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.. 

Bild via Flickr (Anmerkung: der User hat hierbei das Interface von Facebook für StudiVz genutzt)

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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* Blogbar
* Netzpolitik
* Patje
* txtblog
* Nachtwächter
* Basic Blog
* trabifant
* Leere Signifikanten
* Main Blog
* Sebastian Keil
* 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.

Dear Rob Felton:

Coinciding with the release of the 2009 edition of America's Best Colleges at the end of August, U.S. News will launch a Facebook application that will be an all-inclusive resource for information on colleges, rankings, and the school selection process for users and their friends.

Using data that has already been collected on our annual surveys, our application will allow Facebook friends to share information about the schools they are considering attending. By saving schools to their list, students will be able to compare their interests with friends, meet other applicants, and discuss their impressions of a school.

Students on Facebook will soon be perusing your institution's data -- which is why we need your help. If you have a thumbnail image of your institution's logo or another image that best
represents your institution, please send it to us to use in our Facebook application (file specifications are listed below). The data that will be included has already been collected as part of our America's Best Colleges project. We do not need any additional data from you.

Please send your image as an attachment to social-networking@usnews.com.

If you do not have an appropriate image, your institution will still be included in our application, just without an image.

Technical Specifications:

Accepted file formats: JPG, GIF, PNG

Images will be sized to fit within the following dimensions: 100 pixels wide and 75 pixels tall

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by email at social-networking@usnews.com or by phone at (202) 955-2242.

Sincerely,
Vachelle Manly
Data Collection Manager
U.S. News & World Report

I think this is the beginning of the end of U.S. News' reign as the ranking system for universities. As U.S. News enters the world of Facebook applications, we'll see innovative developers create new and more accurate ways of ranking schools using social networking data and the Common Data Set, which schools can upload to Facebook for multiple developers instead of just submitting it to U.S. News.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."

In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone posted them on the social networking site Facebook. And that offered remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor handling Lipton's drunken-driving case.

Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge agreed, calling the pictures depraved when sentencing Lipton to two years in prison.

Hola, sí. Tengo dos minutos nada más, te cuento. Tú sabes que tengo apenas 29 años y que mi marido me conoce desde hace cuatro. Bueno, cuando nos casamos - hace tres - él no sabía nada sobre Pedro. Yo siempre fui una muchacha bien católica, ¿viste?. Él lo sabe mejor que nadie. Antes de casarnos no nos acostamos ni una sola vez. Te lo juro. Bueno, dos. Él siempre supo que yo era una mujer de principios. Claro, por eso se casó conmigo. Para él, Matías era un nombre cualquiera. Lo mismo eran Juan y Andrés. Ahora resulta que el puto Facebook de mierda los está resucitando a todos. Como si fueran santos de verdad, sí. 

Yo ya no se bien que hacer. Sí, sabes que a Juan lo rechacé, igual que a Pedro, sí. ¿Cómo que no te acuerdas de Pedro? Si hasta con el hermano de él saliste. ¿Te acuerdas? Joder, el día que estábamos en La Balsa y tú andabas con tu novio. ¿Cómo era que se llamaba? El que era medio sordo. Ese mismo, sí. Bueno, a Pedro lo rechacé y a Juan también, pero a los demás no.

Es que no podía, las fotos que tiene Matías me van a joder mi matrimonio si las publica. ¿Y el video que grabamos en Punta del Este Andrés y yo? No, si ese video aparece hasta mi trabajo voy a perder. Ay, Diosito ¿Por qué esto me tiene que pasar a mi? Es que en esa época no había ni camaras digitales ni nada. ¿Te imaginas? Él me emborrachó.

Y todo esto por la imbécil de Alejandra. La muy idiota empezó con esa estupidez del reencuentro. ¿Para que mierda necesito yo encontrarme con gente que tengo más de diez años que no veo? Claro, si no los ví todo ese tiempo fue por algo. Con mis verdaderos amigos siempre mantuve contacto. Bueno, sacando a los que te nombré, pero ellos no se pueden contar entre amigos, ¿no?. Ellos son ex.  Bendito sea el día que empezaron a organizar el fulano reencuentro.

