If you want to add religion to your profile information, you can basically type anything, even "Planet Nibiru's Witness". But facebook does have a few template ones that pop up when you type in a starting letter. So I was just exploring..you get all the usual athiest, agnostic etc. if you type 'a', and all the denominations of christianity if you type 'c', example christian - anglican. However, the really really weird thing is you can also be Christian - Amish.

Now..why on earth would an Amish person have facebook? Aren't you supposed to renounce all modern technology? Unless you're a lapsed Amish but then you'd be kicked out wouldn't you?

Pearl Going is a who in the who's who of "Planet Socialite", according to NZ Herald Spy gossip queen Rachel Glucina.  The Gluc's recent article dropped a few names (more folk that I've never heard of, no doubt cementing my ignorant scum status) that Pearl is palsy with, and generally touted Going as a "socialite with a purpose".  Radical concept, eh?  Bear with.

Pearl Going, Kiwi socialite: “Sexy is genuine. Realness is sexy”.  

Kate Bosworth, American actress: "Who is Pearl Going?"

Kiwi blogger Whaleoil put down the blubber and instead inhaled eau de sneaky rat.  Knowing the Gluc's record for poor fact-checking, WO performed some research over at Uncy Google's house and found some interesting bits of cached and not-so cached info and blogged about it.  With Whaleoil's record for un-PC, unreservedness, his post included some juicy allegations and questions stemming from claims and pics on Pearl's Facebook and (now removed) Yahoo profile pages:

• Attendance at esteemed Universities who have no record of her ever attending, including Otago and Oxford
• Claims of being in GQ magazine
• Claims photographs of Kate Bosworth are actually her
• Claims photographs of New York socialites standing next to even bigger, more well known (to people less scum class than Lita) New York socialites are actually her

Pearl, unhappy that Whaleoil was sullying her good (but until now, unknown) name, asked her Daddy to intervene, and he gave the big WO a big ole telling off in his comments box.  Lawyers were threatened, and  now they have set action against Whaleoil's website host, so his original post has had to be removed.  Uhoh spaghetti-o!

Luckily for us, the interweb cannot be stopped.  The minute you take something down, and particularly if it's known to be done under duress, another five of 'em pop up somewhere else.  A certain anonymous someone has already reproduced copies of the original, supposedly spurious, posts about Pearl Going.  You can view them at PearlGoingisafake.com, along with more PR faux pas courtesy of Pearl, her Papa and their lawyers.

Whaleoil's claim that Going's bath photo is in fact a picture of Kate Bosworth from a recent GQ magazine shoot was said to be defamatory by Pearl's lawyer, who believes the picture to be a clever imitation.  Ahem, whatevs.  Get thee to an optician Mr Lawyer.

In fact, it is Ms Going, though the photo was taken to imitate Kate Bosworth’s pose. The difference in their hair lengths is obvious to anyone looking closely. Again, the suggested deception is defamatory of Ms Going.

PGIAF commenter 'Kate Bosworth' provides a handy recap of Pearl's full life to date: 

Sian-Pearl Going is 23, when she was;

17 she studied “human sciences” at AUT
18 she studied “Law, Medicine and Politics” at University of Otago
20 she studied “International Studies” at “Canterbury”
21 she studied “Human Sciences, Politics and International Relations” at University of Oxford

In addition she has;

A Pilots Licence
Worked for a “major charity” in Africa
Worked as a medic in South America
Lived in Paris, UAE, UK and the US
Speaks Spanish, Arabic and French
Had an internship at the United Nations
Worked as Events Network Manager at the FTAANZ
Is a shareholder of Clean Green Air Company NZ Ltd
Met among others: Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandala, Kate Bosworth and Tinsley whatshername…

The reason why Facebook became such a dominating force in the web world is because it has seen the flaws of MySpace and has improved on them.  MySpace was the latest trend and if you did not have a MySpace page, you were considered to be uncool.  No one wants to be uncool, everyone wants to be cool, stay with the cool crowd, know what everyone is up to, and especially no parents knew about it. MySpace was, 'the shit' unfortunately online predators caught on with the network and started luring young innocent children, boys and girls into arranging dates to meet up with each other.  Once the stories of the children being kidnapped and raped and such appeared on mainstream television, parents, well everyone just went ballistic.  Due to the controversies of how easy it is for a pedophile to arrange a date with someone on MySpace, the social networking site just plummeted and no one uses it anymore.

Then comes along Facebook, created by Mark Zuckerberg (yes it is Wikipedia).  The reason why it became so popular is because it was just like MySpace, and A LOT more aesthetically pleasing to the eye.  MySpace is really cluttered and it is a miracle for someone to navigate their way through comments, postings, and pictures.  Facebook became very, very popular with the teens due to its enhanced security features that MySpace did not have.  For MySpace, anyone can add you as a friend and anyone can see your profile, if you don't click on that privacy option.  With Facebook, only your friends and people in the same geographical or school network can view your account.  What a great way to deter pedophiles.  Commenting or posting on someone's wall is much more easier in Facebook.  All one does is write their comment and cick on the post button.  Using some very elegant PHP and MYSQL coding, the comment is posted up on the page in a second or so.  With MySpace, well that is a whole other story.  First you write the comment, then you click post, then it redirects to a page to confirm that what you wrote is what you want on the page, AND then it makes you type in a CAPTCHA (to prevent spam bots) to confirm the post.  It can take up to a minute to write a post; what a waste of time. So Facebook has become the new kid on the block in which everyone is talking about.  Teenagers love it, website designers love it, and even parents prefer it over Facebook (prefer instead of love, because there are some parents who do not trust the website after the whole MySpace controversy).  So what's not to like about it?  It has become 'the shit', the place for all the cool kids to to meet up at figuratively speaking that is. Unfortunately, the non tech savvy users do not know that Facebook is as dangerous and can be more dangerous than MySpace.

