Internet Week Fail Whale

Ignite NYC Premonitions
Excited About Internet Week

@rayramon Get me on your @internetweek panel http://goo.gl/fb/GaNTN I am building a social network for businesses.less than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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@nahurst Get me on your @internetweek panel. My tech team, 50 strong, is in Kathmandu. http://goo.gl/fb/GaNTN @vacanti @alexahirschfeldless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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@cranberryliz Get me on your @internetweek panel. My microfinance startup could not be anywhere but NYC http://goo.gl/fb/PlGaEless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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@rikuniaku97 Get me on your @internetweek panel. I participated in #Nepal's 2006 revolution almost completely digitally http://bit.ly/f1C2fxless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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@racheljo I am an authority on political revolutions in Third World countries. Get me on your panel for @internetweek http://bit.ly/f1C2fxless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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I do some comedy at my blog http://bit.ly/elbw4U Put me on your @internetweek panel @TheComedyStore cc: @amyblogschowless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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Another rejection.

@hmason I urge you to come in as a 5K angel into my startup http://goo.gl/fb/PlGaE Do it for the women of the world http://goo.gl/fb/TAdyFless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyParamendra Bhagat
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Ignite NYC Premonitions

I had a few Direct Messages from Tikva this morning. Looks like I did not make it in the first round of Ignite NYC slated for Internet Week. None of the panel people I reached out to on Twitter reached out to me either. How does this work?

Excited About Internet Week

In Tikva's case she said my description of what I was going to talk about was incomplete. So I sent her an email. She wrote back. Other than the fact that you are suggesting you are a gift from God to the world I still don't have a description of what you are going to talk about.

So my newest mail goes something like this.

The first major revolution of the 21st century happened in Nepal, and
Paramendra Bhagat was the only Nepali in America working full time for
it. In April 2006, over a period of 19 days, about eight million
people out of the country's 27 million came out into the streets to
shut the country down completely to force a dictator out.

"There is a concrete mathematical theory called the butterfly effect.
A butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon forest could be the
reason a cyclone hit Bangladesh. What happened in Nepal in April 2006
was a political cyclone. I was the butterfly flapping my wings in New
York City."

http://demrepubnepal.blogspot.com http://democracyforum.blogspot.com
http://technbiz.blogspot.com
@paramendra

Google's Social Search

Image via CrunchBaseThat was rather fast. Tighten your seat belts. This drama is just getting started.

Watch Out For Steve Ballmer

Mashable: Unfazed by Facebook, Google Rolls Out Social Search Globally: Launched in October 2009, Social Search is a feature that combines regular search results with publicly available data created by your friends’ social media activities. ...... Your “friends” are quite loosely defined and include people in your Google Talk friends list, your Google Contacts, people you’re following on Buzz and Google Reader and other networks you’ve linked from your Google profile or Google Account. Google can also find your friends on public networks such as Twitter and Facebook and gather the data from their public connections as well.

Google probably wants more people to use Facebook like I do. My privacy settings on Facebook are for "Everyone." Anyone can drop by and see all my pictures. I have uploaded more than 10,000 pictures of New York City on Facebook.

Social Concentric Circles

1. Self
2. Family
3. Close friends, close relatives
4. Close colleagues
5. "Friends"/Acquaintances/Distant Relatives/Corporate Team Members In Large Organizations
6. Customers/Voters
7. Fans
8. Humanity