Very interesting - SalesForce, who’s doing all the right moves will acquire Facebook CMS company Buddy Media for $800 Million. Well, BuddyMedia has built more than that over the years - the 5 years old company started as a simple CMS to build Facebook Apps, which then integrated with the Graph API, built reusable modules, analytics, profiling, and more.
SalesForce has had a strong offering, and are getting all the right components to become the one-stop-shop for all [social] CRM needs.
read moreInteresting infographic on future cars. The car of the future will be connected, cloud enabled, and will be part of the greater trend of Internet of Things. The Infograph talks about V2V communications [Vehicle to Vehicle], just like any other M2M [Machine to Machine]. More and more we’re seeing self-aware devices and interconnectivity, that are capable of sending core signals / data elements for a better and smarter environment. V2V communication is not sufficient, we need better communication with highways, hazards, traffic, cameras, natural disasters, parking, and more.
Asides from that, foreseeable aspects such as better infotainment systems, music and video streaming, smart sensors for better security and safety,
Interesting that for future cars there is no mention to self-driving cars, fuel efficiency, external sensors for better automation such as real-time video analytics …
It’s a pretty infographic, but very limited from a thinking perspective.
read moreAwesome infographic on the world of tech IP. Lawsuits, patents, and tons of activity. Note that Apple doesn’t sell patents to anyone, and no one is allows to touch Apple’s IP. Apple is the most active player in the court room as well. Google very quiet, but plays well in the patent marketplace. Motorola Mobility remarkably told a monstrous number of patents to Google, which might have been cheaper to just buy them than keep paying it. And Nortel apparently has it made, where every large player pays them a nice recurring revenue.
read moreW+K does it again - same makes of Nike Write The Future
FIFA 2010 ad, now released another football masterpiece.
While the film opens on a soccer match between France and Holland, the action is suddenly taken over by wave upon wave of soccer-mad young players who are eager to make their mark on the soccer world. The young players are the folks from “The Chance
,” Nike’s scouting mission to find 100 potential soccer champions from 50 countries.
This video is again amazing, featuring Van der Wiel, Sneijder, Lloris, Guardiola, Kevin Strootman, Van Der Vaart, Mamadou, M’vila, Ribery, C.Ronaldo, Gotze e Ozil, Hernandez (Chicharito), LeBron James, Iniesta e Pique, Neymar, Pato, Jack Wilshere, Mark van Bommel, Pastore, and Laurent Blanc.
read moreShort note on a few changes I’ve made lately … For those who syndicate my blog, I changed the look .. got bored of that Apple-ish look and installed a much cleaner one.
I also wanted to improve the reading experience and made tons of improvements on performance and loading time:
I installed Varnish in front of Apache. I originally installed Varnish 2.1.5 a few weeks ago and the different was amazing.
read moreSimple and effective use of retail space
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