Foursquare, the geo-location platform app for smartphone gets a little update. Today morning, iPhone and iPod owners have been alerted about a new update of Foursquare which brings 2 new features: Comments and Pictures.

It’s consider a little update for me, because there’s not a huge GUI (Graphic User Interface) change, everything works the same way. It’s important and huge the new features because they make Foursquare more social.

Imagine you’re near a movie theater and a friend of yours check-in on that Movie theater saying “I’m going to see _____ movie” (fill the blank). You’d probably say:

“Hey! that’s a great movie, I’m going to buy the tickets right now”

or--

“It’s a little borring, try this one ________, it’s really awesome but many people haven’t heard of it”

It could be a new way of giving feedback in a more personal way to your friends.

But, what if we want for example, to go to a restaurant but we don’t know if we’re going to like the environment, maybe we would like something fancy and we reach to “Hello I’m your friend Taco”. That’s why Foursquare is also implementing “Photos”.

You go to a place, you like it and you take a picture of it. You may want to share that picture (of the restaurant) with others so they can get to know a new restaurant. Believe me, I would want to go to a site that I’ve seen on a picture than a “guess what?” type of restaurant.

What do you think about the update?

Google has launched today the long awaited release of Android OS, Gingerbread powering its new self branded mobile Nexus S.

Announced as “The fastest android version yet” Google is revealing an OS that seems to be focused on Game developing, Supporting Open Source format & tools for multimedia and launching new forms of communication.

For more details about what’s included on the new release, you can check out the video I post you above.

Another big release @Google is launching today is the release of Nexus S, the successor of the Nexus One. (As they said, they were not going to release a Nexus Two, Mmm…)

Here’s the first Nexus S, Ad that hits youtube today’s morning:

And here’s the Android 2.3 explanation video:

Have you ever wanted to have your music everywhere? You’re not in your house but you want to listen a song that you listened on the radio? take it with you and hear it at home.

@Grooveshark is a site that I’ve recently discovered on the internet. It’s based on cloud computing, and give you the chance to listen your favorite music online. That’s right, you’re not going to require to have the songs on your computer, you just log-in and play them.

That’s all? Nop, there’s quite more. The website let’s you (as twitter) follow your friends. You’ll able to follow what your friends are listening to, that’s a new way of getting to know your friends and get more music. You can save the songs you like (Download them to the computer you’re currently), put them on a playlist, mark them as favorites or share it on your social networks (Facebook and twitter included).

The site also gives you a “Popular" list in which you can find the most played songs and also @Grooveshark include a radio that gives you randomly songs that you’ll like based on the genre of your selection.

Give it a try, and create and accout. Connect with facebook, share your music or twitter or just play your favorites.

Have you ever noticed those little things that happen on your daily life that aren’t the same as the life of another person on another culture? Let’s have an example:

“Dirty clothes – Laundry Machine – Clean Clothes”

Our culture understand the process above like this: We’ve some dirty clothes, we put it on the laundry machine and the result is clean clothes.
But what about other cultures? Maybe they understand this: You’ve clean clothes, you put it on a laundry machine and the result is dirty clothes. ( They’re going to be like WTF? I’m not going to buy that thing called “laundry machine” )

Having said that, we can’t make a good platform if we’re not thinking globally. Let’s have an example using Facebook:

This is what we see when we enter to Facebook’s site and in the right hand, what other cultures see.

What’s the big deal? The way we read is different. So that, facebook said:

“Ok, we’ve to try that people from around the globe understand the same thing on our platform”

We can see this “cultural thing” on other websites, let’s try twitter.

As you can see on the picture above, there’s a reason why people (like me) don’t read some tweets. It’s based on how we read.
1- We see the profile picture and identify the person.
2 – You check the name of the person (just in case it’s a RT)
3 – You see the tweet.

The problem is when the person haven’t a professional/nice profile picture or has the default twitter egg. The profile picture is something important for so many reasons, one of those reason, a presentation card.

In conclusion, developing a platform or a software, it’s not a piece of cake, there’re so many things that should be taken in consideration for designing a good one. We always have to remember one thing, think globally but act locally.

