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Friday, October 01, 2010

The Social Network: Before Seeing The Movie

Image via WikipediaI have no plans to go see the movie. I stand in solidarity with Mark Zuckerberg on this one. That is not saying I might never see the movie. At some point I will. This is fiction. This is no documentary. This is not a book.

The Facebook story fascinates me. Just like the Google story fascinates me. Just like the Microsoft story fascinates. Larry Ellison fascinates me. If I watch the movie, I think I am going to come out hungry for books on the subject.

This movie is a dramatization. This is Hollywood trying to figure out something it has not been able to figure out. Hollywood has been at war with Silicon Valley. Hollywood has so far not figured out business models that Silicon Valley technologies ask for. But this movie is not Hollywood assaulting the valley. Hollywood is too disorganized to do such a thing. But some organizing takes place at subliminal levels, like when Tea Party white people talk code to rally against Barack Obama's blackness.

At the end of the day, this is just a movie. In the mean time, go read Sree's review.

Sree Srinivasan: Six Things Learned Watching 'The Social Network': I am not a movie critic and, thanks to my 7-year-old twins, I don't get to see a lot of non-animated movies. .... Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is listed as a producer. ..... Parker helps speed up the estrangement between Zuckerberg and Saverin in the movie and also suggests changing the name to just "Facebook." Timberlake is a scene stealer. The pop star appears to had a lot of fun playing a guy out to make lots of money without much regard for morals and rules. .... smartphones confiscated from those attending that screening ...... a lot of people did manage to take phones into the theater, as there were various glowing screens in the darkened theater. A security guard marched up and down the aisles and shined a flashlight on the offenders until they put away their phones.

Redfiff: Aseem Chabbra: How Facebook Came To Be: a curly haired, Jewish American Harvard University undergrad, and a cocky genius Marc Zuckerberg. ..... Harvard authorities caught up with Zuckerberg accusing him of hacking and breaching the university's secure systems and he was placed on probation. ...... Following the probation, as Zuckerberg's name spreads in the hallways and the courtyards at Harvard, he is approached by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss -- twin brothers ...... and their Indian American friend Divya Narendra from Queens, New York .... Zuckerberg stalls the project by sending unsubstantial emails to the three, while developing the prototype of what he eventually called The Facebook. He later drops "The" from the name of the company on advice of his mentor -- Napster co-founder Sean Parker .... Zuckerberg is a programming genius with little business sense. .... intrigues, jealousies and deceptions.

AllThingsD: Kara Swisher: The Facebook Movie: Sorry, Mark–But Critics Like It, They Really Like It! (Plus the Taiwanesed Version!): there is bathroom sex, beatings, peepholes and–say what?–a gay love triangle.

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

To Iran, With Love (1)

To: Brad Feld, Subject: Iran And Me (Digital Ninja/Commando)

Hello Brad.

And to continue with our conversation. I am absolutely loving the public nature of this. This is going to enhance my efficacy and my credibility when I get into the thick of things with Iran.

My Background

I was the number one student in my class at the top school in Nepal for the seven of the 10 years I was there.
Out of high school I became Vice General Secretary to a political party with two MPs, members of parliament. Someone who was a central committee member at the time currently is a cabinet minister in Nepal.
I was Poet Of The Year 1995, International Society Of Poets, Washington DC.
I got accepted to the University Of Chicago ("not for your numbers, but your actions and words") but the money part did not work out, so I went to the school in America that has the best financial aid program of any, second to none, not even Harvard, Berea College in Kentucky, the number one liberal arts college in the South.
Within six months of landing as an international student I got myself elected student body president at Berea, first time in college history a freshman did that.
In 1999 I was one of the founding members of a dot com - Chaitime.com - that was trying to be the premier South Asian online community. The company raised $25 million, round two, before succumbing to the nuclear winter. Rediff won the race.
I was a volunteer with Dean 2004 in Indiana. That got Howard Dean's brother excited when he found out. Of all places, Indiana? My story might have played a small role in Howard Dean's "50 state strategy."
I was one of Barack Obama's earliest supporters in New York City and got to know most of the top volunteers in all boroughs. (NYC Video: 10 Hours)

