the blurber

Social networking 2.0

If all of a sudden somebody starts yelling at you or menacing you and you have no clue why, you better check online. That's what happened to a librarian, and the Financial Times writes about it.

The article also tells about those new applications explicitly studied to make  these things easier. Enemybook is a Facebook application. Hatebook is a real anti-social network. Snubster allows to classify people On Notice and Dead To Me.

I generally don't like the 2.0 definition, but in these case in more than fitting. Cause social network really get revolutioned.

Ah, The ChiPs...

For those wondering where Erik Estrada ended up, I saw him selling villas in the caribbean yesterday night on NY1.

Customer service #2

A new service for Feltrinelli - Ricordi Media Store customers. A great idea: you just have to pass any CD barcode under the optic reader to listen excerpts of that CD.
No more lines at the listening point, no more quick scans of random CDs, no more money wasted on meaningless stuff that sounded good for the first 10 secs. Too bad the 5 CDs I tried to listen (and they were not some obscure white label stuff), would have been soon available, as a recorded kind voice told me. It took me another minute to understand that soon meant not yet.

Customer service #1

What a great idea. A mobile post office. Wouldn't have much more a great idea if they didn't put it just one block from the biggest post office in the city?