It’s a good practice to start thinking in different ways or to open your mind to new possibilities. That’s cool. What are we looking forward when we do things like that? Many times we want to make things more simple.

Have you ever noticed that you’re tweeting and suddenly you see:

@ArlesPinzon: Yep RT @example: are you coming tonight?

How can we make that “Nothing RT @example what are you doing? RT @ArleSPinzon fine RT @example fine and you? RT @ArleSPinzon…” something easier and less annoying using the powerful #newtwitter functions? piece of cake.

When you’re tweeting you’ll see something like this:

What if I want to answer @Nunniee but I want everyone to know what we were talking about? Use the #newtwitter features!

Click on reply, then make sure that the username of the person you’re answering to is after a character. Look at the example:

When you do that, you’re creating a connection between the tweets, so they’re going to be linked.

After you do that, the rest of the twitteruniverse should see not only what you answer but the tweet you’re answering to.

Like this:

Voila! ;D

For those who haven’t seen it yet (like me) @Youtube introduced last July a new space on @youtube site.

It’s called: Leanback

What’s leanback? Leanback is like your own channel (designed by you), in which you can see videos based on your preferences without the youtube layout bothering you.

It’s a site that has been designed for the @Google TVs and any other wide screen internet surfing capable.

Here’s how it works:

Cool isn’t it?

@Microsoft is releasing its new product called “Windows 7 Phone” the self-branded Phone from the Software Giant.

The commercial say something like “It’s time for a phone to save us from our phones” – I mean, REALLY?

Would it be more addictive that the one that are actually on the market? Honestly I don’t think so.

I believe that @Microsoft should have done a more interesting release. When back on 2007 a cellphone was just that, “a phone you can carry on, share pictures and music with Bluetooth" apple introduces a multi-touch device with different apps, Bluetooth, camera, music, wi-fi, etc breaking some of the paradigms of that year. Why Microsoft couldn't do something like that?

What do you think?

Microsoft, you can do it best.

The new twitter

The only think I’ve to tell you guys is that I’m pretty exited for this new release. I’m waiting for my account to be updated soon.

What I like about the new twitter:

• It’s faster and easy to use (as seen on the video)
• It has a new window that shows the information about the tweet you click ( Pictures, Videos, etc incorporated)
• Justin.tv, Ustream, Youtube, Flickr, and more are going to support this big release
• The tweets are still the most important part of the site. It’s not like Facebook that you can check different areas (Photos, Statuses, Links, Friends, Birthdays). In twitter.com all the media is going to be focused on tweets.
• New Twitter’s TimeLine will have no limit, you can scroll down all you want but you wont find the “More” button.

Note: The update is not available for all right now. It’ll be updated little by little to all the users until it get a worldwide  update.

What do you think about new twitter.com?

First we thought that this "Blackberry-mania" would be the only way of connecting to each other (based on the number of people who now uses blackberr). “Chatear en el celular” is now a thing that is no more based on having a smartphone with the Blackberry word included, guess what...there's a new way of been connected.

Since 1 year ago, there's an app on iPhone that can be used to talk with other friends that also have an iPhone. But, what happens if the app launches on blackberry, androids and Nokias?

You'll have a complete instant messenger that will have the basic things you need not only to get connected, but to share. How is it? It's called Whatsapp and it can be downloaded on your app store.

Check this out: Here

Update: A Pin is no more needed, the only thing you need is your friend’s cell number.

@Google team has just launched a new way of searching, it’s based on real time search and it’s called “Google instant search”.

It’s an improvement that Google has made to overhaul its search engine performance. How does it works? It’s easy as A,B,C… ( look on the video)

The only thing that you’ve to do is “write” on the search bar, once the thing that you’re looking for shows up on your search result you can stop. Just “Click”

For those who didn’t seen the last ad about Google TV ( I didn’t)

It’s a well known fact that you can create hashtags on twitter for different purposes. Even if you want to talk about your cat or you want to discuss a movie that you saw on weekend, hasthtags are very usefull to share this information to others.

In Panama City we’ve “EncuestaPanama” created by me, @ArleSPinzon. The main idea is to share opinions about a specific topic.

