SMS are certainly useful but cannot it be a threat?

SMS has showned its utility in our every day life and now became one thing we cannot barely live without...But is it safe? Cannot it be use against us?

Violence on the internet

Threats of violence on the internet have been followed by real acts, such as in Finland last week, and in Virginia Tech last year. Should there be police patrols of the internet? Should the police intervene before the acts?



I think that this problem is an international one because of the universality of internet: for example, Chinese authorities are to send two virtual police officers to patrol the internet, in a bid to combat "illicit activities", state media has reported.

The animated figures, a man and a woman, will appear on users' screens every 30 minutes "to remind them of internet security", China Daily said.This is because the Chinese government censors all internet and media content.

This process blocks content it deems politically or morally threatening, but some users have found ways to circumvent government controls. So i think hackers will ever be more efficient than police on this issue.....
Even if "the virtual police officers would protect "netizens" from harm"....

I think if police were on internet maybe we could have less murders but as i said, people will find another way to broadcast their anger! Internet is a global village were there isn't border so if police has a look on what is announced on it, i think it will modify the status of this media!

Sharing points of view about e-culture

sharing points of view about e-culture.........

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=gSSpvt42p20

Don't laugh at my CV please......

Working with friends is so funny!!

Success stories...

The internet has been the scene of some spectacular success stories where young creators of sites or services have made huge fortunes. Many examples can be given such as Google, created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin two students at Stanford University in 1995 which now worth several billion of dollars, and Facebook, created in 2004 by Harvard students and which counts around 18 millions of registred people and worth hundred of million of dollars. In these two examples, the combination of youth, internet and creativity led to the creation of two huge international companies with as their start : the will to modify the everyday life!!

Becoming famous on the internet...

First, what is the definition of fame? In a traditional dictionary, one can easily find those definitions :
- [noun] the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
- [noun] favorable public reputation

Before internet it was said that each person would probably have at least 15 minutes of fame in their lifetime! That trend of thought was prior to the Internet becoming a major part of everyone's lives. Thanks to the Internet that fame can be long lasting, easy to attain, and remain forever. The only condition being that no one deletes our name from any sites we visited, or groups we started, or articles we wrote. Thus our fame can remain long after we ourselves are gone.the Internet.

Google...a force for good?

Web search as a Force for Good? No, I am not talking about a new beta service from Google! I think that when web searches are not actually saving people's lives they are improving them by saving time! I talk about how the 4 billion web pages Google indexes can be harnessed to actually make a difference in the everyday lives of people around the world with the innovative new services that Google is coming up with.

Where's Google going next? Is it remaining just a search engine for text on the web? Why is it venturing into the banner ad space, where there are plenty of well entrenched companies? After information and product searches, what next? Searching for people?

How is Google managing to crack, in a seemingly easy way, the tough problems in linguistics and semantic understanding that researchers around the world are struggling to solve?
How will Google defend its key resource, the vast amounts of data it collects on a daily basis, when the accessibility to such vast storage is becoming easier?

What made Yahoo's once vaunted search bite the dust? Peter Norvig answers all these questions and gives a unique view of what happens inside Google, including the tradition behind the curious holiday logos that Google uses.


http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.ETech2005-PeterNorvig-2005.03.15.mp3

When banks hate you

Prosper, America's first people-to-people lending marketplace, was created to make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding for everyone.
It's really a new thing! Is it generosity? Let's invest!


Borrowers create loan listings for up to $25,000 and set the maximum rate they are willing to pay a lender. Then the auction begins as people who lend bid down the interest rate. Once the auction ends, Prosper takes the bids with the lowest rates and combines them into one simple loan.

They say on the website that "The way Prosper works is intuitive to people who have used an online auction. it's nearly the same! People list and bid on loans using Prosper's online auction platform. People who want to lend set the minimum interest rate they are willing to earn and bid in increments of $50 to $25,000 on loan listings they select. People who lend can easily diversify using "standing orders", which automatically make many small loans to different borrowers. Prosper handles all on-going loan administration tasks including loan repayment and collections on behalf of the matched borrower and lenders. "

I think it can be developped in the next few years because there's a lack of social links, mix with a lack of money: people needs some help, they need to be trust by someone.....but if we check the interst rates, it's incredible! up to 25%...!
I think it's a shame, because when you borrow 100$ you have to give 25 more, you can't get out of it!........