The essence of the app is that it can be used to report to the Environmental Service about disturbing smells, construction waste left in forests, unidentified fishing nets, and so on. Anything related to the environment that the reporter considers worthy of the Environmental Service's (or any other supervisory body's) attention.
I want to share today's discovery - two online tools (triangulation tools) where an ordinary image or photograph can be transformed into a stylised drawing, in which all colour and shading areas are split into larger and smaller triangles while preserving the overall image. This time, a purely amateur approach - upload the chosen photo and adjust the level of detail using the tool.
A headline that warms the heart appeared in the media today - "Latvia's Most Popular Blog - iinuu.lv." We are delighted and gratified that our blog www.iinuu.lv has taken first place in the Gemius blog rankings by visits, based on unique Latvian user statistics for November 2012. 1.32% of all of Latvia's internet audience is not such an insignificant number.
The Chairman of Riga City Council claims that his Twitter account is private, but uses it to respond to several hundred questions from Riga residents. The study found that Ušakovs uses his private account mostly during working hours, to communicate with politicians and journalists.
A study in which social portraits of two political forces - Unity and Harmony Centre - and their two most prominent political leaders were constructed on the basis of various publicly available parameters obtained from the social network Twitter.
I registered one myself on 9 May of this year at www.gravatar.com - iinuu. But later, when I proudly announced to friends that I finally had an avatar on the web, many replied: "How nice - but what exactly is it?" So then, about avatars.
Yesterday, after a long time, I logged in again to see what's new. I installed a newer version, but the conclusion is the same - that "infernal machine" (read: computer) with its virtual worlds is a terrible time-swallower. Not for nothing have some people literally moved into Second Life - opened their own little shop, started new relationships, built themselves a house with an electronic fence that strangers simply cannot enter.
So claim the creators of the website. They offer a 49-question test covering various aspects of the site visitor's lifestyle - eating habits, physical activities, stress, parents, and so on.
This evening, while preparing for a presentation, I had to poke around in the development of corporate blogs in Latvia. While the private blog or diary niche is flourishing and expanding with laacz.lv, journal.lv, onkulis.com, pods.lv, shulcs.lv, zuz.lv and others at its forefront (sorry, I won't list them all), companies appear to be very cautious about this. Corporate blogs in Latvia can be counted on one hand.
The largest database of Latvia's socially active group, moreover mostly with users' real names, surnames, dates of birth, location, real photos (not counting a few fake profiles) and opportunities for social discovery - photo album, diary, guest book, circle of friends, interests, etc. A portal that is constantly developing, delighting its users with ever new "toys".