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		<title>Fear of Missing Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trebuie să recunoaștem un lucru: ca societate, suntem obsedați de productivitate și de îngrămădirea a cât mai multe lucruri într-o bucățică de timp. Ne place să ne mândrim că suntem „ocupați”, de parcă ne-am transforma în eroi sau martiri în ochii celorlalți. Câte ore petreci la birou? Câte ore mai muncești după ce vii de [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trebuie să recunoaștem un lucru: ca societate, suntem obsedați de productivitate și de îngrămădirea a cât mai multe lucruri într-o bucățică de timp. Ne place să ne mândrim că suntem „ocupați”, de parcă ne-am transforma în eroi sau martiri în ochii celorlalți. <em>Câte ore petreci la birou? Câte ore mai muncești după ce vii de la birou? </em>Ah, nu ești destul de ocupat. Scrie pe Twitter sau pe Facebook cât ești de ocupat. Nu-i ironic că ai, totuși, timp să te „lauzi” pe o rețea socială că ești foarte, foarte ocupat?<span id="more-358"></span></p>
<p>Alt lucru care mi se pare interesant e faptul că ne cumpăram cuptoare cu microunde ca să nu „mai pierdem timp” încâlzind mâncarea pe aragaz. Fiindcă veni vorba de mâncare, cred că e a apărut și o tendință spre cumpărarea de semi-preparate. Timp pe care îl putem petrece „fiind ocupați”.</p>
<p>E destul de ironic. Apar felurite obiecte care, teoretic, ne ajută să economisim timp. Iar de timpul pe care îl avem nu știm să ne folosim cu adevărat. Preferăm să petrecem ore întregi în fața televizorului sau a calculatorului, uitându-ne la filme, trăgând cu ochiul în viețile altor utilizatori de rețele sociale, navigând pe net, etc. Avem telefoane de pe care ne putem verifica mailul și suntem în permanență conectați la ce fac prietenii noștri de pe Twitter și Facebook. În loc ca problema timpului liber să fie rezolvată, altele au fost generate. Am început să avem probleme cu atenția, iar <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/10/us-says-proportion-of-att_n_781598.html">ADHD-ul se pare că este în creștere</a> în rândul copiilor din SUA, dar situația e probabil asemănătoare și la noi. Mai nou ne lovim și de așa numita „<em>fear of missing out</em>”. Fear Of Missing Out poate fi explicată destul de simplu: am ajuns să ne fie frică de faptul că vom pierde ceva foarte important, foarte interesant dacă nu verificăm în continuu rețelele sociale, dacă nu suntem în permanență conectați. Apasă F5, dă un refresh.</p>
<p>Poate că ar trebui ca din când în când să aruncăm telefonul, <a href="../2009/01/18/lets-go-offline-for-a-couple-of-years/">să ne deconectăm</a> și să ieșim un pic din rutina asta. Deși cu 5-6 ani în urmă nu vedeam nimic negativ în a fi conectat în permanență, acum văd pe propria persoană efectele negative. Uneori pot să fac cu totul altceva ,– să scriu un text, de exemplu – dar prefer să mă așez în fața calculatorului și să mă uit la seriale sau videoclipuri pe Youtube. În timpul acesta mai am deschise cel puțin 5 tab-uri, printre care mail-ul, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Feedly și Wikipedia. Urât, nu? Realizez că în acest fel nu folosesc timpul în niciun mod creativ, care să îmi aducă rezultate pe termen lung, dar fac prostia asta în continuare. Poate s-a transformat într-o dependență?</p>
<p>Mai nou, am început să fim răsplătiți pentru activitatea noastră în rețelele sociale prin servicii care măsoară influența, cum ar fi Klout. Ești încurajat să petreci mai mult timp pe o rețea socială pentru a avea un scor Klout sau PeerIndex mai mare. Postează mai des, convinge oamenii să-ți dea retweet sau like. Un marketer se poate folosi mult mai ușor de oamenii cu un scor al influenței ridicat. Acum are la dispoziție servicii care îl ajută să facă asta. Rezultate măsurabile în social media. Campanii bine pregătite. Și ajungem să fim din ce în ce mai bombardați cu mesaje promoționale, cu publicitate, totul atât de bine<em> focusat</em> încât o reclamă va putea fi făcută DOAR pentru tine.</p>
<p>Vreau ca treptat să învăț să mă folosesc mai bine de timpul liber pe care îl am. Să scriu mai des. Să cânt mai des la muzicuță și chitară. Să reușesc să învăț o limbă străină. Cum nu există nici o metodă miracol, va trebui să apelez la o mai bună planificare. Cam atât. La sfârșit, am o recomandare pentru follow: urmăriți acest <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/_Capitalism_">cont de Twitter</a>. Chiar merită.</p>
