blog.franciscocosta.comhttp://blog.franciscocosta.compersonal blogenFri, 03 Jul 2009 03:03:45 PDThttp://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1hourly1http://blog.franciscocosta.comhttp://franciscocosta.com/system/application/views/themes/franciscocosta/i/profile-blank.pngthis is meMy first Gadgetshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogaites/~3/ZtKlAYbnImI/my-first-gadgets.htmlGadgetscasio colorgame boykidsnostalgicturbo tommywalkmanyoungFrancisco CostaFri, 03 Jul 2009 03:03:26 PDThttp://blog.franciscocosta.com/?p=1103Recently I’ve been sharing with friends some memories about when we were young and the toys that make us salivate! Those were the times!
For now I only remember this ones, I will add more in the future.

3D View Master

3D View Master

Casio Color CSF-7950

Casio Color CSF-7950Casio Color CSF-7950 Box

Nintendo Game Boy

Nintendo Game Boy

Sony Walkman

Sony Walkman

Turbo Tommy

Turbo Tommy

What about you? What were your favorite gadgets when you were a kid?

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]]>Recently I’ve been sharing with friends some memories about when we were young and the toys that make us salivate! Those were the times! For now I only remember this ones, I will add more in the future. 3D View Master Casio Color CSF-7950 Nintendo Game Boy Sony Walkman Turbo Tommy What about you? What were your favorite gadgets when you were [...]http://blog.franciscocosta.com/my-first-gadgets.html/feed0http://blog.franciscocosta.com/my-first-gadgets.htmlWhy I Love Linuxhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogaites/~3/4CmrGI3TmQE/why-i-love-linux.htmlLinuxwindowsFrancisco CostaFri, 26 Jun 2009 06:10:13 PDThttp://blog.franciscocosta.com/?p=1097

Linux

Legally free to copy, modify, share and redistribute.
The more you share the more you receive.

Windows

Do not lend or make illegal copies of this software.
The more you take the more you lose.

]]>Linux Legally free to copy, modify, share and redistribute.The more you share the more you receive. Windows Do not lend or make illegal copies of this software.The more you take the more you lose.http://blog.franciscocosta.com/why-i-love-linux.html/feed0http://blog.franciscocosta.com/why-i-love-linux.htmlPost-It Storyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogaites/~3/5W86ncOE5oY/post-it-story.htmlArtCulture3mcreativeinovationmaniaoriginaloriginspost itFrancisco CostaFri, 12 Jun 2009 08:13:39 PDThttp://blog.franciscocosta.com/?p=1081Post-its OfficeIf Post-it is a revolutionary product, you can use them to be creative and innovative in other fields.
But in the last years I’ve heard a few stories from different teachers, friends or even conference speakers, how post-it was originally created. I started to believe that everyone started to add a personal taste to the story just like a urban myth, but I think this is the true one:

Most people love them. But Post-it® Notes were not a planned product.
No one got the idea and then stayed up nights to invent it. A man named Spencer Silver was working in the 3M research laboratories in 1970 trying to find a strong adhesive. Silver developed a new adhesive, but it was even weaker than what 3M already manufactured. It stuck to objects, but could easily be lifted off. It was super weak instead of super strong.
No one knew what to do with the stuff, but Silver didn’t discard it. Then one Sunday four years later, another 3M scientist named Arthur Fry was singing in the church’s choir. He used markers to keep his place in the hymnal, but they kept falling out of the book. Remembering Silver’s adhesive, Fry used some to coat his markers. Success! With the weak adhesive, the markers stayed in place, yet lifted off without damaging the pages. 3M began distributing Post-it ® Notes nationwide in 1980 — ten years after Silver developed the super weak adhesive. Today they are one of the most popular office products available.

Just be creative

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]]>If Post-it is a revolutionary product, you can use them to be creative and innovative in other fields. But in the last years I’ve heard a few stories from different teachers, friends or even conference speakers, how post-it was originally created. I started to believe that everyone started to add a personal taste to the story [...]http://blog.franciscocosta.com/post-it-story.html/feed1http://blog.franciscocosta.com/post-it-story.htmlSocial Web Surveyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogaites/~3/H6K5SFXLocM/social-web-survey.htmlInternetsocial mediasocial websurveyweb2Francisco CostaWed, 10 Jun 2009 09:38:43 PDThttp://blog.franciscocosta.com/?p=1076This is a small survey for my Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Technology Master Degree @ University of Porto.
Social Web
So if you have 30seconds to answer this Social Web Survey I would appreciate.
I promise to post the results in a few weeks.

]]>This is a small survey for my Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Technology Master Degree @ University of Porto. So if you have 30seconds to answer this Social Web Survey I would appreciate. I promise to post the results in a few weeks.http://blog.franciscocosta.com/social-web-survey.html/feed0http://blog.franciscocosta.com/social-web-survey.htmlFriendFeed – my #1 source of informationhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogaites/~3/QA4tnZgaZtE/friendfeed-my-1-source-of-information.htmlInternetTwitterfriendfeedinformationsocial networksweb2Francisco CostaWed, 10 Jun 2009 08:16:29 PDThttp://blog.franciscocosta.com/?p=1043This may be a controversial article, and many people may disagree with me, but this reflects my opinion on why FriendFeed is the ultimate tool for keeping me updated on the Internet.

