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Saturday, October 30, 2010

The old new way of finding information: socializing

Google incorporates new data into search results in real time by tracking and ranking updates to online content—particularly the thousands of messages that course through social networks every second.
People used to visit a page, click a link, and visit another page.
Now they spend a lot of time monitoring streams of data—tweets, status updates, headlines from services like Facebook and Twitter, as well as from blogs and news outlets.
The hard part about real-time search is figuring out the meaning and value of those rivers of information.
Social-networking messages value is as fast declining as the time required to be written. Google has to gauge their worth in seconds, or even microseconds.
Google uses special search algorithms and connects message content to the geolocation data that’s transmitted by smart phones and other mobile computers.
The location of someone sending a message can matter a great deal.
If you know that a person tweeting about a special event is close to the place where the event happens, chances are those tweets will be more valuable than those of someone hundreds of miles away.

The land of the rising economy

China not only is the country adding nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, and solar power at an unrivaled pace, but it’s fast becoming a proving ground for next- generation energy technologies that have stalled elsewhere.
It has 22 nuclear reactors under construction, with a combined capacity of 23 gigawatts.
China is now building lines carrying direct current at 800 kilovolts and alternating current at 1,000 kilovolts to pump that power to cities and manufacturing hubs in the east.
China is also poised to take the lead in deploying carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology on a large scale.
Once the problem of energy dependency has been solved, its economy won’t need big exports to bloom.
The huge internal market will absorb the full production, building a new economic boom.

Archimede and solar power

Tousands of years ago, Archimede burned sailing boats with the aid of a simple mirror
and he didn´t know at that time that the same trick could cut the cost of solar thermal power plants by hundreds of millions of dollars.

A HIGHLY reflective thin film made of microlayers of silver and copper, protected
by a polymer and backed with glass mirrors concentrate heat from the sun to create steam that spins conventional turbines.
The thin fi lm—which replaces those mirrors reflects more light, increasing
power output.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

How to become (almost) a Movie Star.


Do you want to be a movie star?

Or just a lookalike...?

Would you like to be in a real movie, but you have no means to make it (no good camera, no ideas...)

Let HP do it for you.

Do what I DID.

Create your own HP Be a Star Video at HP- Be A Star.



 



Send over Your bit.ly links to me.

And, of course look at my video...

The one there is the real me, a few years ago...

I was on the set of the Godfather 2.

Yes the one of Coppola, one of the most famous and good Movies I ever saw.

That house, the one that in the movie is the Lake Tahoe residence of Michael (the son of the Godfather) belonged to my grandfather´s brother, (the name of the place was Fleur du Lac) John Demaria and was sold to Coppola for THAT movie.

The Gazebo was built just for the movie, for the Godfather´s daughter wedding.

Do you remember?

I was there when they were preparing it, and took this picture.

The place is amazing and the water so blue...

My grandfather´s brother was from Italy (not Corleone) and emigrated to America in the same period of Vito Corleone.

He was very handsome, looked a lot like Marlon Brando...

The movies´story is Not his story, but could have been...










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How to become (almost) a Movie Star

Do you want to be a movie star?
Or just look alike...?
Would you like to be in a real movie, but you have no means to make it (no good camera, no ideas...)
Let HP do it for you.
Do what I DID.
Create your own HP Be a Star Video at HP- Be A Star.
Send over Your bit.ly links to me.
And, of course look at my video...
The one there is the real me, a few years ago...
I was on the set of the Godfather 2.
Yes the one of Coppola, one of the most famous and good Movies I ever saw.
That house, the one that in the movie is the Lake Tahoe residence of Michael (the son of the Godfather) belonged to my grandfather´s brother, (the name of the place was Fleur du Lac) John Demaria and was sold to Coppola for THAT movie.
The Gazebo was built just for the movie, for the Godfather´s daughter wedding.
Do you remember?
I was there when they were preparing it, and took this picture.
The place is amazing and the water so blue...
My grandfather´s brother was from Italy (not Corleone) and emigrated to America in the same period of Vito Corleone.
He was very handsome, looked a lot like Marlon Brando...
The movies´story is Not his story, but could have been...



