Tal vez muchos no conozcan este lado mío, por ahi se queden en la parte infantil de los comics o la música o mi adicción por el basket, pero soy uno de los que mas apoyan las políticas de gobierno abierto aca en el @GCBA.
Recién me encuentro leyendo http://data.london.gov.uk y me pareció copado mostrarles algunos ejemplos de aplicación de datasets.
Que es un dataset? son sets de datos liberados por los organismos de gobierno, donde en formato xml o via webservice, los developers pueden acceder a ellos y utilizar esta información para construir websites o aplicaciones móviles.
La General Services Administration lanzo el nuevo diseño gráfico y funcional de su sitio www.usa.gov, entre las mejoras podemos destacar un simple acceso a los tableros de control de gobierno, el engagement de los ciudadanos para participar y las aplicaciones móviles.
Para los que no conocen, usa.gov es el portal de información y servicios oficial del Gobierno de Estados Unidos,
es basicamente una apliacion lanzada por el Mayor de Washington DC donde muestran todos los indices de la gestion, pueden acceder directo: http://track.dc.gov/
A set of technologies called Web 2.0 is transforming the Internet. Web sites such as YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, in addition to RSS feeds, blogs and wikis attract hundreds of millions of people. Yet this Web 2.0 transformation of government is just beginning. How might it occur?
Web 2.0 and government are both about building community and connecting people. Web 2.0 technologies are transforming the Internet into connected communities that allow people to interact with one another in new and distinct ways.
Government is, by its very nature, all about community. Government is a group of people - citizens or constituents - doing together what they can't do as individuals or otherwise obtain from private business. I believe most of us wouldn't want individuals or private businesses to manage street networks, maintain parks or operate police and fire departments. In the end, government is community.
Therefore, Web 2.0 - community building tools - seems tailor-made for government, at least theoretically.
Hace apenas unos días que Google anuncio que un nuevo lenguaje de programación desarrollado por ellos. No es sorprendente que con el poder que tiene la compañia del buscador, en el mundo del desarrollo de aplicaciones, ya tengamos el primer proyecto que es programado en GO y, casualidades de la vida, es un cliente para Twitter.
Aunque no es un cliente tipo Windows a lo Tweetdeck, su simple línea de comandos demuestra el poder del nuevo lenguaje y su facilidad para aprenderlo, dicen que 2 días son suficientes. La aplicación puede ser usada en Mac OS X y Linux.
Baje el programa y tengo algún rato jugando con el. Con el comando siguiente puede enviar un tweet a Twitter:
./gotweet -u=inti -p=xxxxxx p "Haciendo un tweet desde la linea de comando gracias al primer programa desarrollado en GO"
La verdad que si te interesan la programación ve a dar una vuelta ya por esta aplicación.
New telepresence, unified communications, enterprise social-software, and hosted email technologies facilitate fundamental changes to how organizations communicate and collaborate
SAN JOSE, Calif. – November 9, 2009 – Cisco today announced significant product introductions across all categories of its collaboration portfolio. The company also announced its entrance into two new markets, enterprise social software and hosted email, with the goal of bringing the collaborative power of online social communities to businesses.
The new product introductions span real-time and asynchronous collaboration applications, and collectively take advantage of the power of video and voice-based communications to help enable natural, person-to-person and business-to-business collaboration across all media and devices.
New Cisco TelePresence, Cisco Unified Communications, and Cisco WebEx solutions raise the bar for inter-company collaboration by delivering rich video, voice, and presence capabilities across and between organizations.
Among the new unified communications products offered today are technologies which help enable secure business-to-business communications over any IP network offering differentiated capabilities for Service Providers.
New Cisco enterprise instant messaging (IM) and presence solutions powered by Jabber XMPP help people quickly find, connect and collaborate with colleagues inside and outside their organization.
A Cisco-hosted directory of organizations and locations with Cisco TelePresence simplifies the scheduling of intercompany telepresence meetings.
Cisco's new enterprise social software solutions include a new social video system which helps enable companies to form secure video communities around user-generated content under enterprise control.
Cisco's hosted email offering, based on the Postpath acquisition, allows IT to move to cloud efficiencies while leveraging their current investment in the Microsoft Outlook client.
Also announced today, new medianet-enabled products deliver better collaborative experiences for end-users across heterogeneous devices, applications and clients. A medianet is an intelligent network optimized for rich media.
New media processing engine solutions offer speech-to-text transcription and provide real-time video transcoding, enabling any content to be shared across the network to any end-point device, including HD interoperability for Cisco TelePresence.
