Thursday, September 24, 2009

Google Sidewiki

Tikriausiai galima rasti ne vieną internetinę tarnybą, kuri leidžia komentuoti internetinius puslapius. Google su naujuoju savo projektu Sidewiki taip pat bando įsilieti į šias gretas.

Sidewiki bus platinimas su specialia Google Toolbar versija skirta Firefox ir Internet Explorer naršyklėms. Tokiu būdu vartotojams leidžiama viešai komentuoti bet kurį interneto puslapį. Įrašai bus surūšiuoti naudojant algoritmą, kuris filtruoja prastos kokybės komentarus, o įdomesnius iškelia į viršų.

Kaip sako ReadWriteWeb, rūšiavimo algoritmas ir Sidewiki gebėjimas rodyti pastabas ta pačia tema įvairiuose tinklapiuose, daro Sidewiki unikaliu projektu.

Kai kuriem populiariems puslapiams, kuriems dar nebuvo palikti kometarai, erdvė bus užpildyta susijusiais blog'ų įrašais. sakoma, jog tai dar vienas dalykas, kuris daro šį projektą išskirtinį. Priešingai nei daugelis kitų kompanijų Google siūlo ir Sidewiki "API". Sidewiki Data API suteiks kūrėjams, vystytojams (angl. developers) galimybę prieiti prie visų šių pastabų ir įtraukti jas į savo svetaines ar įskiepius (angl. widget).

Įdomu kam Google naudos visą šią informaciją? Tikriausiai net nereikia abejoti, kad yra galybė būdų ir kelių kaip panaudoti tokią informaciją. Pavyzdžiui, ReadWriteWeb kalba apie tai, jog šie komentarai galėtų būti panaudoti paieškos rezultatų pateikime, atsižvelgiant į populiarumą ar atvirkščiai. Taip pat gali tikėtis, kad išorės vystyojai greitai sukurs, pavyzdžiui, Firefox įskiepį, kuris atliks informacijos atrinkimą, pateikimą ir pan.
Belieka pamatyti kaip toliau vystysis šis projektas ilgesnėje perspektyvoje. Vienas aišku, jog Google turės vis daugiau ir daugiau informacijos.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Naujas Twitter kūrėjų darbas

Twitter kūrėjas, Jack Dorsey, jau kalba apie naują savo kūrinį, paremtą microblog'o tema. šį kartą dėmesys gali būti sutelktas į sveikatos apsaugą ir finansines paslaugas.
Pasak Jack Dorsey, sveikatos apsauga USA galėtų būti ir geresnė. Finansų sektorius turi labai daug abstrakcijos ir Twitter kūrėjas norėtų tai pataisyti.
Apie naują "start-up" greitu laiku turėtų būti pranešta, sakoma The Wall Street Journal Blogs publikuotame straipsnyje.
Kaip sakoma straipsnyje, pagrindinės Twitter savybės - greitumas, skaidrumas ir prieinamumas turėtų aiškiai matytis ir naujame kūrinyje. Siekiama sukurti paslaugą, kuria būtų lengva pradėti naudotis, kurią tikėtina, jog pasirinks vartotojai dalintis savo informacija.

Straipsnyje taip pat aprašyta ir tarnybos Twitter pavadinimo kilmė. Sakoma, kad kūrėjai iškart neturėjo galvoje visų idėjų, didelė dalis jų atėjo iš vartotojų, taip atsitiko ir su pavadinimu (nuo žodžio "tweet").

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Opera Mini 5 Beta


Opera Software išleido Opera Mini 5 beta, naujausią naršyklės versiją nuo ankstesnės - 4.2. Naujoji versija turi pataisytą vartotojo sąsają, skirtukus bei dar keletą kitų atnaujinimų.
Opera software stengėsi naršymą naudojant jų programinę įrangą padaryti kaip galima patogesnį bei kuo panašesnį į naršymą įprastu kompiuteriu.
Pasak opera atstovų dėl atliktų patobulinimų naršymas turėtų būti sklandus ir greitas. Šioje versijoje yra galimybė naudoti ir touchscreen įrenginius.

Kaip pavyko šie atnaujinimai, galima sužinoti išbandžius naršyklę (aišku, jei yra poreikis mobiliajam naršymui).

