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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

I was talking to a friend today about web crawlers and he told me that when google was indexing the server, all employees at his former work place were looking anxiously to huge raise in sales .

Everyone receives Google these days with lots and lots of love, but will there be a time, when things will be the other way around? When one or some very powerful spiders may be regarded as the sentinels in the Matrix? Is China in this situation already? I know that internet is being censored there, and I reckon censorship might me applied by means of active surveillance over published material on the internet within a certain geoarea.

Internet is here for over 15 years now, right? What is 15 years to humankind history? Piece of cake! Will technology change so Continue reading »