Think Globally, Tweet Locally

(By: Twitter blog)

In August we announced that we were working on a new API that would provide developers with the ability to geotag tweets. Today, the Geotagging API is officially available.

This release is unique in that it’s API-only which means you won’t see any changes on twitter.com, yet. Instead, Twitter applications like Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid, Twittelator Pro and others are already supporting this new functionality (go try them out now!) in interesting ways that include geotagging your tweets and displaying the location from where a tweet was posted. The added information provides valuable context when reading your friends tweets and allows you to better focus in on local conversations. Now you can find out what live music is playing right now in your neighborhood or what people visiting Checkpoint Charlie are saying today about the anniversary of the Berlin Wall. These are only the beginning and we are really looking forward to seeing the creative uses emerge from the developer community.

It’s important to note geotagging is disabled by default for all users which means you will need to opt-in in order to use it. To activate the new geotagging functionality, go to your Settings page and click «Enable Geotagging».

Entre diferentes realidades

Existen tantas extensiones de la percepción humana que resulta imposible determinar que es exactamente lo que es real para todos. Sin embargo todo parece indicar que compartimos razgos comunes entre lo que todos decimos percibir.

En realidad no creo que haya tal cosa como la realidad en sí, y si es que existe, creo que no es alcanzable para los seres humanos, pero lo que sí puede ser perfectamente real desde el punto de vista de cada individuo es la sensaciones que experiemtan en sí mismos a partir de la percepción que tienen de lo real.

El miedo, el éxito, el abandono, la tristeza, la misera y el gozo, sólo se pueden alcanzar por medio de una serie de combinaciones de hechos que parecen ser, desde nuestros puntos limitados de vista, propicios para generar una u otra emoción.

Partiendo de lo anterior pareciera ser que nuestras emociones podrían ser facilmente rebatibles dada la relatividad de los mismos, sin embargo cualquier persona que esté experimentando emociones y/o sentimientos intensos seguramente podría decir exactamente lo contrario.

Al final no se trata de tomar una postura u otra sino siplemente expresar el hecho desde una visión distinta, tanto por un lado no podemos considerar que nuestros sentimientos son absolutos dado que hay una serie de variables que determinan hasta cierto punto nuestra dicha o desdicha. Sin embargo no debemos menospreciar la fuerza con la que estas emociones nos pueden arrastrar a espirales depresivas generadas por nuestras percepciones.

La fuerza de la realidad en sí, podría quedar relegada por la fuerza de las percepciones humanas y el arraigo que los seres humanos tenemos hacia estas.

What’s Happening?

(By: Twitter Blog)

Twitter was originally conceived as a mobile status update service—an easy way to keep in touch with people in your life by sending and receiving short, frequent answers to one question, «What are you doing?» However, when we implemented the service, we chose to leave something out. To stay simple, Twitter did not require individuals to confirm relationships. Instead, we left things open.

People, organizations, and businesses quickly began leveraging the open nature of the network to share anything they wanted, completely ignoring the original question, seemingly on a quest to both ask and answer a different, more immediate question, «What’s happening?» A simple text input field limited to 140 characters of text was all it took for creativity and ingenuity to thrive.

Sure, someone in San Francisco may be answering «What are you doing?» with «Enjoying an excellent cup of coffee,» at this very moment. However, a birds-eye view of Twitter reveals that it’s not exclusively about these personal musings. Between those cups of coffee, people are witnessing accidents, organizing events, sharing links, breaking news, reporting stuff their dad says, and so much more.

The fundamentally open model of Twitter created a new kind of information network and it has long outgrown the concept of personal status updates. Twitter helps you share and discover what’s happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. «What are you doing?» isn’t the right question anymore—starting today, we’ve shortened it by two characters. Twitter now asks, «What’s happening?»

We don’t expect this to change how anyone uses Twitter, but maybe it’ll make it easier to explain to your dad.

All I ever needed – Bret Michaels

There you lay and here I stand
He knelt down on his knees and took her by the hand
We seen some good times been through some bad
But somewhere between the laughter and the tears
We sure had a lot of great years, she said

We didn’t need fortune didn’t need fame
Just a little shelter from the rain
Your hand to hold onto, when times got tough you pulled me through
We didn’t need a castle made of stone
Just you there as I grow old
Your heart to hold onto
All I ever needed was you
Was you.

Remember our first dance, our first kiss
I pictured my life with you to be just like this
You stood by me, I stand by you
We share the laughter joy and pain
But it’s a moment like this I hope it never ends

(chorus)
We didn’t need fortune didn’t need fame
Just a little shelter from the rain
Your hand to hold onto, when times got tough you pulled me through
We didn’t need a castle made of stone, just you there as i grow old
Your heart to hold onto,
All I ever needed was you
Share my life with you, girl

I thank you for sharing your life with me
For giving me a reason to believe
For loving me for who i am

(chorus)
We didn’t need fortune didn’t need fame
Just a little shelter from the rain
Your hand to hold onto, when times got tough you pulled me through
We didn’t need a castle made of stone, just you there as I grow old
Your heart to hold onto,
All I ever needed
All I ever needed was you

You’re all I ever needed.

…

Tanta soledad involuntaria que sabe amarga,
se sienta a mirarme mientras intento andar,
por más esfuerzos y empeños,
más lágrimas que no deseaba llevar.

Tragicamente camina, se ve y se apaga,
entre veredas que ya no se pueden caminar,
risas se escuchan sobre mi cabeza a lo lejos,
tantos fantasmas me amordazan mis recuerdos.