Thursday, October 27, 2011

Perfect Design: Golden Ratio Cloud Icon

There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe - Scott Hanselman


Apple's logo artists have infused the iCloud logo with some mathematical elegance. In this case, the golden ratio or φ...Simple, but profound. Awesome Apple's design philosophy.

Azure Data Market


Windows Azure Data Market


Buy and sell data...

Apparently Microsoft has taken Tim O'Reilly's Wen 2.0 idea that "Data is the Next Intel Inside" web seriously, and created marketplace for data based on OData

(Open Data Protocol)
they are pushing to become standard for online data services...

One of the "free" services provided on the Marketplace is Microsoft Translator
,
that I have mentioned recently as a "free" alternative
to now "not free" Google translator...

Well, it turned out that it is free only for 2000 calls per month...
After this the price appears to be higher than Google's...