A really cool movie:
…more clips on RSA’s channel.
I’ve found this clip on Gizmodo, which is pretty awesome. Click and watch it, it’s totally worthed (the good part starts at about 3:15 minutes):
However, there are some interesting less technical ideas being discussed in the comments:
- How can one be sure that the user is actually the thief? I mean, thieves usually try to get rid as quick as possible of the stolen goods
- Given #1, is it okay to publicly humiliate a person like this? This video will surely become viral and will be seen by millions world wide and for sure will have a very negative impact on Mel Guzman’s life, a guy who is – until proven otherwise – innocent.
- Invading somebody else’s privacy and post stolen images on the web is wrong. I mean, the ZoZ guy is no better than the thief.
- Posting stolen naked photos of unknown women on the Internet and showing them on a public forum is very wrong. For all we know, these women didn’t know that the guy they were email images to was a suspect of thievery. They were engaged in a private conversation and ZoZ violated the confidentiality of their correspondence – an act which I think is a felony in the US.
My opinion is that, while is great to use your skill and computer knowledge to recover your stolen goods, you should do so without causing harm to innocent bystanders. I wonder what would happen if the “lady with da big booty” decides to sue this guy. I’d be happy to hear a lawyer’s opinion on the subject…
How the Nativity would look in our web 2.0 era:
Pretty cool!
Also talked about by Dan Pink at TED. I think this is one of the main reasons why open source projects work the way they do. A whopping 99.9% of all the software engineers I know think that they could do a much better job if they would have more autonomy. And most software we see are buggy, unusable, over-time and over-budget. I wonder why…
If you’re into management, I think you should have a good look at these video. I know a lot of people that desperately need this kind of knowledge…
PS: holding a gun to somebody’s head also works as a great motivator, as proven by the Spanish government earlier this month, when it used the military to “incentivise” the air traffic controllers to go back to work 
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Google is advertising its new Chrome Notebook technology. And we must admit, the commercials are cool:
But what lies beyond this eye catching presentation is an awful truth. By using Chrome Notebook you remove any privacy you might have left and lose the possibility to truly delete a file. Everything you search, everything you see, everything you write or do, will be logged forever on Google’s servers.
And, of course, sooner or later, governments will get access to these databases, using the already old rhetoric: “it will help us to stop terrorism”. A hollow affirmation, because given the crappy internet connections they have in their caves in Afganistan, it’s very likely that terrorists will never use such systems. But everybody else might be spied, from the average Joe to UN diplomats. If you ever use such a system think twice before bragging to your friends about breaking the speed limit with your new car or emailing your accountant about bending the rules…
Viral advertising in IT. I’m starting to like this…
Impressive. Android will prove a valuable competitor for the iPhone.
Google Tech Talks are Google’s answer to TED Talks but, as expected, with much more focus on technology. And they show some very interesting stuff, like the following talk on how to design an API. If you have a free hour, watch it.
Via Alex Novac.
Nowadays, a lot of the battle between technologies takes place in the field of marketing. It all started with Apple’s “Hi, I am Mac/Hi, I am a PC” commercials.
(more from that came here). This investment in marketing boosted Apple’s market share, biting from Microsoft’s, mainly in the youth market.