domingo, 24 de abril de 2011

Google launches Art Project, the Street View museums

Google Street View of museums brings 17 different locations around the world including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MoMA in New York, The State HermitageMuseum in St. Petersburg, Tate Britain and The National Gallery in London, the MuseoReina Sofia in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the Van Gogh Museum inAmsterdam.

Each chose a museum of his works to be captured using technology gigapixel, whichallows a microscopic view of the frame through Picasa. You can also create your ownart collection, to revisit whenever you like. Look here: googleartproject.com

The Daily: The iPad exclusive newspaper

Rupert Murdoch and Apple executive Eddy Cue, today introduced The Daily, the "newspaper" created from scratch exclusively for the iPad.

Price: 0.19 cents per day for approximately 100 pages of content. Differs in producingcontent exclusively for the tablet daily.


The Daily

Facebook launched Facebook Places

Facebook launched Facebook Places, which is a partnership with the Foursquare andGowalla, the two biggest players geosocial, thus launching their own tool to check-in.


Facebook Places





NYC: Application to find where you have free condoms

For decades, the health department of New York distributes millions of condoms, butthis action now has a new and technological component, the NYC Condom Finder is anapplication that helps you find the nearest free condoms, indicating routes for the more than 3000 distribution points.


NYC Finder Condom

Daily Internet Activities

People Online Infographic

If you exceed the speed limit, the music slows

Based on the idea that people drive faster when they are listening to music, the agency Happiness Brussels created an application to the Belgian Road Parents of ChildVictims (OVK).

If you exceed the speed limit, which can be stated in the app itself, the music slows down.


Slow Down App

The territorial map of social networks


The Italian Vincenzo Cosenza launches every half a world map with the social networking market leaders in each country in the world. In the latest only Brazil, China,Japan and Russia remain outside the realm of Facebook among major markets.

Internet Wishlist, a suggestion box of the Internet

The proposed Internet Wishlist is simple: It is a collection of comments on Twitter withpeople giving ideas and suggestions for tools and applications.


Wishlist

WhatFont Bookmarklet, an easy way to find a type

The programmer Chengyin Liu, University of Illinois, created the easiest way to find a typeA bookmarklet that instantly identifies, simply pass the mouse over it while browsing.

chengyinliu.com / whatfont.html

Twitter to get a Diet Pepsi

In the commercial for Diet Pepsi Sofia Vergara uses Twitter to get your drink.


Chromercise

Comic!!!

The scup, published a chart of times more pumped for you tweet

The scup, a specialist in monitoring and analyzing social media, published a chart of times more pumped for you tweet and get feedback from their ideas and subsequentposts and tweets.


Fearsquare reveals the crime of the places where you check-in

Using the database of the British police, the Fearsquare shows a map of fear in the UK,and more, yet you points for attending these places.

But the idea is to provide a service to show what types of crimes have happened in that place you just check in through the Foursquare. There are three categories: antisocial behavior, theft and violent crime.

Another useful example of this type of intersection with the social network is donteat.at,which warns you if you gave that restaurant check in is provided to be interdicted by the Health Surveillance. This only works in New York and Fearsquare in the UK alone - but with a promise to get other countries.


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