UncrowdSourcing nº2

The purpose of this section is reliably collecting those sentences or paragraphs created by artists, writers, philosophers and innovators. Sometimes we read statements which have so much truth that should been highlighted and recognized, without adding a comma, without modify its essence and recognizing the uniqueness of each one of them. Make no mistake, I love the Crowdsourcing, but in a world where the idea of the original seems to dissolve in the Crowd. I want to reclaim with this concept the authenticity and beauty of the reflexions and thoughts of only one creator.

12 Nov 2010
"I have a horrible secret to admit: I routinely carry out acts of murder and barbarism for fun. I have beaten up old ladies, run over pedestrians while driving recklessly on the footpath, and killed a multitude of gangsters, cops, innocent civilians, and sequined jumpsuit-wearing Elvis impersonators. In acts of gross animal cruelty, I’ve exploded numerous lemmings. I have even
committed genocide, putting entire civilizations to the sword as I ravaged continents as a brutal militaristic tyrant. Worst of all is that though I presently find myself somewhat guilty and ashamed of my actions, at the time it was all great fun. There is no doubt that I laughed hysterically throughout many of my criminal and immoral adventures. I suspect that I am not alone in this concealed shame, and that readers will have similar guilty secrets about what they do in their spare time. Videogames, of course, are to blame for all these activities. Gaming has made me an immoral monster.">
Source: ”The Art of VideoGames by Grant Tavinor"

M&M’S: Find Red

M&M campaign called Find Red. Users can go to YouTube, Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook pages over the next few weeks to get tips that help them to find Red inside Google Street View.

UncrowdSourcing nº1

The purpose of this section is reliably collecting those sentences or paragraphs created by artists, writers, philosophers and innovators. Sometimes we read statements which have so much truth that should been highlighted and recognized, without adding a comma, without modify its essence and recognizing the uniqueness of each one of them. Make no mistake, I love the Crowdsourcing, but in a world where the idea of the original seems to dissolve in the Crowd. I want to reclaim with this concept the authenticity and beauty of the reflexions and thoughts of only one creator.

"All the articles, edits, and arguments about articles and edits of Wikipedia represent around 100 million hours of human labor. That’s a lot of time. But remember: Americans watch about 200 billion hours of TV every year." Source: ”Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution”

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

Originally posted here

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.