29 December, 2009

Less people searching for diabetes on Google?

Today, as I learned about Google Insights tool, I typed in "diabetes" as a search term.

I was sadly surprised to learn that over the course of the past 5 years LESS people have been searching for "diabetes" (starting with searches about "symptoms of diabetes" (arguably one of the starting points to find out whether you have diabetes or not).



Not a reason to celebrate, but there it is... though there's more people WITH diabetes that don't know it, there's less people searching to become informed about diabetes! :(

28 December, 2009

Donate to the Diabetes Hands Foundation before the end 2010

27 December, 2009

Alice in Wonderland: New Trailer



So proud! My sister-in-law works creating the textures of many of the shots you see here.

19 December, 2009

d-store: tienda temporal de diseño

Me llena de orgullo presentarles el trabajo fruto del esfuerzo colectivo de mi cuñado Ciro Eleazar (estudiante del último año de diseño industrial), quien presenta y vende sus diseños junto a varios otros diseñadores en Mérida hasta el 24 de Diciembre.



Visita d-store:
http://d-store.com.ve

Música: Maseratti 2Lts
http://www.2litros.com

Editado por: Manuel Hernández
http://twitter.com/askmanny

08 December, 2009

The Swell Season: Say It To Me Now, Live from Oakland

My friend Steve captured this gorgeous HD video of Glen, from The Swell Season, telling a great story about meeting "Lois from New York City" and then suddenly going unplugged to sing "Say It To Me Now" unplugged.

It really was the highlight of the concert and also one of the most amazing live musical moments I've been fortunate to witness! Hope you enjoy it as much as we did:

Google Results Highlighting Tweets ABOUT People and Places

Google is doing interesting things about tweets, displaying them as "bubbles" at the top of the search results. Is this the start (to my knowledge) of Google getting creative about Tweets to not miss out on a huge chunk of information that it could make sense of? I think so.



I learned about this by performing a simple search for "chezpanisse twitter": I was trying to find the Twitter account for the famous Berkeley restaurant, after watching a fascinating interview of Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse, with Charlie Rose.