Archive for March 23rd, 2009
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
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"free web-conferencing service that has screen-sharing, chat, notes, videos, presentations and a whiteboard between collaborators"
- access each other’s computers screens with permission
- only requires flash player
- give a presentation
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Brilliant, somewhat sceptical review of "Us Now", "… a film that is likely to attract accusations of naivety: at its heart is the premise that trust can be enhanced by the human interconnectivity allowed by the net."
"Us Now is intriguing not least because it captures the zeitgeist of the interconnected times we live in – the frontline being sharing and transparency versus the old order of guarded secrecy…. For those not deeply immersed in the online world ‘Us Now’ is a fascinating primer in the aspirations of the net generation"
"How mainstream all of this is to the gestalt of our social and political lives is the big question. "
‘Us Now’ is currently being screened in Canada and Europe and will be on Google Video next month.
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Answer to
http://ciscofatty.com/ – the story of a young woman that tweeted she had landed her a job at Cisco but only did it for the fat paycheck (and actually didn't like the job).
Her (public) tweet was picked up by a Cisco employee, which cost her the job. "Cisco Fatty" became an internet meme in no time. Note that she put her profile to private but that the tweet was available at search.twitter.com for a long time… (has been removed meanwhile).
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GoogleLookup function in Google Spreadsheets uses an automatically-generated database of facts to find answers for questions like "What's the population of Quebec?" or "How many employees does Google have?"
It's not surprising that this _can_ be included in Google spreadsheets, the surprising thing is that Google has the audacity (or the nerve) to insert answers to search queries as actual facts in their spreadsheet…
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