This weekend I asked my followers on twitter for “Gmail with priority inbox or Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4” and guess who’s the winner…Gmail. ( 6 – Google, 2 – Windows live Hotmail Wave 4)

Gmail, is the popular web based e-mail created by @Google team which have a simple, organizing and smart arrangement of things you want to use on your mail inbox. But, it’s better than Windows Live hotmail?

Ok, I personally like and use the new hotmail, and I find it most useful than earlier versions. According to readers vote and also my opinion Gmail is not only “a new mail service” but It’s a redesigned version of the e-mail service we saw before which primary objective is to solve today’s tasks.

I use both of them, but I think that now ( with the integrated priority inbox ) I’m going to full change from Windows to @Google team.

Check out the video that is making me change my e-mail default service:

Hello everybody! I’ve an article posted on my Facebook profile (and it’s available for everyone who have me on facebook or anyone who at least have one friend in common with me) in which I talk about Twitter and Facebook as “Powerful social networks” and the use that many users give to them.

It’s on spanish and you can read it here: http://bit.ly/99sdLt 
Hope you like it!

Have you ever noticed that even if you have a camera on your phone, you still have ( or want ) a good camera separated from it? Maybe it’s because the camera you got have more px than the one you’ve on your cellphone or maybe you want something that’s not part or depend on your phone functionality.

Let’s talk about @Apple new social network, PING. A new social network from a company that has “that magic”. What “magic” am I talking about? the “magic” that makes you buy something that you have but bigger (iPod – iPad).

Ping is not Facebook or twitter, it tries to be both of them. @Apple there’re some things that are better separated. (It was a nice try tho)

Could it be posible that a powerfull and stylish hardware/software company could enter in the social network business? It depends on the product or the social network they want to release.

Social network: is a way of sharing or getting information for a social circle, in some cases it could be working together with people you know.

Ping has some “social network”’s problems:

- You can’t share your own information ( or at least isn’t that intuitive)
- It’s a new way to follow the same people you follow on Twitter. Am I right? They share pictures, videos and links on Ping, isn’t that happen on twitter?
- It’s like a jail: You hear what happens on the other side of the jail but you can’t be part of it.
- It’s not easy to find your friends on Ping.

…And so on, there are a lot of things that make this new social network a “fail” for what I was expecting.

Do you like Ping?

There’ll be a keynote tomorrow at 10:00am Pacific Time, so stay tuned for all the things Apple has to offer.

Are we’re going to see the new iPod with camera? What’s all the buzz about iDivices? What about iOS? This kind of thing are going to be revealed tomorrow live at apple’s official site.

Stay tuned and sorry for been so lost posting, I’ll be back soon!

Google is working on a new update to the search engine. The update will be basically searching without clicking on the search button.

Here’s the video!

The idea is simple, why you’re going to waste your time writing more things if you already find what you’re looking with less words?

Several have been the ways in which companies are taking social media platforms in Panama. From things that we don’t even know what the facebook are but still we want one, to things that we know what they’re and we enjoy a moment having one.

Companies are learning how to promote their products thru’ a consistent platform that brings not only more followers but feedback.

It’s important to mention that @Twitter has grown on Panamá City, I remember those days when I’d only 50 followers, no one but my friends know me. Now a days I’m proudly with 327 followers ( and hopefully counting ) and I’ve noticed one thing: Panamanian people are taking @Twitter to their lives.

• You can see it on product's promotions ( @MillerPanama @xpluk)
• You can see it on news ( @tvnpanama, @telemetro )
• You can see it on TV faces ( @alexmedela @carolinafabrega @delyannearjona @michelle_simons)
• And so on…

It’s nice to see how Twitter is growing, it’s grateful to see people sharing and not stalking and of course it’s awesome to see how people interact and know more people based on mutual friends or friends suggestions. It’s cool to see people evolving.

Has been two weeks since I went with my closest friends to a Bday Lunch, and I’m still missing the awesome food from Golden Unicorn (Panamá).

For those who haven’t see me p2p ( Person to person ) I’m the one with the blue t-shirt next to some buddies.

Tweeps on the picture:
@ArleSPinzon, @titon26, @mv03790, @Chrno40.

