這部原創科幻動畫作品是由『鋼之鍊金術師』『交響詩篇エウレカセブン』的BONES與Aniplex聯手打造。緊接著歐美地區PS3 Store7月間的搶先播出之後，日本當地的PS3 Store終於從9月24日隆重公開！官方部落格趁此熱潮，繼之前專訪了負責動畫總監奥村正治〔參見5月2日的中文翻譯〕、動畫剪輯的坂本久美子〔參見6月10日的中文摘譯〕之後，於日前正式刊載監督助手&演出徳土大介的全文專訪！由於在訪談中透露了許多關於「監督助手」這個職務的細節，非常值得參考與研究，因此重點摘譯如下：

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德土大介在參與『亡念のザムド』之前，他加入了GAINAX動畫公司的TVA『天元突破グレンラガン』幕後團隊，在第2、12、17、26話擔任了「制作進行」一職，並且全程參加這四話的幕後籌備。這些貴重的經驗使他體認到，一部動畫作品從無到有其實經過了一連串嚴謹繁複的品質管理，上至監督、演出、總作畫監督、作畫監督，下至監督助手、制作進行，大家無不竭盡心力讓作品的內容更趨完整、使動畫的品質近乎完美。有了以上制作進行的經歷，德土大介在『亡念のザムド』便進一步挑戰監督助手之職。

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關於「監督助手」這個職務內容，基本上就像是監督的秘書，負責處理並規劃監督手邊的一切大小事務。德土大介舉了「カット チェック／CUT CHECK」這項工作為例〔譯註：嚴格地講，應該是Layout Check，可參考板垣伸監督的解釋。〕，說明監督的責任之一就是要檢查一集動畫之中的所有Layout的CUT，可是這些CUT通常是交給多位Layout師去構圖，所以監督助手的職責就是要去確實回收這些人完成的Layout稿，整理完畢之後才交給監督去作審查。除此之外，監督助手比起制作進行更需要全程參與籌備會議，這樣才能完整紀錄討論結果，並且幫助監督詳實規劃應執行事項。

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除了監督助手之外，德土大介也在本作第4話《この世に響く耳鳴りの数々》順利挑戰生涯的演出處女作。他先描述第1話與第2話在當初設計上就是要一併觀賞才比較完整，第3話則是把A Part的日常生活與B Part的動作場面作了不錯的搭配。至於他所負責的第4話，正好也是劇中老婆婆天心樣較為活躍的一集。雖然天心樣在劇中總是坐在那祭壇(？)上，可是德土大介努力透過不同運鏡方式來表現同樣的現場，就是希望能不斷帶給觀眾們新鮮感。尤其在天心樣與アキユキ等人的對話過程中，動畫總監〔Animation Director〕奧村正治的作畫技法讓整個畫面與角色動作變得相當細膩，這也讓德土大介讚嘆不已。

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與宮地昌幸監督的合作過程中，德土大介深深感受到監督對於電影與戲劇所抱持的知識與熱情。上述的「使用不同運鏡來呈現同一場景」就是效法於宮地監督。除此之外，他對於監督一向掛在嘴邊的「讓觀眾們興致盎然，就是製作動畫的第一要務。」〔原文：いかにして面白く見せるか〕也是銘記在心，並且嘗試應用在這次的演出經驗中。在專訪的尾聲，他希望各位觀眾能夠去咀嚼劇中人物的每一句台詞與細微的表情變化，因為『亡念のザムド Bounen no Zamned』就是這麼一齣需要細細品嚐才能深刻融入作品內涵的科幻動畫！

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附帶一題，他最欣賞的劇中角色竟然是「南大陸自由圈軍」的瘋狂科學家汗馬礼蔵！？這倒是出乎我的意料之外(笑)

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今天的特別來賓：

葵夏〔Natsu Aoi〕

First, click on the script to allow it.

Now, the video appears. Next I click on it.

And NoScript comes up with a warning.

And Voila, it's a like to the ad at the bottom of the page.

So there we go, NoScript has succesfully defended me from an attempt to show me an ad.

Som Ni ser är det nu en ny design på både blogg och hemsidan.