Žemiau trumpas demonstracinis filmukas:

Monday, September 14, 2009

Paskelbta apie pirmą LG Android telefoną GW620

Mobiliųjų telefonų naujienas apžvelgiančiuose tinklalapiuose jau pasirodė naujienos apie pirmą LG Android operacine sistema aprūpintą telefoną - GW620.
Nors tikslesnės specifikacijos dar nėra žinomos, sakoma jog telefonas turės 3 colių lietimui jautrų ekraną, QWERTY klaviatūrą, taip pat bus socialinių tinklų tinklalapių palaikymas. Prekyboje turėtų pasirodyti paskutiniame šių metų ketvirtyje.
Pasak LG atstovo tai tik vienas iš daugelio išmaniųjų telefonų, kuriuos dar planuojama pristatyti, taip siekiama patenkinti pačių įvairiausių vartotojų poreikius. Per ateinančius šešiolika mėnesių LG planuoja pristatyti dar 13 naujų telefonų modelių. Praktiškai kas mėnesį po naują pristatymą. :)

Raminančiai veikia


Friday, September 11, 2009

Hitchhiking from Kaunas to Barcelona and back to Riga – 12 days story [part 13]


21 of May…early morning. Poland road again let us to stand on it :) but they are so narrow that on rainy day it is not pleasant to be there. :) but… quite soon one car stopped. Strange driver told that he is going to Lodz … It was ok for us, but we didn't wanted to get inside the city or too near to it…But this driver didn't speak in English at all.. and no Russian… And we both I were tired after last night… now we felt a relief. Vilma wanted to take a nap so I was responsible to do not miss place to step out. In the beginning everything was ok.. but then he was not speaking and music played and I also was tired so my eyes time by time were closing … but some alarm inside was working and I was opening them again… but it was like to fight with wind…. One blink was longer… I open my eyes and don't understand in which place we are now… if I missed or not… it is time to step out or not… I tried to ask him, but … :) … I was looking in the signs… but at the moment there was none of them… I just understood that we are quite near the Lodz.. the driver changed some roads… it was not highway anymore… it was like a village road… damn it… where are we? But I noticed trucks … and with Lithuanian numbers. I decided it is better to leave this car now. I asked him to stop in petrol station. I used some sign language because for him “petrol station “ meant nothing :) We were near Lodz but exactly where I couldn't tell to Vilma. …It was good place, because after few minutes one Lithuanian truck driver stopped. First Lithuanian driver in all trip. Strange and together glad. It made to feel us one leg at home :) he said that he will go to Vilnius but tomorrow.. we couldn't wait so long so we traveled till he needed to stop for sleep. It was really funny to listen how Lithuanian people were talking on radio. They have good sense of humor …


Next driver was polish with his wife. He was not so good looking but she was really pretty. They had new shiny car and listened a good music. We chatted a little bit with driver… But he was driving like a maniac.. He was studying in Vilnius for a while and liked it … also he liked Klaipeda… Well good that at all polish people like our country and people. :) He let us in a bus stop… because rain was going to start… But we decided to walk a little bit into better position. And soon other Lithuanian driver took us. He was different like others… he was almost not swearing even while talking with other drivers. He told something about their job, about salary and family…Oh and truck drivers know and create lot of jokes about Polish drivers. It is really funny and it makes sense :)…but we felt with him like with our father. Getting to the border of Lithuania he said he is afraid to go with two passengers so I went to his friends truck. Interesting that person asked me how mane bullshit first one told to us. :)


Well first meters in Lithuania… woohoo! Finally…but in first petrol station drivers stopped.
We should go to Riga. Vilma askedto to visit her. We stood and said if after 10 minutes no one stops so we will go to get some dinner :) but one nice car stopped. Nice young man said he is going to Riga :) Can you imagine our surprise and happiness? :) He was Latvian…Vilma was studying in Riga so she knew some Latvian language so they spoke in Latvian… so I was sitting in the back and couldn't hear everything and I am not talking about understanding :) so I slept… latter he was so friendly and took for us some food and also chocolate cookies. Mmm… smirk…he knows what girls likes :) Vilma told me later that he is almost 30 but looks like 24 :) and that he is single and want to have someone for whom could buy everything, with whom could go on holidays and so on :) so I guess that is why he was mindful. ..it was midnight then he let us in Vilmas student house yard. As it is in Latvia the most popular site is draugiem.lv (what in Lithuania is called frype.lt ) so we changed our information and said good buy.

To stay at Vilmas place was not so easy. I needed to climb through the window :) damn it was high… I was half in inside and half outside then abnormal laugh caught me :) but I didn't fell down… somehow with Vilmas help I appeared inside. :)
We met some friend from university. It was so lovely. But all of us were tired so decided to chat latter on next day.

