The conversation thing

Well, after announcing the instant messaging service for Facebook users a few days ago, now this worldwide community website makes a new move on globalizing its messages into all possible languages on Earth by involving its users into translating the interface …

Aren’t we transforming ourselves into a folklore society … where everything has no particular author, just vast groups of people making the final message in a process of collective work? Yes, I think a new middle ages awaits us ..

This is an old thought of mine, that we are now like the Romans were back in 200 BC … having all resources at hand, properly using all information to gain societal, economical and cultural outcomes. But in a slow motion development, after 500 years, all of a sudden, the individual voice was no longer important, collective works became the most relevant for further development… and I can see this trend of collective (read “community”) based information and outcomes going to the new middle ages era. What do you think of that?

Great work guys!

I’ve also been at a sound design workshop at the Next Festival in Bucharest and Jamie Travis came to analyze his work on Patterns Trilogy. It is soo good, and I especially liked the fact that these three films are extremely rational in directing approach. I usually don’t like that and I myself try to avoid being overrational when creating, but his works are so much taken into extremes that I can only say it is a perfect small piece of art.

I am also working with submodalities and I have discovered sound one of the most important aspect of a movie and one of the least credited by general audiences. The movies are 97% visuals and merely 3% audio. This is not fair

I’ve chatted with a friend of mine about this (and also bragged to him that my blog is now linked by cnn on the article of cybercrime ) and he gave my an interesting thought. The calls may be also cathegorised as of urgent, normal and low importance.

I’ve also discussed this idea with Cladiu Hulea and together we’ve come up to a very simple idea on how this technology can be successfully implemented. The message announcing your intent could be like an associated sms that is sent along with the call. More or less like the location cell information you can receive on your mobile.

The mobile companies need to do the software protocol that would read both information (the call info and the associated sms) and display them together. I’m not sure how the call info is transmitted over to the phone, but I guess the call will have one byte more that would look like 1 0101110 if there is an associated sms with it (the first 1 - means that the call has an associated sms with it, while the rest will be with an identifier of the sms) or a simple 0 0000000 (if there is no sms associated).

Nokia, Vodafone, Orange, iPhone .. guys, you know I am counting on you

It’s a nice list of things i’ve found on Alina’s blog couple of weekes ago. Got a little time now, so here it is my list. The bold ones are already done, the italic ones are next in line…

01) Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02) Swam with wild dolphins
03) Climbed a mountain
04) Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05) Been inside the Great Pyramid
06) Held a tarantula.
07) Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08) Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
09) Hugged a tree
10) Done a striptease
11) Bungee jumped
12) Visited Paris
13) Watched a lightning storm at sea
14) Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
15) Seen the Northern Lights
16) Gone to a huge sports game
17) Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
18) Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19) Touched an iceberg
20) Slept under the stars
21) Changed a baby’s diaper
22) Taken a trip in a hot air balloon Continue reading »