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Re: #624,683 — PaulStamatiou.com

Guillaume Riflet — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:20:40 -0000

Congratulations Paul, it was from your blog post that I first heard of twitter and that blog post convinced me to try it out, back in 2007. You really were instrumental for tuning me into the silicon valley pulse, thanks!

Re: The End of the World: The State vs. the Internet

Guillaume Riflet — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:45:53 -0000

I totally agree with this line of thought. A revolution of the State as we know, because of the work and pace of Progress (aka the Internet), IS bound to happen.

You can't stumble on the printed press and expect that nothing will change within the Roman Church or that nationalism won't exist beyond village-level or city-level.

By the same line of thought, you can't stumble on the Internet and expect that forms of auto-organization (which remind me of reminiscent forms of anarchism, actually) at a global scale won't happen -- and open-source and crowd-sourcing is just the beginning --.

Centralization of the State was the statemen leitmotiv of the post-printed-press era in France (Paris). Referenda and universal sufrage were the new tools used in this Industrial age to legitimate the State rulers. State won power from printed press compared to Roman Church, who lost power (mainly because Knowledge was now commoditized).

I say de-centralization of the State (and de-hierarchization of the State) should be the natural leitmotive of the Internet era in Earth. I mean, an url is an url; there's really no bigger hierarchy than the Page-rank, the followers, the re-tweets the +es and likes. Do we really need more than that to auto-organize ourselves and legitimate a future nimbler State new rulers (and it's a heck of a lot more than a vote on a ballot, don't you think)?As for point 3 from mr. Tim O'Reilly: Corporations will use the internet as a tool to gain more power; they will gain more power than the current State will. But so will individuals; and because of the anarchycal neutrality nature of the links that make the internet, I bet that auto-organized individuals power should out-power corporations power ... Finally, somewhere between Julian Assange, soccer-coach José Mourinho and pop singers, I expect some kind of popular political Leader to rise and lead the way, instead of being brood inside political parties.

Re: Ensaio sobre Portugal, parte 1

Guillaume Riflet — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:32:57 -0000

Re: The iphone 3G is a pocket satellite.

Guillaume Riflet — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:05:43 -0000

http://diario.iol.pt/tecnol...

A-ha!!! Told you!

Re: Webtop Mania: Google is an advertisement company. Apple is a leisure-time company.

Guillaume Riflet — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:09:00 -0000

I like mine too, but I'll try to use it for stuff that really matters :) I'm not into tech for leisure time, alone.

Re: Webtop Mania: Google is an advertisement company. Apple is a leisure-time company.

Guillaume Riflet — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:08:33 -0000

I like mine too, but I'll try to use it for stuff that really matters :) I'm not into tech for leisure time, alone.

Re: http://webtopmania.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-is-webtop-mania_10.html

Guillaume Riflet — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:42:25 -0000

E eu de volta. É muito honrado e com orgulho que te dou os muitos parabéns pelos teu 31 aninhos e umas horitas :)

Parabéns!! Beijinhos****

Re: WebtopMania: How to send posts to twitter, jaiku and pownce all at once.

Guillaume Riflet — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:39:54 -0000

@Paul: Hi, happy that you got your problem solved. I wasn't following my blog for over a year now ... Hopefully, I'm back again listening to what's happening around here.

Re: FWD: The state of the Webtop: where are we going?

Guillaume Riflet — Fri, 14 May 2010 05:14:41 -0000

Ok, now I'm getting disqus comments back up again. The blogger comments were just too spammy... Thank you for your comprehension.

Re: This is so going to make my day by Alcides Fonseca

Guillaume Riflet — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:19:37 -0000

Hi, I subscribed to your blog after a codebits event as I happen to have seen some of your (old) portfolio stuff on tarpipe and such like. I'm still reading it, well, because it's mostly interesting and not worthy of me to take the trouble to unsubscribe from it, so far...

I happen to also be a non-smoker, near-non-drinker, atheist and such. And I wanted to say that I think that this Richard Dawkins is an ass. As I have to live among herds of deeply rooted roman-catholic-churchists, they do sometimes tend to cross the line and try me to enroll them. I don't like their constant smooth pushing. All I want from them is to tolerate me and understand my point of view and my deityless moral values. I don't want to have them as enemies, or to have them feel hate of me. I want them to listen to what I have to say, and make them think about the possibility that there may be no god, and no afterlife after all. But when jackasses like Richard Dawkins try to imprison their holy-leader, he just makes them angry, full of hate and fear of atheists such as me. And it makes *my* task, that of evangelizing atheism to god-fearing sheeps, a lot more harder.

I don't care whether the Pope or their system is corrupt. I'd rather it wouldn't be actually. But I don't need the hate of catholics. I need their ears. I need them to think on other possibilities beyond plain eternity. That attituted just proves to me that Richard Dawkins craves for attention, like a baby that thinks he's the center of the world. Screw him, he doesn't serves the atheists, not one bit.

Re: Should I get an iPad or a Chrome OS for my mom?