@meisy was workin’ on that moment, she’s like “In the picture” in the cake she gave me.

Thanks everyone!

Google team explain the project

It’s decided, my next phone will be an Android based. I wish Blackberry Messenger service to exist on Android, it would be awesome.

This is something that the Social Giant didn’t expect, they’ve been hacked!. Of course, I’m talking about Facebook and for been honest I didn’t realize facebook was hacked until @la_cascara reported that the website was presenting some irregular situations. Based on different information I’ve found around the internet I can say that maybe the Facebook attack is a hack into the languages files.

Based on the information I’ve received (Thanks @la_cascara) it’s obviously a hack into the languages packs, for example, If the word is “Birthday” I’ll get into the file and I’ll change that word into “F*ck you bitches” as it happened today.

The idea that I’m supposing the hacker was thing about was: to hack into the international facebook languages so the English sites can’t report about that. If they didn’t notice it, they wont post anything about it and the hackers could get some fame over the international Facebook users.

Why I’m reporting? Because I’m spanish spoken and here in Panama there’s like 80% of users who uses the Facebook in spanish (it will be a little buzz about it over my Time Line). I use the english version.

A interesting fact: 100 Million of account information ( Like pictures, wall messages and personal information) has been uploaded into torrent sites from person who have their profile as public, bad idea. Facebook is not the site to make public relations, it’s a site in which you can interact with people you know, the information that’s exposed is a lot more than the one you share in other public social networks (such as twitter, buzz, etc…)

I’m waiting for a report from Facebook team but still nothing. As soon as they say something I’ll update this blog post.

Here're other pics staff from @la_cascara posted:

Creditos: @la_cascara

Here’s the video of the Windows Live Hotmail:

I’ll update this blog post with my opinion about this new update.

Update:
here's what I thought about the new layout.

• It has a smooth design: It's simple, that's the most important detail.
• It has new features like: Social updates, Contacts and Groups mails. Only by clicking on one of them you can access to the mails who are related to those categories. That means that I'm not going to recieve on my "Contacts inbox" something of any contact who I doesn't have on messenger.
• Now you can work on documents on Windows Live Hotmail whenever you receive one on your inbox. You'll have Microsoft Office directly on your Inbox.
• Webmessenger is better than Windows Live Messenger itself. I only use messenger to talk with someone. If I need to send him/her a picture or a link I rather to leave it on his/her Facebook Wall or in Google Wave. Webmessenger has a nice, smooth and simple layout who let's you talk with the people you care the most.
• New icons? yep, but.. I think they can improve them.
• New Scenes? Yep, but they're LAME. I don't like any of them, I'm using one because I've to.

Here is! a Sticker! that simple.

The only thing you’ve to do is press the iPhone 4 in that part or hold it with the left hand and voila you’re going to drop the call.

Here’s the video:

Thanks to the guy who film this xD

Have you been on that situation in which you’re exploring the web and then you remember that you’ve to do some investigations but you don’t want to leave the actual website you’ve open? If that so, you’ve probably used two options: The archaic one ( click again on your website icon so you have now two windows open) or the smart one ( in which you open another tab and keep working). Ok, let’s talk about the smart one.

There’s some point in which you’ve a lot of things to do on the internet, maybe you’re waiting for a video to load on Youtube or maybe you’re reading something while searching for one thing that’s on the document you’re reading almost simultaneously. The most you do the more chaotic the situation turns if you don’t have a correct way of organizing those tabs. Introducing Tab Candy (Alpha).

It’s an efficient way in which you can group the tabs that you’ve on your explorer (Yep, it’s like the “Folders” that is now part of the iOS 4 on the iPhone / iPod ) check out the video. I wish Chrome to have a similar function soon. I’m proudly a Chrome user but this is a great advance for the Mozilla Team.

Culture: Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture. Culture is the only thing that relate us with the past and help us to understand or see the world as our forefathers did. Culture is not something about fashion, it’s not about trendy, it’s about knowing the history of your country and the other’s. Panama is a special country, not only because is my home country, it’s special because is the only country in which you can find a “remix” of cultures on the street, mall, schools, etc. It’s a country in which my culture is part of a big mix the cultures of the people who live in Panama.