First off, a story about a college student who seriously injured a person in a car crash while under the influence of alcohol.  Joshua Lipton was at a party in halloween wearing a Jail suit and holding a can of redbull.  Picture of him were taken and not surprisingly, they were posted on Facebook.  During his trial, the prosecutor with the help of the victim's friend was able to obtain the crazy party photos of Joshua as he partied all night long that Halloween night.  Using these pictures that were readily available, the prosecutor was able to depict Joshua as an "unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital".  The judge also agreed with the prosecutor and instead of maybe probation and some community service, the judge sentenced Joshua to two years in jail.  It is not looking good for Joshua, and it goes to show you that pictures on Facebook can bite you in the ass.

Pictures can be very, very embarrassing to people especially pictures of them drunk.  In Joshua Lipton's case though, it got him two years in jail (he will probably appeal the decision though, maybe he'll get out with a lighter sentence but who knows).  The photos can actually even make people famous over night, but not in a good way; for example the people who dressed up as the victims of the Virginia Tech Masacre. Even in poor taste someone will still do it, but this one, wow not good.

Facebook can also destroy your future.  There has been a big huge storm surrounding Facebook when employers revealed that they tried to go on prospective applicants' facebook pages and see their pictures to see what they are like in real life which evidentally can take a candidate out of the running.  Employers have even went through the trouble of contacting Facebook employees and asking them to go inside the accounts of prospective employees and give them access to their personal information and as well as 'embarrassing' photos.

The whole stalking thing with people these days or 'creepers' all comes from the pictures that people put up.  If there is a hot girl that someone wants to see pictures of, you can't just add that person as they probably won't know you.  But the hack-savvy 'creepers' these days can URL hack their way into their targets' photo albums which is very creepy and scary. Facebook has probably cleared this problem up and created a new form of random access, hexadecimal coding enclosure (I don't know what I'm saying here) preventing these 'creepers' and potential pedophiles from seeing pictures of not so legal teenagers.  There is also PHP, MYSQL, AJAX, Javascript manipulation that the pro coders can exploit in order to hack their way into facebook accounts or do some crazy stuff like the i-frame hack, but not that many people can do it...yet!  Soon they will and Facebook will have this problem.  Although once they find a bug/exploit they will fix that problem immediately, but there will come a time when an exploit surfaces and they can't fix it.

Another problem with Facebook is that once you 'delete' your account, you do not actually delete your account, all you do is make it innactive.  When one deactivats their account and reactivates it, they are shown their page without any changes.  Thus meaning, the person did not actually delete their account, they just made it dormant.  It is a good feature for those who reactivate their accounts and do not want to go through the process of adding their friends again and posting old/new pictures.  The problem is, Facebook does not actually delete your account.  Once you deactivate it and 'think' you have deleted your information, Facebook still keeps your private information on their servers which if hacked, can be devastating. Also as well as the fact that employers can go in and ask the employees to look at your 'deleted' account.  It is not a nice feeling knowing that your personal information is still stored in computers and servers wating to be hacked.  It used to be, the only way to actually delete your account is to call the company and harrass them daily until they actually go into the servers and delete your account.  Why would someone need to call a website to delete their own information off the servers?  It is very time consuming for the user and costly for the website. Not to mention and pain the ass to just harrass them daily. Now the company has made it simpler for one to completely delete their account; the user can actually go into their account and choose to delete it.  Unfortunately, this option is very, very hard to find in the account which will lead many to just give up on searching for it and just deactivate their account.

One great thing about Facebook is the applications platform that it has created.  The networking site has allowed third party developers to develop fun games and applications for users to play around with.  One of the most famous applications is the 'Jetman' application which has become very addictive to everyone on Facebook.  It is a complete rip-off of the Helicopter flash game that was published many years before MySpace was developed, but no one really cares as no one is gaining any money from it.  But is that true?  It turns out that the third party applications when added steal the information of the person's Facebook account and adds it to a database of users for the third party developers' own use.  Some applications even can as far as looking into your friends' pages and copying down their information.  The BBC News wrote a story on this very controversial and quite possibly life ruining flaw in social network.  Even though probably less than ten percent of all the applications being developed are used by most of the Facebook population, many malicious developers can create applications with hidden directives, directives that tell the application to copy down the user's identity and their friend's identity. This flaw shows a major concern in the privacy of Facbeook users and as well as this type of flaw can lead to theft identity, which can put someone in financial debt.  Quite possibly put someone in the situation of what the new movie 'Eagle Eye'; shows.

These stories and links are just a sample of the problems that Facebook has with its design and coding.  By the time this post has been published, maybe most of these flaws/bugs/exploits have been fixed as many of these flaws are old news, about two years old or three years maybe.  Still, Facebook is a great platform for social networking nad most likely will become the benchmark model for all social networking sites...except for twitter.  That network is completely different. Even though many of the good things that Mark and his team of coders have developed/developing, the bad will always outweigh the good as with every new feature that Facebook releases, someone will find a bug or a flaw and find a way to exploit the network to their own advantage.  Still, Facebook will be the number one social networking site for years to come.  No other site other than MySpace (but thats on the verge of collapsing) will ever come close to the status Facebook has attained in the eyes of today's society.  It is considered to be the perfect way to communicate and keep in touch with everyone you know. Orkut might have a chance but Google has a LOOOOOOOONG way. Hey, if Orkut does manage to beat out Facebook, looks like Google will become the new Microsoft! But that's a completely different story for now.