Guillaume Riflet — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:25:48 -0000

I totally disagree with the perspective that you can't do much on an iPad. I do agree that you can't do much of the stuff you already do on a pc, but that's beside the point. The point is, it is a disruptive gadget that will allow its owners to do stuff nobody else would do before it arrived. Finally, the webtop perspective is a 99% browser based experience (the apps are nice, but they impose too many limitations), so the ipad is one heck of an element for that. In fact, from the browser vector (the only long-term interesting approach in my opinion), the iPad opens gateways of massive creativity (think javascript+html+css+cache-offline, including the jquery and jqtouch javascript libraries). Frankly, I expect them selling millions of these devices, so it'll be a platform developpers will want to have a piece of the action. IPhone owners will want one. Old aged people will actually enjoy using a "computer" for once. So maybe, hardware and desktop hackers will be sadened, but web-based developpers and tinkerers will be more than delighted. IMHO, Apple is doing it the right way.

Re: The Google Reef

Guillaume Riflet — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:07:56 -0000

quote "Now, back to the phone. See, if you add data about your friends and business contacts to Google’s contacts, won’t that help make your mobile phone more useful? More useful than, say, a mobile phone from Apple? Or Nokia? Or Microsoft?

Damn straight it will be."

I kow you already probably know this, but Google actually bought Microsoft Exchange servers to sync contacts , calendars and gmail with the iPhone. Although the calendar and the email syncing aren't ideal, the contacts syncing *is*!

But the funny thing here is that it's a *Microsoft technology* used to sync data from a *Google platform* to an *Apple hardware*. Get it? It's a beautiful marriage of the three biggest players in tech today.

Re: The Year in Lifestreaming for 2009

Guillaume Riflet — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:01:36 -0000

True: the interface in tarpipe is more difficult, but linux-ers enthus and tech sawy people can actually have fun setting it up ;) Pixelpipe just isn't fun to setup.

Re: The Year in Lifestreaming for 2009

Guillaume Riflet — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:31:39 -0000

"Another area that could really use help with regards to Lifestreaming is managing the workflow of data across multiple services. We need it to become easier to create content, post it to one service, and then choose what other services we want it to land on with the flexibility from computers and mobile platforms. This is a pretty big >problem that hadn’t been addressed to well this year except for one service that really >began its rise called Posterous."

Dude, have you ever even heard of Tarpipe? http://tarpipe.com. It's way more flexible than Posterous and it's been around at least since first-quarter of 2008... I use both actually, cuz Posterous is also in the blogging scene, whereas tarpipe is focused only in the uploading content scene.

Re: Alcides Fonseca: Obrigado Bentinho

Guillaume Riflet — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:31:05 -0000

Tenho que pôr a minha dentada nos comentários até porque sou não-baptizado e casei pela igreja católica.

Pedi ao bispo local, por intermédio do pároco local, uma "dispensa de impedimento de casamento", impedimento esse causado pelo facto de ser não-baptizado. Custou €50 e foi aprovado. Argumentei que o meu estado de condenado divino não deveria prejudicar quem me amasse (neste caso, casada pelo registo civil, a minha esposa tinha um impedimento para ser madrinha de baptismo), o que convenceu o bispo. E eu continuo, orgulhosamente, não-baptizado.

Passem a palavra: o Amor não tem barreiras, nem mesmo o Papa pode impedir isso!

Re: Is Cinch really better than Twitter and Evernote?

Guillaume Riflet — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:30:54 -0000

Hmmm, no reactions today? I guess that the post was a flop. I also suspect the previous post's interested depended on other factors external to this blog... Oh well. I guess it means more time for my thesis... I suppose it's better that way... :-)

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

Guillaume Riflet — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:59:02 -0000

Twitumm looks nice, but I'm 100% content with Cinch for that matter. If I had tried Twitumm first maybe I'd have written about Twitumm, who knows? I'm also an enthus of Cinch due to the BlogTalkRadio technology. I first heard about it almost 2 years ago and thought it was the coolest idea.

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

Guillaume Riflet — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:54:56 -0000

I wanted to post this as a reply, but I missed it. So here it is, delayed...
>@Kris: Cool, I like t-shirts =)

The API functionalities look nice. But what I really wanted is some "scriptable" way to upload an mp3 file, a photo and some text to Cinch. You know, like the twitter api... Possibly using email...

Re: My take on cloud computing

Guillaume Riflet — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:44:19 -0000

Hi, I decided to "upgrade" the disqus service in this blog because I wanted to show the reactions. Unfortunately, that was a bad move since it removed the comments this post already had. The good news is that the comments aren't gone. You can still follow all the previous comments here: [http://disqus.com/comments/...]. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

Guillaume Riflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:27 -0000

Cool, Louis Gray just mentioned this post in his blog: [http://blog.louisgray.com/2...]

Re: CinchCast Puts Mini Podcasts In Your Pocket

Guillaume Riflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:28:58 -0000

Louis, thx for mentioning my post. I appreciate :) Big fan of yours btw.

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

Guillaume Riflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:14:47 -0000

Aw-shucks :)

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

Guillaume Riflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:39:59 -0000

@alanllevy: No problem, I write about what I like :) And I like Cinch, and BTR. Any plans for a phone number in Portugal? Would it be complicated to create one? I must warn that I'm an early adopter. I can't guarantee it will actually build momentum. Alas, this isn't Silicon Valley and I'm not Scoble :)

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

Guillaume Riflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:34:24 -0000

@Dug: hey, thx for the tip. Will check it out ...

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

Guillaume Riflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:32:21 -0000

@Kris: Cool, I like t-shirts =)