Anyone fancy baked pidgeon for breakfast?

Our tippee - we are waiting patiently for it’s arrival. We will call it our ‘thinkTent’…I think.

This professional ‘mock-up’ shows what it will look like!

Again a service that enables users to produce online goods for the offline world.
The main idea is that users can create a billboard like the big companies normaly do. For creating your own billboard poster users simply upload a high resolution picture or use a template with a text editing tool. In my point of view not a bad idea, but using it to spread out a personal message even better:
e.g:

• Will you marry me?
• I hate western politics.
• Thank’s mom!
• I hate small talk!
• Mark, I hate you for cheating on me.http://www.123plakat.de/Willkommen-bei-1-2-3-Plakat-de.9.0.html

Google is a search engine. You use it every day. It works fine. A great tool. Please, do two search es for me:

Try this (a image search for “peter”)
http://images.google.de/images?hl=de&q=peter&btnG=Bilder-Suche&gbv=1

And now try this:
http://images.google.de/images?hl=de&q=peter&btnG=Bilder-Suche&gbv=1&imgtype=face

The URL parameter “imgtype=face” was added and - what a surpeise - you see just “faces”. How does that work? Well, google bought a company called “Neven Vision”. They are specialists for image analysis and face recognition.

What is id good for?

Well, google is a marketing company. The search engine is just for free, because they make money with marketing (google ads etc.). In order to optimize this marketing, they want to know who you are, what you are interested in, what you earn.
At the moment they can find out how old you are and if you are male or female. Just by analyzing your clickstream. But they are working on better software to totally track you down. The face recognition ist one part of that. They know how you look like, they know what you want, they know where you are. Next time you want something, it is already prepared for you. Go to the next shop and fetch it. That’s all.

While others are talking about “social commerce”, google ist about to impement “personal commerce”. But no problem for you. You have nothing to hide …

Hey, don’t be evil: do not switch off cookies for google, do not install plugins / run programs, that would hide your clickstream. Otherwise google could not help you find your desired products … and that’s what you want, right?

This is worth looking at, I believe in local/global Vs. global/local and this article showcases some interesting examples.

http://www.trendwatching.com/briefing/

Hi,

as we build an international application we need a translation mechanism for ruby on rails. i did some research and found that gettext is supported best and has a nice documentation. GetText Documentation

good :
- translations are not stored in the database
- translation is done with _(’string’) - so it`s easy to implement
- gem install gettext
- there is an editor for editing the translations - poedit
- the catalog can be build from your _(’string’) entries in your model,controller and views

bad :
- po files need to be converted to mo files and then are useable from the system

trap :
- first add gettext to your application.rb and then do the rake tasks