Google Music

Google quietly launched a new Google Labs feature in India called Indic Music, a search-and-play service that might gives us some clues into how Google Music could look.

More info: http://www.google.co.in/music

15 years of Cannes Lion winning briefs

Internet Advertising evolution

1995 – Make the TV ad into a CD-ROM
1999 – Make the TV ad into a website
2001 – Make the TV ad into a Flash website
2003 – Make the TV ad into a viral video
2004 -  Make the TV ad into a rich media banner
2005 – Make the TV ad into a Second Life venue
2007 – Make the TV ad into a Facebook page
2008 – Make the TV ad into a mobile app
2009 – Make the TV ad into an AR game
2010 – Make the TV ad into an iPad app

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What´s on your mind? Mental Spam?

Every time I sit in front of my Facebook, I read What´s on your mind? ...
Excuse me, What´s on my mind about what??  Is this communication or is just about ME2ME*?

Let me see...there is a new post in my wall. Oh my Goodness!!! Albert and Ellen are now friends? Who´s Ellen? Do I know her? Should I add her as friend? Am I not social?  Wait... I have a new post, It´s Peter and the is going to take his breakfast. Good for Him!!!  Later a friend ;) send me an on line promo about an Ageless Rejuvenating Serum for Mature Skins. I think to myself that she probably have to use it and wish very hard that facebook will have a big "I Hate this" button or even a smaller one with a cute and polite "Dislike".

Even I think to delete her from my friend list,  at the end I decide not to, because seems to be worst than a high school sweetharts break up. Well after all this... I really need a coffe. Should I post it?  I decide to take "no-social café au lait" (not post on my friends walls)  and start to think that the FBML developer capable to create an application, that let us express our real opinion in Facebook,  will be the creator of the next "social killer application". Meanwhile if you're Firefox user you can add this plug-in. If you are a Chrme, Safari, Opera or Explorer become fan of this Facebook page. Sorry I'm rambling...

It's kinda odd just to sit and think about my virtual social life. It seems I just want to take a break. relax and reconnect with my neighbours, work colleges, family and friends... So I decide to kill my virtual ME2ME.

Someone told me this week about a web page called http://suicidemachine.org/, where the process is easy, fast, painless, non returnable ecofriendly. That´s what I need! I wouldn´t like see my profile return as a Zombi 28 Days Later (That´s scares me too bad).

So, I´ve made the hardest decision of my virtual life. While I type the url I think "Yes, I'm going to do it right now. No regrets, no fear"... Here I am ... "Welcome to the Virtual Suicide." It´s like my friend told me, simple and user friendly with some testimonials from happy and satisfied users.

This is what I need, nothing to do with the seppukoo process that aims to leave an eternal trace after your pass away. What I need is a simple GAME OVER. My hands tremble as I select my social networks and click commit to sign out forever.

Suddenly a pop up appears in the middle of my browser with the next message:
"It seems like that our machine is currently busy! We know that this is very annoying and we hope that soon there are more suicidemachine-servers available in the Internet! At the moment approx. only 10% of 2.0 suicides succeed in getting a free slot due to limitations of the suicidemachine which can execute only a very limited amount of suicides at the same time and some accounts need a couple of hours to get totally unfriended, untwittered, etc..! Please consider suicide at a later moment and accept our apologies!"

I fell like Gravity support-group honor member.

While I am looking stunned my browser, the iphone vibrate. I have a new facebook message from a high school old-friend :) That´s cool!! if I can reconnect with my old fellow It´s seems that everthing else is worth enought. I feel like a want to be live again. And...Uhhh, He still likes coke!!

He doesn´t know but he just save my virtual life.

Ebooks and Editorials: The old rules doesn´t work in the new times

There are hundreds of bloggers (most of them teenagers) whom are being attacked for collect books descriptions of their favourites books and share the direct downloads links. Most of this bloggers don´t have any interest in making money, It´s all about sharing.

The main fact is Editorials must to find out a proper solution. It´s very difficult to understand the reason why a digital book cost as much as a print one. Of course, the editorials and authors must to earn money, but the editorials risks are lower right now because the cost to print a book is the most significant factor in determining the profitability of a publishing venture, It is necessary to rethink the bussines model. If you realize that the most important costs in the entire publisihing process are the printing, distribution and publicity pricing and the three of them change dramatically down. There is only one answer, It´s time to rethink the bussines model, because old rules doesn´t work in the new times.

This is an extract that all of you can find in the Preface to the Electronic Release of *The Hacker Crackdown*" wrote by Bruce Sterling in 1992. I bring it from the past because It is really clear about what´s going on nowadays.

"The critics were very kind to *The Hacker Crackdown,* and commercially the book has done

well.  On the other hand, I didn't write this book in order to squeeze every last nickel and dime out of the mitts of impoverished sixteen-year-old cyberpunk high-school-students.  Teenagers don't have any money -- (no, not even enough for the  six-dollar *Hacker Crackdown* paperback, with its attractive bright-red cover and useful index).   That's a major reason why teenagers sometimes succumb to the temptation to do things they shouldn't, such as swiping my books out of libraries.   Kids:  this one is all yours, all right?  Go give the print version back.*8-)

     Well-meaning, public-spirited civil libertarians don't have much money, either.   And it seems almost criminal to snatch cash out of the hands of America's direly underpaid electronic law enforcement community.

     If you're a computer cop, a hacker, or an electronic civil liberties activist, you are the target audience for this book.  I wrote this book because I wanted to help you, and help other people understand you and your unique, uhm, problems.  I wrote this book to aid your activities, and to contribute to the public discussion of important political issues.  In giving the text away in this fashion, I am directly contributing to the book's ultimate aim:  to help civilize cyberspace.

     Information *wants* to be free.  And  the information inside this book longs for freedom with a peculiar intensity.  I genuinely believe that the natural habitat of this book is inside an electronic network.  That may not be the easiest direct method to generate revenue for the book's author, but that doesn't matter; this is where this book belongs by its nature.  I've written other books -- plenty of other books -- and I'll write more and I am writing more, but this one is special.  I am making *The Hacker Crackdown* available electronically as widely as I can conveniently manage, and if you like the book,and think it is useful, then I urge you to do the same with it."
By Bruce Sterling.
Full Source: http://www.well.com/gopher/Publications/authors/Sterling/hc/cracker1.txt

Thought Sparks

Is apple keeping the same vision?
Watch 1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial and think different

Canadian Cell Foundation

http://www.stemcellfoundation.ca/