According to Los Angeles Times, Dustin Moskovitz is leaving Facebook for a start up. In this article he states that he wants to follow his dreams, to create his own company.  According to an on-line radio (www.cooperativa.cl) he wants to develop a free software application.  It will be very interesting to find out what he is thinking about doing.   As technology continues to be up dated and new tools are available to us constantly, I wonder what is next.

For more information on this article visit: Los AngelesTimes

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According to Kevin Whitelaw from US News, Barack Obama and Jogn McCain are waging a quiet battle in the Googlesphere to combat damaging rumors.

How this works: Obama’s and McCain’s campaigns have waded into on-line auctions for Google search terms to snap up not only obvious phrases, but also potentially negative ones.

The way that both candidates are using not only Google, but social media in general to attack each other and defend themselves agains each other’s attack is incredible! Definitely this presidential campaign has broken the conventions of how political campaigns have been run in the past. Certainly, social media has opened up a door for the voters to get a better sense of the candidates, don’t you think?

For more information on this article visit: US News

 Have you ever lost your laptop? If not just imagine that one day your laptop is no longer in your possession. Now thanks to Adeona ( a tracking software) you can track your laptop in case it gets lost or stolen.  This software was developed here at the University of Washington by Ph.D.  students and faculty members from Computer Science and Engineering.  This is an open source software package. 

For more information visit Adeona’s webpage: http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/

According to The Guardian, yesterday Richard Stallman stated “It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign.” Cloud Computing: IT power that is delivered over the internet and not from the hard disk of your computer. For example Google allows you save your documents, pictures etc. with them, so that you can access your files from everywhere in the world where internet is available.

Pros: These services over the internet make file accessibility a very important tool for this time of global business. For example, if you are in Japan and somehow your lap top is not working and your only copy is sitting somewhere in the net, you will be able to access your information and save the day. However, if one copy is in your home computer in California and the second copy is sitting on your assistant’s computer and he/she is sleeping, what would you do?

Cons: It’s true that these tools can be accesses by “them” the servers (Google, Amazon) and they can use this information to develop marketing campaigns. In addition, these tools are free now, but that doesn’t mean that they will remain free. Perhaps is a business strategy??

For more information visit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman

According to a Latino on-line radio (www.Cooperativa.cl) MySpace launched
a new free music service this Thursday. This service will allow users to
listen to the music, but not to download the music.  MySpace users will
be able to create their own lists up to a hundred songs and place them in
their profile.

What does this mean?

The power of the masses and distribution: MySpace has users all over the
world; this service can increase or decrease the popularity of certain
songs or music albums.

Competition: In the effort of MySpace to provide better services for its
users, MySpace is also challenging Facebook.  Would Facebook come up with
something similar soon in order to be competitive?

Technology Reflection: This service will not be available everywhere, there will be
countries like Chile in which this service will not be available for its
users to use (however, they will be able to listen to the music by enter
to other users’ profiles).  This shows that technology and services still
have its limits…

Visit MySpace Music:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music