Are you in Panama next week? If that so, Do you think that the only thing you can do in Panama is go to parties, Panama Canal, Panama Viejo, or drink alcohol? If you think so…you’re very wrong my friend. Panama is the country in which you can find a lot of culture performances in different places. One example, the “II Festival Bohemio” on Indigo (Casco Viejo) the days 29, 30 (next week).

Do you think Panama hasn’t talent? Damn you’re wrong again. Here’s a great piece of work that a friend of mine @JoshDiaz is going to present on the II Festival Bohemio, It’s called Menopausia and it talks the story of 2 brothers ( Both with complete different personalities) and their mom (Who’s running out of hormones and passing throw a difficult part of the life of every women) and one important message for everybody.

“Es mejor tener una madre menopáusica a no tenerla para nada.”

Here’s some banners and the Trailer. Good job bro!

Good job again!

Finally @Microsoft gives the important details about the Kinect, yep, the price!

Microsoft has announced that the price of this new accesory will be $149.99 in U.S.A and it will be released on November 4.

@Microsoft also announced today:

• There’ll be a new console on August 3. It’ll be the Xbox 360 4GB and it’ll cost $199.99
• They said:

“Kinect for Xbox 360 offers tremendous entertainment value for the whole family,” said Dennis Durkin, Xbox 360 chief operating officer. “With full body, voice and the ability to play games with your friends right out of the box, Kinect is the most unique, complete and affordable way for everyone to enjoy controller-free fun and entertainment.”

Today is a special day in @Google schedule, they’re going to have a press event in San Francisco. In this press event they’ll reveal some of the new features that they are currently developing, also it’s presumed that they’ll present the new look of @Google Images.

I’ll put here the info at the end of the presentation. Here’s a picture of what’s happening right now:

Thanks techcrunch for the picture.

Update:

One problem users have is they have to click an image, find one they might not like, hit “back”, go back to the list of images and repeat — it’s not very efficient. “That’s why we’re here today”. There’s still a lot of room for improvement. “Today we’re launching the largest redesign of Google Images since 2001″.

@Google Team

- @Google unveils “Google Image Search Ads”

Desde hace ya algún tiempo he tenido el deseo de escribir esto de manera bien clara y sin equivocaciones. Por tal razón, este post lo verán directamente en Español, quiero que el mensaje se mande claro y conciso. ¿Está Facebook adaptando actitudes agresivas contra la competencia?

Todo empezó hace aproximadamente (digo yo) un par de meses atrás cuando Facebook empezaba a considerar a Twitter como un gran rival en surgimiento. Muchos dirán ¿140 caracteres es competencia para BochinBook? Señoras y Señores, la respuesta es si.

Twitter, como ya he dicho miles de veces en el pasado, es una plataforma que permite sintetizar la información y compartirla con un grupo de amistades o seguidores. Los 140 caracteres es una forma o estrategia de que el lector no se aburra de leer mucha información para concretar que “el libro es verde” por poner un ejemplo simple.

Ahora bien, últimamente estoy notando cierta competencia agresiva por parte del equipo Facebook. ¿Donde?

• Bloqueo de la aplicación Twitter: La aplicación que iba a permitir ver quienes de los amigos que tienes agregados tienen Twitter. A parte de eso, el hecho de poder compartir tus status con tus amigos, les permitía a otros observar la importancia de tener una cuenta de twitter en la que no sólo te mantienes informado, sino que eres tu el que redacta y reporta la historia.
• Mentions y Hovercards llegan al Facebook: La llegada de las mentions (La habilidad de poner @ArlesPinzon) que posee twitter que fue implementada a Facebook ya hace un par de meses fue una cosa, pero ahora con la llegada de las Hovercards (Le pasas con el mouse por encima de un nombre o algo clickeable en facebook y sale una carta de presentación) está claro que el proyecto de Twitter fue una buena idea.
  A esto es a lo que me refiero con HoverCards:
  
  
• La última que he visto, es el uso de información falsa para promover que se use una característica de Facebook. Esto lo pueden ver en un tweet que puso el amigo @monosg y la imagen que pueden apreciar en Facebook. Aquí les pongo ambas:
  