An innovative search platform performs dynamic tagging of content as it traverses the network, offering a real-time organization-wide cross-application view that allows people to accurately locate and rapidly connect with the best available experts and information they need.
The new product introductions announced today are offered to customers as on-premise, on-demand or software-as-a-service solutions, or blended approaches, and can be deployed on a sliding scale of consumption based on business process needs, rather than information technology constraints.
ANNOUNCEMENT DETAILS
New telepresence and unified communications solutions deliver rich business-to-business communications across organizational boundaries
Intercompany Cisco TelePresence Directory is a Cisco-hosted directory of endpoints, organizations and people with access to Cisco TelePresence endpoints. The directory features a virtual assistant to assist with scheduling meetings between the more than 1000 rooms and 75 customers on Cisco TelePresence exchanges.
Cisco TelePresence WebEx Engage is a simple, one-button initiation and scheduling solution with video integration between Cisco TelePresence and Cisco WebEx conferencing. Cisco TelePresence WebEx Engage, combines the ease-of-use and broad reach of Cisco TelePresence and Cisco WebEx Meeting Center
The Cisco Intercompany Media Engine gives end-users business-to-business communications over any IP network, maximizing network efficiency and reducing costs. This new solution, submitted today to the Internet Engineering Task Force for standardization, includes features such as business-to-business wide band audio, voice and other collaboration capabilities, including video, with multiple levels of built-in security, and will add additional capabilities in the future. Service providers will benefit from the ability to offer new business-to-business communications services, differentiated network capabilities, and expanded managed services.
With Cisco Unified Communications system 8.0, Cisco extends support for a wide range of endpoints including new video- and WiFi-enabled Cisco Unified IP Phones and additional smartphones via Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator. Cisco UC 8.0 also offers customers a choice of deployment models – whether on-premise, on-demand, or hybrid.
Further details about today's Unified Communications 8.0 news are available here.
Mail, messaging and presence tools
Cisco WebExTM Mail is a new corporate-grade, hosted email solution from Cisco with native Microsoft Outlook interoperability, optimized mobile device support, and browser-independent AJAX web 2.0 access. Using technology acquired from PostPath, Cisco WebEx Mail has a highly scalable infrastructure that overcomes the limitations of traditional mailbox size. Cisco WebEx Mail is on-demand, highly available, and designed to free IT departments from the burden of email infrastructure management and operation.
Using technology gained through the acquisition of Jabber, Cisco today announced it has integrated the XMPP standard to provide secure, federated presence across its collaboration portfolio, starting with Cisco WebEx Connect Instant Messaging and Cisco Unified Presence 8.0. This announcement showcases Cisco's commitment to deliver standards-based solutions to drive greater interoperability across clients, devices and applications. The XMPP open standard allows presence federation among presence systems, both business and consumer, as well as support for third party enterprise instant messaging clients and applications.
Cisco breaks new ground with enterprise social software offerings
Cisco is introducing enterprise-ready social software solutions that allow customers to dynamically form teams and communities in a highly secure manner. Cisco's technology helps enable teams to be formed based on expertise and relevance, regardless of location, and brings experts together with both asynchronous tools and real-time voice and video.
Cisco Show and Share is a social video system that helps organizations create and manage highly secure video communities to share ideas and expertise, optimize global video collaboration, and personalize the connection between customers, employees, and students, with user-generated content. It allows organizations to record, edit and share video with comments, ratings, tagging and RSS feeds, and speech-to-text transcripts can be uploaded for easy video search and viewing.
Cisco Enterprise Collaboration Platform is an enterprise-class social software portal that features a corporate directory with social networking capabilities. It allows users to create team spaces and community environments 'on the fly' and also offers a customizable framework for integration of legacy business applications and web 2.0 content. Unlike today's document-centric portals, the Cisco Enterprise Collaboration Platform is people-centric, facilitating real-time voice and video communication to connect people, communities, and information to make faster business decisions.
Cisco offers customers new medianet-ready devices that optimize networks for video, voice and collaboration
Cisco introduced three new, network-based devices that help customers evolve their IP networks to medianets. In combination with the recently introduced Cisco Integrated Services Routers Generation 2, customers can now enrich their existing collaboration capabilities with new, network-based functionality.
From the Cisco Media Processing family, the Cisco Media Experience Engine 3500 and the Cisco Media Experience Engine 5600 provide real-time video transcoding, allowing any content to be shared across the network to any end-point device. Innovative features such as speech-to-text transcription of videos will help enable video on the network to become as searchable and accessible as text and web pages today. The MXE 5600 also facilitates standards-based interoperability across many video endpoints, allowing for Cisco TelePresence to interoperate with video conferencing devices from other companies.