Tyckte den gamla hemsidan såg omodern och trist ut och ville modernisera den lite, dessutom kommer fotografier fram bättre när man har svart bakgrund tycker jag. Kommentera gärna vad ni tycker om nya hemsidan.  Fler bilder och länkar kommer.

Vill ni se lite semester- och resebilder från Grekland (Naxos, Serifos, Milos)? Kolla in www.infall.se. Men jag kan också rekommendera http://www.panoramio.com/user/307434. Nu är det lätt att hitta dit för det är inlagt i Google Earth. Man kan också söka på olika ställen och då kan man dyka på något märkligt som denna byggnad.

Het Citadelpark hoort voor twee dagen toe aan een andere wereld. Een ander multiversum zelfs. Een weekend lang zijn Darth Vaders (meervoud!), Jedi, militaire eenheden, aliens, wizards, warlocks, elfjes, superhelden en -schurken de norm. Waar je op straat een hoofd zou omdraaien om die vreemde kwast na te kijken, ben jij plots de vreemde kwast met je onnozele jeansbroek en saaie pull.

Een ongelooflijk allegaartje van mensen met dezelfde hoeveelheid nationaliteiten als obsessies. Massa's volk, maar voor zo'n groot evenement een erg gemoedelijke sfeer. Iedereen is er met hetzelfde doel en met dezelfde interesses, dus waarom je niet goed amuseren? Wie kan het wat schelen dat je geen sikkepit verstaat van wat je tweelingbroer Stormtrooper tegen je zegt, je maakt plezier. (Hoewel in de realiteit snel Engels als gemeenschappelijke factor dient.)

Ook bekend volk, op zo'n conventie. Althans, bekend bij geeks. Tom Zarek gedomme! En Dr. Carson Beckett! Met schaamte moet ik toegeven dat ik de rest van de gasten van toeten noch blazen ken.

Een aangename dag, moet ik toegeven, hoewel ik niet heb bijgedragen tot de geldstroom die door het evenement passeerde. Ik ben niet echt voor, met alle respect, kitsch die uitgestald stond. Als dat toevallig je ding is... wat een paradijs.

Een kleine selectie (goede en minder goede, ik moet echt wel terug meer fotograferen) foto's op Flickr voor de mensen die er niet waren. Sowieso een aanrader om een keertje te doen, al is het maar omdat je alweer een (best wel plezante) subcultuur leert kennen.

P.S.: materialul brut e de pe Realitatea TV. Mersi.

Jag kommer återkomma till en del av de ämnen han tar upp i sin undervisning. Snart är det dags för sängen...

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Ce puteţi observa? :twisted:

wir verbrachten einen lustigen abend zu dritt mit eins, zwei bier und addy schoß lustige fotos. sven gleich aufgeregt: "da können wir endlich ein neues, lustiges studialbum machen!" und irgendwie kamen wir darauf, dass ich die meisten verlinkungen schnell wieder lösche. grund? man weiß ja nie, wer einen im world wide web so alles beobachtet und wie das mit der datenherausgabe bzw. dem datenschutz wirklich gehandhabt wird. erst neulich nahm ich bei punkt12 auf rtl als quellenangabe erschrocken "schuelervz" wahr. zudem gibt es immer wieder die gerüchte, dass potentielle arbeitgeber mal eben bei studivz nachschauen, was der kandidat so in seiner freizeit treibt. und da fände ich es weniger lustig, wenn die person massenweise partyfotos sehen würde... gibt es von mir überhaupt partyfotos bei studi? ;-)

genauso verhält es sich mit google. meine arbeitskollegin brachte mich darauf mich selbst zu googlen. name eingeben und ich staunte nicht schlecht. "mandy jochmann" beim prora03 fotowettbewerb und bei unzähligen onlineforen wie stayfriends. hatte ich mich jemals dort angemeldet? erst mal löschen!
erschrocken war ich schon wie einfach und schnell man dinge über mich erfahren kann. sowohl positive als auch dinge, die nicht jeder wissen muss.
der weg zu meinem blogg bleibt natürlich auch bei meinen dozenten nicht unentdeckt. also, sollte ich lieber darauf achten, was ich schreibe?

