According to my dictionary, a friend is variously defined as:A person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.Someone with whom you share mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect, along with a degree of rendering service to in times of need or crisis.Desiring what is best for the other person.Being able to express sympathy and empathy and being honest with each other.It's funny, but I couldn't find a definition that espoused anything about "face-to-face" connections being a requirement for friendship. I don't see anything in the definitions that precludes having an electronic friendship. In fact, I don't see anything that stipulates that you have to have met the person live in the real world rather than knowing them in the virtual world.
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The Future Internet: Service Web 3.0 - Video & Transcription - 0 views
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Here's a great video presentation I found about the Semantic Web; I transcripted all the main parts here below. Text transcription: The Internet as we know it today is in an extending success: more than 1.300.000.000 (1,3 billions) people are connected to the Web across the globe. In 2006, 161 EB of informations were created or replicated world wide. IDC estimates the increase over 6 times this metric by 2010 - to 988 EB, or to 1 ZB a year.......
internet not full of peodos - 0 views
Remix Culture & Fair Use: Best Practices for Online Video - 0 views
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An interesting video I came across about the main issues concerning fair use, copyright, and video mashups. Highlights from my transcription below: We're seeing this blossoming of amateur cultures, video remixes and creativity, and a lot of these works are circulating on the Internet. Copyright law is all about balance........
Web Evolution & Social Media - 1 views
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Nice slide presentation from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about the evolution of the Web, with reference to social networks & issues related to libraries. My personal highligths from this work: * The turn from groups to social networks lays the basis for a new social operating system * Being more civically engages on social networks helps building better communities (continue...)
Friending and Unfriending: A New Social Order? | Psychology Today - 0 views
O'Reilly -- What Is Web 2.0 - 0 views
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Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia based on the unlikely notion that an entry can be added by any web user, and edited by any other, is a radical experiment in trust, applying Eric Raymond's dictum (originally coined in the context of open source software) that "with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,"
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Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia based on the unlikely notion that an entry can be added by any web user, and edited by any other, is a radical experiment in trust, applying Eric Raymond's dictum (originally coined in the context of > open source software > ) that "with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow," >
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Collaborative spam filtering products like Cloudmark aggregate the individual decisions of email users about what is and is not spam, outperforming systems that rely on analysis of the messages themselves.
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Sxip Identity - 0 views
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Identity 2.0, an internet-scale approach to identity and access management
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urors-use-of-google causing mistrials - 0 views
Trench Warfare in the Age of The Laser-Guided Missile - 0 views
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The historical development of spam fighting is allowing computer-aware criminals to take the upper hand in the fight against what has now evolved into a completely technologically and organizationally merged threat to public safety. If we do not change our strategic approach immediately, the battle, indeed even the war may be all but lost... Of late, much has been said in the popular and computer press about a vector that is annoying, but hardly critical in nature: 'Image spam'. Spammers have jumped on the new technology of 'image-only' payloads, which morph one pixel per message, rendering them unique, and traditional check-sum blocking strategies ineffective... Fortunately this fraudulent stock-touting scheme leaves a paper trail that has allowed for some successful prosecutions in the latter half of the year. Stock spamming, while popular at present time is likely to decline as legal actions increase...
Good SEO Staff and Services - 2 views
Nowadays, people do not use the yellow pages or go directly to the stores to buy something. They are taking advantage of the internet whenever they have to buy something. For that reason, I have a ...
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