It was so good to sleep in bed. Mmmmm… Heh.. we looked brown… sunbathing was successful .

O Friday 22 of may Vilma took me to her favorite pub. We danced and chat with new people and our friends. Was great night out. I met two Latvian guys who is playing in one band.. but that kind of music I don't listen so I didn't knew them :) they told that 23 day they are going to Klaipeda to play in one pub and said that maybe could take me :) but later I got message that they are sorry but car is full. That's ok in Sunday morning 24 there was cheep bus to Joniškis from where to Kaunas. It was strange to sit in a bus and sleep without worrying that you might miss something important. Then I stepped out of a bus in Kaunas the rain started…but not simple rain but with ice …. God, why I came here :) everywhere sun was shining and here rain… :) but exam session was waiting for me.

Google statistikos centras internete

Vakar be jokios didelės pompastikos pasirodė pranešimas apie naują Google kūrinį - "Google Internet Stats". Šioje vietoje turėtų būtis skelbiama statistinė informacija, įžvalgos iš visų penkių skirtingų pramonės šakų. Naudojantis trečiųjų šalių paslaugomis ir priemonėmis bus skelbiami Twitter įrašų dydžio komentarai.

Statistinių duomenų rinkimas yra suskirstyti į penkias pagrindines sritis: technologijos, makroekonomikos tendencijos, žiniasklaidos formos, žiniasklaidos vartojimo ir vartojimo tendencijos. Kiekvienoje temoje yra subkategorijos nagrinėjančios specifinius srities klausimus. Pavyzdžiui technologijų skiltyje galima rasti mobiliųjų įrenginių, interneto ir pan, subkategorijas.

Statistikos duomenis galima rasti paieškos būdu arba peržiūrint visus įrašus. The New York Times straipsnyje nurodomi ir šaltiniai iš kurių bus renkama informacija. Straipsnyje dar bandoma pažvelgti į tai, kodėl Google kaip manoma tokį vertingą įrankį paliko po UK domenu. Sakoma, kad ir statistiniuose duomenyse daugiau dėmesio bus skiriama UK ar visos Europos informacijai.
Gal būt tokiu būdu tik testuojamas naujo įrankio veikimas ir vėliau bus pristatytos gal net regijoninės versijos.

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Hitchhiking from Kaunas to Barcelona and back to Riga – 12 days story [part 12]

Next our friend was a young solder. :) cute one. He was going home to mum for holidays. There was an eve of one national celebration so that's why we met that sciences boy and some others… So he was young and funny. He was telling about army system in Germany and about things he was doing in these days. He was warning pirates do not rob :) and he was menace with his finger. :) He was so kind and drove 30 km into direction we needed to let us in a better petrol station :) we said that it is not necessary and so on. But he just smiled “ I can’t let you here, this petrol station is weird and … no no.. not here… and I don't care it is not mine car and not mine petrol :) and my mum can wait 30 minutes more “ . Our hero :)
It was about 100 to Berlin. In this petrol station after few steps one guy came to me and started to speak in German .. ginger boy :) I smiled and asked him to say it again in English.
He was also hitchhiking. To Berlin. We said it would be nice to chat but first we wanted to buy some snacks. :) then we came out he had a companion. We four young people were sitting on a pavement and chatting, eating. We asked if they are hitchhiking together. No :) that new one was just asking for lighter :) but then he saw us eating so he joined with his sandwiches :) He was born in Russia, Siberia…but grown up in Germany…he was I guess 18 years old and wanted to become a solder :) like that one with whom we just wave off. :) Oh he was not hitchhiking so we remembered that and asked where he is going. To Berlin direction but not into it :) the guy who was hitchhiking like we said that he already spoke with him and we all can go with him. :) cool. We jumped up in a sportive car and moved. Traffic was heavy because of coming national celebration…everyone was going to the sea… but in the car we chatted like we all were a good friends. That hitchhiking boy appeared not so young :) 27 maybe… he was interesting :) he had a Russian girlfriend with whom was hitchhiking to Jerusalem. :) do you imagine German and Russian in Jewish country? :) but everything was ok. He recommended for us one music festival and wrote it name on our map also gave his facebook and phone number if maybe once we would like to come to Berlin and need a place to stay. :)
Time came to say bye bye to driver and start looking for new one. :) It was evening and almost dark…after few minutes it became dark…and it seemed that rain is coming. We took some coffee. It was sad to leave that ginger boy. :) he had bigger chances to get car first. While we were sitting and drinking coffee one guy came… new hitchhiker :) funny :) he saw our map and Fusion festival name and smiled. He said that it is really worth to come. He also left his facebook and really fast find a driver who was going to Berlin. So we left three again :) Soon and our ginger friend left. We were a bit lazy to jump around and ask people where they are going. . . .also rain was falling… so we were looking to numbers of cars… now we wanted to get into Poland. If we saw a Polish numbers so we asked these peoples… but we sit on a pavement with tablet on the ground with one cities name and PL letters. What should mean Poland . :) One young man came to us and started to speak in Polish :) ha ha .. we are not Polish :) but any way they were going to wrong direction. After some time one man passed but turned back and came to us. He asked where we are going (also in Polish) we said in English . He asked from where we are and said ok we can go with him. Lucky :) if honestly we didn't have hope to go at that night…well but… the car was new and posh…and .. in car second man… I felt not safe…I think if we shouldn’t go with them… they look like .. like from mafia . . I said it to Vilma. She think that everything is ok :) but in hitchhiking it is important to listen what your friend feels or thinks. So just in case she stepped out of the car while driver were smoking and take a look into cars numbers. We wrote it down. Car moved. We were thinking if we should write to anyone…but just in case I wrote to my brother the number of the car and time on which I will write again. It should be time then we step out of this car… That night rain was pouring heavily… but driver was going fast… we felt so asleep . . . but we tried to be awake to watch signs on road if we are going to right direction. Poznan … from Berlin to Poznan… lucky …without problems :)
But it was first time then I was not sure if we did a good decision by sitting in that car. But it was good one because we were still moving :) home were closer and closer.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Nokia X6 ir Nokia X3

