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23. April 2009 by admin.

The Battle Over Our NextGen Institutions- Twitter, Facebook, Myspace,
or……….
Paul Collier

The research source for this Webreport is
http://www.worldnewstweets.com.
Follow WorldNewstweets at

http://www.twitter.com/worldnewstweets

This week's webmersion web report features the
Sun-Oracle union,
Twitter Legal Issues may be tip of cyber
issues in blogging, Ebay bids
StumbleUpon away, Twitter and
Wordpress heavies bring social media gospel to Iraq, and finally,
Myspace goes face. These stories
tell of the process of converting from Web 2.0 to Webmersion architectures,
a world with mashups, community cyber forces, emerging graphics
breakthroughs, a world set to tame the WWW without destroying the fecund
environment of openness that makes so many of these new breakthroughs
possible.

Sun-Oracle union

This is the major story of the week, the sun-oracle merger, which may expand
Oracle into that "everything" realm (we can give you disks, data, or
software…whatever you need).

HP may be the one with the greatest concern for this merger, which also
touches on the political, with a decidely left-leaning ceo of Oracle
gobbling up a previous bastion of conservatism (or so 'they' say), and in
the bonus going after another conservative-leaning company, Hewlett Packard.

To see more about the growing power of the left in the cyber world, read
Ralph Benko's seminal book on the rise of Web 2.0 and the rise of Obama
called

The Websters Dictionary

Paul Collier

Tags:
2.0,
benko,

dictionary,
media,
microblog,
ralph,
social,

sun-oracle,
the, web

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The politicization of even technologies, platforms, and software has some odd
ramifications that many of us are still trying to understand. This takes
us to the next story.

Twitter Legal Issues may be tip of cyber
issues in blogging
Wow, we are starting to see the first signs of the great unfolding of
morality, rule of law, etc, finally beginning to attempt to come to grips
with the new reality we see before us, a lawless land, which will, in time,
be just as romanticized as the wild west, but is proving to be just as
lethal. this story is about a woman suing a man for using her business name
to write inane fluff that may have ruined her reputation and actually hurt
her business.

These things go on all the time, but people are just now beginning to
understand how widespread cyber gooning (or whatever you call it) is.

Go to Team Sarah, a conservative
online community that has seen wave upon wave of these types of cyber goon
attacks. Websites, groups, are actually beginning to employ volunteers, and
even some paid staff to either initiate these goonings or to protect (or
both) their communities/websites. My brother, Bill Collier, is the Community
Governance guy at TeamSarah, a role he almost single-handedly invent, but
which most communities are beginning to realize they need.

Paul Collier

Tags:
2.0,
cyber,

huffington,
media,
microblog,
post,
sarah,
security,
social,
team

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As groups begin to test new methods of offensive and defensive cyber tactics,
the necessity for ethical and business standards will become increasingly
demanded. But with this need comes the danger of opportunist Centrist
agents, be they governmental, commercial, or causal. Recent governmental
reports issued regarding the necessity to revamp the US cyber security strategy
have been met with both relief from those who see governmental agencies failing
to understand the new cyber reality and the risks we are now vulnerable to, and
those who worry that government might use the necessity of crisis to create more
centralized control than the system might otherwise want to accept.

But even as some move towards greater centralization, others are finding it
doesn't always work.

Mom and Dad broke up, only in this case it's SuperMom (Ebay) and dinky Dad (StumbleUpon).
They settled amicably, but who's zooming who here?

Ebay bids StumbleUpon away
My supposition is that StumbleUpon is every bit as anxious as eBay to get out of
this messy marriage. Mom just never appreciated Dad's cooking, actually, he
never used her cooking. How many people knew that StumbleUpon and eBay were
together at all?

Read about the latest in Web 2.0 developments at

TheWebstersDictionary.com

This is a split which may be good for StumbleUpon, getting off a sinking ship
that decided long ago to shift its attention from the power and the novelty of
buying and selling to and from our living rooms to the corporate accounts that
are quickly taking over an understaffed black hole that eBay has become.

Paul Collier

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Follow WorldNewstweets at

http://www.twitter.com/worldnewstweets

Twitter and Facebook are beginning to work well together even as Facebook
seems to want to challenge Twitter, so perhaps, in that context, this next story
might be thought-provoking for those who like to draw hidden possibilities in
otherwise 'human interest' stories.

Twitter and dpress heavies bring
social media gospel to Iraq
This is an interesting pairing, Twitter and Wordpress, which may be
innocuous enough, but these days it seems very little is left to chance, and
certainly to the gods of innocuousness.

That's a long plane ride for these two fellas to be sitting together,
swapping their 'net' stories, or whatever. Watch for some new twitter
gadgets, apps to be available for wordpress soon, based solely on my long
plane ride theory.

Follow the latest, greatest everything at
Freedomist Tweets

Paul Collier

Tags:
iraq,
media,
social,
twitter,
wordpress

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Finally, let us end this glorious digital day with a look at another recent
development which may be indirectly tied to the rise of Twitter:

MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe may be stepping down and be replaced by former
Facebook COO Owen Van Natta, various news agencies are reporting.

Myspace goes face

With Facebook clearly going after, to some degree, the microblog market now
being dominated by Twitter, one wonders if this move is an effort by Myspace to
go face, as it were, and perhaps build something similar to Facebook's wall,
Twitter's most direct challenge to its unique tool features.

Facebook's architecture was fundamental to President Obama's recent campaign
successes. You can download the free ebook which documents this historic event
in American history, the birth of social network campaigning.

The Websters Dictionary- How Web 2.0 transformed the world by Ralph Benko.

Paul Collier

That's a lot of buta' for one day. So let's take a deep breath, which
is hard to do in these times, and ponder what we now know. The web is
unsettled. All is flux. Virtual mining towns rise and fall at the
blink of an eye along these cyber plains. Mad scientists from around the
globe are rushing to control the trends, own the emerging properties and brand
their names. This is nothing short than a race to be one of the lucky few
to emerge as the next generation's GE, Microsoft, Ford, etc.

Hopefully, there are enough open-source cyber ranchers out there to keep a
few valleys and plains free from the menacing hands of Central Control.

Paul Collier

Http://www.freedomist.org

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