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Um vídeo sensacional baseado no conto “O cego e o publicitário”.

Uma publicitária que, ao passar por um cego pedindo ajuda na rua, resolve ajudá-lo rescrevendo a frase que estava em sua placa. Como um milagre, o cego passa a ganhar mais dinheiro.

Assista e veja qual foi a frase que a publicitária escreveu:

Quer lição melhor que essa? É bom estudar, aprender coisas diferentes, lutar pelo que se quer. O mundo não olha mais para coisas iguais que estamos acostumados a ver todos os dias.

Precisamos reclamar menos, viver mais e sempre ajudar um ao outro.

[EDITADO: Coloquei o vídeo original, que todos afirmaram ser melhor]

Há pouco, publiquei um comercial sensacional feito pela Budweiser mostrando um cachorrinho e seu amigo cavalo. Agora, para divulgar a Bud Light, outra cerveja da marca, eles resolveram dar um dia dos sonhos para um sujeito aleatório em um bar (inclusive com o Arnold Schwarzenegger aparecendo pra jogar um tênis de mesa com o maluco)

Assista e veja o que aconteceu com Ian Rapoport, depois de aceitar o desafio proposto por uma mulher em um bar…

Aprenda, Brasil. Não é preciso apenas mulheres seminuas pra fazer um comercial de cerveja!

Comercial que foi veiculado no Super Bowl 2014, porém, com cenas estendidas para o Youtube.

Figures obtained by the Guardian and confirmed by the Indian embassy state that there have been 717 deaths among Indians working in Qatar since the Gulf nation was awarded the 2022 World Cup in December 2010. That's just the tip.

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YD’s resident Design Strategist Hideshi Hamaguchi, who also happens to be the innovator of the USB Stick will be pleasantly surprised to see his vision take on such a productive form. dataSTICKIES are the next generation of data portability. They are graphene-based flash drives that replace USB data drives.

dataSTICKIES can be carried like a stack of sticky-back notes; each of them can be simply peeled from the stack and stuck anywhere on the ODTS (Optical Data Transfer Surface), which is a panel that can be attached to the front surface of devices like computer screens, televisions, music systems, etc. The device uses a special conductive adhesive that sticks them to the ODTS and serves as the medium that transfers the data.

Specs:

• The special low-tack, pressure-sensitive adhesive is capable of being reused without leaving marks like a repositionable note.
• When the dataSTICKIES are being read by the device, their edges light up.
• The dataSTICKIES come in various colors and patterns that make data segregation according to type and size easier.
• They can be stacked and used together for increased capacity, which also enables carrying them together.
• The top surface can be written on.
• If a file needs to be given to someone, a single sticky can be handed out rather than an entire pen drive.
• The dataSTICKIES are not easily lost because they can be stuck down on any object.

dataSTICKIES is a 2013 Red Dot Award: Design Concept winner.

Designers: Aditi Singh & Parag Anand

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Uma tirinha precisa sobre o mundo dos negócios.

My next best song.

In my opinion, one of the best things humanity has captured on video. Done in 1979 by Voyager 1 as it approached Jupiter. 

Netflix has been slowing down. It keeps interrupting "The West Wing", which I have been binge watching for several weeks.

Slow Netflix?

The whole point of Netflix is that it's fast, and you can watch 6 episodes of "The West Wing", without having to move any major muscle groups. Truly, when I see that loading symbol and the "Ooops, something went wrong" message, I am ready to grab a pitchfork and a torch and MAKE SOMEONE PAY… or at least get really outraged from my couch. (And yes, I am watching "The West Wing" instead of "House of Cards", because... well... I'm still wearing boot cut jeans, if that tells you anything about my ability to be on trend.)

Reports are saying that Verizon and other Internet service providers are not giving Netflix the juice it needs to make my experience the seamless Sorkinian delight it should be. Verizon denies this, saying it treats all sites equally. What we do know is that Internet service providers want Netflix to pay up. Netflix requires a lot of data, and Verizon, which controls the pipes that bring you the Internet, wants it to pay extra. 

"The carriers are now saying that the burden should also be put on the Netflixes of the world, and the Hulus of the world, in order to help defray some of the costs," says Tim Bajarin, with Creative Strategies. "Especially if they have to expand their networks to handle more traffic."

As Internet use has skyrocketed and data-hungry video has taken off, there’s a cost-passing game of chicken going between websites and internet service providers.

"Companies need to figure out who is more important to whom," says Ken Wilbur, professor of marketing at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. "Once they have a clear idea about that, they can figure out who should be paying whom how much." 

Net neutrality would mean carriers like Verizon couldn’t charge Netflix more than any other website. But regulations guarding net neutrality haven’t been sticking.

"It's what many critics, myself included, have called the cablization of the Internet," says Aram Sinnreich , author of The Piracy Crusade and a professor of media at Rutgers University. He says without net neutrality, there’s no way a company like YouTube or Facebook or Netflix could get off the ground.

"Only the wealthiest companies, who already control the industry, will be able to provide a compelling consumer experience, and all the rival upstarts are going to come across as pixellated blocky interrupted video."