Nokia World 2009 renginio metu pristatyti nauji XSeries music Nokia telefonai. Paskutiniame metų ketvirtyje turėtų pasirodyti Nokia X6 ir Nokia X3 modeliai. Planuojama Nokia X6 kaina apie 450 Eur. kartu bus ir "Comes with Music" paslauga. Nokia X3 planuojama kaina - 115 Eur.

Nokia X6 touch screen telefonas turintis 32GB vidinės atminties, 3.2 colių ekranas (16:9 santykis, 360 x 640 pikselių ir 16 milijonų spalvų). Telefonas taip pat turės 5 megapikselių kamerą kartu su 2 LED blykste. Kartu su šia nokia bus galima rasti ir keletą žaidimų, tokių kaip Spore, Asphalt4, DJ Mix Tour.

Keletas Nokia X6 specifikacijos detalių:
  • Symbian OS, S60 5-asis leidimas 5,0
  • Dydis: 111 x 51 x 13,8 mm
  • Ekranas: 3,2 "16:9
  • 32 GB vidinė atmintis
  • Pokalbių laikas: iki 8h (GSM) / 5 val (3G)
  • Budėjimo trukmė: iki 406h (GSM) / 400 val (3G)
  • Muzikos grojimo laikas: iki 35h
  • Vaizdo grojimo laikas: iki 4 valandų (30 fps)
  • Procesorius 433.9MHz
  • 5 megapikselių kamera, Carl Zeiss optika bei dviguba LED blykstė
  • Bluetooth 2.0
  • 3.5mm ausinių lizdas
  • A-GPS
  • WLAN

Dabar dar truputėlis informacijos apie Nokia X3. Kaip sako pati gamintoja, tai įrenginys skirtas muzikos mėgėjams. Nokia X3 turėtų būti glotnaus korpuso muzikos prietaisas, turintis stereo garsiakalbius, FM radiją, 3,2 megapikselių kamerą.

Nokia X3 Specifikacijos:

  • Dydis: 96 x 49,3 x 14,1 mm
  • Ekranas: 2.2 "QVGA, 262K spalvų
  • 46MB vidinės atminties
  • MicroSD kortelių lizdas
  • Pokalbio laikas: iki 7.5h GSM
  • Budėjimo laikas: iki 380h GSM
  • Muzika grojimo laikas: Iki 26h
  • BLUETOOTH
  • 3.5mm ausinių lizdas
  • 3,2 megapikselių kamera
  • FM radijas

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Rugsėjo 1-oji

Sveikinimai visiems dėstytojams, mokytojams, studentams ir moksleiviams :).

Kažkaip pagailo prabėgusios vasarėlės, o ji kaip visada - nepasivargino ilgiau užsilaikyti...