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I was on Ping.fm, about to ping a status across the board, when I started thinking about the number of Social Networking sites I'm on. Currently on Ping.fm I'm pinging Brightkite, Facebook, FriendFeed, hi5, Identi.ca, Jaiku, kwippy, LinkedIn, Mashable, Myspace, Plurk, Pownce, Tumblr, and last but DEFINITELY not least, Twitter.

I got to thinking, out of all of those sites, which ones do I actually use on a daily basis? If I were to visit ALL of the sites I use in socialMe, it'd be overkill. In fact, it would have to be a full-time job to have to keep up with it all. The main sites I use are Twitter (obviously), Facebook, and FriendFeed. I used to use Brightkite but as-of-late I've started to get comfy with Loopt; once Brightkite makes an iPhone app I'll probably move back. I've also ressurected my Myspace account to reach my Myspace audience, which suprisingly is large; I usually point Myspace to the younger demographic (10-16).

Obviously, this led me to ask, why do I have all of these accounts and not use them? My first answer is to reach a larger audience. Twitter has a large user base already, but there are other users out there that use Plurk or Jaiku more than Twitter. I want to everyone in the world to know my name, so naturally I make an account on those sites. Thinking deeper, my first answer was a good one, but not what led me to sign up for the sites initially. Everyone, by now, has been acquainted with the Fail Whale I assume. So when Twitter goes down, we all flock to another site.

Oh okay, so that's why I signed up!

Yes, one of the reasons, but not the one I was looking for. Then it hit me! After recovering from the blow from the candle falling on my foot, I remembered why I signed up for Plurk. Leo Laporte sent a tweet over the airwaves asking everyone to join him on Plurk. When I saw the "LeoLaporte" name and the words "join me" I quickly launched Mobile Safari. I was sitting in Moe's eating lunch, surfing as fast as EDGE would let me. Ignoring the conversations that were going on, most of which were directed at me, I was tapping away at my iPhone signing up for my account. Finally when it was all over I went back to my conversations, setting a reminder to check out Plurk when I get home. It was a similar situation with FriendFeed. I got Robert Scoble's tweet about how he was ignoring Twitter and moving almost exclusively to FriendFeed. Two minutes later I had a Friend Feed account. Both of these tweets, by the way, were done when Twitter was experiencing (almost expected at the time) the fail whale.

So, for most of the sites that I now don't use, I signed up almost instantaneously because big names in SocialMe and New Media mentioned them. I do somewhat feel like a sheep, but I do have readers that use other services more than Twitter and reach my media from there. I also move to these sites when Twitter experiences downtime, thankfully not as often now. Even though I do have all of these accounts, I like many always move back to Twitter.

Why do I use Twitter? I feel it's a great service with an already large - and may I add extremely loyal - fan base, there are many tools for bloggers and socialMe fiends like myself that integrate seamlessly with it, and there are many native programs for both Mac and Windows for the service. Yes, Plurk is more stable and has a different take on the time-line, Brightkite has location based services, and FriendFeed binds all of the services together, but I'm always going back to Twitter in the end. So, for now, I'll stick with it and Ping.fm.

What are your thoughts on the socialMe circuit?

By the way, the new Ping.fm beta code is "thispingsforyou" :)

oh yes, and the blogs.

i find it so interesting that in this day and age our peers are so willing to dish out information about themselves on the internet. do you think it's easier to be more open with a complete stranger?

i say, yes.

statistics show that this generation is more about community than past. they see a hope and a future and i believe they will change the world with their charitable fervor.

perhaps online communities are now an extension of who we are. this past spring, for example, at a local film festival, the general question of the hour was, "are you on facebook?" so we could all 'link up' later and keep in touch. clever.

hmm. what ever happened to sending the occasional letter? you know, i still try to do this. before my nana passed away, this was how we communicated. sometimes we would talk on the phone, but she was first and foremost my pen pal. she would send me articles about what was happening in her town. i would send her lemon drops and books of what i was reading. i loved hearing her story through mail.

but when you think about it, isn't writing letters the same as writing...say your profile's favorite interests, online? is commenting on someone's wall or sending a text just something you would normally say over the phone? or does this use less brain power thus dulling our sensitivity to say...enjoying a beautiful day?

i recently joined twitter and now follow about 14 different people, including barak obama. (that's right!) one user recently commented this way:

Carrying a camera changes how I see and think. How's Twitter shifting my experience?

fellow bloggers, do you ever catch yourself saying, 'oh this would make a great post!' and surely we've all been guilty of taking that one picture for our facebook profile. the point is, we walk life through the lens of our online community of choice. at least it's beginning to seem that way.

(don't call me, surely.)

so is all this online community-ing changing the way we view the world? is this positively or negatively affecting our minds and our sense of being? will we just all morph into one online robot?

my fear is someday, in the very near future, we will resort to an online mess of youtube and chats and moments of watching old chevy chase movies and baking cookies from scratch together on a sunday afternoon will be a thing lost and forgotten.

conversely, if we aren't part of these networks, are we already lost and forgotten?

just some thoughts.

it's 1am...

...and this might be the fish talking.

Jag har fått några fina mail. Människor som läser min blogg som av någon anledning inte vill skriva kommentarer. Men ni mailar. Tack.

