Wednesday, November 28, 2007

"These shoes are 300 dollars"

This is my E-cv.
It's fun.
It's fresh.
Watch it from the beginning to the end, if you don't, I'll know it.
Furthermore, I have inserted naked pictures of me that are supposed to act on a subliminal level.

Hoax.


There is one horrible threat on Internet that no one ever speak about.
It can lead to our poorest instincts.
It can lead anyone to lose ones self esteem, ones joy of living, ones happiness.
It touches every member of the family.
It can destroy you.


This threat is way beyond what you are told about the "threats on Internet", it is like a time remote bomb, like Hiroshima, like Britney without a pants hanging out with Paris and Nicole, and this threat has a name…
A HOAX.

Let's take a french example.


Bonjour à tous,
Je vous sollicite car une petite fille de 9 mois doit être sauvée. Noélie est atteinte d'une leucémie rare. Le seul moyen pour que cette petite ne décède pas dans moins de 2 mois ; c'est que vous tous vous vous monopolisiez pour trouver un donneur compatible. Ce donneur doit être un homme de moins de 40 ans avec ungroupe sanguin A Négatif. Je vous demande donc de bien vouloir communiquer à un maximum de gens cette information. D'avance merci à tous.


Poor Noélie.


In this example, nothing too terrible.

But.
Who hasn't ever got an email from a potential dictator who begs you to give him money in order to establish a democracy?Who hasn't ever feared the sum of pain that a chain letter you refuse to forward can bring you ?
I have personnaly received many mails from potential dictators in Afrika, who are very politeand who guarantee me a return on investisment if I give him a substantial donation.

Well. Imagine if it were my mom who got this mail.
You know the mothers, they are polite, nice, and they want to helpp democracy, especially when they have a subscription for Telerama.

Well. At this time, she wouldn't be able to afford a coat for the winter.
And she would freeze, alone, whereas a dictator would eat diamonds in the breakfast.


As you saw it, it can be really awfull, and lead everyone to the foolishest acts.
But.
There is one solution.
One website.
One way.
Hoaxbuster.


I hope this will save lives.

I hope every will live in peace in the world, without dirty and filthy jokes on dead people and democracy. I can't stand it anymore.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Kelly.

The new technologies, the participation, the 2.0, the things like that.. blah blah.
In my opinion, the main interest of all this stuff is that real funny people pop up on the web, become famous, and inspire people, for the best.

Shoes



Let Me Borrow That Top



Thanks to YouTube, I know what/who I want to be in my future. I want to be Kelly. I want to sing fu***ng efficient songs. I want to wear wigs. I want to talk about shoes. I want to think about my future video clips, and dream up fights of cheerleaders.
This is living.

A little bit of vocabulary.




A podcast is a term to describe the technology used to push audio content on websites so people can listen to it on their iPod or on other audio player. The author of a podcast is called a podcaster. The term podcast comes from iPod and broadcasting.




This technology can also be used to push any kind of file, including pictures and videos.


Not surprisingly, musicians and bloggers are prevalent among the early adopters, but mainstream media organizations, including ZDNet are beginning into podcasting as well.

Many websites allow to make podcasts :

iTunes
Podemus
Yahoo! podcasts
Podcast.net


You can chitchat on everything you want. Such a pleasure.


But since I hate my voice, i won't do a single podcast.
Too bad.

"I wanna borrow that top"


Prosper.com is an online marketplace that allow people to lend money to other people, even strangers...

This website highlights the issue of trust in the web and in the technical stuff developed to increase transactions' security on the Internet. Prosper.com uses several ways to make people trust in its services such as :
- pedagogy : the web site communicate a lot on its own use. See HOW TOs : "How to borrow" ; "How to lend" ; the Help page is very rich in information...
- ergonomic : prosper.com's layout is very clear, well-built, easy to read which encourage users in joining the community.
- relying on the community : people using prosper.com can rate each others which brings more credibility to users and at the same to the service provided by the website.


Thanks to this website, you can now proudly sing "I wanna borrow that cash"; and borrow every top you want.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

$tock exchange, wtf ?!


Google worths 1,93 billion $.

Oh My God, I don't give a damn.

Chris Crocker Vs Matthew Fashion.

In my opinion, they are the two most famous starlets on the web by now.

The magnificient Chris Crocker is certainly the coolest, because he made it only through Internet and his stpefying vids. The most sent one is the infamous "Leave Britney Alone". I think that even my mom has seen it.
He talks about how to be a gay superstar in a lost town in a whatever homophobic country of the US, and he talks a lot about him, and how cool and famous he is. There's a vid, where he calls live a fan of him, and we can hear the fan yelling out of joy, and Chris stays cool and unimpressed.
It's hard to believe, but... :



The second one has nothing to envy to Chris Crocker. Matthew Fashion lives in Beverly Hills, he knows (or at least "meets") many famous people and has many pictures of him smiling and embracing these celibrities.