Observen lo que señala @monosg sobre la información de FriendFinder y lo que me dice a mi la información:

Estas técnicas, que en mi opinión están fuera de lugar, afirman la aparición de lo que muchos ya sabemos, la aparición de un rival de Facebook. Un rival enfocado en compartir información, en compartir mensajes y en interesarnos sobre la vida de los demás. Facebook por otro lado, nos invita a adentrarnos dentro de la vida de otra persona aún si la misma no la comparte. Siempre he pensado que: “Facebook es para ver la vida de los que una vez conociste, Twitter en cambio es para conocer más a la gente que te interesa o aprecias”.

No veo porque ambos no puedan convivir en paz y servirse uno del otro, los únicos que estamos perdiendo con esta guerra tecno-social somos nosotros, perdemos una gran posible alianza, una entre dos plataformas de redes sociales con oportunidades inimaginables.

I knew that someone else would come with a better idea than the RIM and Apple company, honestly I never thought it could be a product from Motorola Company.

This is the first look to a new device (powered with Google Android OS) who has seen the light today, it has a gorgeous design, a wide and touch screen with a smooth and nice performance (see the video) and powered by the Google team.

The twitter and facebook connectivity it’s a thing we’re getting used to heard on this new upcoming devices, this is the social media era. You can see the video that I’d posted below in which you see the performance of the new smartphone device in a report of the cnet team.

I like what I’m seen from Motorola, could it compete to the Nexus One (The original Google device)? I bet it has better performance and also better reception that other “Smartphones” *cof* iPhone *cof*.

This is the new Era of the Droid devices, it’s called Droid X

iPhone is just about anything, but calling people. The stylish hardware & software company Apple has made an announcement today establishing some points about the “iPhone 4 reception issues”.

As they said on their website, they’re not the only company with bad reception on its smartphone, they compare the iPhone 4 reception with the Blackberry 9700 and the Droid Phones as saying “Hey! I don’t know what you’re talking about, you’ve the same problems as mine”

Let me saying something, I’m a BB 9700 ( Onyx ) Owner, and I can tell you 3 things about my Smartphone.

• It do work for calling ( Not as iPhone 4 does completely)
• I’ve never been on a dropped call situation, my cellphone it’s not the Xperia 10 but it works for the things I care about (talk/chat with my friends), sync my mail, connect with my favorites social networks.
• The battery sucks. I mean, I need my charger everywhere I go ‘cause I don’t know when I could ran out of battery.

Thinks that Apple talks about on today’s conference:

• The connection issue could be painless if you update your iOS to the 4.0.1 version that’s now on the iTunes Store.
• If you’re happy with your Phone, but you still want a refund, apple is going to give you a free bumper or a refund for their existing Bumper.
• Unsatisfied Customers will get a Full Refund.

So we van say apple is taking “some care” of their clients, what do you think about apple decision?

Here’s the new video from RIM about the upcomming OS 6.0

Things I don’t like about the new OS:

- It’s a copy from Apple and Google (Obviously). How I’m so sure? You can look at the dock which has the shortcuts for every program installed on the Phone, yep, it’s like the one on the Android’s phones. And what about apple? The apps,

- that’s it? only the apps from apple? – No – It also has the Keyboard (The virtual one, obviously)

- The new 9800 has a familiar look, where do I’ve seen that look before… hummm, oh! wait, it’s the Nexus One’s look.

Google App Inventor is the new idea Google team is going to launch for the people who have an android phone. It’s a new an easier way to get an app just for the thing you want to be done.

What’s this all about? It’s about competition with Apple. As you know, on the iPhone ( Apple’s Phone ) you can download an app for resolving almost everything, the thing is, what do I do if there’s no app for what I need? – Google though.

Now, it’s easier with the new smart phones powered with Android ( The Google O.S for Mobil devices ), you can create your app. There’s no need for a special knowledge on programming ( thing that I don’t like to much as I’m a programmer student ) there’s just about clicks.