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		<title>Jumping into the Social Media bandwagon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 11:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Za Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s a good thing that I&#8217;m starting to analyse a service before using it. I&#8217;ve had a few bad experiences with social services because I impulsively signed up. My inbox was filled with spam messages coming from these services, privacy issues appeared, and if I used some service, it turned out to be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">I think it&#8217;s a good thing that I&#8217;m starting to analyse a service before using it. I&#8217;ve had a few bad experiences with social services because I impulsively signed up. My inbox was filled with spam messages coming from these services, privacy issues appeared, and if I used some service, it turned out to be a total bore after some time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The worst decision you can make when choosing from this ocean of social services is to use a service just because &#8220;everyone&#8217;s on it&#8221; and it&#8217;s cool. If you are choosing a service, analyse the advantages it can offer you and then decide if it&#8217;s worth it.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">These should be the main questions you should ask yourself when signing up:</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Why should I create an account on &#8220;<em>New Social Network X</em>&#8220;?</li>
<li>What are the advantages of this service?</li>
<li>How can it help me?</li>
<li>How will it affect my online privacy?</li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I might sound a little bit paranoid, but you should have a look (at least a shallow one) through the terms and conditions of every service you sign up on. The reasons are pretty clear if you care about your privacy. Sometimes a service is &#8220;free&#8221; because you&#8217;re letting its owners to scoop through your stuff.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;ve created a Twitter account in 2007, but I haven&#8217;t used it intensively until 2008. At first, I considered it a big waste of time (unfortunately, it still is but I&#8217;ve learned how to filter out what I dislike) and posted only a few tweets monthly. For example, I have an account on Facebook. I rarely use it because I don&#8217;t see how a Facebook account can help me, as a person, with anything. I have a few friends there, mainly persons that I met in real life, and some strangers who I will probably never meet. I admit the fact that I created a Facebook account just because everyone  was there.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I also have an account on <a title="Last.Fm" href="http://www.last.fm/" target="_blank">Last.fm</a>. I love music, so the main reason for creating this account was to discover new artists and bands. It&#8217;s also great for finding out what concerts are taking place in my area, and I even met some persons with similar music tastes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, to cut a long story short, you should always ask yourself if a service could help you on the long run (from points of view like meeting people, new job opportunities, entertainment, etc.) and take action accordingly.</p>
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		<title>Testing the Blackbird Pie WordPress Plugin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 10:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to install the Blackbird Pie WordPress plugin and play a little bit with it. The WordPress plugin was created after Twitter created the Blackbird Pie service. It allows you to embed tweets into your blog posts, just like you would do with other embeddable media (flash games, videos, etc.). The plugin gives you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I decided to install the <a title="Blackbird Pie WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-blackbird-pie/" target="_blank">Blackbird Pie WordPress plugin</a> and play a little bit with it. The WordPress plugin was created after Twitter created the <a href="http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/" target="_blank">Blackbird Pie service</a>. It allows you to embed tweets into your blog posts, just like you would do with other embeddable media (flash games, videos, etc.).</p>
<p>The plugin gives you a few possibilities to embed tweets. The most easy to use is to take the complete URL of a tweet and paste it into your blog post. I added the following two tweets by using the complete URL and the id of the tweets.</p>
<p>Here are two embedded tweets from my timeline:</p>
<p><strong>A tweet in Romanian:</strong></p>