Today, the Federal Communications Commission said it would write new guidelines to safeguard net neutrality, but so far there doesn’t seem to be a way to enforce it.

So, when it comes to my "West Wing" binge, I might have to develop video buffering patience. Or start reading…

We curated a Twilight Colors gallery a few weeks ago and asked you on Flickr on Facebook to show us more by sharing your favorite photography of scenes around the world at dusk and dawn. You answered with many striking pictures. Here’s a sample of the wonderful submissions, from Kailua Kona, Hawaii, to Kleinwalsertal, Austria.

See, and share, more photos in the All About Sun group and Sunsets & Sunrises group. Also, follow our new flickr.com/flickr galleries for daily participation opportunities in a variety of photography themes and event coverage.

Photos from dret, @TanjaB, Nathana Krol, ollygringo, spiritvision57, El Oveja Negra, and HausHimmelreich.

tldr est une application (un module npm plus exactement) qui permet d'obtenir des infos de type "man" sur une commande, mais uniquement des exemples clair et utiles dans la vie de tous les jours, sans tout le blabla technique (qui a aussi son utilité dans d'autres cas évidemment). C'est du spécial n00b pressé et c'est top !

Par exemple, si de manière classique vous faites un "man tar", vous obtenez ceci :

Mais si vous utilisez à la place un "tldr tar", vous obtiendrez ceci :

Pour info, tldr est une abréviation connue d'Internet qui signifie "Too long; didn't read", soit "Trop long; pas lu".

Pour l'installer, vous devez avoir npm (Node Packaged Modules) et lancer la commande suivante :

npm install -g tldr

Plus d'infos ici

Cet article merveilleux et sans aucun égal intitulé : Too long; didn’t read pour vos man pages ; a été publié sur Korben, le seul site qui t'aime plus fort que tes parents.

captain-cal:

cannabiscrazy:

This is very satisfying

I am entertained for hours.

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Located near the Red Sea in El Gouna, Egypt, Desert Breath is an impossibly immense land art installation dug into the sands of the Sahara desert by the D.A.ST. Arteam back in 1997. The artwork was a collaborative effort spanning two years between installation artist Danae Stratou, industrial designer Alexandra Stratou, and architect Stella Constantinides, and was meant as an exploration of infinity against the backdrop of the largest African desert. Covering an area of about 1 million square feet (100,000 square meters) the piece involved the displacement of 280,000 square feet (8,000 square meters) of sand and the creation of a large central pool of water.

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Although it’s in a slow state of disintegration, Desert Breath remains viewable some 17 years after its completion, you can even see it in satellite images taken from Google Earth. You can learn more about the project in the video above or read about it here. (via Visual News, Synaptic Stimuli)

GULPO IS HERE! And, he's here in a limited quantity.



(Seriously, these were a little difficult to get made, so if you don't get one of this batch it might be tricky to get more for a while.)

In the last couple months, the blogging platform world has been innovative again. Medium, one of these new players have been leading the way with an amazing interface to write and read content.

Very early on, Medium also supported the open web through their addition of RSS feeds. You can consume content posted on Medium in your favorite news reader :) The great news, is that they now support PubSubHubbub as well.

Their hub is located at https://medium.superfeedr.com/ and is now linked from all their RSS feeds: user feeds, like mine and category feeds too, like this one.

If your reader supports PubSubHubbub, that means that new posts will come to you in realtime! They initially started to think about supporting the protocol because they were seeing a lot of our IPs polling some of their feeds on behalf of some of our customers like IFTTT, but their hub is now subscribed by almost 50 different applications which consume their RSS.

I also want to point to Dan’s, Go Library for PubSubHubbub. Dan (thank you!) works for Medium.

The next time you're passing through Newark airport, look up and smile. The airport's new super-efficient LED light fixtures are also embedded with cameras and sensors—and they're part of a growing market for surveillance technology that is built into other, everyday systems.

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sciencehabit writes "When you hear a friend's voice, you immediately picture her, even if you can't see her. And from the tone of her speech, you quickly gauge if she's happy or sad. You can do all of this because your human brain has a 'voice area.' Now, scientists using brain scanners and a crew of eager dogs have discovered that dog brains, too, have dedicated voice areas. The finding helps explain how canines can be so attuned to their owners' feelings."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

mahramore:

shots fired

When you think about military drones, chances are your mind conjures up the image of a grey airplane-shaped object with a windowless cockpit. But actually, combat drones come in all shapes and sizes—including some very futuristic ones.

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Facebook will buy the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion dollars in cash and stock. Yep, that's 19 buh-buh-billion with a "b." The company launched in 2009, founded by former Yahoo employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum.

I first used WhatsApp in Central America a year ago, where Guatemalan friends turned me on to it. And let me tell you, *everyone* there uses it.

Why is it so huge there, but largely unheard of here in the USA? In many Latin American countries, phone service providers charge extraordinarily high fees for SMS and MMS messages, relative to the average income in those countries. WhatsApp allows users to send short text, photo, and video messages without a per-message fee, so they can stay always-connected with a chosen group of friends, family members, or co-workers on the cheap. Few people I interacted with there in 2013 uses SMS regularly. Most, regardless of age or economic class, migrated their text and image based communications to WhatsApp. When I asked why, SMS ripoff pricing was often cited.