stellt sich mir wirklich die frage, wieviel sollen menschen, die ich vielleicht noch nicht einmal kenne, von mir erfahren? habe ich dinge zu verheimlichen? wie präsentiere ich mich im world wide web - im netz der unbegrenzten möglichkeiten?

egal, wieviele menschen täglich bei studi auf meine seite klicken und mich bestalken (und ich stalke auch nicht gerade wenig ;) ), hilft mir das netzwerk mit freunden und bekannten in kontakt zu bleiben. die welt dreht sich weiter, das www mit ihr. früher traf man sich gelegentlich oder telefonierte. wenn nicht, sah man sich eben wochenlang nicht. heute haben wir studivz zum kurzen gruscheln oder fix den plauderkasten aktivieren. gegen die langeweile oder zum realen austausch. gegen die langeweile oder zum suchen und finden alter freunde.

mein blogg werde ich wohl weiterführen wie bisher. er ist mein kleines ventil. ob ich nun gute oder schlechte laune habe. im endeffekt bleibt es mir überlassen, was ich schreibe und den lesern, ob sie es lesen. die einen malen um sich auszdrücken. andere schweigen. und ich kann eben meine klappe nicht halten...

dennoch werde ich zukünftig ein ums andere mal darüber nachdenken, was ich schreibe und wie ich mich präsentieren möchte.

und ich hoffe addy lässt die ganz schlechten fotos der letzten nacht in der schublade ;)

Selama 2 minggu (bulan lalu) saya perhatikan di televisi hampir semua presenter di semua stasiun televisi mengungkapnya. Menurut saya sih sah2 aja, gak ada aturan baku, tapi alangkah cerdasnya sebuah presenter menyebutkan dengan bahasa yang seimbang....... tp apa lihat si scriptnya juga demikian ya...

yg paling terakhir sich saya perhatikan presenter metro TV...hehhe

asal tidak baca @ dengan lingkaran a aja ya....

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook while he was a student at Harvard University. Website membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Ivy League. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 100 million active users worldwide.

Facebook has met with some controversy over the past few years. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria and Iran. It has also been banned at many places of work to increase productivity. Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. It is also facing several lawsuits from a number of Zuckerberg's former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and other intellectual property.

Contents
1 History
1.1 Funding
2 Website
2.1 Features
2.2 Platform
3 Reception and popularity
4 Potential future film
5 Controversy
5.1 Beacon
5.2 Privacy
6 Litigation
6.1 ConnectU
6.2 StudiVZ
6.3 Grant Raphael
7 References
8 External links

History
Mark Zuckerberg founded "The Facebook", originally located at thefacebook.com, on February 4, 2004[9] while attending Harvard University as a sophomore.[1] The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.[10] Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard were registered on the service.[11] Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.[12] This expansion continued when it opened to all Ivy League schools and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.[13] In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.[12]

Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005; Zuckerberg called it the next logical step.[14] High school networks required an invitation to join.[15] Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.[16] Facebook was then opened to everyone with a valid e-mail address, aside from people under the age of 13, on September 26, 2006.[17][18]

BusinessWeek has confirmed that Facebook, beginning in Autumn 2008, will allow its employees to sell stock at no more than a $3.75 billion valuation.[19]

Funding

Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, CaliforniaFacebook received its first investment of US$500,000 in June 2004 from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.[20] This was followed a year later by $12.7 million in venture capital from Accel Partners, and then $27.5 million more from Greylock Partners.[20][21] A cash flow statement was leaked, showing that during the 2005 fiscal year, Facebook had a net loss of $3.63 million.[22] Microsoft approached Facebook in September 2007, proposing an investment in return for a 5% stake in the company. Microsoft would pay an estimated $300–500 million for the share.[23] Microsoft announced on October 24, 2007 that it purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $246 million.[24] On November 30, 2007, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing invested $60 million in Facebook.[25]