Och så nåt annat:
Ni som följt mig genom åren har hört mig tjata om det här förut. Om att vara sig själv eller inte. Känner bara att det tål att upprepas. Och eftersom jag navelskådar och funderar över mig själv och varför jag gör som jag gör kan jag lika gärna dela med mig lite.
Det dummaste rådet man kan ge till en vilsen tonåring (eller till vem som helst förresten) är "Var dig själv". Dom stackarna som lyder det rådet blir fan utfrysta, mobbade och får det jävligt tufft. Jag säger inte att man inte ska vara sig själv. Jag säger bara att om man ger någon det rådet bör det följas av noggrann information om vad det kostar att vara den man är. Det bör följas av information om människor som inte riktigt kan tänka utanför sin egen låda. Det bör följas av information om att det kommer att vara jävligt tufft.

Jag har en annan idé. Ett annat råd. Istället för att vara sig själv ska man försöka vara den man vill vara. Bli den man vill bli. För allvarligt: Vem är man? Man är en jävla messup av saker som varit med om, av gener och arv och miljö och erfarenheter om kanske inte alls gjort en till en person att visa upp och vara stolt över.
Ska man då bara "vara den man är" eller ska man försöka bli någon annan?

Jag tror på att man ska försöka bli någon annan. Jag tror på att ha en bild av hur man vill vara, vad man vill göra och på vilket sätt, och försöka nå dit.
Jag tror inte att man riktigt någonsin lyckas, för vissa saker kan man inte ändra på. Men annat kan man faktiskt fan påverka.
Jag har skrivit förut om barndom. Om traumatisk barndom. Det är ju jävligt enkelt kanske att skylla alla sina tillkortakommanden på en taskig barndom, men det håller fan inte. Bättre då att trotsa oddsen och bli den man vill vara istället för att vara ett bränt barn resten av livet.
Kan ju låta konstigt att jag säger det här efter mitt inlägg om lögner och hur bränd jag är. Men tro fan inte att jag bara gillar det läget. Tro inte att jag för en sekund kapitulerar för att jag är sårad som jag är. Tro inte att jag inte faktiskt försöker tänka annorlunda, utanför lådan, och hitta tillbaks till den jag var innan jag brände mig. Samtidigt om jag strävar mot att bli något mer än jag var då. Samtidigt som jag måste lägga till det jag blivit, det jag vet, det jag har nu som jag inte hade då. Och göra något bra av det.

Det är så irriterande och frustrerande med människor som konstaterar att "sån är jag" utan tillägget "men nu ska jag jävlar i mig ta itu med det och bli den jag vill vara, någon bättre, något mer".

Jag vet inte riktigt vad jag vill vara. Eller vem.
Jag vet att jag inte vill vara ett jävla offer som sitter och tycker synd om mig själv och dömer andra på förhand bara för att jag har taskiga erfarenheter.
Jag är mer än så.

Men ibland måste man få släppa taget. Ibland måste man få sjunka till botten, för att ta sig upp. Litegrann bryta ihop och komma igen. Jag tror på det. Och jag har blivit bättre genom åren på att bryta ihop lite lagom då och då istället för att vänta för länge och explodera.

Jag lyssnar på "She wants revenge". Riktigt bra. Har inte helt upptäckt det förrän nu. Man har så många konstiga hangups.
Häromdagen såg jag en bild på Mr X med annan kvinna. I ett folkhav. Märkligt var det men jävligt befriande. Och skönt att helt ärligt kunna säga att det inte gjorde det minsta ont att se. Jag hoppas att bilden på nåt sätt är sann. Att hon inte var nån som bara råkade hålla sig väldigt tätt intill honom. Eller så spelar det ingen roll. Mer bara en sådan befrielse att konstatera att jag på riktigt verkligen är så färdig med honom.

Jag är ju en sån som ger alla en till chans. Och en till och en till och så några till och därefter några fler. För att jag gärna själv vill det. Få en ny chans om jag tabbat till det. Mina vänner förstår mig inte. Kan inte förstå att jag är så satans tålmodig och förstående och förlåtande alltid. Jag förstår det inte själv. Men sån är jag. Och faktiskt tamigfan - sån vill jag också vara. Ska bara försöka fixa lite hårdare hud så kommer allt att bli så bra så. Tänker jag mig.

Någon från mitt förflutna skickade sms häromdagen och frågade om han får komma och krypa ner i min säng nån natt när han har vägarna förbi. Skulle inte tro det. Han får gärna hälsa på men vad är det om gör att vissa tror att man vill ha dom nakna helt plötsligt efter så många år när man inte velat det förr? Någon annan från mitt förflutna har börjat härja i mitt huvud sedan han mot alla odds reggade sig på facebook. Någon som tänker bra tankar och är lite som jag fast olika.
Jag tycker om människor. Jag tycker om att få titta in i andras liv och tankar. Jag tycker om att få kontakt. Men jag är dålig på att upprätthålla den. Kontakten. Vårda vänner är inte min starka sida. Det vill jag bli bättre på. Det ska jag skriva upp på listan över förbättringområden.

Och annars då? Jo jag har vänt på dygnet. Älskar att sova på dagarna. Och vara vaken på nätterna. Men jag kanske ändå borde försöka sova. Eller åtminstone flytta mig till sovrummet. Läsa en bok. Har inte riktigt kommit igång med läsandet den här sommaren. Högen på sängbordet känns inte lockande helt enkelt. Nån som har ett bra boktips?

