Archive for January, 2008

Reuters opens up, but what does its OpenCalais service do?

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Not everyone” has the “open” memo “yet, but apparently has Reuters.

global news and information company this week open API He OpenCalais project , which allows the content creators and aggregators of content to enrich their services. What does this mean in English?

That is difficult to say, because after reading through FAQ and the project site, I am still awash in an imbroglio words fashionable and talk of Silicon Valley. But what appears to be saying is that it is a Web service that anyone (including me) to send the contents (this blog, your prescription, the report of the time, whatever) for the service they have (in less than a second ) attach metadata.

Huh? And? Well … …

Spotify is Awesome

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Spotify

Spotify's aim is to create one of the worlds largest collections of streaming music on demand, all free and available at any time from anywhere.

got my invitation to beta test a few days ago (thanks Bjorn), and I totally love. Not all category or song that I have looked for is still there, but there are already a lot of things and it works very well.

All files are carefully sorted and labeled with metadata that makes it easy to look up any song. Looking for a way of a given year simply include the year with the artist on your search, you can even notice a number of things that make real your specific search.

The application is still beta as I said and I am sure that there are several features to be added in the near future.

Take a look at your site for more information, if Real might well ask you shoot an invitation:)

Audio Shopper’s Guide: What do you want–sound or style?

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Samsung state of the art home theater in a box. (Credit: Samsung) game / div>

opened Samsung HT-BD2 home theater in a box put me through some changes. It is the first Blu-ray HTIB, as safe, which has the picture quality to die, and even …

Nuclear Power Myths

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Ten myths about nuclear energy : Only for customers of the latest discussions about nuclear energy, good article here 10 myths debunked. The first is something that never considered:

1) Uranium just […] In fact, there are 600 times more uranium in the land of gold and there is a greater amount of uranium as tin. There has been no new uranium exploration for 20 years, but current levels of consumption, the known reserves of uranium is expected that the duration of 85 years. src =

Skyfire Promises a PC-like Browsing Experience on a Smartphone

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

By Michael Santo Executive Editor, RealTechNews Despite babear over how users iPhone version of Safari, mobile browsers still have a difficult time making the pages with a lot of Ajax, Flash, Java, JavaScript, QuickTime, and on and on. On the one hand you do not have a Core 2 Duo in the smartphone, now do you? Today at Demo […]

Wind Power Increasing

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

growth of wind gusts firmly in the U.S. In 2007 : We drove from Sioux Falls, South Dakota to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a couple of weeks, and the scenery was just littered with windmills - there are hundreds them .

USA La energía eólica creció un 45% en 2007, la mayor subida desde el decenio de 1980, […] La industria de 5244 megavatios instalados en 2007, lo que representa el 30% de todos los nuevos-la capacidad de generación de electricidad, [ …]

I have always found windmills to be visually relaxing. These large shovels, turning slowly in the wind. I love looking at it.

Guitar Hero Super Hacks

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

The phenomenon known as Guitar Hero allows everyday people feel like stars rock in their own classrooms. A homemade band known as Zeros of the guitar have taken this concept one step further, by making the game in the arena's original music, with all the tools of video game Guitar Hero. When writing software that allows them to create thousands of sounds with Guitar Hero instruments, the guitar zeros have proved to be anything but. Through current

Man Creates Artifical Life

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

artificial_life.jpg < br> See that man there? Dr Craig Venter has created Prime man-made DNA strand with what he just one step in the creation of artificial life. Scholars say the scientists are trying to play God, but the opposite camp would say our new understanding of organic molecular architecture may open the door to new areas of medicine.
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