BusinessWeek reported on March 28, 2006 that a potential acquisition of the website was under negotiation. Facebook reportedly declined an offer of $750 million from an unknown bidder, and it was rumored the asking price rose as high as $2 billion.[26] With the sale of social networking website MySpace to News Corp on July 19, 2005, rumors surfaced about the possible sale of Facebook to a larger media company.[27] Zuckerberg had already said he did not want to sell the company and denied rumors to the contrary.[28] In late September, serious talks between Facebook and Yahoo! took place concerning acquisition of the social network, with prices reaching as high as $1 billion. Thiel, by then a board member of Facebook, indicated that Facebook's internal valuation was around $8 billion based on their projected revenues of $1 billion by 2015, comparable to Viacom's MTV brand, a company with a shared target demographic audience. Other companies, including Google, expressed interest in September 2007 to buy a portion of Facebook.[31] Amid the rumors, Zuckerberg claimed that selling Facebook was unlikely because he wanted to keep it independent, stating on July 17, 2007, "We're not really looking to sell the company. [...] We're not looking to IPO anytime soon. It's just not the core focus of the company."

Website

Facebook's new homepage features a login form on the top right for existing users and a registration form directly underneath for new visitors.Facebook users can choose to join one or more networks, organized by city, workplace, school, and region. These networks help users connect with members of the same network. Users can also connect with friends, giving them access to their friends' profiles.

The website is free to users, but generates revenue from advertising, including banner ads. Users can create profiles including photos and lists of personal interests, exchange private or public messages, and join groups of friends. The viewing of detailed profile data is restricted to users from the same network or confirmed friends only when the appropriate Privacy settings have been altered. Without altering the Privacy settings a Facebook profile is viewable by anybody on Facebook.

Microsoft is Facebook's exclusive partner for serving banner advertising, and as such Facebook only serves advertisements that exist in Microsoft's advertisement inventory. According to comScore, an internet marketing research company, Facebook collects as much data from its visitors as Google and Microsoft but considerably less than Yahoo! when compared with other web companies.

Features
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The media often compares Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference between the two websites is the level of customization. MySpace allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), while Facebook only allows plain text.

Facebook has a number of features for users to interact with. They include the Wall, a space on every user's profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see, Pokes, which allows users to send a virtual "poke" to each other (a notification that tells a user that they have been poked), Photos, where users can upload albums and photos,[43] and Status, which allows users to inform their friends of their whereabouts and actions.[44] A user's Wall is visible to anyone who is able to see that user's profile, which depends on their privacy settings. In July 2007, Facebook began allowing users to post attachments to the Wall, whereas the Wall was previously limited to textual content only.

Over time, Facebook has added several new features to its website. On September 6, 2006, a News Feed was announced, which appears on every user's homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays related to the user's friends. Initially, the News Feed caused dissatisfaction among Facebook users; some complained it was too cluttered and full of undesired information, while others were concerned it made it too easy for other people to track down individual activities (such as changes in relationship status, events, and conversations with other users). In response to this dissatisfaction, Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include appropriate customizable privacy features. Since then, users have been able to control what types of information are shared automatically with friends. Users are now able to prevent friends from seeing updates about different types of activities, including profile changes, Wall posts, and newly added friends.

One of the most popular applications on Facebook is the Photos application, where users can upload albums and photos. Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited number of photos, compared with other image hosting services such as Photobucket and Flickr, which apply limits to the number of photos that a user is allowed to upload. However, users are limited to 60 photos per album. Privacy settings can be set for individual albums, limiting the groups of users that can see an album. For example, the privacy of an album can be set so that only the user's friends can see the album, while the privacy of another album can be set so that all Facebook users can see it. Another feature of the Photos applications is the ability to "tag", or label users in a photo. For instance, if a photo contains a user's friend, then the user can tag the friend in the photo. This sends a notification to the friend that they have been tagged, and provides them a link to see the photo.

Facebook Notes was introduced on August 22, 2006, a blogging feature that allowed tags and embeddable images. Users were later able to import blogs from Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger, and other blogging services. During the week of April 7, 2008, Facebook released a Comet-based instant messaging application called "Chat" to several networks, which allows users to communicate with friends and is similar in functionality to desktop-based instant messengers.