Sunday, October 24, 2010

Ads follow people

They say that the Internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television.

The online ad business, excluding mobile ads, is set to expand to $34.4 billion in 2014 from $24.2 billion in 2009.

The Newspapers, will more and more suffer from a decline in advertising revenue. According to numbers released by the Newspaper Association of America advertising revenue dropped 28.6% in 2009 to $24.82 billion.

Effective Ads should follow people and the best Advertising Agency is the one that understands it.
That is also why the ads should concentrate on the Internet and being digital, because when you invest money in advertising your business you want to be sure to have a good ROI.
And what else can be the right strategy for the best investment?
Besides choosing the right Media, also tracking the outcome of an advertising campaign minute to minute and day to day to ensure that it gets the best results. If a campaign isn't working, it's time for a new strategy.
And what is the secret of an Advertising Agency behind an effective campaign?
Creativity, design, knowledge.
The best talented professionals have energy, dedication, confidence and leadership and the best advertising company ensures that its employees can develop all their potential.
What the best Advertising Agency aims to is making its customers happy, because a happy customer means its success and its future.
And how to make your customers happy?
Doing what they pay you for, that is finding the right ways, the right words, the right pictures, to help upgrading the revenues.
So, the right strategy is not only doing the right campaigns, but also placing it in the place where people go: the new media of the future, the Internet.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Racism

About Racism...

A scientist worked for years trying to determine if the color of skin could mean a difference among animals.
He trained two cockroaches to respond to verbal commands, one black and one white (albino).
Eventually he succeeded in getting both to leap over his finger whenever he told them to jump.
Once They had learned this, he pulled off the black’s front legs.
When he then commanded the black cockroach to jump again, it took a deep breath and just managed to clear the man's finger.
He then pulled off the middle legs and on the command to jump it just managed to stagger over.
Finally he pulled off the back legs.
But when told to jump, the cockroach just lay there, legless.
He did the same with the white one.
He pulled off the white’s front legs.
When he then commanded it to jump again, it took a deep breath and just managed to clear the man's finger.
He then pulled off the middle legs and on the command to jump it just managed to stagger over.
Finally he pulled off the back legs.
But when told to jump, the cockroach just lay there, legless.

Conclusion: There is no difference at all between the two races: when all a cockroach’s legs are removed, deafness occurs.

Time, this well known enemy

There is no way to defeat time.
And if you cannot win, just do not compete...



Tapping a VoIP phone

Found on Vonage Forum:

"Hi all, Is it possible for any one to tap my VONAGE phone linend listen to conversation. I am in India currently, and my neighbour recently made some comments refering my personal info.

Please clarify.

thanks and regards,
Kumarr"

In the old days, tapping a phone was as easy as one-two-three. All calls ran over Ma Bell's copper wires. To listen in, law-enforcement agents simply requested that the phone company isolate the suspect's wire and record any calls made or received. One phone company. One network. One flip of a switch.
Today, dozens of new technologies need to be monitored, such as packet voice and cellular text messaging.
But There is the danger. The FBI can use the rise of the packet technology and the expanding number of players as an excuse to expand its all-seeing, all-knowing surveillance power.
VOIP travels across the Internet the same way that e-mail does.
Address information (the number dialed or the e-mail address) is contained in the same packet as the content (what is said or written).
They say they filter traffic and deliver to investigators only packets that they're lawfully authorized to obtain.
The very nature of packet technology means that whether it's an e-mail or a voice call, [the FBI] can get more and more information that allows them to be more and more privacy-invasive.
Since we are in Vonage forum, I assume you are using their service.
I also assume that your worries are about being tapped by your neighbor.
I also assume that you both living in India and without technology as sophisticated as FBI's, your neighbor "achieved" those personal informations about you from other sources...

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

What is a great artist?