FriendFeed Logo

FriendFeed Logo

My experience with FriendFeed started a long time ago, but only in the last couple months I’ve been using it extremely. The main reason of this is because of their redesign. Yes, this new design (with some minor new functionalities) made me fall in love with the application. You can get a better feeling of it at VentureBeat: FriendFeed’s redesign combines publishing and IM better than Facebook or Twitter.

Twitter vs FriendFeed

I have to say that I’m a huge fan of Twitter and that’s why I don’t blog more often. But Twitter has become a bit of a problem to me. I like to follow people that I think that are relevant to my interests, but I also like to follow back people who think my tweets are interesting. I could well follow about 50 different individuals to keep me updated about web stuff, but when I passed the 150 followers my stream become unreadable and full of non-interesting information. I could use some Twitter client to organize all those people into groups, but I’m a huge fan of open-source and most of those apps are built under Adobe Air.

Where does FriendFeed fills in?

FriendFeed has some unique characteristics that solved my problems. On FriendFeed you can add all you social profiles, so when you follow someone you don’t subscribe only to his Twitter account but you can also see their YouTube favorite videos or Flickr photos. You can also sort your contacts in different groups and you don’t need to refresh your browser for updates. You even don’t need to click on external links to watch videos or photos. Another big advantage is that you can comment others content and consequently do a better track of conversations. You are not limited to 140 characters and you can integrate your account with all others social networks such us delicious or Facebook. FriendFeed also has some other really sensible and useful features such as lists (a specific list of friends or people you subscribe to). You can get it all at the help page.
With FriendFeed you get all the juice with occasional chat.

The verdict

In the last month I used FriendFeed has the main source of information and I increased my followers on Twitter. These are some of the main reasons I prefer FriendFeed. If you haven’t tried spend a few moments on it and don’t forget to subscribe to my accounts.
Friendfeed
Twitter

What’s your opinion about this?

]]>This may be a controversial article, and many people may disagree with me, but this reflects my opinion on why FriendFeed is the ultimate tool for keeping me updated on the Internet. My experience with FriendFeed started a long time ago, but only in the last couple months I’ve been using it extremely. The main reason [...]http://blog.franciscocosta.com/friendfeed-my-1-source-of-information.html/feed0http://blog.franciscocosta.com/friendfeed-my-1-source-of-information.htmlCloudviewshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogaites/~3/yTacVBWliGw/cloudviews.htmlBusinessInternetcloud computingcloudviewsconferenceFrancisco CostaTue, 02 Jun 2009 15:05:30 PDThttp://blog.franciscocosta.com/?p=990Last week I’ve attend to Cloudviews 2009 – Cloud Computing Conference at ISEP in Oporto.
It was with surprise that I realize this conference would take place in my town because most of the international events happen in Lisbon. Maybe because the team at Cloudviews is somehow related with ISEP.
The mains theme of the conference was “To Cloud or not to Cloud” and all the speakers tried their best to answer this question.


In general I think the conference was well organized but I was hopping to see more people attending it. Some of the speakers were from well known companies in the IT industry like Salesforce, IBM, Amazon or even OpenID and got surprise when I realize this was a free conference with free lunch (very nice btw) and snacks :)

I just subscribed the Cloud Computing Daily Views and I want to congratulate the team for their dedication and talent. Hope to see you in the next year!

And quoting Gerrit Huizenga “The era of cloud computing is just beginning”.

]]>Last week I’ve attend to Cloudviews 2009 – Cloud Computing Conference at ISEP in Oporto. It was with surprise that I realize this conference would take place in my town because most of the international events happen in Lisbon. Maybe because the team at Cloudviews is somehow related with ISEP. The mains theme of the conference was [...]http://blog.franciscocosta.com/cloudviews.html/feed4http://blog.franciscocosta.com/cloudviews.htmlJolicloud is in Businesshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogaites/~3/YzSTm6r25i8/jolicloud-is-in-business.htmlLinuxcloud computingjolicloudremixubuntuFrancisco CostaTue, 02 Jun 2009 13:47:48 PDThttp://blog.franciscocosta.com/?p=977Jolicloud is a internet operating system with focus on the social networks apps and cloud computing!

It’s based on Ubuntu Linux (Remix) and is compiled to be installed in netbooks. They have a full list of compatible devices and you can also check out some screenshots.

For now you have to get an invitation to download Jolicloud so while you waiting for that enjoy this video with some of the cool features Jolicloud has to offer you.

