Marco De Cesaris

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• Doomo -　どうも
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• Genki (des-ka)? –    元気　(ですか)?
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• Doo (des-ka)? –     どう　(ですか)?
  
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Last Year (2008), during a party in London, I met two wonderful guys (friends of friends) who would have soon become very good friends of mine

All started between few glasses of lovely red wine. I was introduced to these two great Japanese guys by my Italian friend.

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This article was originally published in May 2008.

There are 1,319,872,109 internet users in the world [1], and most of them are not perfectly aware of “the surveillance society”, of its laws and regulations. When protection against terrorism and personal safety are involved, people accept the notion of a surveillance society, however when the focus shifts onto personal privacy and anonymity, this perspective tends to change. This essay explores some of the aspects of surveillance society in relation to the internet, first of all highlighting who watches who, how the surveillance happens, positive and negative points of view and finally, how to deal with the surveillance society.

(image courtesy of mvwphoto) “The surveillance society is a society which is organised and structured using surveillance-based techniques. To be under surveillance means having information about one’s movements and activities recorded by technologies, on behalf of the organisations and governments that structure our society. This information is then sorted, sifted and categorised, and used as a basis for decisions which affect our life chances. Such decisions concern our entitlement and access to benefits, work, products and services and criminal justice; our health and well-being and our movement through public and private spaces.” [2].

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I am really enjoying YAHOO! Pipe.

In just few minutes you are able to build Web-based apps from various sources, and then publish those applications.

On YAHOO! Pipe website there are lot of examples that you can take and edit. It is so easy. You can even mashup the YAHOO! Map with any other data that you like.

Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.

Its creators: Pasha Sadri, Ed Ho, Jonathan Trevor, Kevin Cheng and Daniel Raffel of Yahoo!

Have a look!

Ciao,

Marco

Hi there,

this is a short post just to let you know that I just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress: WordPress 2.8.6.

Please if you notice something funny or not working on my website, a message/comment would be very much appreciated.

PS

Tweetboard is amazing! And the Tweetboard support team is just GREAT!

Thanks,

Marco