Itunes App Store is full of amazing applications as well as really bad ones (baby shaking anyone?). There are an estimate 140,000+ applications available and, more and more, it becomes hard to sort through all of them and many iPhones these days look like the final resting place of unused applications that the user downloaded [...]

Viral advertising campaigns have come a long way since the notable BMW Films’ “The Hire” that became an example of how the use of a different approach to advertising could gather interest, free word of mouth and, more importantly, be the force behind a raise in actual sales (Official numbers pointed out a 12% increase [...]

For this week’s compilation of “Rebel Music”, I have invited Thomas Raukamp (German “Beat Magazine”’s editor) to make a selection of Creative Commons music. Thomas is THE ultimate source for Creative Commons music on Twitter and if you are not following him, you should. He maintains a blog that gives you a selection of 2 [...]

Starting this next Sunday, Facebook will be the center stage of a YouTube Battle. When I was invited to the group I immediately got curious about it and decided to contact the group creator so he could answer a couple of questions, to share with all of you.
Behind the “Face to Face – Youtube Battle” online [...]

Have you ever  heard about a Rube Goldberg Machine? Do you know what it is? If you were a fan of the “Final Destination” film series, “Myth Busters” or “LittleBigPlanet” you will know what I’m talking about. If you don’t I will try to explain in a very succinct manner: Rube Goldberg Machines (RGM) are [...]

I take my tweeting very seriously, after all I have a reputation of being a #TwitterBadAss* that I have to behave like one  (*copyright Diana Adams). As you also might know, I really have strong opinions in what comes to the way that Twitter’s team is, sometimes, trying to tackle some of the [...]

For some months now I’ve been directly involved in a project that has 6 people writing in a blog and using the same twitter account in an attempt to bring some humor to the timeline, in Portuguese.
It gets a bit chaotic but its really fun (believe it or not). A few days ago I [...]

Rebel Music Volume 5 is here. This time I invited Rute Correia to curate this compilation for us. Rute is a 21 year old netaudio enthusiast from Lisbon, Portugal. She produces and hosts an exclusively netaudio dedicated radio show/podcast named “Marca Branca” since 2008, not as often as she would like (because time doesn’t really [...]

A film is, in the words of one of the directors I admire the most, Stanley Kubrick, “more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
We all have a list of films that we keep in [...]

Massive Attack is one of those music projects that has reached the superstar status without ever giving up their original style, concept and beliefs. The sound of the British project as evolved at the same rate as their political activism that, in some way, as given it a cult following with a very wide audience. [...]

In every business the main objective is to achieve, no matter what, something that is called a win/win situation. This is a theory, and a practice, that is based on common sense: If everyone leaves the negotiation table in a happy mood, and with the feeling that they won something out of it, the probabilities [...]

Hello Music Lovers,
First of all let me apologize for huge time gap between Volume 3 and this new Volume. Health problems got me offline, for much more time than I thought I could endure, but I’m back and so are the Rebel Music Compilations.
Rebel Music Volume 4 is  a very special compilation of free music [...]

Dear Facebook, Happy Birthday!
Six years have gone by and it feels like it was yesterday that I started to poke my friends like there was no tomorrow. There are so many things I’m thankful for that I don’t know where to start: The already mentioned pokes, the writings on the wall, Hot or Not, [...]

I’ve always been very vocal, to say the least, regarding spam and spammers on Twitter. Spam is  one of the biggest problems we all have to face when using Twitter and, even if the company is doing a lot to fight it, every single day more and more spam accounts invade trending topics, our timelines [...]

Millions of bits, tweets, posts, reviews, jokes, YouTube shows, mockups and rumors have been made about Apple’s latest gadget,  the iPad. The hype about the gadget started when the first rumors came out and it never stopped, not even when the real gadget was presented, by Steve Jobs, at a special event in San Francisco [...]

It was a long wait: A long, long, long, wait but LOST is finally here. In case you don’t know what I’m writing about,  LOST is one of those TV shows that created a feeling of  love and/or hate on those who watched it . The new season, that premiered last Monday, is also the [...]

Remember when, last December, Facebook status updates started to be flooded with colors?  Even if the origin of the trend was unknown, and got too many people puzzled,  soon it became public that women were posting their bra’s color to raise awareness for Breast Cancer. It was simple, effective and it worked.
Today I started to [...]

It’s called MusicDNA and it comes with the promise to change the digital music world (once again). From the people that gave us the mp3, MusicDNA is a new attempt by the traditional music industry to protect their business that has been suffering, year after year, financial losses or so they say.
This new move, supported [...]

The opening of the CES 2010 (Consumer Electronic Show) included the much awaited Microsoft’s Keynote by Steve Balmer. People from around the world were following the live video stream, reading and making comments on Twitter or reading the live updates at the main tech blogs.
At the end the feeling of frustration was clear: Balmer [...]

Wikimedia, the organization behind Wikipedia, announced the “most successful fundraiser in the history of the Wikimedia Foundation“. Raising over $USD 8 Million (when the goal was $USD 7.5 Million) there is now enough money to keep the machines running and keep Wikipedia an advertisement free zone. But is this enough?
Last year the number of new [...]