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I won't pretend to know the answer here, but in principal I have to agree with Max about the inherent challenges that the "proprietary apps augmented by partner apps" approach presents - you have no control of engagement on partners' apps. Social app developers are in the business of creating social media programming, and leaving some of the creation of that programming to others is inherently a risky proposition. But to be fair, if companies like RockYou are discerning in their selection of who they let into their partner network and trust that these partners have and will continue to create engaging apps, in theory they can create a hybrid of proprietary and network apps that collectively have greater reach than could their own apps by themselves. The potential risk is that the "inner-brand" of your proprietary programming is undermined, but the potential reward is that your partners can create vertically focussed programming that is better for these verticals than the programming that you could create on your own - again increasing reach. With so few ad dollars being spent on this type of content today, the hybrid approach and the reach it brings does have its benefits, but what that will do to eCPMs as this industry matures is the (at least hopefully) billion dollar question... You can see where Slide and RockYou are putting their chips, and you have to love the competitive energy between these two.

You can see it being used on my CafeMom page (for now until I make another background that must be shown).

To save right click on the image and save to your desktop, disc, or USB.

 
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最近wordpress搞了个比较方便mobile用户的方法
让我们可以更容易的随时随地的写blog.
刚才就尝试用了我的iphone来写写看..
噢,原来还瞒方便的麻...

之前是facebook everywhere,
现在可以wordpress everywhere了咯.. 

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Das war ja nur eine Frage der Zeit. Facebook verklagt StudiVz wegen Ideenklau. Und das auch noch vor einem kalifornischen Gericht, die ja bekannt dafür sind, dass die Prozesse besonders kostenintensiv sind und die Urteile meistens sehr hoch ausfallen. Auch wenn StudiVz gewinnt, wird der Prozess also dennoch enorm hohe Summen verschlingen.
Laut Facebook muss StudiVz damit aufhören "look, feel, features and services" von Facebook zu kopieren.

Facebook-Justiziar Sam O´Rourke bekräftigte die Notwendigkeit, gegen StudiVZ gerichtlich vorzugehen: „Wir haben viel in die Technik und das Design investiert und glauben fest daran, dass unser Erfolg maßgeblich mit unserem einmaligen Erscheinungsbild und dem ´Look and Feel´ von Website und Nutzeroberfläche zusammenhängt“, sagte er der „Financial Times“. Facebook wolle die illegalen Aktivitäten von StudiVZ beenden, um User nicht zu verwirren und Facebooks Ansehen nicht zu schaden.

Die Klage wurde zuerst von der Financial Times aufgegriffen, die schreibt:

Facebook said it was "seeking to end StudiVZ's illegal activity to ensure that users are not confused and that Facebook's reputation remains unharmed".

Die immense Ähnlichkeit zwischen StudiVz und Facebook ist schon lange bekannt. Viele werden sich also fragen warum Facebook erst jetzt rechtliche Schritte einleitet. Nun, Facebook ist lange daran interessiert StudiVz von Holtzbrinck abzukaufen, jedoch bis lange ohne Erfolg. Zudem startete Facebook erst vor kurzem mit einem deutschen Ableger, der aber bisher nicht an StudiVz heranreicht. Facebook versucht nun also juristischen Druck aufzubauen und so vielleicht die Eigentümer von StudiVz zu "überzeugen" die Social Community doch noch zu verkaufen.

Der Plagiatismus von StudiVz ist ja auch nicht von der Hand zu weisen. Auf gulli heißt es:

Laut Anklage wird gefordert, dass StudiVZ

"die illegalen Aktivitäten beendet um sicherzustellen, dass die Benutzer nicht verwirrt werden und dass der Ruf Facebooks unbeschädigt bleibt."

StudiVZ LogoDie letzte Äußerung kann man, wenn man will, auf die zahlreichen Skandale in Sachen Datenschutz und Verhalten der Betreiber beziehen, welche insbesondere Ende 2006 von der deutschen Blogosphäre aufgedeckt wurden. Der Imageschaden war seinerzeit immens. Die Plagiatsvorwürfe kommen nun ebenso wenig überraschend. In Anfangszeiten von StudiVZ waren selbst Dateinamen im System mit denen von Facebook identisch. Die bekannte "Gruschel"-Funktion etwa wurde mit einem Script namens poke.php aufgerufen, wobei "Poking" (Anstupsen) das Facebook-Pendant zum Gruscheln ist. Auch fand sich im System ein StyleSheet mit dem Namen myfb.css, fb ist mit größter Wahrscheinlichkeit ein Hinweis auf die ursprüngliche Herkunft der Datei.

Der Prozess könnte ja auch zu einem Präzedenzfall in Bezug auf Plagiatismus im Web 2.0 werden und egal wie er ausgeht: StudiVz wird einige schmerzhafte Narben behalten.

Hier sieht man übrigens eine sehr frühe StudiVz Seite. Dies zeigt zumindestens mal das StudiVz sein HTML und CSS mit Hilfe von Facebook erstellt hat.

Guckt man heute auf verschiedene Blognews Seiten, dann ist die Nachricht schon eingeschlagen wie eine Bombe.

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* Gründerfragen
* F8 Club
* Niedermayr
* ripanti

Eight friends have rated your trustworthiness:

* You scored 4.5 out of 5 (Highly Trusted).
* Your political power index is 36 (SOMEBODY).

Gee ..... so does that mean .... I'm somebody?

I tried to find out who thought I was so highly trustable - but the application doesn't tell me and just tries to get me to install other applications that also don't tell me what I really want to know ....

Why bother telling me that I'm Trustworthy if I can't find out who thinks that - you'd think with Social Media there'd also be a good dose of transparency ... but not here.

I see this as another example of tricking people into installing more stuff than they need that doesn't help them - it's the antithesis of real social media, real transparancy.

I am sure it has great appeal to many people but not me so I have asked how to close my profile. It got me thinking about other social networking and user generated content sites and blogs and thought, what could they be if they changed "theme" as Oozzi.

