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AdNectar is the complete solution for agencies and brands fielding campaigns on social networks. We turn customers into brand advocates through the simple act of giving branded virtual gifts - Alexandre Gamela

Lloc de l'administracio sobre tic i salut - Alexandre Gamela

Ajuda a les empreses PIME per adopció de TIC - Alexandre Gamela

Pla de l'administració catalana per estendre les xarxes telecos a zones de dificil accés i altres - Alexandre Gamela

Proposets per actuar com a periodista en el marc actual i entorn digital - Alexandre Gamela

"US bank puts pressure on Terra Firma boss Guy Hands to sell the troubled music group and pay back some of its £2.6bn loan" - Alexandre Gamela

"At first I wasn’t gonna tell you. Because I knew you’d treat me differently. Hell, I would. Somebody tells me they’ve got leukemia? That’s SERIOUS! But the odds are with me. And after reading a ton of books on my Kindle, and surfing the Web, I’ve realized that, as Ray Davies so famously sang, "unemployment is unenjoyment." Now I know why people become terminally ill and continue to go to work. You’ve got to do SOMETHING! Otherwise your life has no focus. To be rich, footloose and fancy free with no obligations? Not for me. Not for anybody." - Alexandre Gamela

"When the economic growth curve drops and the GDP sinks, it seems threatening to us. Yet appearances deceive. The GDP merely maps production figures and monetary flows without regard for their ecological or social value; such numbers do not measure the things we truly need to live, they may simply count their destruction. Social prosperity cannot be measured through such means. A reduction in the GDP does not necessarily signal a reduction in the real wealth of a society. To recognize this fact widens our perspective and opens the door for new types of solutions. The commons can help us overcome the crisis, but it requires systematic advocacy. This is our contribution to give the commons a voice." - Alexandre Gamela

Everyone’s comments are valuable…except when they aren’t. TidyTweet helps keep your Twitter feed free from inappropriate language, users, and content. Keep an eye on your conversations 24/7 and decide for yourself what stays and what goes - Alexandre Gamela

"But what if that company was NBC Universal? Reader JC points us to the news that NBC Universal's Olympics website has been caught copying a blog post and then when alerted to it, rather than removing the content, it just removed the writer's name. It looks like the attention this story has received has resulted in NBC Universal putting her name back on the story, but the story remains on the site. " - Alexandre Gamela

Nova via per Zinga cap al mòbil. Referències sobre la marca de jocs i les seves relacions - Alexandre Gamela

"Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) has agreed to pay up to $16 million to settle a class action suit stemming from its previous use of a network management system that throttled some peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. Under terms of the settlement, Comcast will pay up to that amount, less settlement costs, to eligible Class members, according to Lexington Law Group and Scott+Scott LLP, two law firms associated with national class actions. (See Comcast Settles P2P Suit.)" - Alexandre Gamela

"So now, to upload your music to DJ Mixer, first you need to e-mail customer support with a copy of your receipt from the iTunes store or a screenshot showing your purchase history with the DJ Mixer app on it. Then you must go through a Web interface to perform the uploads. The company e-mails you back for each upload as it becomes ready, after which you have to open the app, hit "downloads," and enter your personal numeric code. Finally, you have to wait as the app downloads each song from the Web server and performs the necessary conversion--a process that takes about 15 or 20 seconds per song. " - Alexandre Gamela

"Rather than evaluate the strengths, weaknesses and the prospects for these services and others, I’ll distil my view of what it will take for the industry to achieve real breakthrough in 2010. The industry needs to face five simple ‘truths’ about the market and where it needs to be to bring a new injection of pace:" - Alexandre Gamela

"Nick Crocker has been transforming digital entertainment since serving as General Manager at Musicadium in Australia, where he wrote “9 Ways to Ride the Digital Music Wave.” Named with Native Digital co-founder Ben Johnson to Smart Company’s “2009 Hot 30 Under 30”, Nick is ND’s Managing Director. Nick and Ben launched the world’s first music blog for a major label (The In Sound From Way Out, for EMI) and collaborated with Wotnews in 2009 to track a variety of online music conversations (blogs, social networks and forums) through the blog aggregator, We Are Hunted. Nick is a regular commentator on issues relating to music, marketing and technology for publications such as Billboard, AFR and NME." - Alexandre Gamela

"Spreading malware via websites and malicious software is soooo 2009. Cybercriminals are shifting their focus to newer methods, according to security researchers, which include file sharing networks and mobile platforms. " - Alexandre Gamela

