Recently I gave an interview to a local magazine, you can read it online — my interview starts on page 12 (it’s in portuguese, obviously).

Despite the generic name and 1990s-like design this website, this survey of online video hosts is quite useful, as you can compare the embed quality and performance of different sites in a single page. I’ve been a Vimeo user for the last two years, but some things prevented from taking the plunge into a paid account (mostly the buggy player and the sleazy way the introduction of paid accounts meant the removal of features from the free ones). I also have YouTube for a few things, but again I think its player will be an iconic piece of ugly design of the noughts, and the 10 minute limit is a bore. So I wonder about Exposure Room (ugly site though) and OpenFilm…

This year’s winners include an Economics Prize awarded to the executives of Icelandic banks “for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa — and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy” and a Peace Prize awarded to the scientists of Bern, Switzerland (the city where Albert Einstein devised his Theory of Relativity, no less) who discovered full bottles of beer do less damage in a bar fight than empty ones.