Facebook launched Gifts on February 8, 2007, which allows users to send virtual gifts to their friends that appear on the recipient's profile. Gifts cost $1.00 each to purchase, and a personalized message can be attached to each gift. On May 14, 2007, Facebook launched Marketplace, which lets users post free classified ads. Marketplace has been compared to Craigslist by CNET, which points out that the major difference between the two is that listings posted by a user on Marketplace are only seen by users that are in the same network as that user, whereas listings posted on Craigslist can be seen by anyone.

On July 20, 2008, Facebook introduced "Facebook Beta", a significant redesign of its user interface on selected networks. The Mini-Feed and Wall were consolidated, profiles were separated into tabbed sections, and an effort was made to create a "cleaner" look. After initially giving users a choice to switch, Facebook began migrating all users to the new version beginning September, 2008.

Platform
Facebook launched the Facebook Platform on May 24, 2007, providing a framework for software developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features. A markup language called Facebook markup language was introduced simultaneously; it is used to customize the "look and feel" of applications that developers create. Using the Platform, Facebook launched several new applications, including Gifts, allowing users to send virtual gifts to each other, Marketplace, allowing users to post free classified ads, Events, giving users a method of informing their friends about upcoming events, and Video, letting users share homemade videos with one another.

Applications that have been created on the Platform include chess and Scrabble, which both allow users to play games with their friends. These games are asynchronous, meaning that a user's moves are saved on the website, allowing the next move to be made at any time rather than immediately after the previous move.

By November 3, 2007, seven thousand applications had been developed on the Facebook Platform, with another hundred created everyday. By the second annual f8 developers conference on July 23, 2008, the number of applications had grown to 33,000, and the number of registered developers had exceeded 400,000.

Within a few months of launching the Facebook Platform, issues arose regarding "application spam", which involves Facebook applications "spamming" users to request it be installed. Application spam has been considered one of the possible causes to the drop in visitors to Facebook starting from the beginning of 2008, when its growth had fallen from December 2007 to January 2008, its first drop since its launch in 2004.

Reception and popularity
According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors, having overtaken main competitor MySpace in April 2008. ComScore reports that Facebook attracted 132.1 million unique visitors in June 2008, compared to MySpace, which attracted 117.6 million.

According to Alexa, the website's ranking among all websites increased from 60th to 7th in terms of worldwide traffic, from September 2006 to September 2007, and is currently 5th. Quantcast ranks the website 15th in US in terms of traffic, and Compete.com ranks it 14th in US. The website is the most popular for uploading photos, with 14 million uploaded daily.

Facebook is the most popular social networking site in several English-speaking countries, including Canada and the United Kingdom. However, in the United States, it has only 36 million users compared to MySpace's 73 million. The website has won awards such as placement into the "Top 100 Classic Websites" by PC Magazine in 2007, and winning the "People's Voice Award" from the Webby Awards in 2008. In a 2006 study conducted by Student Monitor, a New Jersey-based company specializing in research concerning the college student market, Facebook was named the second most popular thing among undergraduates, tied with beer and only ranked lower than the iPod.

Potential future film
Sony Pictures, and The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin, have confirmed they are in the process of developing a movie "about the founders of social networking site Facebook." Sorkin has set up his own account on the site, stating, "I honestly don't know how this works, which is why I'm here." The film so far, is untitled, and will be produced by Scott Rudin. According to the Telegraph, the film is expected to focus on Zuckerberg, and 2,500 Facebook users have joined the movies group associated with Sorkin's film, suggesting "plot pointers, offering to help or even asking for a role in the film." Sony was quick to refute suggestions that the film is a hoax (especially after musings that it might be a fake Sorkin account of which there are a number already), with Steve Elzer saying, "We are developing the film that has been reported". However, a spokesperson for Facebook said that, "We are routinely approached by writers and filmmakers interested in telling the Facebook story... At this point, we have not agreed to cooperate with any film project, but we are flattered by the interest."

Controversy
See also: Criticism of Facebook and Use of social network websites in investigations
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Facebook has met with some controversy over the past few years. In October 2005, the University of New Mexico blocked access to Facebook from its campus computers and networks.[85] It cited a violation of the university's Acceptable Use Policy for abusing computer resources as the reason, stating the website forces use of the university's credentials for activity not related to the university. The school later unblocked Facebook after the website rectified the situation by displaying a notice on the login page stating the credentials used on the website are separate from the ones used for their school accounts. The Ontario government also blocked access to Facebook for its employees in May 2007, stating the website was "not directly related to the workplace".