Cisco Pulse is an innovative search platform that performs dynamic tagging of content as it traverses the network, offering a real-time, cross application view of the entire organization. This intelligence allows people to accurately locate and rapidly connect with the best available experts and information they need.
Customer and Executive Quotes:
"Collaboration is the foundation of our One HSBC strategy. We design, build, and deploy the products, systems and processes to serve our global customers by leveraging the skill and insight of colleagues in dozens of countries," said Ken Harvey, chief information officer, HSBC. "Collaboration technology and management process is about creating an environment rich enough to allow the human fabric of teamwork to develop."
"There are a few key trends that are creating a need for organizations to change the way they operate; globalization, consumerization of IT, information overload, and increased worker mobility," said Tony Bates, senior vice president and general manager, enterprise, commercial and small business, Cisco. "Cisco's collaboration strategy and portfolio is designed specifically to enable this new way of working. Solutions can be implemented on-premise, taking advantage of existing infrastructure, or via a hosted SaaS solution or a combination of the two. They can be deployed in any order and at a pace that matches a company's business objectives."
la verdad q no suelo barriletear aplicaciones o servicios pagos, pero este ma parece interesante... por ahi dista de util, pero quien sabe, hay mercado para todo.
Your audience is tweeting
How do you draw them into your presentation? By asking for their opinion, and displaying their tweets directly in your slides. With Poll Everywhere, you can invite people to tweet a short comment directly to your slide in real-time, while still blocking inappropriate or off-topic tweets. You can also ask multiple choice questions and watch a graph evolve as people vote.
Ableton's Live is one of the top music creation and performance platforms out there. It is a complete music suite with instruments, sound management and a performance interface. It is used by DJs, bands, and hobbyists. At a cost of several hundred dollars Live is within reach of most tech-savvy musicians. It is one of the must-have tools for almost anyone who is making electronic music these days. One of the reasons it is so popular is that it has a relatively simple user interface that hides complexity from the user and lets them focus on sounding good. If you've ever seen a DJ using software that looked like a multi-color spreadsheet that was probably Ableton.
This fall Ableton is releasing Max For Live, an API of sorts. It's an API that is accessible only through another piece of music software, Max/MSP. Cycling74's Max/MSP is a visual programming environment that can be used for signal processing, audio and, with the Jitter add-on, video. Max is powerful, just as powerful as Ableton, but it doesn't hide it's complexity. Max has hundreds of quirky objects (just check the online database MaxObjects) that can be used to build patches (like the one shown to the left). With a single object you can add quite simply take input from a camera , a Wiimote, an Arduino or an OSC Controller. Like Processing or openFrameworks, Max/MSP is an interactivity platform that is designed to be accessible to artists.
Max For Live is going to introduce a new generation of musicians to (visual) programming. And I don't think that they'll stop at playing around with the Ableton Live controls. They'll build their own hardware (like Moldover's Octomasher or as shown in his controllerism video). They'll learn to use Arduino's to track sensor inputs. A new generation of tools can be created with Max For Live and I think it's safe to predict a lot of Max For Live based installations.
Ableton was founded ten years ago by the current CEO (Gerhard Behles) and CTO (Bernd Roggendorf), whom I met while I was in Berlin with the Geeks on a Plane. They saw that music production was going to move from specialized hardware to be solely done on the computer. They optimized for the 90% scenario and they see Max For Live as their long-tail offering (Personally, I think that their 90% scenario encompasses a huge swath of music needs from creation to production to performance to media management so that 10% is very niche indeed).
Now that their primary product has an API, Ableton is trying to figure out how they will move to the web. As Gerhard the CEO said, "I know that my company must move to the web, but I am an old-guy and need to get a web person to figure out what to do. I need someone who can do it". They are hoping to hire a web genius that can handle that part of the business. In the coming months they'll be adding integration to SoundCloud for easy uploading of samples, the ability to share sets over the web (streaming through Ableton's servers) and to collaborate with other specific individuals online (Ableton has found that most of their users don't really want to collaborate with just anyone. The user Y wants user X's specific bass line. So share publicly, collaborate privately).
Unfortunately, there aren't many resources for learning Max or Live. They both include tutorials, but I can tell you from firsthand experience that it's a lot take in on your own. Luckily, there are a lot of enthusiast created video tutorials out there. If you're interested in learning more about Max For Live I recommend checking out max4live.info. They've been posting a number of great tutorials/demos like the one posted after the jump.