Long Walk To Freedom: Just A Third World Guy Dazzled By The City April 2007
Long Walk To Freedom May 2007
Barack Has To Talk Much About His Mother September 2007
Barack's Mother Makes An Appearance September 2007
Give Me A Huge Rally In This City Before Summer Is Over September 2007
The Largest Rally In US Presidential Campaign History September 2007

My Recent Work For Nepal: Highlights

I was the only Nepali in the Nepali diaspora who worked full time for the democracy movement in Nepal that succeeded in April 2006. There were a lot of part timers who did great work.
Madhav Nepal was leading the largest party in the country at the time. In February 2006 he was put under house arrest. A month later his brother living next door managed to get him online the wireless way. The first person he contacted was me. We chatted on Gmail Chat.
January-February 2007 saw the Madhesi Movement, which was like the second phase of the April 2006 revolution, only more intense. This was with the goal of achieving equality for the Madhesi: I am a Madhesi. (Larry Ellison) Kind of like our own civil rights movement. Upendra Yadav was its most visible face. In July that year he was brought over to America, to Los Angeles where the Nepalis were having a convention. When he got off the plane, the first person he asked for was me. They took him to his hotel. He again asked, "Where is Paramendra Bhagat?"
I had never met Madhav Nepal or Upendra Yadav in person before. And I had talked to each of them on the phone only once. But both of them felt the reach of my intense work. Almost all my work was conducted in the digital realm.
Madhav Nepal is Prime Minister today. Upendra Yadav was Foreign Minister for about a year after the April 2008 elections to the constituent assembly.
I had a phone conversation with Ram Baran Yadav around February 2005 when he had run away from the country and was in Delhi after the king took over power in a coup. Ram Baran Yadav is president of Nepal today, which is not like being president in America, more like president in India, or queen in England.

What Did I Do?

In short, I moved the ball at all key junctures. And I used digital tools. What balls did I move and when? What tools did I use? How could I repeat the success for Iran? How exactly would I do it?

I will tackle those questions and more in subsequent posts. And I will also explain why I want 20 VCs starting with you to put in 5K each of personal money towards this work, why I am not approaching some other crowd.

The reason you were not able to find much about my Nepal work when you did a search at my blog is because you conducted the search not at my Nepal blog, but at Netizen, my technology and business blog. I have three active blogs. (Democracy For Nepal 1661 posts, Barackface 926 posts, Netizen 690 posts)

And I do understand when you invest in a company you put in the money upfront. You don't dole the money out in monthly investments. But perhaps my language was not precise, and hence the misunderstanding.

My Nepal Blog

April 2006 (100 posts)
February 2008 (98 posts)

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Reshma 2010, Square, And Pro.Act.Ly

Reshma Saujani, running for New York City's 14 Congressional District talks to The Next Web from Chad Cat on Vimeo.

Reshma Saujani At The Huffington Post
An Afternoon At The Reshma 2010 Headquarters
A 14-7 Office For Reshma 2010
My Political Resume, Reshma 2010, And September 14
Reshma Saujani, Carolyn Maloney
My Talk With Kevin Lawler Of Reshma 2010
Reshma 2010 Get Together In Little India
Reshma Saujani Ad Spotted At The New York Times Website
Reshma Saujani, Scott Heiferman, Chris Hughes: TechCrunch Disrupt
Reshma Saujani, Haiti Earthquake, Harvard Yale, And 2016
Reshma Saujani "Gets" Tech
Reshma Saujani: Innovation, Ethnic Pride, Thought Leadership

Reshma 2010 has been on the forefront of technological innovation. Reshma 2010 has been the first campaign in America to use Square, Jack Dorsey's revolutionary new product. More people are going to use Square than have used Twitter. And now Reshma 2010 is the first campaign in America to use Pro.Act.Ly.

Pro.Act.Ly is going to define campaigning going into 2012.

Reshma 2010 is not just a campaign for the 14th district, it is a campaign for all of New York City, the entire metro region. She is the embodiment of the New Woman. That has got to speak to the East Side. Women should be able to take equality for granted. The brave new world of technological innovation also has to shift the paradigm on gender relations. They go hand in hand. Technological innovation and social progress have to go hand in hand for technological innovation to be meaningful.

Call Out The Sexism

Reshma Saujani deserves the support of the entire NY tech community. She has huge support among the techies in the Bay Area. New York gets to match that. The only other New York politician wearing the tech hat is Mayor Bloomberg himself. I like the guy. I supported his reelection effort last year.