A notable ancillary effect of social networking websites like Facebook is the ability for participants to mourn publicly for a deceased individual. On January 1, 2008, a memorial group on Facebook posted the identity of murdered Toronto teenager Stefanie Rengel, whose family had not yet given the Toronto Police Service their consent to release her name to the media, as well as the identities of her accused killers — despite the fact that under Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act, it is illegal to publish the name of an underage criminal. While police and Facebook staff attempted to comply with the privacy regulations by deleting posts mentioning her name, they noted it was difficult to effectively police individual users who repeatedly republished the deleted information.

Due to the open nature of Facebook, several countries have banned access to it including Syria and Iran. The Syrian government cited the ban was on the premise that the website promoted attacks on authorities. The government also feared Israeli infiltration of Syrian social networks on Facebook. Facebook was also used by Syrian citizens to criticize the government, and public criticism of the Syrian government is punishable by imprisonment. In Iran, the website was banned because of fears that opposition movements were being organized on the website.

Beacon
Main article: Facebook Beacon
Facebook announced Facebook Beacon on November 7, 2007, a marketing initiative that allows websites to publish a user's activities to their Facebook profile as "Social Ads" and promote products. When launching Beacon, Facebook stated "no personally identifiable information is shared with an advertiser in creating a Social Ad", and that "Facebook users will only see Social Ads to the extent their friends are sharing information with them." After Facebook was criticized for collecting more user information for advertisers than was previously stated, Zuckerberg publicly apologized on December 5, 2007 for the way Facebook launched Beacon, saying, "The problem with our initial approach of making it an opt-out system instead of opt-in was that if someone forgot to decline to share something, Beacon still went ahead and shared it with their friends."

Privacy
Several concerns have emerged regarding the use of Facebook as a means of surveillance and data mining. Two MIT students were able to download over 70,000 Facebook profiles from four schools (MIT, New York University, the University of Oklahoma, and Harvard University) using an automated shell script, as part of a research project on Facebook privacy published on December 14, 2005. The possibility of data mining remains open, as evidenced in May 2008, when the BBC technology program "Click" demonstrated that personal details of Facebook users and their friends could be stolen by submitting malicious applications.

Privacy proponents have criticized the site's privacy agreement, which states: "We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, Facebook Platform developers and other users of Facebook, to supplement your profile." Another clause that received criticism concerned Facebook's right to sell a user's data to private companies, stating: "We may share your information with third parties, including responsible companies with which we have a relationship." This concern was addressed by Facebook spokesman Chris Hughes who said, "Simply put, we have never provided our users' information to third party companies, nor do we intend to."

Concerns have also been raised regarding the difficulty of deleting user accounts. Previously, Facebook only allowed users to "deactivate" their accounts so that their profile was no longer visible. However, any information the user had entered into the website and on their profile remained on the website's servers. This outraged many users who wished to remove their accounts permanently, citing reasons such as the inability to erase "embarrassing or overly-personal online profiles from their student days as they entered the job market, for fear employers would locate the profiles". Facebook changed its account deletion policies on February 29, 2008, allowing users to contact the website to request that their accounts be permanently deleted.

Litigation

ConnectU
Main article: Criticism of Facebook#Connectu.com lawsuit
In 2004 ConnectU, a company founded by classmates of Zuckerberg filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming that Zuckerberg had broken an oral contract for them to build the Facebook site, copied their idea,[105] and used source code that belonged to them. The parties reached a confidential settlement agreement in February, 2008. In 2008 they attempted unsuccessfully to rescind the settlement, claiming that Facebook had understated its valuation in connection with its settlement negotiations.

StudiVZ
On July 18, 2008, Facebook sued Studivz in a California federal court, alleging that Studivz copied its look, feel, features and services. StudiVZ denied the claims, and asked for declaratory judgment at the District Court in Stuttgart, Germany.

