I do my own stunts

Fabricio Zuardi's weblog, English version.
Mon Sep 14
“ We think open is better than closed — not because closed is inherently bad, but because when it’s easy for users to leave your product, there’s a sense of urgency to improve and innovate in order to keep your users. When your users are locked in, there’s a strong temptation to be complacent and focus less on making your product better. Google Public Policy Blog: Introducing DataLiberation.org: Liberate your data!
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Mon Aug 17

10 of my sxsw picks

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Fri Aug 7

Dorm fire in New York University (via Pollario)

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Fri May 22

doutromundo:

guz: kaluluwa:

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Sun May 17
Awh, How Cute: A Little LEGO Nintendo - Geekologie
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Fri May 15
“ After founding a lost onion on my fridge, and noticing that it wanted to live. I went through a journey of experiments and photo-shooting until I finally gave it to my mother as a Mother’s Day gift :) House Onion - a set on Flickr
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…oh and btw, #fixreplies on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

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Sat May 2
“ The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can. Running from Camera
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Thu Apr 23

Nice little red ridning hood animation!

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Sun Apr 19
“ Sometimes our actors did not even know how many cameras were trained on them,” Trost confided. “We have one scene where Jason is fighting off a dozen other guys. Right as we are calling ‘Roll camera’ and about to call ‘Action,’ Jason yells out ‘Where is all the cameras?’ And I yelled back to him, ‘There are 12 of them out there, man, just go.’ Canon’s XH A1 and VIXIA HF10 HD Camcorders Used to Photograph Groundbreaking Action Movie Crank High Voltage | The Briefing Room
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Fri Mar 6

Girl Talk is so last year… Kutiman is the new shit!

It’s still March and this artist already has my vote for Best Release of the Year:

Check out some of the tracks he assembled using youtube videos.

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Tue Mar 3

JavaScript: The Good Parts (via googletechtalks)

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Sat Feb 28
Amazon Backs Off Text-to-Speech Feature in Kindle - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Brilliant move from Amazon! 

Instead of entering on a legal battle with the dicks of the Author’s Guild (that fail to represent authors interests completely), they will simply give the option to opt-out text-to-speech feature and let the market give it’s message. 

Since almost no author will care about the tts version and release their work with it enabled anyways, and the very few that do choose to release a book with the restriction will be bombarded by bad reviews from the consumers, much like what happened with Spore. They save legal hassle and turn the bad publicity to who deserves it in the first place: the greedy cock-suckers from Author’s Guild.

Just brilliant. I couldnt have done better.

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How much does Twitter robots.txt worth?

That is the question.

So John Batelle has made some predictions about the future of Twitter… He argues, and I agree that Google may soon try to acquire Twitter, because of it’s most valuable asset: a huge network of people generating live updates and how this is important to have if you want to dominate the real time search area.

He also argues that Twitter is in a position where they can refuse offers as they already did with Facebook, so this potential buying offer from Google would be some ridiculous amount of money, much like what happened with Youtube.

The problem is, Google does not need to spend any money on Twitter to have real time conversational search. All it takes to have tweets figuring out on search results is for Google to start indexing Twitter by doing a “little evil”, which means ignore their robots.txt file and maybe the nofollow attributes too.

From Twitter’s robot.txt:

# Every bot that might possibly read and respect this file.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /*/with_friends

So, the way I see it Google has 2 options: A- play it cool and come to a deal with Twitter either by acquiring it or through some other kind of partnership, and B- forget it and crawl it anyways, like they did with book search and street maps, after all they are a search company and can worry about potential legal consequences later :)

One way or another, it will be interesting to see what it will gonna be, and the price tags involved.

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david:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Hysteric

This album is going to be goooooood.  Lots of good stuff on Hype Machine today.

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