I became an Independent For Bloomberg, I think Reshma Saujani might be able to pull me back into the Democratic fold.

I call it a double whammy. Obama went to Harvard. Clinton went to Yale. Reshma Saujani went to both. Another double whammy is she is a woman, and she is Indian. Electing Barack Obama was a big deal. Race is America's original sin. But electing someone of Reshma Saujani's background is going to be a bigger deal. It should not matter if people who look like you are 70% or 12% of the country. It should not matter if they are not even 1%. Individual excellence should count. But for anyone to suggest Indians are any kind of a minority is off. We live in a global era.

Reshma Saujani is the national candidate for the tech community, the innovation community across the board. I am not just talking dot coms, but also green tech, bio tech, nano tech.

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Paul Carr's Frank Talk On Race

I believe in having frank discussions on race, although the guy who I supported mightily in the presidential race, Barack Obama, proved a polar opposite approach can work wonders. He has done as much for race relations as anyone in history and he has done so by not bothering to have fluffy discussions on race.

Paul Carr, in this TechCrunch post, talks frankly about race, and that is of interest to me. "If I am wrong enough to think it, I am wrong enough to say it," Eminem once said in defense of his homophobic lyrics. What I like in addition to the frankness is Carr's exploration of the online medium and how that impacts the social discourses on that touchy topic: race.

TechCrunch: NSFW: #Ebony and #Ivory – The Brave New World of Online Self-Segregation

......the more recent story of a British holidaymaker who demanded that a hotel in Florida keep all “people of color” (or those with “foreign accents”) away from him and his family.......“black people represent 25% of Twitter users, roughly twice their share of the population in general” ......Twitter feels like one of the whitest sites in the world to me: full as it is with self-important middle-class hipster kids retweeting New York Times stories and the fact that they’re having sushi for lunch.....If apartheid or the new laws in Arizona represent the 1984 future, then there’s a real possibility that the Internet – and social media specifically – will eventually lead us into an even more terrifying Brave New World future. A future where the tools that once promised to help us meet people with different backgrounds and ideologies from our own actually end up being used, quite unintentionally, to segregate us from those same people......

Since when did having sushi become a white thing to do? This world is becoming cosmopolitan by the day.

I am a Third World guy. For me race talk has to go way beyond fluff to make sense. If you want my attention, talk to me about Kiva, for example.

Paul Carr: Bringing Nothing To The Party

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Blog Carnival: Global Poverty

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July: Netizen Blog Carnival Month

Global Poverty

The Brooks Blog: Thom Brooks on "Punishing States That Cause ...
Carbonfund.org Blog » Fighting Global Warming and Poverty
Only local business can end global poverty
Global poverty: lobbying politicians this autumn | ToUChstone blog ...
Barack Obama's African priority (Global Poverty Act) | My Take
Official Google Australia Blog: Global Poverty Project Visits ...
The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order
G8 Risks Derailing Global Progress on Poverty | OneWorld.net (U.S.)
Tax Research UK » End Global Poverty – people say to Christian Aid
Global Call to Action Against Poverty: Sarkozy | Ads of the World ...

Defeating Global Poverty: Small, local banks are better | Twine
Carbon Offsetting May Be Means of Fighting Global Poverty ...
Defeating Global Poverty: Small, local banks are better
Seize the chance to end global poverty, says charity :: Inspire ...
Middle Class Privilege and the Realities of Global Poverty
Falling family planning funding threatens global poverty fight ...
Pope Benedict promotes global poverty | The Skepticrats
JICA's CDM Forestation Project in Vietnam to Alleviate Global ...
The Global Poverty Project: Building Change Efficacy
The Fight Against Global Poverty and Inequality: The World Bank's ...

Carbon Offsetting May Fight Global Poverty

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Our Global Education: Poverty Trumps Genetic Predisposition to Asthma
Microcredit Summit Campaign Secretariat Blog: Muhammad Yunus ...
The Love Revolution
“Be One in a million” – Join Catholics Confront Global Poverty ...
Global Call to Action Against Poverty : Sarkozy | images ...
Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities: Visual Identity for ...
Andrew Goodall: Global poverty – DFID white paper on country-by ...
G8 Risks Derailing Global Progress on Poverty
Fighting climate change the key to ending poverty Opinion Articles ...

