Those Mii’s, they’re so funny and they seem to be raising in popularity from day to day, there’s even some online Mii creators in Flash, have you tried making your own Mii? or maybe your friends, it’s sure to give you a laugh.

Adobe has announced the official launch of the Apollo platform - SDK available here , there’s still some features missing but I’m going to play around with it a little bit anyway.
I’m not sure where this is going for them, some of the examples weren’t very explicit, except maybe for Yourminis.

Highrise - a shared contact manager - is the much awaited new web app from 37signals, an approach to simplify the concept of CRM and bring it to small business or individuals.

I’ve been playing around with three recent web apps (ok, maybe not so recent), first off it’s Bubbl.us which is a mind-mapping application powered by Flash and available everywhere through a web-browser, Nice.
There’s keyboard shortcuts and you can save your projects to review later or just simply print them. It’s simple and very helpful and you can access it from everywhere fast.

I’ve been using Goplan since they were in private beta (or testing or whatever people are calling it now) and this week Webreakstuff officially launched they product and received good impressions from the blogosphere, a good step forward in online project management applications, be sure to take a look.

On the other side of productivity comes Twitter, which steals away my attention every other second but it keeps me informed of what my mates are doing or thinking (I’m in your mind!), by using the web page, sms or im (although it’s very unstable right now).

If you add Twittervision then you got a large scale map of people connecting with each other through the world, it’s kinda like being Prof. Xavier operating Cerebro but without the hassle of destroying everyone’s brains.

Oh, and Netvibes keeps getting better and better, I can’t imagine my daily scrapping for information without it.

By the way, it seems some people just realized we “discovered” (or bumped ) Australia along time ago.

OpenID has been generating a lot of talk in the blogosphere lately, mainly among “web 2.0″ related sites. Don’t know what OpenId is? well, according to the official site:

“OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.
OpenID starts with the concept that anyone can identify themselves on the Internet the same way websites do-with a URI (also called a URL or web address). Since URIs are at the very core of Web architecture, they provide a solid foundation for user-centric identity.”

Well, that’s dandy and all, I won’t have to memorize 200 combinations of e-mails and passwords each time I join up a newly created website or service by an unknown startup (wink wink).
But for that we need moremore developers to get around to implement OpenId in their apps, right now some major websites have recently expressed their wish to do so, so why won’t we do that in Rails too? :)

It’s simple, so I gathered a bunch of resources, from simple explanations to videos to help take away any doubts.

What is OpenID and why should you care?

David talks about

In a recent interview to MTV, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto spoke a bit about the Wii, the Nintendo DS and ended the interview with an important advice for newer generations about life:

“I’d always been told growing up as a young child that America is a country that always is taking on new challenges, and that is something Nintendo has been doing.

My feeling is that the more you take on a new challenge and the more you sacrifice in trying to accomplish that new challenge and the more hardship you experience trying to overcome that challenge, the more that you grow as a person. Really, I like the idea of trying to do things differently from other people.

My advice to the MTV audience would be, don’t just continue to pursue the same fads that everyone else is doing. See what you personally can create and what you personally can bring to the world instead of following down the path that everyone else seems to be following. The more you can step off that path and be your own person, the more you’re going to grow and the more that you can experience in the world.”

You can catch the whole article at MTV , there’s also a partial video of the interview.

Lately I’ve been real busy and hadn’t enough time to dedicate to this blog all the attention it deserves, so I decided to share some of the stuff I’ve been reading in the last few days about entrepreneurship and building a startup.

I’ve gathered a bunch of topics which cover most of the essential stuff you need to know when you’re thinking about dismissing your ’steady’ job and starting your own company focused on products or consulting. One of the great things about the internet is that you can take advantage of all the information lying around and learn something from other people’s point of view or mistakes.

5 reasons to create your first startup - Particle Tree

Small Biz 101: How to Get Started - 37Signals blog

Small Biz 101: Cash Flow