Personal note: Creating this app doesn’t make you a programmer, so don’t call yourself one. This is a tool that Google is launching to help people to create their own tools, programming is about creating the code and transforming it to “The language that computer uses”

Here’s a video:

Apple rolls out new TV Ads!

You can see this videos on the new “Highlight Videos” gadget on this blog.

First of all, I’ve to say I was rootinig for Brasil since the World Cup started a month ago, and I’m proud of what my team did. Second, I want to congratulate the team from Spain for an awesome game ( Cardiac and Intense, but it worth ).

I liked the final result, it’s better for a team to win on extra time than penalties, in my opinion, penalties don’t decide which team is the best, it only says who had the best luck.

Paul “The Octopus”, I’ve no words to say, you’re awesome, you’re “THE MAN” I dunno how the hell you know all the things you know, but you know them!!

Things that weren’t normal:

A man who tries to put a hat to the World Cup Trophy. He’s called “Jimmy Jump” I think he’s like an “Infraganti” from the local TV Show “Infraganti” -- Medcom. The thing is that he’s pro and Gerson isn’t.

Then: (Busted)

This is how the YouTube’s new interface will be.

It’s pretty comfortable to see a mayor change on the redesign of the youtube’s mobile web. The main problem with this redesign could be that whenever there’s a big change on the design of a social network platform, there are also a great amount of people unsatisfied with the result. The main thing that you need to check once you’re in the mobile website is:

1. Is it now easier for you to look for a Youtube video?
2. Is it a stable website? I mean, have it ever crashed to you while you’re looking for a video?
3. Is it faster to do the stuff you like on the website? (Mark as favorite, subscribe, comment, etc)

Those aspect correspond to 3 categories that I use to understand the relevance of a template redesign:

- Graphic User Interface (Category)
- What you need. Basic user’s stuff or tools (Category)
- What you need. Advanced user’s stuff or tools  (Category)

Based on categories (Thay you can create by yourself also or by your criteria) you should be able to correctly qualify the Youtube mobile web redesign.

Any opinions about the new design?

The FifaWorld Cup’s final matches have been decided. It’s Holanda vs. Spain for the 1st and 2nd place. It was a tough game (way more intense than other I’ve seen in this championship) but in my opinion, Germany didn’t play as cool as in other games before. It was a totally different team in which the 1st and only Gol was crucial and sort of influential in the players’s mood for the rest of the game. I wish an awesome game for Sunday’s afternoon and of course, I hope Netherlands to loose. Go Spain!

This is a tiny blog post only for adding my blog to the new social media sensation, Empire Avenue.
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Look at this commercial, I wish every single favorite team practice like this, how could be possible that anyone on this World Cup could win? I mean Francia lost against Mexico, USA lost today, where are the legendary teams this season?

I’m pretty sure you must be looking for Windows Live Essential leak since they said the month for the release will be June. So, where’s the download? Do they lie to us? When it’s going to be live? Ok, I have you some news.

Explaining what’s happening with all this Windows Live Essentials Buzz, it’s the way in which Microsoft plans to redesign the Windows Live Products concept. It’s the idea of upgrading it services with the new social concept, everything that people uses the most (Like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc) are going to be connected in one platform divided in different services which are categorized by it use.

The most anticipated product: Windows Live Messenger Wave 4. It will be launched as a beta, this weekend. As the MVP from Messengeradictos says on his site:

“It’s only about 1 day to Windows Live Essentials”

There’s a strong rumor about an unapproved leak over the web in the past week, I’m trying to look for more information. Asap I’ll update this post and I’ll add some information about the release or the leak.

Stay tuned! Do you wan to make any comment about this? feel free to post on my Google Wave About Windows Live Essential’s Opinions.
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Te imaginas que tienes ganas de comer una pizza, revisas un sitio para chequear las pizzerías cercanas y te enteras que un/a amig@ al que no has visto en años esta almorzando en dicha pizzería, ¿No te gustaría pasar a saludarlo?

Ahora, que tal si quisieras revisar todos los sitios donde has estado últimamente o simplemente indicarle a tus amigos que estás cenando en un nuevo restaurante de la ciudad y dejarle una recomendación o feedback para cuando vallan en un futuro?