<!-- tweet id : 14483309763 --><style type='text/css'>#bbpBox_14483309763 a { text-decoration:none; color:#3d669c; }#bbpBox_14483309763 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }</style><div id='bbpBox_14483309763' class='bbpBox' style='padding:20px; margin:5px 0; background-color:#404042; background-image:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/57501676/422630.png);'><div style='background:#fff; padding:10px; margin:0; min-height:48px; color:#000000; -moz-border-radius:5px; -webkit-border-radius:5px;'><span style='width:100%; font-size:18px; line-height:22px;'>Nu &#238;n&#355;eleg de unde a ap&#259;rut ideea c&#259; oamenii nu viseaz&#259; &#238;n culori. Se leag&#259; de faptul c&#259; uit&#259;m par&#355;ial visele, a.&#238; credem c&#259;-s &#238;n alb&negru.</span><div class='bbp-actions' style='font-size:12px; width:100%; padding:5px 0; margin:0 0 10px 0; border-bottom:1px solid #e6e6e6;'><img align='middle' src='http://geekesque.ro/wp-content/plugins/twitter-blackbird-pie//images/bird.png' /><a title='tweeted on May 22, 2010 10:48 am' href='http://twitter.com/#!/danielvoicu/status/14483309763' target='_blank'>May 22, 2010 10:48 am</a> via <a href="http://www.snaptu.com/a/twitter" rel="nofollow" target="blank">Snaptu</a><a href='https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=14483309763&related=danielvoicu' class='bbp-action bbp-reply-action' title='Reply'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Reply</strong></span></a><a href='https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=14483309763&related=danielvoicu' class='bbp-action bbp-retweet-action' title='Retweet'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Retweet</strong></span></a><a href='https://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=14483309763&related=danielvoicu' class='bbp-action bbp-favorite-action' title='Favorite'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Favorite</strong></span></a></div><div style='float:left; padding:0; margin:0'><a href='http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=danielvoicu'><img style='width:48px; height:48px; padding-right:7px; border:none; background:none; margin:0' src='http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1256913014/blurry_normal.jpg' /></a></div><div style='float:left; padding:0; margin:0'><a style='font-weight:bold' href='http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=danielvoicu'>@danielvoicu</a><div style='margin:0; padding-top:2px'>Daniel Voicu</div></div><div style='clear:both'></div></div></div><!-- end of tweet -->
<p><strong>And one in English:</strong></p>
<!-- tweet id : 14439778971 --><style type='text/css'>#bbpBox_14439778971 a { text-decoration:none; color:#3d669c; }#bbpBox_14439778971 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }</style><div id='bbpBox_14439778971' class='bbpBox' style='padding:20px; margin:5px 0; background-color:#404042; background-image:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/57501676/422630.png);'><div style='background:#fff; padding:10px; margin:0; min-height:48px; color:#000000; -moz-border-radius:5px; -webkit-border-radius:5px;'><span style='width:100%; font-size:18px; line-height:22px;'>Use the force, Luke! Use that fucking thing, you moron! Oh crap, you're drunk.</span><div class='bbp-actions' style='font-size:12px; width:100%; padding:5px 0; margin:0 0 10px 0; border-bottom:1px solid #e6e6e6;'><img align='middle' src='http://geekesque.ro/wp-content/plugins/twitter-blackbird-pie//images/bird.png' /><a title='tweeted on May 21, 2010 6:46 pm' href='http://twitter.com/#!/danielvoicu/status/14439778971' target='_blank'>May 21, 2010 6:46 pm</a> via <a href="http://www.snaptu.com/a/twitter" rel="nofollow" target="blank">Snaptu</a><a href='https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=14439778971&related=danielvoicu' class='bbp-action bbp-reply-action' title='Reply'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Reply</strong></span></a><a href='https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=14439778971&related=danielvoicu' class='bbp-action bbp-retweet-action' title='Retweet'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Retweet</strong></span></a><a href='https://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=14439778971&related=danielvoicu' class='bbp-action bbp-favorite-action' title='Favorite'><span><em style='margin-left: 1em;'></em><strong>Favorite</strong></span></a></div><div style='float:left; padding:0; margin:0'><a href='http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=danielvoicu'><img style='width:48px; height:48px; padding-right:7px; border:none; background:none; margin:0' src='http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1256913014/blurry_normal.jpg' /></a></div><div style='float:left; padding:0; margin:0'><a style='font-weight:bold' href='http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=danielvoicu'>@danielvoicu</a><div style='margin:0; padding-top:2px'>Daniel Voicu</div></div><div style='clear:both'></div></div></div><!-- end of tweet -->
<p>I used <code>&#91;blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/danielvoicu/status/14483309763"&#93;</code> for the first tweet and for the second I used <code>&#91;blackbirdpie id="14439778971"&#93;</code>.</p>
<p>When you use these commands, you will notice that the plugin creates custom fields. You can edit them afterwards. I didn&#8217;t edit the first tweet just to show you the plugin has a small issue when it comes to special characters, in this case some Romanian letters.</p>
