Read, Dream & Recycle, Book Origami From Book of Art.

Isaac Salazar

it’s also my way of recycling a book that might otherwise end up in a landfill.  The words or symbols I use are drawn from anything that invokes inspiration or encouragement, such as “Read”, “Dream” and the Recycle symbol.  If my work also makes people look at a book and even art in a new light then the piece has done its job“
Book of Art on FlickR via Recyclart

The Ghost Of Plagiarism

Ever thought of Plagiarizing? Watch this funny video. Press "CC" (access via up arrow next to resolution) button to get subtitles;

The Ghost Of Plagiarism

Facebook Valued At 50 Billion As Goldman Sachs Invests $500 Million

Godman Sachs ($450 Million) and Digital Sky Technologies (50 Million) have investedon the ever changing facebook driving the valuation of the firm to whopping $50 Billion. With this valuation, facebook surfaces eBay, Yahoo and Time Warner in value!
The new infusion will allow facebook to steal away from it's rivals in many fields like developing new products, hiring and possibly new acquisitions.
The SEC is showing interest in companies like facebook, twitter and zinga and their lucrative private markets and if they are using the private market to avoid public disclosure requirements.
On the otherhand, experts belive the new money inflow might force facebook to go public just like Google or Microsoft. Also all these companies are making the market change as well;

“When you think back to the early days of Google, they were kind of ignored by Wall Street investors, until it was time to go public,” said Chris Sacca, an angel investor in Silicon Valley who is a former Google employee and an investor in Twitter. “This time, the Street is smartening up. They realize there are true growth businesses out here. Facebook has become a real business, and investors are coming out here and saying, ‘We want a piece of it.’”

NYTimes

Marrisa Mayer Interviewed By Newsweek

One of the best and knowledgeable people at Google, is a girl and she is Marrisa Mayer, a senior executives at Google.
The interview starts with her answering the question;
"Why are so few women working in the technology industry?" a fine read. After reading the interview, I have to agree with her Computer Science Professor Eric Roberts who said “You know what? You’re really good at this. You could go far in this.”

Marrisa Mayer via Newsweek

New FLOCK Social Browser, MAC Builds Are Coming This Month.

Flock will finally be available on MAC this month, said the five year old startup. Flock allows users to integrate social networks within the browser, such as twitter, facebook and even LinkedIn :).
The newest Flock, version 3.5 is based on Google's Chromium engine. The initial version, 3.0 ran only on windows platform but now it runs on MAC OS X as well. Of course it runs on Linux as well.
According to a post by Shawn Hardin, CEO and president of the company;

1. Performance and design: Fast and easy set up, overall browser speed, and fast page loading
2. The new Flock sidebar: Makes it incredibly easy to follow, find, share, and update all your friends and information
3. Search: Discovering interesting content from friends when searching in the new Flock 

Flock also tells us that there are about 9.5 million users of which 2.36 Million are active users. They are also seeing 15% increase in active users, every week.
After trying out Rockmelt, I feel Flock to be the better browser. You too could join the crowd, or test it out by downloading Flock 3.5.

MySpace New Logo, A Better Redesign?

At the Warm Gun Design, as a part of the new MySpace re branding the company. I personally like the old logo then again, I am not even a member of MySpace. It remains to see, if the new logo will help to save MySpace.

Washington DC e-Voting Website Hacked, No e-Voting!

We have been fans of e-voting machines, for a while now. We are yet to like them. Because we feel they are insecure.
But we have another story today. For a week, the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics requested hacker of any color (Whitehat, Blackhat, grayhat) etc to find faults in the web based voting system, which was designed to allow some 950 military and overseas voters to cast ballots online. The officials were hoping to use it for the November election, for the first time.
Yes, it worked, University of Michigan fight song, called The Victors was uploaded to the site and made to play once ballot is submitted on the thank you page.
Officials promptly took the site down and a scaled-back version of the site was relaunched Tuesday. With a difference,
One could download the ballot but need to mail,fax or e-mail the vote!

Good one for the officials, security matters!
The Washington Times

Goo.gl URL Shortener Open to The World.

The Google URL shortener shown here shortening it's own URL, Goo.gl

Developing an Immune System for the Internet?

Viruses, spyware, spam, phishing and numerous other badware have affected almost everyone we know. Even the best, sacrifice untold number of computing cycles just to keep tab on these. With cyber crime turning in billions for the criminals, battle is going to become even harder.
I have on my windows machine, a firewall, virus protection software and two spyware, spam and browser malware protection programs running, all the time. But the still seem to find way to seep in.
So StopBadware movement and The Commonwealth Club are coming together on the evening of Monday, October 4 in Menlo Park, CA, for a discussion on how to keep the Net safe.

Three Internet pioneers—all StopBadware Board members—will lead a conversation entitled Keeping the Net Healthy: How Can We Develop an Immune System for the Internet? with opening and closing remarks by StopBadware's Executive Director, Maxim Weinstein.

Vinton Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google; one of the "fathers of the Internet"
Paul Mockapetris, Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board, Nominum; creator of the Domain Name System (DNS)
Esther Dyson, Chairman EDventure Holdings; angel investor, philanthropist, and recently trained cosmonaut

The event begins with a networking reception at 6:15, followed by the main program at 7:00. Tickets are $30 in advance and $50 at the door. Advance  tickets are available here. We hope you'll join us for what promises to be a spirited and educational discussion.
Stopbadware

EU Defenders Of Online Freedom, Do Not Forget : Public consultation on the open internet and net neutrality

Please remember that the "Public consultation on the open internet and net neutrality" questionnaire is due September 30th 2010.

Deadline: Thursday 30 September 2010

DG Information Society and Media has launched a public consultation on key questions arising from the issue of net neutrality. European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, announced in April 2010 her intention to launch this consultation in order to take forward Europe's net neutrality debate. The consultation is part of the Commission's follow-up to its commitment – one of the prerequisites for the successful conclusion of the 2009 EU telecoms reform package – to scrutinise closely the open and neutral nature of the internet and to report on the state of play to the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers.

 The consultation covers such issues as whether internet providers should be allowed to adopt certain traffic management practices, prioritising one kind of internet traffic over another; whether such traffic management practices may create problems and have unfair effects for users; whether the level of competition between different internet service providers and the transparency requirements of the new telecom framework may be sufficient to avoid potential problems by allowing consumers' choice; and whether the EU needs to act further to ensure fairness in the internet market, or whether industry should take the lead. All interested parties – service and content providers, consumers, businesses and researchers – are invited to respond to the consultation by 30 September 2010. The consultation will feed into a Commission report on net neutrality, which should be presented by the end of this year.

• Press release: Digital Agenda: Commission launches consultation on open internet and net neutrality (IP/10/860)
• Consultation document: Questionnaire for the public consultation on the open internet and net neutrality in Europe
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