@Foursquare es una red social basada en el servicio de geolocalización o posicionamiento global para la web y dispositivos móviles, además de ser un juego.

Los usuarios o tus amigos hacen un check-in de donde están físicamente y por medio de este “juego” los usuarios pueden enterarse de puntos de coincidencia con amigos, aportar sugerencias y feedbacks sobre el servicio y hasta ganar badges o medallas dependiendo del recorrido que hagas durante un día, mes u otras categorias.

Es una forma entretenida para compartir lugares donde se ha estado para que otras personas pueden conocerlos y pasar un tiempo ameno.

Se han dado cuenta de que muchos de ustedes ponen en sus Blackberrys “@ Universidad  Nickname” ? ¿Qué tal si ese posicionamiento se pudiera poner en otro lado para que igualmente tus amigos se enteraran, no se saturara tanto tu nick y a la vez te entretuvieras visitando y conociendo otros lugares sugeridos por tus amistades?

Aparte de todo esto, @Foursquare tiene conexión directa con @Facebook y @Twitter, es decir, tienes la opción de interconectarlos para compartir con tus amigos o followers donde te encuentras (de así quererlo).

No te quedes fuera de esta moda, chequea lo que han dicho algunos twitteros sobre el servicio:

@nikki_alvarado : @ArleSPinzon Foursquare es como un CRM para los establecimientos, y para los clientes, un espacio de feedback.

@Skrying : @ArleSPinzon fsqre es para mi una herramienta para 1. Darte cuenta si coincides con amigos en x lugar 2. Para llevar una bitacora de lugares que visitas 3. Un juego sin sentido pero divertido

@Olguimarie @ArleSPinzon no lo conozco

@JocUrena @ArleSPinzon Foursquare es una red social donde la geolocalizacion interviene para mantenerte en contacto con tus amistades. Identificas donde y cuando puedes coincidir con alguien de tus amigos

Aunque algunos no lo conozcan, es una gran utilidad para mantenerte informado de nuevos sitios, hobbies que pueden tener ciertas amistades y puntos en común donde puedes encontrar a otras.

Chequeen este video sobre el Foursquare:

// Gracias por sus aportes! @JocUrena @Nikki_alvarado @Olguimarie @Skrying

La tan esperada final de American Idol, Lee DeWyze vs. Crystal Bowersox, se realizará el día de hoy martes 25 de mayo de 2010. Dos grandes voces con diferentes estilos, uno apegado al Rock, otra dentro de lo Pop/Country. ¿Será que esta vez después de 2 años habrá una ganadora y no un ganador como los años anteriores? o ¿ Será un fenómeno “Archuleta parte II” o “Lambert parte II” perdiendo la tan aclamda Crystal Bowersox?

A quién le voy? a DeWyze. Esperemos gane. Fue uno de mis predictions desde el 1er show. (Escribí un artículo de los posibles finalistas, sólo atiné con DeWyze de los 2 que puse).

Veremos el desenlace esta noche y mañana los resultados!

Mucho revuelo está causando últimamente el producto del gigante estético e informático Apple. Hoy en día encontramos de todo y esto es una clara muestra de un diseño estético, sencillo y un poco vanguardista que empiezan a liberar los norteamericanos.

Existen ciertos detalles de este diseño vanguardista que me agradan, otros que dependen del aspecto demográfico. Los que me agradan: portabilidad, hoy en día puedes guardar tu Blackberry o tu iPod en tu bolsillo, pero como haces con un iPad?

Por otro lado, que tanto riesgo se está dispuesto a correr si tienes un atuendo que dice “Hey, tengo plata.. chekea lo que tengo en el bolsillo ;)” ? Cierto que muchos entes influyen dentro de este factor de inseguridad que puede provocarse como es la zona demográfica donde se está utilizando, pero dado que una pequeña muestra de la población de un país es casi (no igual) lo mismo en todos lados solo que variando el nivel de cultura más muchas veces no de moralidad, sigue siendo un riesgo.

No sería mejor una moda más práctica como una mochila, cangurera evolucionada o algo por el estilo que pueda ser más practico y a la vez que denote cierto grado de sobriedad para motivos profesionales? Para esto se supone que es el iPad o no?