What is a great artist? Or a great poet, or a great writer?
It is the one who can give reality to his creation, and makes it live forever.
He is the one who is able to create something that when is finished has, as it were, an independent life of its own, and may deliver a message far other than that which was put into its lips to say.
And the critic?
He is by far a more interesting subject, because he can be a creator in his turn, and whisper of a thousand different things which were not present in the mind of him who carved the statue or painted the panel or graved the gem.

The importance of a good education

Algebra is considered a "gateway" course for higher learning. Students who take it are more likely to reach higher levels of education.But many kids sitting in algebra class are unprepared.
Math scores have dropped for algebra students even as overall scores have improved.
The best parents can do for their children is helping them to build their future.
And certainly education is the right way.
So one of the best investment is finding a good "tutor".
TutorVista's online tutoring is one of the cheapest and most effective way to help students who have problems with Math or just want to have good grades in the easiest and simplest way.
For example Algebra2 help online teaches how to solve Algebra 2 problems, how to work on basic concepts and gives the right help in learning.
The 5th grade math program gives all the benefits of a customized program for the individual student.
The 4th grade math program covers topics such as Fraction, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication facts, Division facts and many others, depending on the need of the student.
How to Adding fractions online teaches the way to calculate the fractions.
The steps involved in how to add fractions online are several, like Entering the fractions in given fields,Asking for the desired answer, Checking the answer.
The nice part of it is that the result appears instantly.
Check how to get the Formula for volume or Graphing linear equations.
It is all clearly explained.
They have an incredible offer: unlimited monthly tutoring package for only $99.99 a month for all subjects.
The students can use the programs as much as they want, whenever they need it. Tutoring is available 24 hours a day, for 7 days a week.
They also provide free demo for first time user where you can try the service for free.

Italy´s future

In my not so short life I have witnessed several unchanging behaviors in my country that could survive every color of government: left, right, center.
The first is the Mafia that every freshly elected politician promises to defeat, but that is still there, more than alive.
The second is the tax evasion which follows inflation.
When I was a teenager we talked about billions of liras, now we talk about billions of Euros.
The third is the political corruption.
This doesn’t follow inflation, but anticipates it.
The fourth is the number of invalids.
When I was little I used to think we were a very unlucky country, since we had so many invalids.
The fifth is the Italians fantasy, always fresh and alive, even though it doesn’t produce results.
We create the problems and obviously we do not solve them.
Why would we create them otherwise?
We have a better solution: if you cannot solve a problem, try to be a part of it.
Very soon we will have: 100% Mafiosi who do not pay taxes, invalids or related to an invalid, who live with pensions they got from corrupted politicians.
It is good we still have Europe...

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Knowing how is almost healing

I think now a day few people do not know what Multiple Sclerosis is.
Most people know that it is a disease that affects the central nervous system,the brain and spinal cord.
It can develop for a while without great symptoms, than, one day, as it happened to several people I know, one finds out he cannot perform certain movements as he did.
This is the beginning.
On the Internet you can find everything about common symptoms, MS treatment,and having all the answers to your questions.
As with most illnesses, it is important to know how to detect it in time, or better, how to prevent it.
You can also find the Multiple Sclerosis Diet that can allow you to cope with the illness and to prevent it.
If there is no way at the moment to heal completely from it, there are many ways to live with it, curing the symptoms and being able to live a normal life in spite of.
Knowing how is almost healing.
That is what www.allaboutms.com is all about.

Is America too big to fail?

What happens now is nothing else than what happened in 1930.
Instead of stocks people borrowed money to buy houses that they would have sold in the very near future getting double than what they invested, paying back loans and having a good profit.
That is what I did in London.
Instead of paying the rent I bought a house borrowing money, selling it one year later with 50.000 pounds profit.
I was lucky I sold it in 2003.
If I had done the same in 2008 now I would find myself in the position to pay a mortgage which would be much higher than the house´s value.
What most people fail to understand is that it cannot go forever growing...that a house after being over evaluated can loose its value, that the number of buyers lowers when prices get too high compared to the income.
But there is a very simple way out of it: devaluating the dollar.
And this will happen.
The houses´value will be the same, but much lower, the wages will be the same, but more people will have a job, because it won´t be profitable to import from China.
America will begin to produce again, the standard of living will lower (but people have to understand that what is nice is not always granted).
Well, America is too big to fail.

