Would you pay to Tweet?
October 15, 2009 by ivanfarias
Filed under Technology
You know Twitter. At this time everybody knows it. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Okay let’s highlight the word free. Now if tomorrow you logged on to Twitter and were suddenly informed that it was now a premium service that was charging $1/month (ongoing) or $10/year to access the service, how would you react? Let’s say you had 30 days to make-up your mind and/or backup your stuff. After that, your account was unavailable – unless you paid.
The company confirms — for the first time we’ve seen, at least — age-old theories that they’ll sell commercial accounts to power users or companies using the social media.
Twitter is easily worth $1/month to me. Twitter has an estimated 25 million users, and if everybody saw things like I do that would mean quarter-of-a-billion dollars of revenue per annum. Sure, I’d like to see that money invested back into Twitter.
On the other hand it will lose all that underground smell that we all love about micro-blogging on Twitter. But just like anywhere else in this world. It’s all about the money
Lindsay Lohan brings buzz to Paris fashion
October 15, 2009 by ivanfarias
Filed under Fashion and Beauty

Lindsay Lohan
The “Mean Girls” star was signed as the artistic adviser for French fashion house Emanuel Ungaro in September and just weeks later she debuted her first range at Paris Fashion Week.
Dressed in a white mini dress and red heels, the actress sparked a paparazzi frenzy at the Louvre museum where the show was held, creating exactly the kind of buzz executives at Ungaro had been hoping for.
Fashion critics, however, looked aghast at Lohan’s bra tops and stripper-inspired nipple pasties.
“We both love fashion, the different aspects, different generations, different styles from around the world, we like to mix everything up,” Lohan told reporters backstage in a joint interview with Ungaro designer Estrella Archs.
The thigh-skimming dresses in peach, hot pink and white seemed designed for a Malibu Beach party, while sparkling nipple pasties flashing from underneath loose blazers were a reminder of Lohan’s own occasional wardrobe mishaps.
“It’s not good to show your nipples so they should be covered,” Lohan told Reuters, referring to the heart-shaped pasties.
But her appearance was also a reminder of the risks faced by luxury brands who tie their image to that of a celebrity.
When reporters asked her about her love of scandal, Lohan frowned and snapped: “That’s an unnecessary question.”
Brazil is going to wash your soul
August 23, 2009 by ivanfarias
Filed under Latest Events

It will happen in New York City on this September 5th the well-known “Lavagem da Rua 46″/ Cleansing of 46th Street that it was very acclaimed for its enormous success in its first edition in 2008 and now it was also incorporated into the official calendar as the largest Brazilian event outside of Brazil and will open the celebrations of the Brazilian Day.
The Cleansing is more a spiritual and mystic tradition that started in Bahia. People believe that the Cleansing was originated in the times when the slaves were forced to wash the stairway of the Church for the Patron Saint’s party.
Nowadays this traditional celebration consists of an enormous procession with hundreds of baianas, vases with flowers and perfumed water in order to wash the stairway and cleanse those who believe.
This opening event of the Brazilian Day will bring several attraction s to the stage to be located on 46th Street between Madison and 5th Avenue. You will be introduced to dignitaries, sponsors and representatives who made the event possible. Then the stage will be opened to Brazilian’s world renowned artists, samba dancers and the exciting and full of Brazilian beauties “Musa do Brazilian Day’’. I will be there and what about you?
Is Lady Gaga copying Britney Spears?
August 14, 2009 by ivanfarias
Filed under VideoClips

Who looks better?
Do you remember Britney Spears ‘’Toxic’’ video-clip when she wearing a transparent cloth hiding her intimacy with crystals only? Six years after the video release, Lady Gaga shows up dressing something that reminds us of ‘’Toxic’’ on her new and polemic video ‘’LoveGame’’, (the music-video that she kisses a female police officer). Britney may not like, she already accused Gaga of copying her style. Take a look at both ‘’Toxic’’ and ‘’LoveGame’’ and you make up your own mind.
Les Paul says good bye.
August 14, 2009 by ivanfarias
Filed under Music
Do you know Lester William Polsfuss? No? Okay you may not recognize his name, but if you know a little about rock ‘n’ roll you’ve heard the name Les Paul. He is a legendary guitarist, owner of a unique style and inventor of guitars that carry his name. Paul died last Thursday (August 13th, 2009) at White Plains Hospital in New York City due to complications from pneumonia.
Paul, at age 94 was doing great, playing gigs at New York City clubs. Just recently he started having some complications and a series of illnesses began. Michael Braunstein (Les Paul’s attorney), said to Reuters ‘’at 94, it’s hard to fight a lot of stuff’’ and ‘’ He’s a historical person He certainly has left his mark here on Earth and had many, many friends.”
On hearing of his death, Rolling Stone magazine reported that, “many of those he influenced jumped online (and called up Rolling Stone) to share their tributes to the father of the electric six-string.” Among those who paid tribute to Les Paul were “Slash”, Joe Satriani, Tom Morello, John Mayer, Ace Frehley, Brian “Head” Welch, Tad Kubler, and Keith Richards.
Paul is the only person ever to be a member in the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame. A private funeral will be held in New York at a later date.
Madonna in Brazil to discuss social projects
April 5, 2009 by ivanfarias
Filed under Music