Grameen Foundation news releases | Grameen Foundation : Resource ...
FT.com | Willem Buiter's Maverecon | Does poverty give a country ...
Humanitarian Texts » Blog Archive » £8m boost for local projects ...
George Soros: Government Interventionist and Global Socialist ...
Just Focus » Blog Archive » Global Poverty Project
Fight global inequality, poverty and disease, celebrities urge G8 ...
SustainabiliTank: Ban Ki-moon, UNSG, is in Beijing for the ...
StopPovertyNow.org , a Grameen Foundation initiative to spread ...
Global poverty: the human-rights dimension | open Democracy News ...

On peak oil, climate change, thinking global and acting local ...
Reducing Global Poverty: Panel Discussion
gadgets for good: DIY technology can curb global warming and ...
Muhammad Yunus On Ending Global Poverty | SocialEarth: Video
Kerlikowske Finds Ideology : Rolling Stone : National Affairs Daily
in a garden... somewhere: Thomas Pogge (on our culpability for ...
Social Media: Giving A Face to Poverty, A Voice to Hope « NYWICI ...
New Estimates of Global Poverty: Video | Building Capacity to ...
Poverty China | Beijing Beggar - Stock Footage at $89
Labour's Climate Policy Forcing Millions Into Energy Poverty ...

Global Poverty: Human Rights Dimension / ISN
Global Poverty Reassessed | Building Capacity to Reduce Poverty
Global Poverty Project | SJ around the Bay
The CRS Advocate July/August 2009
Global Poverty, Immigration and What Works
Bachus Spends Billions on Global Poverty Act
Global poverty, ethics and human rights : the role of multilateral ...
How Australians Buying Fair Trade Benefits the Poor in Developing ...
Foreign Policy In Focus | G20 and Global Poverty
Christian Aid Poverty Over - been there, done that, got the T ...

Bread for the World-New Mexico: Something's Brewing in the Senate ...
ERG, MDGs and Global Poverty In the News
Ending Global Poverty
Rahim and Amyn Mawani's initiative to help end global poverty ...
Bear Creek Ledger » Obama's Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) is Back ...
The latest news on Health Care, F-22 Stopped, Student Loans, Prof ...
Scoop: Global Poverty Project launches in New Zealand
Swap Til You Drop: The Global Poverty Project - you are invited!
Poverty: The elephant in the room | Build it Kenny, and they will ...

theroadto: (New clip) Global Poverty & World Poverty | World ...
Pants to Poverty : Blog : GLOBAL PANTS AMNESTY!
Rising Food Prices, Poverty, and the Doha Round - Carnegie ...
MCC: CEO Blog » Blog Archive » The right resources to fight global ...
Global Poverty Project: Canadian Launch
RGE - Didn't We Try that in 1938? Why Technical Poverty Fixes Fall ...
Gore Wants UN Global Governance
Obama's Global Poverty Bill is Back - Blog - OpenCongress
Global Poverty Project: Gold Coast

Monday, April 20, 2009

NewsDesk: China, Twitter, Hawking, Obama

China’s Influence Grows Along With Its Car Sales After a century in which American tastes largely set the course of the global automotive market, China is poised to increasingly take on the role of global trendsetter.
The Twitter Revolution The company is hiring like crazy -- it expects to double its size in the next month or two .... Even faster than Google, Amazon and eBay in their days, the three-year-old Twitter has become deeply embedded in the culture.
Twitter & LSD - 25 Similarities LSD alters users’ perceptions of time. What seems like a minute can actually be hours....... Just as mundane experiences can appear fantastic-plastic while on LSD, so too can the experience of otherwise trivial bits of information appear mind-expanding.
Stephen Hawking Very Ill Hawking has been fighting a chest infection for several weeks
Oracle Buys Sun ..... deal halts a downward spiral for Sun ... marks a continuation of Oracle's half-decade-long acquisition tear
History Of Silicon Valley plucky entrepreneurs who start from nothing and against all odds, build a successful company.
Bush And The Rule Of Law The use of torture is part of the laws of war and only Congress has the constitutional authority
Heat Advisory For San Francisco
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write Every genuinely revolutionary technology implants some kind of "aha" moment in your memory
29 Years Of Robert Mugabe The once prosperous, successful nation has since devolved into a lawless state under the rule of the same man who fought for independence nearly 30 years ago.
Iran's President Slams Israel, Prompts Walkouts Ahmadinejad described the Holocaust as a "pretext" for aggression against Palestinians
Facebook's Recruiting Problem, Explained Facebook's people problem isn't limited to executive retention. The hot startup with over 200 million users also has a surprisingly hard time recruiting new employees -- from top executives to college grads to star Googlers.
Crowd Forms Against an Algorithm On Monday, Amazon.com confessed to “an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error” that caused thousands of books — a large proportion of them gay and lesbian themed — to lose their sales rankings, making them difficult to find in basic searches.
Obamaism: Charm and Disarm The Barack Obama global charm offensive continues unabated as he returns to Washington from Trinidad and Tobago where he spent two days as the main attraction and the great hope at the Fifth Summit of the Americas. In a single weekend, Obama completely transformed the diplomatic landscape of the region, by saying the most reasonable, middle-of-the-road things—We are interested in a different kind of relationship with Cuba. Venezuela is no threat to us; why not be courteous?