Facebook becomes a campaign site for the Obama campaign

Scobleizer becomes an online retailer for camera and video tripods

YouTube becomes a site giving travel information.

Can you think of any others?

¿nos habrán preguntado a nosotros, al menos, si nos gustaba el nuevo diseño?. ¿Que pasó con el espíritu "indie" de la página?, ¿se habrá mandado todo esto a la mierda para privilegiar lo comercial en vez de buscar y presentar nuevas bandas?.

bueno, si tiene tanta apariencia de "en desarrollo" al menos pónganle que es un beta.

el de antes:

el de ahora:

juzguen ustedes mism@s.

aquí una página con el comentario del beta de la nueva página, que es incluso mejor que la página actual. Si tuvieron que cambiar el diseño, debieron seguir con el beta. Al menos es mas ordenado.

http://www.orionmedialab.com/ortega/categoria/web-20/ (en la página, bajen hasta llegar al "el nuevo last.fm)

bueno, capaz que conviertan en facebook hasta al myspace.

Lipton seems to be a master of unfortunate decision making.  He was recently sentenced to two years in state prison for Driving Under the Influence in Rhode Island.  This occurred after the prosecutors located photographs of Lipton posted on facebook.com which showed him dressed as an inmate.  These photos were taken approximately two weeks after Lipton was arrested for DUI after being involved in an accident which injured the other driver.

I don't believe we should be adjudicating morality.  That leads us down a dangerous path, but lets be honest, we've been doing it for ages.  When our law can be traced directly back to Mosaic (the Ten Commandments) law, it's pretty obvious that morals play some part in our judicial minds.  The courts have allowed this sort of information to be submitted in the sentencing phase of a trial for a reason.  If we are to have a fair and equitable system, we need to be able to examine each case and each defendant on their own merit.  Clearly, most people are repentant in court, so we look to other means for discovering their true feelings.  In the past, it was testimony of friends and co-workers who overheard phone calls or heard the water-cooler discussions.  Now, it comes from MySpace and Facebook, sooner or later, it will be a blog, too.

No one blames the defense attorney for using every tool at his disposal to assist his client.  This is not the same with the prosecution.  A good deal of the time when a prosecutor uses a new or strange technique to get his point across, it is attacked by society.  People have been held liable in the court of the internet for years.  News stories pop up periodically where someone is fired because of something their boss saw on their web page.  This case is just another of the courts finally catching up with society.

Now, let's be honest.  The only reason anyone cares about Joshua Lipton (aside from the other driver, who has a marginal interest in the case, I think) is because this was a DUI.  It is the most socially acceptable crime.  Most people who drink, if they were honest, would have to say to themselves "Yes, I've driven when I probably shouldn't have."   Well, Joshua Lipton did the same and someone else had to pay for that choice.  Lets remember, Josh didn't choose to post those photographs on the internet himself, one of his friends did.

I guess Joshua just learned a hard lesson about paying for someone else's choices.

That's what a cop thinks (well, this one, anyway)

Guitar Guy Rumors

• So, Friday night, I was approached by the Prom Queen bartender, who treats the club like her own personal high school.  She said to me, "So, I hear you're dating Guitar Guy.  Congratulations.  He's hot."  I dispelled this rumor, telling her that he has a girlfriend, and that we just flirt a lot.  
• Tonight (Saturday), Prom Queen and Lead Bartender (the one who asked him if we were back together yet), spent many hours attempting to gather information from other servers about the time he kissed my cheek/neck area on the way out the door, etc. etc. etc.
• Prom Queen definitely wants to hook up with Guitar Guy. I've heard her talking about it.  It likely infuriates her that he would pay attention to someone else.
• I'm about 75% sure they've at least mentioned something to him at this point.  
• I may have to kill them.

Guitar Guy in Actuality

• Beginning of the night was very disparaging.  He blew past me twice upon entry without acknowledging me at all.  This is almost certainly deliberate, as he used to seek me out and make a big production when he'd come in for the evening.
• Eye contact returned to controlled level.  Went un-monitored for a majority of the first half of the evening as I was both irritated and swamped with work, and had no time to check to see if he was looking back at me.
• I allowed the host/lead singer to lean into my personal space and chat me up.  I think he saw.  
• I hope he saw.  I hope it pissed him off.
• Then, he ordered food from me.  Confusing.  He asked as though he wasn't sure if I was okay taking the order.  I told him I'd be offended if he asked someone else.  
• He laughed, but I was really fucking serious.
• During "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling" we had a long, long intense eye-contact encounter.  Similar to the one from a few nights ago during "I can't make you love me."  Considering we used to have our most notable moments during songs like, "Livin' on a Prayer," "Talk Dirty to Me," and "Pour Some Sugar on Me," I find this depressing, even in its small grains of hope.
• At the end of the night, whilst being violently encouraged by one of my favorite co-workers to go "tap that" while I still had time, and being informed every time he looked at me (which was frequently, and I enjoy this information), I remained confused.
• He left with a wave.  I chased him out and demanded a hug.  This was done in good humor, and didn't feel sexy, just fun.
• Tonight, I found him on facebook.  I will likely obsess for days on whether or not to add him.

Jenna's Affair

• The Affair has not officially happened.
• Yet.
• Jenna doesn't have text messaging capabilities on her phone.  This is a huge impairment.
• Cole, the manager in question, seems to be seriously confused about the fact that he's now been given a green light.  This may be due to the fact that Jenna is significantly out of his league.
• He seems to be planning a romantic getaway for them.  Jenna and I are horrified by this idea.  She just wants a meaningless hook-up.
• Hopefully this will be communicated soon, and executed.
• Divorce is on the horizon for Jenna, it just doesn't make fiscal sense right now.  I swear we aren't horrible people.