Madonna
The 51-year-old star is in Rio to visit some of the Brazilian city’s slums, or “favelas”, and meet with one of the country’s richest businessmen to discuss setting up social projects, said state Governor Sergio Cabral.
“She will get to know some social projects; she is enchanted with Rio and wants to help,” Cabral said. The beachside city has about 1,000 slums, many of them controlled by violent drug gangs or other armed groups.
The singer is expected to visit several poor communities. Local news media say she also will meet with Brazilian first lady Marisa Leticia.
Last month, Madonna spent nearly a week in the southern African country of Malawi, where she broke ground on a $15 million academy for girls and visited the orphanage that cared for her son David before she adopted him.
Do you own a Porsche?
March 4, 2009 by ivanfarias
Filed under Featured
Porsches GT3 e GT2: tão parecidos, mas tão diferentes
Dois esportivos iguais apenas na aparência são diversão garantida
Michael Febbo, da Motor Trend/New York Times Syndicate
A personalidade é um dos pontos que podem definir um cara legal. Lutando por justiça, eis aqui um guerreiro de coração pacífico, sempre do lado do politicamente correto: o Porsche GT3. Do outro lado do ringue, temos um vilão: o GT2, que virou um demônio com uma série de modificações. A não ser por pequenas diferenças no penteado, escritores procuram deixar seus personagens parecidos. Eles geralmente têm vidas parecidas que os levam ao mesmo lugar no tempo e no espaço. Brigam para salvar ou arruinar a humanidade, mas na maioria das vezes o mocinho acaba vencendo, mas quem disse que nossa percepção do universo funciona em qualquer dimensão?
No quente deserto da Califórnia confrontamos dois carros aparentemente iguais, mas com temperamentos bem diferentes. Um deles permaneceu quase original e o outro recebeu uma série de modificações da preparadora GMG, que desenvolve componentes de carros de corrida para serem posteriormente usados em modelos de rua. Itens da suspensão até o sistema de escape passam pelas pistas em testes severos antes de seguir para as lojas. Nesses dois Porsches, a GMG se concentrou no ajuste de suspensão, que é fundamental para contornar curvas de alta velocidade. E as regulagens foram feitas graças à substituição das peças originais por outras ajustáveis. Assim, buchas de borracha deram lugar a modelos especiais de aço. E conseguimos deixar tudo no lugar em que gostaríamos que estivessem em um teste radical como esse.
O GT3 usa um conjunto de molas e amortecedores vindo de fábrica, enquanto o GT2 conta com outro fabricado pela alemã Eibach, fabricado de acordo com as especificações da GMG. Ambos os carros testados tinham barras estabilizadoras da preparadora. E o GT2 ainda levava reforços usados em competição. Com centro de gravidade alterado, o que também mudou a transferência de peso lateral, deu sinal verde para acelerar mais nas curvas. Mas é bom lembrar que boa parte dos componentes da suspensão que usamos não foi feita para motoristas medianos, dispostos a gastar um dinheiro para impressionar seus vizinhos. São peças para corridas, que requerem mão de obra especializada tanto para ajuste quanto para manutenção. Se você gasta tanto tempo admirando seu 911 no estacionamento da cafeteria depois de tomar um capuccino quanto leva para dirigi-lo, esses componentes não te servem.
Mas existe algo que ninguém deixaria de comentar isso seria o sistema de escapamento dessa dupla. O diabólico GT2 recebeu um coletor que não apenas acrescentou alguns cavalos, mas também reduziu 5.5 quilos de peso e ainda atende às exigências da legislação. No GT3 os coletores de escape foram apenas trocados por outros do tipo 3×1, feitos de titânio, o que deu ares de Fórmula 1 ao 911. Nos dois carros, o ronco do motor ficou agressivo, mas sem incomodar demais os ouvidos dos ocupantes. O resultado disso tudo é que o GT3 ficou com 548 cavalos e o GT2 cravou 680 cv no dinamômetro. Aparentemente, seria possível chegar nos 695 cv, mas optou-se por preservar a durabilidade do conjunto mecânico. Será que esses dois carros ainda são parecidos para você? O que fica claro é que o GT3 é potente, mas o GT2 tem um acerto de suspensão que faz grudar as rodas no chão. Qualidades dos dois lutadores: um tem força bruta e o outro a técnica de um mestre. Ambos têm méritos, mas nenhum é muito mais que o outro.
Aqui no deserto da Califórnia nós aprendemos qual é a verdade sobre esses carros. Os dois não vivem apenas de aparência. O GT2, com um imenso aerofólio e enormes pneus traseiros, parece que vai apontar um canhão pela janela traseira tamanho o jeito de poucos amigos. E o GT3, com carroceria brilhante, exibe freios Brembo e um conjunto bem equilibrado tem jeito de um exímio campeão das pistas. O primeiro aproveita sua sobra de força e dispara como um leopardo dando um bote preciso. Os turbos se enchem rápido e a potência pulsa sem parar. Com ajuda dos largos pneus de 235 milímetros na frente e de 335 atrás, um dos pontos marcantes desse carro é o poder de aceleração. Por causa dessa sobra de fôlego, você não precisa ter medo de voar. O problema é dosar bem a força no acelerador para não deixar a traseira ir para o espaço.


