Alexandre Gamela

the rules of journalistic production are not compatible with Google's algorithm, based on the link culture of the web. And even though Maile Ohye, Google's developer programs technical head, has said that in news searching Google values the original source which broke the story first, Google News shows something different. (...) We will always draw the distinction: we are not journalists. We don't want to become editors. We understand ourselves as a service or a platform. There is no overarching goal in becoming something like the iTunes of journalism. - Alexandre Gamela

"Há algum tempo divulgamos os dados obtidos com a pesquisa que fizemos com as lojas de discos do país. Apesar da importância dos dados, pouca análise deles foi feita. Mas agora, graças à amiga e pesquisadora Daniela Schoeps, podemos somar aos dados a apresentação do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo feito a partir da última questão presente na pesquisa sobre como as distribuidoras/gravadoras poderiam melhorar o trabalho feito com as lojas." - Alexandre Gamela

"The issue of the distribution of productivity is crucial. The structural cause of the Great Recession lies in the failure of neoliberalism to distribute the productivity growth afforded by the digital revolution to large strata of society, who then had to take on debt to finance consumption of the new informational goods and services. Green capitalism wants to solve the economic crisis via green jobs and a new welfare system, but it will succeed in its task, only if it manages to widely redistribute what Negri and Hardt call “common wealth” i.e. the backlog of collective inventions, creations, relations and desires presently appropriated by Gates, Murdoch, Berlusconi, and the like." - Alexandre Gamela

"Just because you’re addicted to Foursquare, or Twitter, or any other location-driven service, doesn’t mean you have the right to impose your addiction on others." ~Paul Carr - Alexandre Gamela

"Jeremy Rue, multimedia training instructor for the University of California-Berkeley graduate school of journalism, posted a great slideshow on social networking for journalists." - Alexandre Gamela

A blog by a client about marketing and ad agencies. This is the stuff what agencies wish they knew about what they reckon they know about but don't not know nothing. Yeah...I think that makes sense - Alexandre Gamela

"Or, l’enjeu économique de cet ensemble de textes dépasse la seule question du droit des internautes : il ouvre les marchés des réseaux à grande vitesse et des spectres radios, réforme la directive GSM, crée un régulateur européen… Comme l’a rappelé hier la socialiste Catherine Trautmann, « nous avions besoin de ce Paquet Télécoms pour soutenir la reprise économique en Europe ».Q - Alexandre Gamela

December 7-8, 2007—This weekend, 30 open government advocates gathered to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting, held in Sebastopol, California, was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy. The Internet is the public space of the modern world, and through it governments now have the opportunity to better understand the needs of their citizens and citizens may participate more fully in their government. Information becomes more valuable as it is shared, less valuable as it is hoarded. Open data promotes increased civil discourse, improved public welfare, and a more efficient use of public resources. The group is offering a set of fundamental principles for open government data. By embracing the eight principles, governments of the world can become more effective, transparent, and relevant to our lives. - Alexandre Gamela

"UK-based P2P video platform VODO published its second feature film on dozens of file-sharing sites Thursday, hoping that worldwide exposure will bring in donations, subscriptions and traditional distribution deals. David Miller’s documentary In Guantanamo, which is the result of a press tour of the controversial detention facility, has been downloaded around 15,000 times within the first 24 hours, according toVODO founder Jamie King." - Alexandre Gamela

The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes - Alexandre Gamela

"UNICEF Innovations Unit is spearheading the RapidSMS project, an Open Source platform for SMS application development. UNICEF, the Millenium Villages Project, and others have successfully used RapidSMS to augment malnutrition prevention programs in Malawi and Kenya, document the status of refugees in Somalia, promote women’s literacy in Senegal, distribute malaria resistant bednets in Nigeria, and more. We will present the lessons on using ICT for international development learned through these deployments, and discuss how SMS can be used to make government and quasi-governmental efforts, like international development, more efficient and accountable." - Alexandre Gamela

"Mr. O’Rourke’s production style is precise and dry; he creates a sound picture in which tiny sonic details matter. But where his Drag City records are concerned, everything matters: the pacing, the length, the sound, the cover images. For this reason he won’t allow “The Visitor,” or any of his albums, to be sold as downloads, on iTunes or anywhere else. He’s taking a stand against the sound quality of MP3s; he’s also taking a stand in favor of artists being able to control the medium and reception of their work. “You can no longer use context as part of your work,” he said, glumly, “because it doesn’t matter what you do, somebody’s going to change the context of it. The confusion of creativity, making something, with this Internet idea of democratization ...” he trailed off, disgusted. “It sounds like old-man stuff, but I think it’s disastrous for the possibilities of any art form.” - Alexandre Gamela

A great background on the revolutionary platform. - Alexandre Gamela

Social Media Channels provide an unprecedented way to manage relationships with your customers and prospects. To be able to serve your customers better, it is important that you are driven by the strategy to learn more about your customer and their behavior and offer them service or solution, that they want and when they want. - Alexandre Gamela

"On the plus side, the conversion rate from free to premium has improved over the sorry, early figures. On the back of new native clients for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android - which are only available for a monthly Spotify subscriber - the number of Premium users has grown to over 116,000, almost doubling month-on-month. (Offline access on Mac and PC was added too late to make an impact on these numbers). Spotify documents suggest almost 56,000 of the additions are mobile subscribers. Back in May, Spotify had just 34,000 subscribers worldwide." - Alexandre Gamela

DRM on MP3 and FLACs? No KIDDING!!: "The problem with the USB offering is that it doesn't solve the issues raised by Harrison or McCartney. I'm not sure what kind of digital rights management is imposed on the drive's FLAC and MP3 files, but I'm guessing it's pretty locked down, with the Beatles store mentioning a "specially designed Flash interface" for the experience. Tracks on iTunes, by comparison, are DRM-free." - Alexandre Gamela

"Earlier this year, the IFPI gave Norwegian ISP Telenor an ultimatum – block access to The Pirate Bay within days or get taken to court. Telenor refused, IFPI followed through with its threat and the case was heard earlier this month. The decision was announced today. IFPI lost the case and Telenor will not have to block The Pirate Bay." - Alexandre Gamela

new offerings enable anyone to go online and have an app ready in an hour by personalizing, customizing and adapting sophisticated templates. Just as early Web-page-creation tools ranging from Dreamweaver to GeoCities made it possible for anyone to create their own website, SwebApps and Mobile Roadie aim to democratize the creation of apps. - Alexandre Gamela