The truth about social networks and webmails is starting to come out. Few days ago Zephoria (aka Danah Boyd) wrote about her friend Bob who had bad encounters with Google: Earlier this week, Bob received a notice that there was a spam problem in his Orkut community. The message was in English and it looked [...]
Corporate Connection (2003) is now part of my blog, and not only on Flickr. You are welcome to visit it, interact with it, and leave some comments too. With the help of MapLib, I was able to mash my image with the technology of Google Maps. But this is only semi-interactive. Lately I’ve started to [...]
“I didn’t grow up buying every book I read,” said the English born Mr. [Nick] Gaiman, 47. “I read books at libraries, I read books at friend’s houses, I read books that I found on people’s window sills.”Eventually, he said, he bought his own books and he believes other readers will, too. Neil Gaiman decided [...]
Breaking News: Series Of Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot The Onion are getting better any day… [Via Tal Galili's Hitchhikers Guide to Statistics (Hebrew)]
According to FOXNews.com, Facebook has unveiled plans to target advertisements by injecting them into its members’ conversations. Facebook is giving users some control over whether to share information on their buying habits and other online activities with friends. For the program announced Tuesday to work, enough users must actually say “yes” so advertisers can show [...]
The new Rambo film is out, and includes a basic plot: John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit. But now it seems that Sylvester Stallone is taking the film back to reality and [...]
Remember the Romans? About 2000 years later came the worker’s unions… [via Cold Fusion for Morons (hebrew)]