The conversation thing

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

NLP made me perceive the world with all senses opened and better prepared for the large amount of info I have to process. And to process wisely, I might add.

The next three days I’ll be again on a training session for NLP, I can’t wait to work on the new techniques. The very first sign that is obvious for me after taking those NLP trainings is the awareness I have for the sensorial perceptions in other people intends and forms of expression.

For instance, this research here is purely kinestesic. In fact, touching is one very important aspect of communication, yet very rarely used because of the all so many connotations …

So we may restrict ourselves to pets… or when we are allergic to them, or want to experiment more, to intelligent robots… the research in itself is very powerfull and I expect very strong outcomes… but the idea to have an artifficial pet just to touch it … it’s weird, right?

I have seen the Sony artifficial dog, and I immediately fell in love with it… for me, it was no difference from a real dog to that little cute guy that would light some lights when experiencing joy

Feelings inside are activated by simple touch and series of events. The outside object may be just a toy or a living soul, artifficial or not… it may not count as much to the inner reaction we experience.

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

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 …

I am goood! I am sooo goooood!

While I was having these thoughts on privacy matters (the last 4 posts on surveillance society), Europe was having a two day meeting for setting compulsory changes search engines need to apply in order to reach a normal standard of privacy

Read International Herald Tribune article on this matter.

Talking to some friends today about this issue, it hit me that there is a potential need for online “swiss banking accounts” for online processed personal data. You place the sensitive information in the black box, and the end-program that needs authentification takes from there the criptic info, not the real data (real person identification).

Second life is about a virtual world. How about inventing a virtual Switzerland?

the saga continues

What do you think is the first thing I do when entering my blog’s admin panel? The very first thing is to go to the counterize section to see what IP’s have visited me, who is online now and what pages were most visited today… of course, I also get all sorts of statistics from google analytics.

For instance, since the last post, I have received visits from Seattle, Los Angeles and area, New York, Florida, London, Frankfurt, Lebanon, France and Romania. As you can imagine, while most people that visit my blog use automatic ips, they are anonymous to me. But, for some of them, their real identity is obvious from their IP’s. So, this Continue reading »

Hurraaaaaaaaaaaay !!!!

Stephen Hawking will host his own TV show on Channel 4 about how the universe works. Well, more precisely, it will be about how different physicists believe or predict it works … Looking forward to finding the show on some torrent …

I have read today one of the most impressive article on universe and physics. I don’t recall having such a great intuition over the theory of everyting and the superstrings as the one today. It’s really impressive to me to have such an all-of-a-sudden crisp-clear understanding… by just using a metaphore.

I would say that definitely black holes are ripples of the outer dimensions, but for light and gravity I would have to think through…