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You Control Your Relationships, Not Social Media | Hybrid Reality | Big Think

January 10, 2011 in SocialMediaMarketing

You Control Your Relationships, Not Social MediaParag and Ayesha Khanna on January 9, 2011, 12:23 PMYoung_people_together In a recent article, MSNBC called Facebook the divorce lawyer’s new best friend. Social media allows people to easily meet and flirt with attractive people, diverting attention and time away from significant others. The problem with this virtual bar is that it leaves a paper trail of status updates, tweets, photographs and comments that are a goldmine to divorce lawyers. The article reports that “the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers says 81 percent of its members have used or faced evidence plucked from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social networking sites, including YouTube and LinkedIn, over the last five years.”Even for the eternally faithful, social media presents another problem: distraction. Constantly checking on what their ever-increasing group of friends are saying on networking sites means less time for meeting a core group of friends and family.

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The Social Media phenomena has taken the world by storm and growing into a tsunami wave – circling the entire globe.  I could never understand how anyone could maintain personal contacts with thousands of friends, unless they are fans, customers or clients. But, now that we do not need the computer or email anymore to stay tuned into whatever “gibberish” or news the world wants to share, we are quickly becoming a world of zombies dancing to the voices of the crowd.

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Raymond J. Learsy: Facebook and Goldman Sachs

January 7, 2011 in SocialMediaMarketing

Goldman Sachs has access to money. But more important to Facebook at this point of its ascendancy is whether Goldman Sachs has trust. The question is already being widely bandied about in the business news world, such as in the CNBC story “Wall Street Wonders if Goldman Will Double Cross Facebook”, which quotes a Wall Street executive as saying, “we would have killed to be in this deal”. Clearly a myriad of investment houses/banks would have stepped in to fill the financial role Goldman has undertaken. A financial role that would not have come with the spurious baggage with which Facebook is now associating itselfFacebook is one of the great triumphs of the American system. Innovation, courage, risk, entrepreneurial vision, a classic success story of the best of the American way. One in which each American, in varying degrees depending on one’s individual construct, can be proud.

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Someone once said, ” The key to success is to find a need and fill it” Who would have thought such a simple concept could mushroom into a 50 Billion business.  But it did.  Just goes to show you that simple is best. KISS.

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Best and worst bottled water brands on Shine

January 6, 2011 in houseofmax.info

The Environmental Protection Agency says on its website that consumers have the right to know where their water comes from and what’s in it so they can “make informed choices that affect the health of themselves and their families.” Tap water is regularly tested and consumers can find their local water info online. That’s not necessarily the case with bottled water, which is not required to disclose that information to consumers. “Bottled water is a food product and every one of these companies is complying with federal law,” says Tom Lauria, of the International Bottled Water Association. More than half of the bottled water products surveyed failed EWG’s transparency test –18 percent didn’t say where their water comes from, and another 32 percent did not disclose any information on treatment or purity of water.Only three brands earned the highest possible marks for disclosing information and using the most advanced treatment methods available – Gerber Pure Purified Water, Nestle Pure Life Purified Water, and Penta Ultra-Purified Water.

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With all the money people spend on bottle water, you would think they are getting clean product, but that is certainly not the case.  I have always felt more safe drinking my tap water.  How about you?

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How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age…

January 4, 2011 in houseofmax.info

Published on Friday, January 30, 2004 by CommonDreams.orgHow Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age…by Thom Hartmann While global warming is being officially ignored by the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al Gore’s recent conference on the topic during one of the coldest days of recent years provided joke fodder for conservative talk show hosts, the citizens of Europe and the Pentagon are taking a new look at the greatest danger such climate change could produce for the northern hemisphere – a sudden shift into a new ice age. What they’re finding is not at all comforting.In quick summary, if enough cold, fresh water coming from the melting polar ice caps and the melting glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe and northeastern North America warm. The worst-case scenario would be a full-blown return of the last ice age – in a period as short as 2 to 3 years from its onset – and the mid-case scenario would be a period like the “little ice age” of a few centuries ago that disrupted worldwide weather patterns leading to extremely harsh winters, droughts, worldwide desertification, crop failures, and wars around the world.

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I find this article on global warming very illuminating – giving me a perspective I never had before.  I did not understand that the warming of the glaciers will bring us another ice age!  Maybe if the framed the discussion as “Global Freezing”  the alarm bells would ring more clearly.  Nevertheless, if this phenomena is cyclical I don’t really see what we can do about it, except prepare for sudden migration to the South.

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Auld Lang Huh? – Manage Your Life on Shine

December 31, 2010 in houseofmax.info

New Year’s Eve is one of those love-it-or-hate-it holidays. But no matter how you feel about celebrating, odds are you’re going to hear “Auld Lang Syne” at least 500 times. There is no escape.Naturally, Web searches on the song pop like champagne corks on New Year’s Eve. Our guess is that folks simply want to know what the song actually means. After all, it’s not often that people belt out a tune that they don’t really understand. Well, wonder no more. Here’s the scoop on the song that is mandatory for one night every year.According to the good people at TLC, the song is an “extremely old Scottish song that was first written down in the 1700s.” The poet Robert Burns often gets credit for the words.

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Wishing You All A Great and Prosperous 2011!

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Is this the beginning of the end for the open internet? | Technology | The Observer

December 27, 2010 in houseofmax.info

The issue of “net neutrality” is the Schleswig-Holstein question de nos jours. The problem is not that it is so complicated that only three people understand it; au contraire, thousands claim to comprehend it and therein lies the difficulty: their “understandings” differ so markedly, one from another. Some see neutrality as a sacred principle that defines the spirit of the open internet and explains its astonishing ability to stimulate disruptive innovation. At the other extreme, multimedia corporations – and some distinguished computer scientists – see it as a sacred cow that may hamper future rounds of innovation in online services.To appreciate the issue, we need to remember that the internet was designed to perform a single task – it takes in data packets at one end and does its best to deliver them to their destinations. Net neutrality means that the network should be agnostic about the content of the packets. It shouldn’t care whether they contain fragments of emails, web pages, instant messages, music tracks, porn videos – whatever. As far as the network is concerned, they’re just data packets and should receive equal treatment. According to this doctrine, any departure from this digital egalitarianism should be regarded with great suspicion. So, for example, if your ISP gave preferential treatment to data packets from the BBC iPlayer as against those from 4oD, it would be violating the doctrine, as it would if it took payments from Microsoft to prioritise Bing search results over those from Google.

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The Internet is the only place where people think there is a free lunch for everyone. There is a big difference between free access and free use. Sharing the Internet is like sharing the water resources we have available. There will always be responsible use and misuse of limited resources like bandwith.

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