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…from what’s pure propaganda. Wake up, 1984 kids… The Big Brother is making the news.

W00t! FoodFeed allows you to “tweet” (is it a verb already) about your eating habits and let your friends (or people you don’t know, whatever) know about all the unhealthy stuff you consume every day.
Hmm, that got me thinking. What if I launch crappr.com (a twitter-clone where anyone will be able to tell the world [...]

Safari 3.0 for Windows was launched some good 6 months ago, and was dubbed “the best browser for Windows ever”. By the time I was curious to give it a look, and I’ve got to say - it plain sucked. Apart from the very visible bugs and crashes, the performance was not that great and [...]

Looks like not even hollywood director Steven Spielberg escaped from the great social network hype - this time with an UFO/Ghost experience network.
As for me, I’m considering a rundown in a Social Network for heavy drinkers interested on exchanging drink recipes, liver treatments and Alcoholics Anonymous experiences. Who wants a Beta invitation?

O yahoo-finance é o meu primeiro RubyGem publicado: trata-se de uma ferramentinha muito, muito simples, que foi desenvolvida enquanto montava o site CanalFinancas para download de preços de ações em tempo real. Depois de tudo pronto, por que não tornar essa belezinha pública? E cá está ela!
O uso é simples:

gem install yahoo-finance

E a partir daí:

require [...]

yahoo-finance is my first published RubyGem: it’s a very very simple tool I used while developing CanalFinancas to retrieve real-time prices of Brazilian stocks. So after having it done, why not making it public?
Usage is dead simple:

gem install yahoo-finance

And then:

require ‘yahoo_finance’

quotes = Yahoo::Finance.quotes(["VALE5.SA"], [:last_trade_price_only, :trade_date])
puts “#{quotes[0].symbol}: #{quotes[0].last_trade_price_only} on #{quotes[0].trade_date}”

Couldn’t be possibly easier…

O Projeto Rigg acaba de ser disponibilizado em código aberto - e precisa de desenvolvedores. Rigg é uma aplicação Rails que permite a construção rápida de sites de notícias colaborativas como Digg.com, DZone.com e Reddit.com.
A versão inicial ainda tem um bom número de pontas soltas, mas uma versão alfa deverá ser lançada dentro de alguns [...]

The Rigg Project is now online, open-sourced and calling for developers. Rigg is a Rails application that allows quick implementation of collaborative news sites like Digg.com, DZone.com or Reddit.com.
The initial release is still a work in progress - an alpha release is expected anytime soon, but the source code is already accessible as we speak.
Happy [...]

The latest, latest trend on Web 2.0 (I bet people will soon start calling it “web 2.1″ really seems to be launching video-capable sites for everything. Social networks where you don’t type - you record yourself trying to look funny.
The last “video social network” I’ve been through is vator.tv - a place for users to [...]

Just plain amazing. Yeah, no new technologies involved. Just a FREAKING HUGE image database.
Can’t wait to have my street mapped like that, though!