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Blogging = Learning + Teaching + Churning + Entertaining

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Okay, this is not E=mc^2, but I think I got something here. I managed to throw a "2" somewhere in there.

Blogging = Learning + Teaching + Churning + Entertaining (2 way)

There is research to prove blogging is good for your brain, like running is good for your thighs. Has to be. You can intuitively conclude. You don't need research for that. And by blogging, I mean blogging. That includes podcasting, that includes videoblogging. That includes micro-blogging, of course.

The Internet is the Ultimate Media. Every moment of every life can be recorded, technically speaking. But what if you are not interested in the mundane, what if you are only interested in ideas? What if you don't care if they are mixed up?

A blog is a web log. The web is the interweb - I got that word from Morgan Grice a few days ago - and it is the web that is key. How you log on to it, how you latch on to it, does not matter. Every netizen is a producer, every netizen is a potential consumer.

The netizens suck on the nipples of Mother Web for nourishment. Netizens produce knowledge, perspectives. Even when nothing groundbreaking is happening, even if it is just the proliferation of existing knowledge, something fascinating is happening.

Like I have said many times, you can not bring all Nepalis to MIT, but you can take MIT to everyone in Nepal. If all textbooks, if all journal articles, and all lecture videos are added to the soup called the social web, how much will you be missing if you are not on campus?

And the blog is the center of that action for each individual netizen. If nothing else, it allows you to display your ignorance.

The interweb is not just about putting faces in front of computer screens. It is about taking group dynamics to a whole different level. Barack Obama rode the internet all the way to the most powerful office in the world. How much more real does it have to be? Grassroots governance is going to be more exciting than grassroots campaigning.

The blog is where it gels for the netizen. That space is your space, and it has all the wheels of media. It has the feel of a classroom. It is in your face like a microphone. It is expansive like air, water, space. It is casual like gum. It is private. I mean, if you are struggling to get page hits.

Spamming Om Malik
Digg Button, Twitter Button For Your Blog Posts
Blogging Several Times A Day
Blogging Tips
A Blogger Is Also An Editor
Blog Daily
Where Have You Placed Your Ads?
Sites That Pay You To Blog

Thursday, March 26, 2009

I Talked To Google Through Twitter And It Worked Like Magic

http://twitter.com/paramendra/status/1395909715
http://twitter.com/SteveCase/status/1396557074

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http://twitter.com/paramendra/status/1397036314
http://twitter.com/paramendra/status/1396372381
http://twitter.com/paramendra/statuses/1390833818
http://twitter.com/paramendra/statuses/1390025531
http://twitter.com/paramendra/statuses/1390019459
http://twitter.com/paramendra/statuses/1390009306
http://twitter.com/paramendra/statuses/1390004039
http://twitter.com/paramendra/statuses/1389082919

Twitter And The Time Dimension
What Should Facebook Do
TweetDeck, Power Twitter, Twitter Globe, Better Than Facebook
TCC: Twitter Community College
Twitter Tips: It's A Bird, It's A Bird
Mitch Kapor Now Following Me On Twitter
I Get Twitter

I moved to New York City to work on my tech startup, but got distracted for a few years by some urgent political work for Nepal, best work I ever did so far: the king of the country had pulled a coup, now we are a republic. Obama 2008 furthered the distraction, kind of.

