The conversation thing

Finally! When I was beginning to think and fear, for that matter , that Google will be the mastermind of all information around the globe, here comes a google-competitor. Cuil.com, pronounced cool , is a search engine that not only provides results faster than google, but organizes information upon relevancy. God, that is refreshing!

I’ve searched for the keyword “streaming” and the results that i have received are organized into tabs: all results / streaming video / streaming audio / streaming media / etc Plus, each tab has a category organization that helps you better navigate through the results. So you either browse the results in the list, as you did before on google, or yahoo or any other search engine, or you use the embedded classification.

some people get bankrupt by insane shopping experiences. I don’t like to shop till I drop … but I recently discovered that I do something that is veery close to doing the same thing

Whenever someone asks me for some help (paid or not) I’m always there with a big YES … well… when I only did 2 universities at a time and had a boyfriend and a job .. at that time, it was not criminal. but right now, I have one very demanding job, working on building a business, having personal life and working on the 4 short films series, nlp training, coaching for my own career, coaching and helping others to grow professionally and personally … man, it’s crazy. STOP STOP I say .. I need a vacation ..mna .. it doesn’t seem to stop on command

oh, well …. back to spending time… right now i’m on intensive MSProj therapy that actually proved to be very very good in scheduling and reducing this enormous pile of work … thanks acquaintance for the good video on how to have the inbox clean. I’m working on that, also on how to know on the blink of an eye how many resources are available

I’ve got mail! not e-mail, dearest beloved, but regular mail. From whom? Ars Electronica.

Last year, Ars Electronica was about privacy, and how it is slowly but completely dissapearing from our universe… This year the festival is about the new cultural economy and its new limits on intellectual property.

Internet and technology has made copyrighted information become inadequate. The costs of its production gets lower and lower… things that used to cost a few years ago, are now plain free, but other businesses emerge, so the final user is not the one charged, but by his actions, he actually makes money for the business that gives him the free goods.

The commerce is nowadays a threesome .. it used to be a couple before that - you gave me something, I gave you the money for it. Today, you give me something, I spend some time on your website, advertisers get their commercials seen by me, you get paid by them heheee …

Curator - Joichi Ito

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?

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!

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

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 …

Browse an interesting presentation about how spiders and servers and business people relate to your blog from the moment you posted a new entry.

See the full size animation on Wired.com