<p>You can find the plugin <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-blackbird-pie/" target="_blank">here</a>, and if you want to read more about it, visit the <a title="Themergency: Twitter Blackbird Pie WordPress Plugin" href="http://themergency.com/twitter-blackbird-pie-wordpress-plugin/" target="_blank">developer&#8217;s site</a>.</p>
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		<title>Writing for the Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While browsing the web, I found this presentation of Shay Howe about the right way of writing for the web. Although the Internet is mostly about content, it seems to be considered the least important part of a website when developing one. Here&#8217;s the presentation. I hope you&#8217;re going to find it useful: Writing for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While browsing the web, I found this presentation of Shay Howe about the right way of writing for the web. Although the Internet is mostly about content, it seems to be considered the least important part of a website when developing one.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the presentation. I hope you&#8217;re going to find it useful:</p>
<div id="__ss_2891758" style="width: 425px; text-align: left;"><a style="font: 14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; display: block; margin: 12px 0 3px 0; text-decoration: underline;" title="Writing for the Web: The Right Strategy" href="http://www.slideshare.net/letscounthedays/writing-for-the-web-the-right-strategy-2891758">Writing for the Web: The Right Strategy</a><object style="margin: 0px;" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="355" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=refresh-presentation-100111212541-phpapp02&amp;rel=0&amp;stripped_title=writing-for-the-web-the-right-strategy-2891758" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed style="margin: 0px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="355" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=refresh-presentation-100111212541-phpapp02&amp;rel=0&amp;stripped_title=writing-for-the-web-the-right-strategy-2891758" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/letscounthedays">Shay Howe</a>.</div>
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		<title>How Much Are You Willing To Share About You</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We share so much personal babble about us on so many social networks. The internet has become the marketer&#8217;s dream, if one knows how to use it in one&#8217;s interest. We&#8217;ve started to shed the clothes of anonymity, thinking that the Internet will give us at least a small amount of fame. Those 15 minutes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We share so much personal babble about us on so many social networks. The internet has become the marketer&#8217;s dream, if one knows how to use it in one&#8217;s interest.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve started to shed the clothes of anonymity, thinking that the Internet will give us at least a small amount of fame. Those 15 minutes of fame, at least. Or 15 MB of fame, if we move the whole thing online.</p>
<p>I am witnessing &#8211; as we all do &#8211; a complete renunciation of privacy in favor of a weird transparency that on the long run will affect our relationships, whether they are professional, love or family relations. We&#8217;re in a fast-forward medium that also allows us to skip moments. We only want the start and the end, forgetting about what&#8217;s in-between.</p>
<p>We share pictures on Facebook, let the whole world know we&#8217;re in a relationship with another Facebook user, tweet about things that a decade ago were considered intimate.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I am asking you: where are we heading? What&#8217;s the future of &#8220;sharing&#8221; and how does the current state affect us on the long run?</p>
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		<title>Ada Twitter Client: Simplicity Makes Perfect</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone talks about Twitter these days: personal branding on Twitter, making friends through Twitter, finding new stuff on Twitter&#8230; Twitter, Twitter, Twitter! As one of the somewhat-early adopters of this service, I noticed that Twitter is &#8211; actually was &#8211; based on the concept of simplicity. In time, along with the features introduced by users [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone talks about Twitter these days: personal branding on Twitter, making friends through Twitter, finding new stuff on Twitter&#8230; Twitter, Twitter, Twitter!</p>
<p>As one of the somewhat-early adopters of this service, I noticed that Twitter is &#8211; actually was &#8211; based on the concept of simplicity. In time, along with the features introduced by users (conventions like the @ sign for replies) noise was created and the need to separate the interesting, juicy stuff from the mundane, boring things appeared.</p>