"The fact that “the topic of open” – something that has always been at the heart of Google, at least in terms of its computing infrastructure – is now surfacing in these kinds of discussions shows how the company is developing from one implicitly based on openness to one that explicitly recognises that fact. This makes Google a good example of how open source software is beginning to “infect” - in the nicest possible way – a company's thinking across the board. As readers of this blog will know, I see this as one of the most important trends at the moment, and it's significant that Google has noticed it. " - Alexandre Gamela

way of doing mobile/desktop apps, using HTML, Ruby, PHP, Javascript as the languages, that then gets compiled as a native application for whichever platform you want. - Alexandre Gamela

"Facebook proved again this week that they are either the most unethical or clueless internet company in the world. An amazing accomplishment since Facebook is also one of the most promising, and certainly fastest growing, internet companies of all time. Perhaps I’m being hyperbolic (who me?), or maybe they are a little of both, but the fact remains they screw up on important issues almost as if it’s a “best practice” to do so." - Alexandre Gamela

"Frankly I'm more likely to use Google Reader to search for specific information nowadays, than to scan my subscribed feeds for their latest posts. So what's happened to RSS Readers. Do people still use them and is there still a viable market for them?" - Alexandre Gamela

"Unfortunately, e-reader technology also presents significant new threats to reader privacy. E-readers possess the ability to report back substantial information about their users' reading habits and locations to the corporations that sell them. And yet none of the major e-reader manufacturers have explained to consumers in clear unequivocal language what data is being collected about them and why. "As a first step towards addressing these problems, EFF has created a first draft of our Buyer's Guide to E-Book Privacy. We've examined the privacy policies for the major e-readers on the market to determine what information they reserve the right to collect and share." - Alexandre Gamela

Kevin Sablan explains why topic pages are great "searchbait," and a useful tool to help improve traffic to news sites. This is something that could work on any kind of news site, including local or niche news. - Alexandre Gamela

Paul Bradshaw ponders an issue I've been dealing with for years: If a journalist interviews you, are you both on the record? I say yes. That's been my policy for years. - Alexandre Gamela

"I made $37.50 at Demand Studios in November. That money went directly into my Paypal account, on time, with no billing hassles. But it probably took me about six hours of filling out a profile, studying a style guide and learning how to navigate the system. So my hourly pay was about $6, for a writer new to the system." - Alexandre Gamela

"Paul Bradshaw asks: “Who owns the interview?” Steve Buttry says the reporter loses control over the interview as soon she hits the “send” guys and warns journalists not to put anything into writing that they’re not willing to see published. I largely agree with Buttry on this, though I don’t go as far as he does: The journalist was within her rights to ask Bradshaw not to publish her side of the conversation (and he obviously complied). That doesn’t mean it wasn’t an arrogant, controlling thing to do, though. "What I find most interesting about the case is the complete subjugation of transparency in the name of objectivity. Here, the reporter is willing to go so far to avoid transparency that not only does she choose not to reveal to her readers anything about her news-gathering itself (nothing wrong with not doing that, don’t get me wrong), but she actually refuses to allow a source — who has no obligation to her in this manner at all — to disclose anything about her, either." - Alexandre Gamela

Hey Journerdism RSS/blog followers! Thanks for reading. I just wanted to give you a heads up if you didn't realize it, I tweet occasionally about similar journalism and tech news and issues at the link above. I'm working on better mirroring the Twitter updates and the blog/site updates, but there is definitely some areas that they don't overlap. So if you're looking for more hot Journerdism goodness, maybe give me a follow on Twitter. Thanks again for reading and have a happy holiday season! - Alexandre Gamela

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"Done well, the topics page provides the casual, occasional user with a gentle, almost encyclopedic introduction to the topic (public issue, person, place, thing). But the regular, loyal user benefits too. Done poorly -- and I've looked recently at some topics pages that would curl my hair, if I had enough left to curl -- a topics page leaves both loyal and occasional users with one of those "WTF" moments." - Alexandre Gamela

"The combination of IP address, port numbers, and date and time allows the Recording Industry Association of America to catch people who offer copyrighted music without authorization. And this technological mechanism underlies the European Union requirement for ISPs to keep the information they log about customer use, as mentioned in the first section of this article. " - Alexandre Gamela

"Backupify president Rob May has now announced that Backupify will back up all online accounts for free and with unlimited storage. The offer will be open until January 31, 2010. The move is an attempt to attract at lot more users. May noted that storage is cheap while customer acquisition is very expensive, and so he and the company want to give more users a chance to try out the full service." - Alexandre Gamela