A new Microsoft marketing wave has started with the motto “Windows Without Walls” as I read int Windows Vista Blog. Pretty nice concept and nice wallpaper. But from a developer perspective the image is pretty funny. Take a look at the image bellow.
It seems that Windows is about getting some construction tools and hack our house around and using a hammer to get a hole where you need a hole. 
Finally available for us to use it! What can we do? No only explore but also create!
So how does Photosynth work? Photosynth analyzes your photos for similarities to your other photos in the set and then uses the information to estimate where the photos were was taken from. Photosynth then re-creates the place the photos were taken and uses that as a canvas to display your photos. Pretty neat huh? The work done in analyzing your photos is done via the above mentioned Photosynth plug-in.
In understand that to make Windows Live Messenger profitable and free to all of us to use it has to have some kind of advertisement system attached to it. Sometimes these ads are useful, since they are different for each country and there are several major brands that use Windows Live Messenger advertisement.
Nevertheless, recently I’ve not been pleased by Messenger advertising. It has been really annoying. Now there are a lot of ads that just pop up out of out our main Messenger window showing some sort of flash animation. Some of them are pretty big and annoying when I trying to reach a contact that is hidden beneath the ad… Most of them disappear when the mouse leave the ad area (it is the minimum that I expect…) but other ads are only disabled by clicking a close button.
I am starting to understand those people that use software that patches Windows Live Messenger to remove all the advertisement. It violates the terms of usage and it is wrong to do it, but this Messenger advertisement “feature” is becoming to invade the user space. Some day in the future maybe I will consider the hypothesis of moving to a IM software like Pidgin (which I like pretty much 
) that is compatible with MSN protocol.
There is even a portable version just like I love in software).
O evento foi ontem, mas as novidades continuam. Agora estão disponíveis no canal do Sapo Vídeos as entrevistas realizadas durante o dia de ontem alguns concorrentes, jurados, oradores e organizadores do evento.
Sempre a assapar em http://videos.sapo.pt/CqfL74tYhhjRDnOdb8Z6.
O meus mais sinceros parabéns a todos os envolvidos na organização e dinamização do evento. Valeu a pena.
Deixo referência a um relato mais alargado do evento feito pelo Gonçalo Chaves no seu blog.