<p>Buuut&#8230; that&#8217;s not the subject of this post. Still, I want to relate to simplicity. We all have a favorite Twitter client which we use on our PCs or Macs. For example, I have two of them: at the office I use <strong>Tweetie</strong> (for Mac) and at home I use an app I just discovered, called <a title="Ada Twitter Client" href="http://madan.org/ada/" target="_blank"><strong>Ada</strong></a>.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 184px"><img title="Ada Twitter Client" src="http://madan.org/ada/ada3.png" alt="Ada Twitter from Madan" width="174" height="265" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ada Twitter from Madan</p></div>
<p>Before Ada I used <strong>Twhirl</strong> on my home computer but it kinda got too bulky for my taste. Many buttons and too many features doesn&#8217;t mean an application will satisfy everyone.</p>
<p>Ada is a small, simple, AIR-based app that won&#8217;t bother you with notifications while you&#8217;re working. The most recent version is 1.20 and you can find it <a title="Ada Twitter Client" href="http://madan.org/ada/" target="_blank">here</a>. It has a few themes that you can use and a drop-down menu from which you can choose what to see: main timeline, mentions and direct messages.</p>
<p>Although it&#8217;s pretty minimal and it won&#8217;t bother you like other apps, it still lacks some basic features. For example, I think that it wasn&#8217;t necessary a button for marking favourite tweets but one for sending direct messages to a tweet&#8217;s owner. I also don&#8217;t see why a &#8220;favorite tweet button&#8221; exists as there is no way to see the tweets you favourited through Ada. Or maybe I haven&#8217;t discovered it yet&#8230;</p>
<p>Another much needed feature would be using different colours for replies and direct messages. This would help out users who follow a lot of persons to differentiate replies and DMs from normal tweets directly on the main timeline.</p>
<p>Anyway, this little app is lovely and I would recommend it to everyone who wants a <strong>multiplatform Twitter client based on the concept of simplicity.</strong></p>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s go offline for a couple of years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I read something really interesting on Seth Godin&#8216;s blog, an idea that&#8217;s been buzzing me a lot lately. The Internet is full. And Mr. Godin is not talking about physical storage, which is continuously growing. He&#8217;s talking about us, the Internet users. WE are full. For example, I am feeling full [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few days ago I read something really interesting on <a title="The Internet is Almost Full" href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/12/warning-the-int.html" target="_blank">Seth Godin</a>&#8216;s blog, an idea that&#8217;s been buzzing me a lot lately. The Internet is full. And Mr. Godin is not talking about physical storage, which is continuously growing. He&#8217;s talking about us, the Internet users. WE are full. For example, I am feeling full of all the social media/social networks/keeping in touch with friends, reading blogs, etc. And it seems that I don&#8217;t find anything new on the Internet lately.</p>
<p>I had an account on most of the popular social networks, including Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Because I felt overwhelmed by them, I started quitting my accounts one by one. At this moment, I am using Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin with their usage exactly in this specific order. The &#8220;super-duper&#8221; trio.</p>
<p>Theoretically, if we would stop using the Internet for a couple of years, leaving behind everything that&#8217;s online and web related, the enthusiasm might return and some really cool apps would be created after this &#8220;hibernation&#8221;. Although the technology gives us the possibility to create the most interesting things, we are &#8220;getting used to&#8221; the old things and not looking to create some advanced web apps.</p>
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		<title>2Parale a fost lansat [ro]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radu Spineanu a anuntat astazi lansarea serviciului de affiliate marketing 2Parale, tinut in private beta din luna iulie a acestui an. Prin affiliate marketing se permite monetizarea continutul de calitate specific unei nise. Astfel, advertiserii vor plati pentru actiuni masurabile pe serviciile lor si nu se va mai face plata pentru obtinerea unei audiente. Am [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_39" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 218px"><img class="size-full wp-image-39" title="Logo 2Parale" src="http://geekesque.ro/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/logo.png" alt="Logo-ul 2Parale" width="208" height="70" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Serviciul de marketing afiliat 2Parale</p></div>