Grant Raphael
On July 24, 2008 the High Court in London ordered Grant Raphael to pay GBP £22,000 (about USD $44,000) for breach of privacy and libel. Raphael had posted a fake Facebook page purporting to be that of a former schoolfriend and business colleague, Matthew Firsht, with whom Raphael had fallen out in 2000. The case is the first successful invasion of privacy and defamation verdict against Facebook.

References
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Ce sa mai vorbim....japonezii astia-s belea. Unde altunudeva decat in Japonia poti gasi SF-urile astea. Mai multe modele sunt prezentate aici PinkTentacle sau BikeShop Rodeo.

Are there still areas of the behavioral map marked UNKNOWN? If so, book my passage at once, for it is on these mysteriously familiar journeys that I feel most alive. In these dark worlds I sense no limits. In these forbidden acts I taste the infinite

Charles Gatewood

A Rebours presents Pictures that kill - a 40 year retrospective of the photography of Charles Gatewood [3rd - 24th October 2008]

Y pensar que voy a visitar Londres durante ese periodo y voy a perderme una exposición con tan buena pinta...

Escuchando: Jack Orion - Harvestman

I am honored to get this. It may not be some big award for some but it is something I am quite happy about. I have only been a member of the My Shutterspace community for less than a month, submitted what I think are the best images that I have from my stash and then this. W-O-W!

Thanks to everyone who pushed me, encouraged me, and never stopped believing in me. This is for you.

Photo of the Day (October 9, 2008): Azul

That same photo is also a featured photo in My Shutterspace.

]]> http://fatherofschmo.wordpress.com/?p=113 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:31:17 +0000 fatherofschmo http://fatherofschmo.no.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/thesheecom/ Just finished the website for the shee. They are an all girl group from scotland and england. Specializing in a very fresh and tight brand of folk.

I just coded and designed the site layout, the graphics had been done by Lauren Bishop for the album sleeve. Lauren is currently one of the countries most in demand fashion illustrators. 

The site is a basic layout. incrporating all the bands info into one page seperated into AP divs. This allows the content to scroll. There is a simple flash audio player with play/pause control and cd sales are dealt with by paypal.

It went online on 6 August 1991 offering people help with using the brand new 'World Wide Web', rather modestly described as a "wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents". It's now archived at www.tinyurl.com/3apuu.

If Berners-Lee had known what was to come, he might have added: "This is going to be awesome!"

2. GeoCities

Fascinating as it was back then, the web wasn't a whole lot of fun and after four years of pages created by scientists and academics, David Bohnett and John Rezner, who ran a web directory called Beverly Hills Internet, turned their company into GeoCities, giving anyone the ability to create their own site for free.

"There was a time when half the internet seemed to be on GeoCities and I don't think that this can be underestimated," says Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda, founder of Slashdot. "GeoCities made it possible for anyone to put something online for nothing. This was a huge deal."

3. Blogger

GeoCities made it easy for anyone to build their own site, but in August 1999, Blogger made it even easier. Now anyone could post a diary of what they had for dinner or why they hated their parents. Acquired by Google in 2003, Blogger continues to enable everyone to document their lives without needing to get their hands dirty with HTML. As does WordPress, TypePad, Tumblr and a million other services that have since appeared. GeoCities was purchased by Yahoo! in 1999 and lives on as Yahoo! GeoCities, though we've never heard anyone say "Check out my Yahoo! GeoCities page."

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One thing that Yahoo! will be remembered for, though, is its search directory, without which most of us would never have found GeoCities in the first place. Founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994, Yahoo! was a manually compiled directory of sites. "Remember when you bookmarked Yahoo! indexes because they were actually comprehensive sources on a subject?" says Rob Malda. "Good times."

You can read the rest of this article, here.

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Acum e ok... ca pe online in plina criza, le vinzi informatii despre criza si cel mai important prevad ca vor aparea si sfaturi de cum sa iesi din criza tarii. :)

Culmea, am citit despre asta aici

De ce si-a facut Becali blog?

Cred ca stiu si raspunsul. Putem lua direct de la sursa acum. Ce putem lua? Cele mai noi aberatii, etc. Sper sa faca si un video blog cat de curand posibil, pentru ca ar fi foarte interesant si ar face un trafic incredibil.