On Saturday night, I dined-in.
Big dinner. It was my first time there and I had no idea the servings were so huge.
There were some leftover, still untouched.
They were bagged and given to a couple of beggars.
It would have been a crime to waste that food, too many people starve.
So here, pass on the good word :)
And there is no way I can aggregate that. Or is there one? After having thought about it for a little while, the ideal solution would be a unique ID and/or entry point for curated data, something ressemblig Disqus, but for all uploaded content. If we could link single pieces of curated info to a unique ID, all metadata reffering to it would become easy to access.
The knee-jerk reflex of sharing content and point of view through a status update could be the perfect vector of a web-wide comment gathering system. In 140 characters, native, and in Twitter's database, of course.
Enough.
I swore to myself I wouldn't touch politics, but after having read "Congress slams China and Microsoft, praises Google" I feel that's too much. I must rant.
I declare that in my world, Google leaving China is nothing but a dangerous farce.
And here is why.
Corporation VS Goverment - Sorry, governments should prevail. Abide or leave.
Big corporations controlling citizen's lives and lobbying governments? Sadly it doesn't happen only in books. Weapons and Tobacco industries have already been under the spotlight, locally or internationally (Europe and US alike are shifty on these issues). Governments are not always wise -to say the least, but corporations have little in common with humanitarian help either, they target profit, as a fact. Which is not a problem per-se, but a government has laws, and these laws are to be respected with no exception.
On what ground? Morals? Dangerous game.
We are now witnessing a debate summed up by "My moral against yours". China is "Evil". China censors search results. It's understandable to disagree. I disagree deeply, I am against any kind of censorship of the internet, freedom of thoughts is most precious to mankind.
But this is my opinion, this.is.not.my.business! The cherry on the cake, US government applauding. I remember a time, not so long ago when a big country assaulted a smaller country on the pretense that it would liberate its citizens. Iraq, yes.
A revolution must come from the inside, sorry.
Just say it, you're pissed to have been hacked.
What an awesome PR move now! How many comments pouncing on China and their oppressive government (no, won't quote, go read, it depresses me), how dignified and brave of Google to stick with their policy and give the middle finger to the Chinese censorship. But...Big G broke the rules first, got an angry backlash and is now slamming the door, screaming about not liking the host anyway (is that my fault if they sold their shares of Baidu in 2006?).
What you may not know
How is that for downright hypocrisy? I'd give it a good 9/10.
Don't get me wrong. Freedom of press yes, freedom of information, yes. Regulatory organism and pressuring non-profit organizations to defend it, yes.
BUT here we are talking about a company with a market cap approaching 200$ billions (tops the GDP of 134 countries, just saying), taking on a foreign country about a moral problem. Now applauded by its home government...
Extreme corporate bullshit can be hilarious, given the right timing. This time, though, it is not funny.
'If there is someone whom doesn't want you do do something, maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
I have been writing long and large in this post about how your private things should stay private, and how the Internet could, in a worst case scenario, turn into the global version of that small town in the mountain where everybody know you've been holding hands with Suzie's sister's best friend (who's got an uncle in England).
There are several solutions to this problem. Some are scarier than the current situation (online unique and certified identity, thus legal right to privacy), some are simply utopias (free open web where everybody is nice and caring), and giving the whole world the middle finger is just too childish.
So, what do you do to protect your real identity online?
1) Use a persona
Twitter settings: You know your tweets are public, yes? You'd be surprised how applications like Hunch use them to profile you. I am going to use it before hiring my next slav..er.. employee. Protect your tweets.
I don't exactly follow all these advices; I'm not a privacy freak and I actually let some information leak just to know how far they can go.
With a little bit of whit, you can find out where I work (good luck), you know how I look, now try finding me and tell me what you found out. I'll treat you for a drink.
Meanwhile I'll be lurking on /b/.
First off, find the "Privacy Settings" link, hidden behind the account button.
Profile/Contacts
All the settings you will need to modify fill show like this:
A pop-up will appear, where you can chose to show/hide from specific people. The interesting part is: you can type in groups names.
Creating a friend group called "limited" and hiding some information from them is quick and easy.
Search
Search offers less granularity, here are the setting I find optimal for a good privacy (e.g. you won't be found on Google and only your friends will be able to search for you). Make good use of the "Preview My Profile" button. It's pretty useful and will save you time.
This one is a trickster. I do not really understand why Facebook has taken the decision to hide "What You Share" and "What Your Friends Can Share About You" under that section, since it seems more logical for it to appear under "Profile". Design flow or obfuscation?
Be sure to visit these pages and chose carefully what you what to be shown.
Much easier, you only have to worry about two things, the geo-tagging and the tweet protection. Protecting your tweets will prevent them from showing on the public timeline. and It will also prevent Google and other third party applications to harvest them without your consent (just google "@yournickname" to know what I mean).
Locating your tweets is a matter of choice, I do not really want people to know whether I tweet from home or from a cafe. Deleting previous location information is a useful feature, since the geo-tagging is enabled by default.
This is the end of the guide. Hoping to be useful. Don't hesitate to share your feedback and keep in touch!
late 1990's: Minitel connections were stable at 100 million a month plus 150 million online directory inquiries, in spite of growing Internet useWay before the Internet, start-ups were already making money out of online chat, forum and cybersex, the foundations of today's social media. Informative enough, when you still can read online marketing being promoted as the 'new hotness'...
late 1990's: Minitel sales in the late accounted for almost 15% of sales at La Redoute and 3 Suisses, France's biggest mail order companies
1998: Minitel generated € 832 million ($1,121 million) of revenue
1999: almost 9 million terminals — including web-enabled personal computers — had access to the network, used by 25 million people
2005: there were 351 million calls for 18.51 million hours of connection, generating € 206 million of revenue
2009: there still were 1,5 million active terminals all around France
Your friends, their friends and you in the middle 
Follower following a follower who follows you. Plus, it kind of looks like a bird, isn't that rad? Google Buzz:
Nothing special. Just a bloody mess.There are some evenings…
You just happen to tilt you head back and dusk is already right in front of your face.Here, I have finally split my content.
For the technical and geeky, you still can find it here full of win and updated.
Here is for me, and those who want to read the stories of a happy exile.
If you feel like leaving, like losing it, like reading or just luking around, I might have something for you.
Free mind candies to come, soon.
Just to prove my point: social is in the people, media is in everything.
Facebook statuses are updated 60 millions times per day
Twitter register more than 40 millions daily tweets
There is at least 20 billions indexed websites on the web
You can then expand the card by clicking on "more" and access more stats.
The good:
That's what sometimes shows in my address bar. It either mean that conversations are logged (behavioral data mining) or that a conversation tracking function will appear soon.Enjoy, and feel free to comment/critic :)
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Some 25.1 million people are accessing Facebook via a mobile Web browser, a growth of 112 percent from January 2009, according to new research from comScore. Twitter use via a mobile browser grew 347 percent to 4.7 million users. MySpace lured 11.4 million users. In total, some 30.8 percent of smartphone users accessed Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites via their mobile browser in January 2010.
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Dear you all whom I love,
Is it me being blind or what?When I read about "Social Media Strategies" and their stats, I see two kinds of astronomic numbers :
