via theLoop (Shawn King)
An identitary art. A world heritage. Understand the Portuguese “azulejo” and why it is such a unique decorative language.
Islamic culture was the first great reference for azulejos in Portugal, which lived on in future applications through the aesthetic taste conveying the horror vacui or “fear of the empty”.
These tiles are presented at the National Azulejo Museum in Lisbon, Portugal where I’ll be in March of this year leading a “Photo Tourism” workshop. Not only are the tiles spectacularly beautiful, the presentation by the Google website is very well done.
Stefan Magdalinski, CEO of Mocality, a sort-of crowd-sourced Yellow Pages directory in Kenya:
Since October, Google’s GKBO appears to have been systematically accessing Mocality’s database and attempting to sell their competing product to our business owners. They have been telling untruths about their relationship with us, and about our business practices, in order to do so. As of January 11th, nearly 30% of our database has apparently been contacted.
Furthermore, they now seem to have outsourced this operation from Kenya to India.
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DF‘Don’t Be Evil’ Indeed!
DaringFireball:
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But Google’s vision is about software you run in a web browser. Apple’s is about native apps you run on devices. Apple is as committed to native apps — on the desktop, tablet, and handheld — as it has ever been.
Google’s frame is the browser window. Apple’s frame is the screen.
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