Another reason for WhatsApp's dominance in the developing world: mobile instant messaging apps aren't convenient in areas where cellular internet coverage is limited, spotty, and costly. WhatsApp doesn't require that you remain connected to data to maintain a single, linear communication session, as mobile IM generally does.

The context for all of this, as a friend from Peru--whose pals all use WhatsApp--just mentioned: the telecoms industry in Latin America is heavily monopolized. This is absolutely the case in Guatemala, where I first saw how thoroughly the app had permeated popular communications culture.

And just as with Facebook's own growth history, once a critical mass of your friends start using a given service, it's exponentially more useful than any other similar service. There may be better versions of the kind of app WhatsApp is. And I certainly hope there are more secure ones, or that there will be. But the social momentum in some parts of the world toward WhatsApp as a primary mobile communications platform makes that, for now, irrelevant. If WhatsApp is where everyone you know is, that's where you go.

As I understand it, the areas where WhatsApp is growing fastest are regions of the world where these are big issues, Central America being one of many. Areas where most people don't sit in front of computers all day. These are not necessarily areas where Facebook is growing, or ever will. I think that's part of why Facebook paid so much for WhatsApp. Go where the potential growth is.

The service has been plagued by serious security and privacy issues, but that hasn't scared off its more than 450 million users around the world.

Facebook founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp is growing by about a million users a day.

"WhatsApp will complement our existing chat and messaging services to provide new tools for our community," he said (via, of course, Facebook). "Since WhatsApp and (Facebook) Messenger serve such different and important users, we will continue investing in both."

Snip:

WhatsApp will continue to operate independently within Facebook. The product roadmap will remain unchanged and the team is going to stay in Mountain View. Over the next few years, we're going to work hard to help WhatsApp grow and connect the whole world. We also expect that WhatsApp will add to our efforts forInternet.org, our partnership to make basic internet services affordable for everyone.

Man, though. $19 billion. Just look at this: five years ago, WhatsApp's co-founder was a former Yahoo engineer who couldn't get hired at Facebook, and tweeted about what a bummer the rejection was.

Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life's next adventure.

— Brian Acton (@brianacton) August 3, 2009

A few years later in 2012, WhatsApp's founders wrote in a blog post titled "Why We Don't Sell Ads,"

Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product. At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That’s our product and that’s our passion. Your data isn’t even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.

We aren't interested in user data. Well, Facebook sure is. Wonder how long that last part's gonna last.

Happy '14! On Dec 31st our users sent 18B msgs and received 36B = 54 Billion total messages in a day… ~3x in a year: https://t.co/BbUwBu4sgW

— WhatsApp Inc. (@WhatsApp) January 7, 2014

In a blog post today, after Facebook made the acquisition announcement, WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum wrote on the company blog:

WhatsApp will remain autonomous and operate independently. You can continue to enjoy the service for a nominal fee. You can continue to use WhatsApp no matter where in the world you are, or what smartphone you’re using. And you can still count on absolutely no ads interrupting your communication. There would have been no partnership between our two companies if we had to compromise on the core principles that will always define our company, our vision and our product.

On a personal note, Brian and I couldn’t be more proud to be part of a small team of people who, in just under five years, built a communication service that now supports over 450 million monthly active users worldwide and over 320 million daily active users. They have helped re-define and revolutionize communication for the 21st century, and we couldn’t be more grateful.

Our team has always believed that neither cost and distance should ever prevent people from connecting with their friends and loved ones, and won’t rest until everyone, everywhere is empowered with that opportunity. We want to thank all of our users and everybody in our lives for making this next chapter possible, and for joining us as we continue on this very special journey.

Or then again, maybe this explains it:

Facebook Just Bought 450 Million Phone Numbers

— Daniel Stuckey (@danstuckey) February 19, 2014

Some context for thought:

Facebook's investment in whatsapp messaging service = total annual lending by World Bank.

— Charles Kenny (@charlesjkenny) February 19, 2014

By my notes, 2014 @NASA budget is about $16 Billion. @Facebook just paid 3 Billion more for @WhatsApp. [citation http://t.co/jty8RmSqSB].

— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) February 20, 2014

@xeni But all NASA can do it put robots on Mars and send spacecraft beyond our solar system. WhatsApp is like you can chat and stuff.

— Matt Bors (@MattBors) February 20, 2014

whatsapp was founded in 2009 by ex-yahoos, and 5 years later is worth half of yahoo's market cap

— Sam Altman (@sama) February 19, 2014

The $19 billion Facebook spent on WhatsApp could fund public broadcasting in America for over 42 years at current federal funding levels.

— Josh Stearns (@jcstearns) February 20, 2014

@xeni Apparently the Orthodox Jewish community uses it a lot, too: http://t.co/fgkXyfrPB0

— Emily L. Hauser (@emilylhauser) February 20, 2014

(Gracias, BG, LG, and BB!)