My Flight to London

• Departs August 4th, 4:49pm
• Arrives August 5th, 10:00am
• Jane will be picking me up and feeding me lunch.

We have our very own Facebook that was created by Clarissa and we're really excited that the Twilight fan-base in Singapore is growing!! Currently we have 47 members who have joined us and now we want to see if we can hit the big 5-0 with the help from you guys!! We have one event coming up which is the Breaking Dawn Release-Meet Up on August 4th and would love it if you guys can make it for the event! We have created a poll for this event and will appreciate it if you could participate in our poll: Breaking Dawn Release Poll.

Reminder, the poll closes on July 25th, Friday at 6pm.

I don't even have anything to write about now.  I just feel like I should.  I'm listening to Journey, talking to friends on AIM, and trying to get the cat to stop stepping all over my keyboard.  A very exciting existence.

I guess the reason I can't seem to get myself to write on this thing is because I don't really care to share my opinions about things.  I always feel like I'm not informed enough to talk about the things I feel.

I'm an Obama supporter, but I don't think I know enough about politics to support my choice.  I always find myself getting caught in conversations about who I do and do not support and I can never give a reason why, and I get eaten alive by whoever I'm talking to.

I'm pro-choice, but don't like getting in arguments about it.  A baby is a huge life changer, and if a woman isn't ready for that change, or got pregnant in a situation that was against her will, she should have the right to terminate the pregnancy.

I'm a celebrity gossip whore.  I visit PerezHilton.com every day.

I'm obsessed with YouTube.  But, I don't think it's a good way to get "discovered."  People who open YouTube accounts solely to get a recording contract or a big acting deal should probably actually try to make a living in that field first.  It's a cop-out way to "make it big."

I hate MySpace but I love Facebook.  I just wish they hadn't opened up Facebook to anyone other than college students.

I hate people that are considered to be "awesome" because they play the guitar.  But I wish I could play.  Pianos just aren't as portable.

I go to PostSecret.com every week.  Reading other people's secrets makes me feel better about my own.

I guess that's enough for now.  This is probably what my blog will end up being.  Little list-like installments of my thoughts and opinions.  I guess it could be worse...right?

Just found this pretty cool app by Keebler.  Just sign into F2F while on facebook, and while viewing the image on flickr, click on a bookmarklet, similar to other flickr hackapps.  Too bad it doesn't quite solve the whole aggregate data problem.  Is cloud computing really going to solve this problem?  Back in my day, the internet WAS the cloud.  I think I'm going to wait for a while to try it out, I have some reservations about putting all my data out on a content spitting server

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However there are a few crucial differences between the early church and the context that we find ourselves in today. I want to explore just one of these. That is the concept of Relational Depth and Relational Breadth.

Relational Breadth is basically the amount of people that you know. In his book The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell notes that if you want to spread an idea or create a movement, it is essential to have a wide group of acquaintances to whom you can share you ideas with. One of the key factors in allowing people to have relational breadth is technology and security. The early church existed in a time of great technological advance, the Roman road and system of governance made travel relatively safe and quick, the common languages of Latin and Greek made communications across ethnic groups possible. Once Rome began to wain and the Dark ages set in, the gospel not only slowed down in its movement, but it actually retreated with many former Roman subjects returning to paganism.

Today globalization and technology offers us tremendous opportunities for relational breadth. You can become facebook friends with someone you have never met in Iran and begin chatting to them online, exchanging photos and stories. Soon the biggest speaking English country in the world will be India, Chinese and Spanish are spoken across the globe in all kinds of environments. Jet travel acts like a modern day Roman road, allowing people to quickly traverse the globe.

However what the early church had that we don't have is relational depth. Being one of the great trading races, many cities in the Roman Empire had a Jewish minority, complete with Synagogues and neighbourhoods. After the destruction of the temple in 70 AD Jewish refugees poured out of Israel and into the Roman world. If you were a Jewish Christian and you wanted to share the gospel, you could pretty much point to a Mediterranean city on a map and be able to find an uncle, cousin or someone from your old neighbourhood to go and stay with.

You would be able to rock up at your third cousins house and thanks to middle eastern hospitality traditions be taken in as a long lost son, be fed, and live with your Jewish kinfolk. You had deep coventantal commitments to your relatives and fellow Jews. The kind of social commitment that is rarely seen today.

Now the thing to remember was that most city dwellers lived in Roman apartments which were extremely cramped, the rooms had little or no ventilation and were dark and dank. So most people in apartments hung out in the courtyard, you literally lived in your family and neighbours pockets. So you could not hide your behaviour. People saw how you were at your best and your worst, they saw how you treated to business partners, your spouse and your kids, if you were a spiritual fraud you would be spotted in seconds. This was relational depth, you lived in deep community with people even if you were just passing through town. Thus when Christians arrived their witness was on display for everyone to see. Their example shone out.

However today with our tremendous relational breadth, we have little relational depth. Sure you might be able become friends with someone in Iran, and talk chat online with them about your favourite album; but you have no idea what they get up to in their real life. They could sell crack cocaine from a school bus for all you know. We move jobs today often, we move homes, we even move cities, many rarely see family, we don't even know the names of the people in our street. This creates tough turf for the growth of the gospel.