<p>Radu Spineanu a anuntat astazi <a title="2Parale is Open for Business" href="http://comunitate.2parale.ro/blog/open-business" target="_blank">lansarea</a> serviciului de affiliate marketing 2Parale, tinut in private beta din luna iulie a acestui an.</p>
<p>Prin affiliate marketing se permite monetizarea continutul de calitate specific unei nise. Astfel, advertiserii vor plati pentru actiuni masurabile pe serviciile lor si nu se va mai face plata pentru obtinerea unei audiente.</p>
<p>Am avut ocazia sa testez 2Parale de prin august fiind inscris cu proiectul UnseenRomania in acest program. As putea spune ca am vazut proiectul crescand si modelandu-se dupa feedbackul primit de la utilizatorii din private beta. S-a dezvoltat intr-un timp foarte scurt intr-un proiect promitator ce cu siguranta isi va atrage utilizatori intr-un timp si mai scurt. Partea de administrare a campaniilor e foarte intuitiva astfel incat va veti putea concentra pe ceea ce aveti de facut, nefiind nevoiti sa pierdeti timp sa invatati panoul.</p>
<p>Imi cer scuze ca nu am putut da prea multe detalii dar iata aici cateva linkuri de pe blogul 2Parale care ar putea clarifica posibilele nelamuriri cu legatura la affiliate marketing si 2Parale:</p>
<p><a title="De ce marketing afiliat?" href="http://comunitate.2parale.ro/blog/de-ce-marketing-afiliat" target="_blank"><strong>De ce marketing afiliat?</strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a title="Cum functioneaza marketingul afiliat" href="http://comunitate.2parale.ro/blog/cum-functioneaza-marketingul-afiliat" target="_blank">Cum functioneaza marketingul afiliat</a></strong></p>
<p><a title="Pot sa fiu un afiliat?" href="http://comunitate.2parale.ro/blog/pot-sa-fiu-un-afiliat-partea-intai" target="_blank"><strong>Pot sa fiu un afiliat?</strong></a></p>
<p>Succes celor din spatele proiectului si utilizatorilor!</p>
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		<title>FSF sues Cisco</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. It seems that Cisco violated the licenses of GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library through its Linksys brand. All of them are released under GPL and LGPL, so basically everyone had the right to modify and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today the <a title="Free Software Foundation" href="http://www.fsf.org" target="_blank">Free Software Foundation</a> (FSF) has announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. It seems that Cisco violated the licenses of GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library through its Linksys brand. All of them are released under GPL and LGPL, so basically everyone had the right to modify and share Cisco&#8217;s stuff but the company denied this right to the users.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our licenses are designed to ensure that everyone who uses the software can change it,&#8221; said Richard Stallman, president and founder of the FSF.  &#8220;In order to exercise that right, people need the source code, and that&#8217;s why our licenses require distributors to provide it. We are enforcing our licenses to protect the rights that everyone should have with all software: to use it, share it, and modify it as they see fit.&#8221;</p>
<p>These are parts from a press release I got today, with a few modifications.  I&#8217;m wondering what will be Cisco&#8217;s next move. Will they open up their stuff according to the General Public License and LGPL or will they try to prove they&#8217;re &#8220;innocent&#8221;?</p>
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		<title>Testing Zoho Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello world. I&#8217;m testing Zoho Writer, an online platform that allows you to write anything, from anywhere. You can also post to your blog, like I&#8217;m doing right now. I like the way it looks, if you&#8217;ve used an offline office suite, you will get used to it in a very short time. There are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello world. I&#8217;m testing <a title="Zoho Writer" href="http://writer.zoho.com" target="_blank">Zoho Writer</a>, an online platform that allows you to write anything, from anywhere. You can also post to your blog, like I&#8217;m doing right now.</p>
<p>I like the way it looks, if you&#8217;ve used an offline office suite, you will get used to it in a very short time. There are some issues, though. For example, I am using  Firefox 3.0.4 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. There&#8217;s some sort of lag, as the characters appear delayed. The fonts look a little bit unaligned and there&#8217;s a horizonal ruler that appears halfed.</p>
<p>I will try it on Windows XP and Mac OS X pretty soon.<a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/mobility"><br />
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