a some quick code change all was well. Similarly, a couple of weeks ago we had CPU usage issues (though optimizing that away was still fun).

It seems like chat is gaining in trendyness, with HipChat launching recently (presumably to challenge the incumbent Campfire) and Brizzly/Thing Labs's Picnics happening. Partychat will probably remain a hobby/fit-within-AppEngine-free-quota sort of project indefinitely, but it's been fun polishing it (and of coure, there's still quite a few things left to fix).

And of course, if you need IRC 2.0 a persistent chat room you should give it a try.

A minha conta no Facebook foi-se e não vai voltar

Posted: 18 May 2010 11:35 AM PDT

Já o andava para fazer há mais de um mês, mas só hoje meti as mãos à obra e apaguei a minha conta no Facebook. Agora, tenho que ficar 14 dias sem me autenticar lá, algo bastante fácil já que costumava passar muito mais tempo que isso entre as visitas que fazia ao site.

Para apagar a conta, bastou-me seguir os passos indicados no blog The Consumerist. Em menos de um minuto, ela já era (história, não vá uma imobiliária conhecida processar-me por uso "indevido" do seu logo).

As fotos que lá tinha é que foram à vida. Mas também não tinha lá nada assim de importante que quisesse guardar. As que me interessam estão bem guardadas, longe do facebook.

Agora, digam-me como é que vou aguentar sem convites para os grupos com os nomes mais estúpidos de que alguém se consegue lembrar, as notificações dos meus contactos que jogam Farmville e o restante leque de inutilidades que este site nos fornece? Eu acho que vou aguentar bastante bem. Aliás, até acho que me vou sentir melhor assim. Saber que a minha privacidade não está a ser atacada de forma tão gritante é um alívio.

Suspect Fail

Posted: 19 May 2010 07:00 AM PDT


epic fail photos Suspect Fail

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The Inbox of your Dream [PIC]

Posted: 14 May 2010 01:55 PM PDT

Iron Man 2 - Impressões 3D

Posted: 19 May 2010 03:15 AM PDT

Enquanto o cinema nos tenta convencer a embarcar na onda 3D, nos bastidores isso parece já ser um dado adquirido: nomeadamente no capítulo dos efeitos especiais, onde um fato como a armadura do Iron Man - peças habitualmente desconfortáveis de usar que impedem que os actores as utilizem por muito tempo seguido - têm sofrido evoluções.

Em Iron Man 2, muitas peças da armadura foram "impressas em 3D", o que permitiu que fossem criadas à medida das mãos dos actores, permitindo assim uma representação mais eficiente e cómoda.


Fica assim demonstrado que nem só o 3D "virtual" tem afectado o cinema nestes últimos tempos... o 3D real também o faz de igual forma. :)

Stand By...

Posted: 18 May 2010 03:17 PM PDT

I'm posting this from Moscone West, the site of Google I/O 2010. Some things that it may be useful to know:

  • The official hash tag is #io2010

  • The keynotes will be live-blogged all over the place (thus, not here) and also live-streamed on YouTube.

  • If you're mad because you couldn't get a ticket, we're sorry, but you're not alone. We have filled Moscone West to the very absolute splitting-at-the-seams max. There are a ton of Googlers who couldn't get in.

Roman Nurik speaks at the Google I/O 2010 Bootcamp

Things have already started; above is our own Roman Nurik giving the first Android session at the pre-IO Bootcamp.

Android area for Google I/O 2010

Above are the signs over the Android part of the main gathering area. There are many tantalizing display cases and tabletops; gleaming and empty now, but not for long.

Meta-Blogging

Thursday is the big Android day at Google I/O. There will be announcements. We're going to try to use this blog to deliver more depth and perspective than you can expect from an executive on a stage in a keynote. So we've lined up a whole lot of blog posts; more than any human could be expected to read in a day.

The plan is to have a couple of posts on Thursday summarizing and highlighting what we think are probably the big-news stories. Then we'll have more detailed technical pieces every other day or so for the next couple of weeks, filling in the details behind the announcements. It's heart-warming how eager the engineers are to tell the world about what they've been building, and it makes me happy to facilitate the process.

There are other Google blogs that are going to be working hard too, telling the other stories coming out of this gathering. We'll post some links to things that seem particularly newsworthy, either to the world in general or to the Android comunity in particular.

Stay tuned!

Ubuntu-PT, Encontro de Lisboa, 20 de Maio, 18h30

Posted: 19 May 2010 03:03 AM PDT

Para quem queira partilhar experiências com outros utilizadores ou apenas aprender/tirar dúvidas, vai repetir-se mais um encontro de utilizadores de Ubuntu-PT em Lisboa na próxima quinta-feira nas instalações da Intraneia. Como de costume, alguns devem ficar para jantar.

Para os esquecidos, podem pôr este link nos vossos calendários: webcal://www.icalx.com/public/jneves/ubuntu-pt.ics ou seguir a versão html em http://www.icalx.com/public/jneves/ubuntu-pt

Quinta-feira, 20 de Maio de 2010, 18h30 às 20h (3ª quinta-feira do mês)
Local: Sala de reuniões da Intraneia – Av. da Liberdade, 229, 2º andar (ao pé da R. Alexandre Herculano)
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=110620717485280382518.00000112ff6b995b99718&ll=38.723078,-9.146858&spn=0.005976,0.010933&z=17

Metro mais próximo: Marquês do Pombal (Linha Azul e Amarela)
Estacionamento mais perto:

  1. Na rua, embora seja raro encontrar lugar.
  2. Parque de Estacionamento no Marquês do Pombal.
  3. Parque Alexandre Herculano na Av. da Liberdade.

Há autocarros:

  • Carris – R. Alexandre Herculano: 74, 704, 709
  • Carris – Marquês do Pombal: 22, 48, 713, 746
  • Vimeca

Quem queira mostrar ou demonstrar qualquer coisa é bem-vindo. Quem quiser trazer o seu computador para corrigir algum problemazinho relacionado com Ubuntu também.

Marca na tua agenda!

Just Another Great Experience With The Open Graph

Posted: 18 May 2010 03:03 PM PDT

Opengraph



 

More Google Chrome OS Screenshots

Posted: 19 May 2010 04:03 AM PDT

Google posted more images that show the user interface of Google Chrome OS. The interface is still under development, so it may change until the first stable version is released, later this year.

Chrome OS uses an interesting visualization for tab overview. "The overview is available via either gesture and hotkey. It provides a visual way of switching between windows and tabs. Windows are exploded into the tabs they contain, and all tabs/windows are visible in a single 2.5d space. This model is largely based on Peter Jin Hong & Elin Pedersen's G.L.I.D.E. Tab Navigation. We present tabs in a venetian blind arrangement, ensuring visibility of the top left of every page, and using perspective to compress the most useful portions of the page into the available strips. Favicons are presented as an alternative visual aid."



Google also posted some screenshots of the open/save dialogs and the download shelf panel. "The shelf is an on demand target for downloading and uploading. It acts as a temporary resting place for files that have been accessed, and for content being uploaded to websites."

Even if the Chrome OS only lets you use a browser, you can still download files and open them using Chrome's multimedia libraries or using web applications like Google Docs.



A notification panel will be used for OS and website notifications, so web applications will be able to add their own alerts.


Chrome OS will also include simple applications like a calculator:


{ via TechCrunch }

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Posted: 18 May 2010 02:21 PM PDT

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The New Hotmail Challenges Gmail

Posted: 18 May 2010 08:32 AM PDT
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