In order for the gospel to grow again, we need to match the breadth of our relationship, with depth of relationships. In our facebook world where it is possible to have a thousand friends on your page, but still sit at home lonely. Part of our kingdom mandate is to go deeper with people, to again create depth of relationship, the growth of the gospel depends on it.

You have a laptop, a sever and a facebook app.

Ideally, Facebook would talk to your development machine - but what if you don't have a static ip address and you can't use dynamic dns or port forwarding?

Reverse SSH Tunneling is what you need my friend.

The following is a step by step tutorial of what you need to do to have ports on your server forwarded to your local machine via ssh.

Step 1: Server Side

Add "GatewayPorts yes" into your sshd_config file:

sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

-- add or edit the GatewayPorts variable, control-O to save, control-X to exit

Reload ssh:

sudo /etc/init.d/ssh reload

Step 2: Your Client

Run the tunnel:

ssh -nNT -g -R 3000:localhost:3000 me@myserver.com

If you want port 1 on your server to go to port 2 on your local it will look like:
ssh -nNT -g -R 1:localhost:2 you@yourserver.com so you can forward any port on your server to the standard -p 3000 that your rails server is running on.

Extra-Magic Step: Adding a bit of Rock & Roll

Add an alias to your ~/bash_profile:

alias sshtunnel="ssh -nNT -g -R 3000:0.0.0.0:3000 joseph@jorgeluisgorgeous.com"

Add your public key to the server for password free login

Thanks to Paul McKeller for getting me started on this

Doch was steckt dahinter?

Los getreten wurde das fleißige Schreiben offensichtlich durch einen Artikel in der Financial Times. Dort heißt die Begründung für die Klage:

In its complaint, Facebook accused StudiVZ of copying entire portions of the site’s design, including features such as Facebook’s distinctive “wall”, which allows users to leave messages on each other’s profile pages.

It claimed that any differences between the two sites were “nominal” and accused StudiVZ of merely “replacing Facebook’s blue colour scheme with a red one”.

Einhellige Meinung ist wohl, dass Facebook plant StudiVZ zu übernehmen und durch dieser Klage den Preis drücken will. Auch wenn es recht offensichtlich ist, dass StudiVZ eine (nahezu) identische Kopie von Facebook ist, glaub niemand dran, dass Facebook irgendwelche Markenrechte schützen möchte.

Nachdem Mark Zuckerberg in der Vergangenheit selbt wegen Diebstahl des Ursprungscodes von Facebook verklagt wurde, reichte er jetzt anscheinend in Los Angeles Klage gegen das deutsche Studentenverzeichnis ein. Der Zeitpunkt für diese Klage ist clever gewählt. Vor einigen Wochen hat Facebook eine deutsche Version veröffentlicht und sich anscheinent etwas mehr Zuspruch erwünscht.

Mittleid für StudiVZ ist dennoch wohl nicht angebracht. Laut eines Posts von auf netzwertig.com zu lesen, dass

Neben den Verfehlungen der Vergangenheit hat man [anm. v. mit: StudiVZ] selbst erst vor einigen Wochen und Monaten nahezu jede Seite im deutschsprachigen Netz, welche das Kürzel ‘VZ’ im Namen trug, abgemahnt oder mit Abmahnung gedroht.

Auch hier ist ein ein Beitrag zum Thema "AbmahnVZ": klick!

Allem Anschein nach ist der Kampf um die deutschen Studenten angebrochen.

Wie auch immer man über Facebook denken mag, ich persönlich wünsche mir durchaus, dass Facebook StudiVZ übernimmt. Endlich hätte man alle seine Bekanntschaften unter einem Hut. Egal ob aus den USA, Spanien und Deutschland. Vielleicht kann man bei der Gelegenheit auch mit der Unart im deutschen StudiVZ aufräumen, dass die Leute sich irgendwelche "Namen" geben. "JuliaSchmuse Maus", "J.a.nKüMme7" oder sonst welche Namen führen das Prinzip des Verzeichnisses ad absurdum. (Jegliche Namensähnlickeiten sind absoluter Zufall und nicht beabsichtigt! ;) )

Nervig ist bei Facebook heute leider die absolut aus dem Ruder gelaufene Anzahl von Applications, bei denen jeder bereitwillig all seine persönlichen, im Profil gespeicherten, Daten preisgibt. Zum Glück hat Facebook diesen negativen Trend erkannt und arbeitet sich nun nach und nach durch alle überflüssigen Application und schmeisst sie dann auch aus dem Programm. Hier ein Bericht dazu: klick!

Wie ich eingangs schon schrieb, findet ihr sicherlich in allen möglichen Blogs was zu diesem Thema. Hier möchte ich euch noch eine kleine Übersicht geben, die ich bei mir im GoogleReader gefunden habe:

Financial Times: Facebook sues 'knock-off' German site

Netzwertig.com: Facebook verklagt StudiVZ

Netzpolitik.org: Facebook verklagt StudiVZ

stephanhagedorn.de: Facebook verklagt studiVZ

Basic Thinking: Wochenende

Gründerszene.de: Facebook verklagt StudiVZ

TechCrunch: Facebook sues German Social Network StudiVZ

Financial Times Deutschland: Facebook verklagt StudiVZ

Spiegel.de: Millionengeschäft mit Weltschmerz und Bikini-Bilder

netzwerig.com: Facebook Schwierigkeiten auf dem deutschen Markt - wenig überraschend

Blogbar: Facebook verklagt StudiVZ

Spreeblick: Facebook will StudiVZ-Preis senken

Meanwhile, I realized that Double Dutch Bus has its own Facebook! Looks like it was created by some kids in the mid-West.  I think I need to do some work as a contributor to make a it a little more interesting.