]]>Jolicloud is a internet operating system with focus on the social networks apps and cloud computing! It’s based on Ubuntu Linux (Remix) and is compiled to be installed in netbooks. They have a full list of compatible devices and you can also check out some screenshots. For now you have to get an invitation to download Jolicloud [...]http://blog.franciscocosta.com/jolicloud-is-in-business.html/feed2http://blog.franciscocosta.com/jolicloud-is-in-business.htmlÚltimo artigo em Portuguêshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogaites/~3/0x1RirgCnzo/ultimo-artigo-em-portugues.htmlBlogcloudfranciscocostahostingportuguêstema wordpresstemplatewordpressFrancisco CostaSat, 30 May 2009 09:27:33 PDThttp://blog.franciscocosta.com/?p=959De agora em diante vou passar a escrever aqui em inglês. Foi uma opção bastante ponderada, mas penso que é a melhor forma de treinar a minha escrita na língua anglo-saxónica. De resto é uma opção que faz todo o sentido pois ultimamente tenho redigido os meus twitter nesse idioma e além do mais todo o meu software também é inglês!

Árbitro Português

Ha.. para aqueles que não repararam o endereço do blog também mudou de http://blogaites.com para http://blog.franciscocosta.com. Aproveitei para redireccionar todo o conteúdo do antigo blog para este de forma a não ser penalizado pelo Google!
Como há cerca de um mês passei a hospedar todos os meus sites num serviço diferente (depois de passar pelo Aptana Cloud fixei-me no SliceHost) aproveitei a ocasião para centralizar o meu conteúdo e para dar um retoque no design! :)

Portuguese Do It Better

Com estas alterações irei também retirar o blog do Planetuga (pois não se enquadra no espírito) mas não se assustem, manterei a minha participação lá! :)
Prometo de agora em diante começar a escrever mais, nem que sejam artigos mais rápidos e simples!

]]>De agora em diante vou passar a escrever aqui em inglês. Foi uma opção bastante ponderada, mas penso que é a melhor forma de treinar a minha escrita na língua anglo-saxónica. De resto é uma opção que faz todo o sentido pois ultimamente tenho redigido os meus twitter nesse idioma e além do mais todo [...]http://blog.franciscocosta.com/ultimo-artigo-em-portugues.html/feed1http://blog.franciscocosta.com/ultimo-artigo-em-portugues.htmlMudei-me para a nuvemhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogaites/~3/yLS3YFwWHfk/mudei-me-para-a-nuvem.htmlBlogInternetcloudhospedagemnuvemservidor dedicadowebFrancisco CostaThu, 30 Apr 2009 13:02:09 PDThttp://blog.franciscocosta.com/?p=955Achei por bem em dar o salto!?!? de um servidor dedicado europeu para uma nuvem americana!

cloud-computing

Brevemente dou uma explicação mais detalhada de todo o processo!

]]>Achei por bem em dar o salto!?!? de um servidor dedicado europeu para uma nuvem americana! Brevemente dou uma explicação mais detalhada de todo o processo!http://blog.franciscocosta.com/mudei-me-para-a-nuvem.html/feed4http://blog.franciscocosta.com/mudei-me-para-a-nuvem.htmlMamonas Assassinashttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogaites/~3/6aoTU3tpmvA/mamonas-assassinas.htmlMusicmamonas assassinasFrancisco CostaMon, 02 Mar 2009 09:34:30 PSThttp://blog.franciscocosta.com/?p=930Desapareceram há 13 anos num trágico acidente de avião. Os Mamonas Assassinas tiveram uma carreira fulminante de apenas cinco meses e três semanas, período em que venderam quase 2,3 milhões de cópias apenas com um disco editado recheado de músicas irreverentes e debochadas.
Foram talvez o maior fenómeno musical do Brasil, ao atingirem toda a população do norte ao sul, das amazonas ao litoral, todas as classes sociais ou faixas etárias.

Banda Mamonas Assassinas

Ninguém ficava indiferente à sua sonoridade e às suas letras.
Faleceram 2 dias depois de eu ter comprado o disco deles. Vinham para Portugal. Na altura foi um sentimento de tristeza grande, e fez-se luto de novo no Brasil 2 anos depois da morte de Ayrton Senna.
Para a história fica a sua irreverência e boa disposição como demonstra este vídeo com as últimas gravações existentes da banda.

O maior sucesso deles terá sido Pelados em Santos devido à sua letra romântica e melódica. O vídeo-clip (único gravado) é visualmente fantástico para a época e bastante divertido:

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]]>Desapareceram há 13 anos num trágico acidente de avião. Os Mamonas Assassinas tiveram uma carreira fulminante de apenas cinco meses e três semanas, período em que venderam quase 2,3 milhões de cópias apenas com um disco editado recheado de músicas irreverentes e debochadas. Foram talvez o maior fenómeno musical do Brasil, ao atingirem toda a população [...]http://blog.franciscocosta.com/mamonas-assassinas.html/feed2http://blog.franciscocosta.com/mamonas-assassinas.html