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Archive for January, 2010

Latinoamerican jQuery Community

Last day the jQuery Team released a new strategy focused in the entire community. The team included Meetups for help to create local groups or geographic groups, but why this is important?, one of the succesful of jQuery, beside of the all cool technical features, is its community around the world. Many people contribute to the open-source project, If you look Linux, it’s the same history, so I opened a jQuery México Meetup to collaborate and support the project in our lenguage (Spanish) and from México, of course.

This morning I was excited when I see the most active groups are latinoamericans (Español (the whole latinoamerican countries), Brazil, Colombia, Chile, México), so go head and join to us.

The killer Google Chrome

Google Chrome has defeated to Safari in late 2009. Throughout the 2009 Google Chrome has been demonstrated excellence in the browser market, but it is incredible that in December 2009 was able to defeat Safari. Why is it difficult to beat Safari?. Safari like Internet Explorer are browsers that come by the default in the own Operating System, for example if you install Windows, you’ll get Internet Explorer, if you install Mac OSX, you’ll get Safari. How a browser like Chrome can beat Safari in a year?. Chrome proved to be light, fast and incorporated extensions as the pioneer Firefox, but not only that, but has earned the confidence of users via the Internet giant: Google and the recently official launch of Google Chrome for MAC OS X, which was one of the most expected by Mac users.

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Open and interoperable social networks

A few days ago I went to watch Avatar, a movie written and directed by James Cameron, which I regard as one of my favorite filmmakers (Terminator, The Abyss, Aliens, Piraña).

I’m not going to review the movie, far from it, but I found very interesting how the Pandora Villagers could extract and share information from their deceased ancestors and alive people. It is interesting for one reason, the strong relationship with the current social networks and the possible future ones. The Pandora Villagers used the own nature as a database, which it was open, interoperable and linked, that means, they could used it in any physical media. Villagers could access to the information in any time and way.

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