Friday, October 08, 2010

How to be a great parent

What is the best thing you can do for your children?
How to be a great mother or an unforgettable father?
It is not buying the latest gadget, or the fanciest clothes, or the most expensive toy.
It is spending time with them and actually doing things together.
I still remember a wonderful day I spent with my son at the National Gallery.
Everybody would think that is the most boring experience for an eight years old boy.
It wasn´t.
I spent time explaining what the pictures were about and the story of the people portrayed, may be adding a little bit of mine, just to make the story more interesting.
And after that?
We went to his favourite place for pizza: Pizza Hut It was a wonderful experience for both.
For me because it was a new challenge, for him because he actually had fun.
So, my suggestion for a day you and your children will remember for long: do something with them.
It doesn't have to be a Museum, it can also be something like the London Dungeons (we were there four times) and then celebrate the day with a pizza (which is usually children`s favourite meal).
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Monday, October 04, 2010

Investing in the future

In the search of a Home the most annoying thing is actually the search.
Because it means spending a lot of time visiting, inspecting, long hours to check and many times spent for nothing.
But of course, especially in times like these, it is of the outmost importance to see ALL what is on the market, because NEVER like today, if you can choose the right one, you can make real bargains.
And, besides whatever they can think and say, I am positively sure THIS is the right time for buying and not for selling.
Providing that you make the right choice.
In spite of the real estate crises there are still places where investing would be a real bargain, paying at reduced prices and being able in a very near future to resell making a good profit.
Or just investing the money in a house you will enjoy, because the right one for you and in the right place.
So, companies like Wilmington NC real estate are very much welcome and useful, because they offer aerial photographs, slide shows and virtual tours for thousands of Wilmington area homes, condominiums, town homes and lots, regardless of who the listing agent is.
You can have the choice among properties in the cities of Wilmington, Hampstead, Leland, Jacksonville, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Kure Beach and Topsail Beach, NC and the counties of New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, Sampson, Columbus, Duplin and Onslow.
Wilmington NC real estate also offers a very useful website where you can search by the features you are looking for, which means you will have the restricted number of properties that suit your needs.
That means you can search and inspect and check and whatever, comfortably sitting in front of your computer, whenever you want and you can.
Then, when you made your choice, just contact them.
Remember: Wilmington NC homes
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Easy, isn't it?

History doesn’t rhyme, it just repeats.

"To everything there is a season, to every wave a limit, to every range an optimum capacity. The United States has been fully settled, and more than full, for at least a century. We have nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by allowing the old boat to be swamped. How many of us, truthfully, would prefer to be submerged in the Caribbean-Latin version of civilization? (Howls of "Racism! Elitism! Xenophobia!" from the Marx brothers and the documented liberals.) Harsh words: but somebody has to say them. We cannot play "let's pretend" much longer, not in the present world."

They say History rhymes, doesn’t repeat.
This is the clear example how it repeats: The same exact thought of the Roman Emperors.
And what happened? A bunch of Barbars from the Nord came and fought and won.

Friday, October 01, 2010

The right way to give your business a second chance

Most companies would like a Web presence that fits their corporate image and marketing strategy.
Most Web developers still think marketing is one of those things lesser people do instead of making a real living by programming.
On the other hand, many marketing consulting firms and advertising agencies typically lack the technical expertise to set up a Web marketing for a client.
From the very beginning, a market gap existed for firms that could span the two worlds and provide a combination of marketing, advertising and development services for companies wanting to join the Web.
That is why retargeting is the good choice for a company that needs remarketing its business.

Content, creativity and the right communication are the deciding factors in the success of a company.
The rates of site abandonment are estimated around 90%, so many retargeting companies aim to achieve a strategy to bring these lost prospects back.
Recrue Media will bring to your business all the lost contacts you missed in the past for lack of strategy and poor marketing.
It is the right way to give your business a second chance.
 
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