But Nepal does not go away, Obama does not go away. 75% of the work on Nepal is done, 25% remains, only Nepal does not have to be my sole preoccupation no more. So recently I got into a little online discussion at a private online group. In the course of making my moves I went to check out my Nepal mailing list, the largest in the world. I hit a message that said the mailing list had been removed by Google. I panicked. There was no way for me to contact Google Groups directly.

So I wrote to Google directly on Twitter. And it worked like magic. My mailing list is back. It deserves to be. It played a key role in Nepal's democracy and social justice movements.

Thank you, Twitter.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

The Unfacebook

I am a huge fan of Facebook. I check in not as much as into my Gmail account, but it is close. I think things will only get better. I love the video clips I can access, the music, I am enamored with its personality tests. One test told me what I have long suspected, that I am "an advocating inventor." Too many people think of me as a politician. I also like the scrabble I saw and added yesterday. There is no time limit. You make your next move the next time you log in. Wow.

Most of my "friends" at Facebook are people I have never met though. I have met a few cool people who do interact, but most are people who okayed the friend request and then were gone.

In the way I use Facebook might be the germ of the Unfacebook.

Facebook is a walled garden. It is designed for you to more efficiently stay in touch with people who you already know. And I am thinking, what a waste.

What if you want to go online with the express intention of meeting people? Real people? People that you otherwise do not know, will not meet?

So you create a site. And it allows users to create an extremely detailed profile of who they are. Like extremely, extremely detailed. By the time you are done, it is a pretty good snapshot of who you are. Not everyone has to completely complete it, of course, and it is just that people will know how much of your profile you have completed.

So you create an account. And you log in. You complete your profile. Then you want to go meet people. How would that work?

People's names and photos will not show up when you do searches. Instead you will have to seek areas of interest, or hobbies. You will have the option to narrow down your geographical area. Maybe you just want people in your city. Or not.

It will not be just interest. It will also be level of interest.

There will be social interests, there will be cultural interests. There will be work related interests. There will be activity interests.

You seek grounds of common interest. And you explore the depth of the interest.

As you get to know each other more, you exercise the option to share a little bit more of your extremely detailed profile.

Detailed personality tests will be kind of mandatory. And there will be automatches based on pesonality type, areas of interest, geography, social choices, etc.

I guess what I am getting at is, you will get the name and the face of the person towards the end and not at the beginning like happens with the current hot social networking sites.

Often times you will meet people and strike a small conversation, and you realize you have run out of steam, there is nothing much to explore, nothing much to talk about anymore, and you move on. You don't bother to know more about the person, let alone learn their name and figure what they look like.

Or you might meet people you do want to share your name and face with early in the process, if you feel like it.

The power of the internet is not the people you already know. The power of the internet is people you can meet and get to know that you never would have if the internet were not there.

This concept can also be extended to group formation.

Groups would self form, grow or dissolve based on shared interest and engagement. And it could be scaled. Maybe there are 1,000 people who want to discuss the raging fires in Greece right now. But that group might have died out in about three weeks.

This will also work great for people who belong to ethnic groups that are small in number and are dispersed.

And of course the whole site should make great use of the rest of the web.

Maybe there should be automatic Google searches and YouTube searches for all areas of interest.

So if my interest is Barack Obama, I would get the top 5 headlines on him when I log in, and the headlines should be top, middle or bottom of the page depending on how much I am into Obama according to the system. Do I talk about him a lot?

The system should make room for degrees of friendship. There should be an entire spectrum.

Best friend is at one end. Block this person from my system should be another. He should never be able to contact me again.

There is the activity partner. There is the acquaintance. There is the colleague. There is the friend. There is the conversation partner, the game partner. There is the lover.

I think this Unfacebook is closer to our social realities and how we go about meeting people when we want to meet people and expand our social horizons.

Somebody could launch this Unfacebook, or like Facebook 2.0 was all the applications, Facebook 3.0 could be this Unfacebook. And if you do adopt this, invite me to sit your Board, fellas.

And after you feel like you have become friends with someone, you of course will have the option to bring them into your walled garden, into the Facebook 2.0 zone, the Facebook of today, the Ununfacebook.

Mark Andreessen, Facebook Fan: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in

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