The conversation thing

Word goes that cybercrime experts from around the world will meet in Brussels this week to discuss how governments should counter attacks aimed at crippling the Internet and hitting users with data loss, identity theft and fraud.

“The European Union’s anti-terrorism has voiced concerns about cyber attacks and said the bloc was working on new laws addressing the increasingly common phenomenon” CNN comments.

While in Bucharest, the NATO summit begining this Wednesday will also address the same issue.

Cool!

Suppose I need to give you a phone call. But we have a very complex relationship - like we are friends, and we also go to the same 7 month training, and we work in the same business for competitors and, in particular, we try to build a project together. So when I call you, you couldn’t tell if it is a private problem, something about the courses we do, or about the project we work on. Maybe I just want to chat with you about the movie I just saw, or it is about important business.

And when I know you would not expect that my phone call would be about urgent business, it would be really nice that I could add a little something, like:

Ruxandra calling
about “X project”

or “this is about tomorrow training” or “about website down” so when you actually pick up the phone you would already know what is about, and in case you miss the phonecall, you would have a hint on what it was that I wanted to tell you about.

hihiiii … just crossed my mind that it might be extremely useful to have this feature on the mobile phones. Because if you are in an important meeting, and my call is for the tonight movie, you would know not to answer, but if it is about crisis ,the situation would change.

Not sure how you would like that, but for me would be immensely helpful in some situations when the phone is ringing like hell and I need some time to adjust from one problem to another as I answer consecutive phone-calls.

Identity once again on my blog and at the O’Reilly ETech 2008 conference in San Diego. Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO at Sxip Identity gave a talk on personal identity in online medium for the Web 2.0.

Take a few minutes to see his brilliant presentation. See some more videos here.

ETech conference took place in Sun Diego there days (3 - 6 March). Hot topics and brightest brains in the online business gathered to discuss and brainstorm on emerging technologies.

See the keynote speakers in a presentation by Wired.com

Hi, as I’m in a creative mood, I drew a little more for you. A la Chagall kind of drawing. At first, I posted the drawing, but when i tried to adjust the color in Photoshop, it hit me that it actually might look a lot nicer with this color animation effect. Enjoy!

Don’t raise an eye-brow, it’s just an experiment

Here is Chris Anderson, Wired’s Editor in Chief, in a video about businesses and services becoming free over the internet. I do agree, things become free for the user, but they will most definitely stay payable for the entrepreneur. I mean, yeah, Google gives free services for the end-user… but google advertisement is payed by the ones that want to be advertised.

So digital means free, but not in the sense that services all of a sudden have no value and can be produced without any cent being invested/charged. Digitising means changing the cathegory of people you charge for your services. The revenue stays the same, otherwise the whole economy will suffer a true change. And we’re not yey prepared, since we still have to eat …