¿Y si de pronto con todo esto aparece también Tomás? Ahí si es verdad que puso el pato macho su gran cagada, como decía mi abuelita, en paz descanse. ¡Ay, en serio, amiga, ya no se que va a pasar! No, Tomás no va a aparecer. ¿Verdad?. Él se fue a vivir a España apenas nos graduamos y en esa época no había ni hotmail. ¿Si había? Bueno, yo no tuve hasta mucho después igual. Eso no es lo importante, lo importante es que él no va a aparecer. ¿Cómo?. ¿Hicieron un grupo en Facebook con todos los ex-alumnos? ¿Cómo que están todos los emails de los que nos graduamos ese año? La puta que los parió. ¿Y quién fue el de la idea?

El coño de la madre con esa Alejandra. Claro, ella siempre fue bien puta, ¿verdad?. Ahora seguro que se divorció y anda que no sabe en que palo ahorcarse. Sí, ¿no sabías?. Le iba re mal con el marido. Igual te cuento que si la veo la mato. En serio, te digo. Bueno, pero mientras no aparezca el profesor Santiago no hay rollo. ¿Cómo? ¿Él es uno de los moderadores del grupo? Pero si yo necesitaba pasar esa materia para graduarme, Dios mio. Y fue una cosa de una noche y ya. Bueno, dos. ¿Qué voy a hacer, amiga?

Bueno, quedamos así. Si Felipe se entera me pasas el número de tu amigo. ¿Cómo dijiste que se llamaba?.  ¿Jesús? Sí, me gusta. Puede ser. Dale, nos vemos mañana. Besos. Chau, amiga.

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.

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)

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Turns out that it's not just about which way to 'turn'. It's even more complicated, but not impossible. We just need a little more elevation to see the whole picture. We need the altitude (and attitude) of an astronaut, not just the compass and telescope of a surveyor.

Life is not a 'flat-surface event'. We have seen that our global existence is an inter-galactic shared experience. We got some of that perspective by looking back at our planet from outer space. While the search for extraterrestrial life goes on, the earthbound life we share on this globe also occurs in relation to others around us and an entire solar system of related influences. Those who sit in the sun too long or forget that the moon influences the tides may soon find themselves in another situation that demands their attention, or immediate action. How does all this relate to our decisions, our relationships, our politics, our countries, our survival?

Decisions have dimension.

Life is less like a game of checkers and more like a three-layered game of tic-tac-toe. A move that occurs in one dimension affects what happens in all others, as well as the ultimate outcome of the game. Unless we consider all dimensions of our shared existence, we can overlook some burning issue or rising tide of influence that can engulf us in a decision for which we are not mutually prepared. How can we navigate these dimensions, successfully, together?

Our ability to follow a 'map' will not serve us in this new 'open space'. One-to-one dialogue on any given subject will soon seem as antiquated as a string between two tin cans. Our new many-to-many online interactions will encompass perspectives in conversations between multiple participants who share from their DIFFERENT cultures - the SAME common needs. We won't be going to the 'library' - we will become a 'living library', available to each other as nano-resources deployed across a global neural network, in real time.

What can be- or could be- known is available for our ready review across the universe of the interconnected internet. What hasn't been engineered (yet) is a way for us ALL to leave the mental 'bounds of earth' and look back in a collective global perspective - so that we can -

come to consensus and interact cooperatively.

To do so will require not only the ground crew knowledge available on the internet, but also a stellar vehicle to navigate in new dimensions of local transparency and global accountability, in the new space of untethered shared governance - and shared benefits. We will have to give everyone an equitable seat at the window of insight and then move ourselves through the inter-cranial galaxies of consensus toward our mutual goal of survival.

WE will all participate as an inter-dependent ground crew that cooperatively directs US as we co-pilot OUR own flight, and as WE adjust our OWN course, as needed - while WE are ALL in route.

Oh, and the travel WILL occur at light speed,

at the click of a mouse.

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