He has a concept of his own, which seems to be also his stage name : Fashionality (Fashion + Personality).
I discovered him on the god-blessed tv-show "Next", and i saw him again with great pleasure on "Exposed". Although "Exposed" is a lame program, Matthew Fashion is still funny.
Watch him in action in Exposed :



The common points between the two are numerous : they are two extravagant young gays, who have real problems with ther wardroom ; they obtained a tv-show thanks to their fame (a real-tv like documentary) ; and they love themselves.
However, Chris has a very long wikipedia page, and Matthew hasn't yet. And Matthew seems to be more "multimedia" than Chris, who appeared on tv lately.
Two big differences : Chris used Internet to become famous and now takes advantage of his exposition to merge his "activities" on tv. Matthew became "international" thanks to tv-shows, and exploited this fame with Internet. Moreover, Matthew seems to have a bigger legitimacy, since he is a stylist, and can speak not only about himself, but also about fashion.
Well, that's just my opinion.

Fame in the XXIth Century works in mysterious ways.


Sunday, November 11, 2007

Orkut


Did you know that Google had its own social network ?

I have discovered it lately, while searching another dating website, gnihihi. Although it's difficult for me to say that, I think that this network is so beyond Facebook, that it has no interest.
The comparison with Facebook can't be avoided now, and, Orkut can't hold the comparison at all.




First of all, the site is full of Brazilians. Everywhere you see abs, boobs, tongues. This makes the shy boy inside me puke out of resentment.
There is no moderation : at least three fake Hillary Clinton profiles, and one single Barack Obama, with only four friends... It doesn't make sense.
It is polluted with spams, hoaxs, sexy websites, and other hidden ads.

These three mere watchings are enough for me to be bored by this website. No way to meet someone via this network. Unless you want to meet Cristina, who had her surgery three months ago, and who is so proud of her new breast that she shows it on every picture. (I can give you her real name, if she may be your kind of girl)

In a nutshell : useless.

(Look how fun it can be to puke on a Google service. For once they are not the best, let's enjoy it a minute or two - just before checking ones gmail account, using google images, posting on blogger and working on a google-docs)

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Social Networkings Vs Meeting Sites.

Facebook Vs Meetic
MySpace Vs Match.com

Can these fights be relevant ?

I think so. Many articles in some newspapers have recently described one big trend in MySpace and Facebook, that leads users to chat up, flirt, hit on -name it like you want-, on websites that wasn't originally designed for this use.
The MySpace parties are said to be big hook-ups parties. Since I don't have a MySpace account (music is so boring), I can't join these parties, but what if the real aim of these social networks was to physically link with other users ?
Flirting via social nietworks must be seen as less humiliating as in Meetic. If you meet your girlfriend on MySpace, it says something about you (= you're cool, you listen hype music, you go and listen concerts in the dark places of Paris). If you meet someone on Meetic, it is less funky (= you are certainly a rich loser, you are too shy to meet in real life, there are chances that you are peverse).

MySpace and Facebook are free, are popular, are full of young flesh. I guess it is seen like an easier way for cool-men to grab young ladies, for there are no longer the uninhibited codes of the dating websites, codes that are inhibiting for some ("What do you want ? Do you search something in particular ? What do you like during the sex ? Is there a problem if a bring a friend ?").

Anyway, read Technikart if you want more.

Inbox : One New Message.



From : Mika K
Date : 04-Sept-2007 17:29
"Jprend 1ver avc Jerem à la belette, pui ptet jirai ché lui voir Virg, jsai pa tro en fait. Keep u in tuch"








Everything has ever been written about the Short Messages on the mobile.
Don't count on me to add something original, new, flashy-funky-groovy, or even relevant.

However.
I am pretty sure than no one has ever dared to talk about the dating via SMS. In the little channels on the TNT, or in the cable, there are loads of ads, showing young smiling tanned people who feel soooo lonely in the town they have just moved in. And guess what, if you send "Date", or "Chat", or "Love", or "Plan" through an overtaxed numero, you can chat with these beautiful people !
This mere idea arouses me everytime I see the ads -and I see maybe 20 minutes of the same ads every evening, I let you figure out how I can be aroused.

It's a shameful way of meeting people, but hey, who has never felt lonely in a big city (like Paris?) after living in a town of 1.000 or so inhabitants (like where i came from?) ?

But, let's face the truth, I doubt that someone has ever meet a real chick by using "Date", "Hookup" or "Plan". As much as the dating websites are efficient (and I can prove that), this SMS-system sucks (I can't prove that, because my mom pays my phone bills and I am a nice kid).

I can only be dead certain that it is above all the most expensive way of wasting your time, nothing more. The "Minitel Rose" was efficient at its time -I have loads of testimonies from flirt veterans-, Internet is so successful by now, but I don't predict the same success for the users of dating via SMS.

The media-convergence faces here an obstacle. You can't repeat a free-or so- system with an overtaxed device. No chance.
And such a pity.