Tim O’Reilly talks about the big waves coming:
* smart stuff – make magazine, gadgets, etc.. health DNA etc.
* big data
* green, clean, climate change
* synthetic biology
* etc.
Category Archives: Web
Google Mini Barcamp Lisbon
It started off a bit too formal for my taste (slides, slides, slides) but then the Barcamp spirit emerged and people started asking questions and bouncing ideas, which was nice. Indeed the generation of ideas is the best thing about Barcamp, like someone said, you end up generating more ideas there in 2 hours than 2 months in your normal life.
Topics covered:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pxdil8FJgd_813tWZCF0gAA
OnLive at GDC Presentation
So it seems everyone is talking about OnLive, a company that offers on-line on-demand video games. They did a presentation yesterday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and indeed it seems impressive.
They claim all you need is a small 1Mg browser plugin and off you go play all the big titles. Your PC is not very powerful? No problem, they process the game frames on the server and stream them to you so you don’t have to render the fancy graphics.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/video-onlive-streaming-game-demonstrated/
On a similar note you might want check QuakeLive:
Impressive technology delivered through the web :)
15 Great Web Apps
Here are 15 great web apps both me and @aaires liked, followed by the technology they were built with:
– Delicious – mod_perl, HTML::Mason, and MySQL
– Twitter – rails+joyent
– Monster Jobs – Java
– WordPress – PHP
– Dokuwiki – PHP
– Flickr PHP+MySQL+Perl+Java+Apache+Shards+Memcached+Squid+Smarty+etc
– Youtube – Python+Apache+Linux+MySQL+psico+lighttpd
– Fireftp – C++ + Javascript
– 280atlas.com – Javascript (Cappuccino + Ojective-J)
– gmail, greader, maps, calendar, etc. – Python+Java+C+++Javascript
– piclens – C++ + Actionscript 3
– Amazon – C++ + Perl + Mason + Java
– Picnik – Actionscript 3
– Pandora – Actionscript 3
– Aviary Phoenix – Actionscript 3
It seems that a great web app doesn’t depend on the technology because everyone is using something different. Is this a fallacy?
Javascript is used by almost all of them but together with at least one other language.
I can hear you ask: What criteria did you use?
* Slick UI and look and feel (Aviary, etc)
* Great content and usefulness (youtube, delicious)
* Usefulness (flickr, monster)
* Modularity and capacity to extend (WordPress)
* Great concept (Twitter)
* ..
Next week I’m going to be in Portugal for a week. If anyone wants to get together drop me an e-mail or call. I’ll be arriving on Sunday and staying in Portimão until Wednesday, and then in Lisbon until the following Sunday.
pediapress
A very nice startup based nearby us in Mainz (half-hour from Darmstadt), was just covered on Techcrunch here:
They do custom books from content taken out of Wikipedia. They started supporting only the German Wikipedia but now they have extended that support to Dutch, French, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and English.
Very cool I think!