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		<title>Blackle &#8211; Google&#8217;s Green Face.</title>
		<link>http://i-gorod.org/itblog/2010/03/01/blackle-googles-green-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilya G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go Green &#8211; Earth Friendly! This is the motto of the website Blackle. Powered by &#8220;Google Custom Search&#8221; Blackle aims to save energy by displaying google&#8217;s start page with a black background and using white font color for search results. According to particular studies computer monitors consume less energy by displaying much darker colors. On [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Go Green &#8211; Earth Friendly! This is the motto of the website <a href="http://www.blackle.com/">Blackle</a>. Powered by &#8220;Google Custom Search&#8221; <a href="http://www.blackle.com/">Blackle</a> aims to save energy by displaying google&#8217;s start page with a black background and using white font color for search results. According to particular studies computer monitors consume less energy by displaying much darker colors. On the <a href="http://www.blackle.com/">Blackle</a>&#8216;s website there is a field indicating how much energy has been already saved.</p>
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		<title>The 20Q A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) can read your mind.</title>
		<link>http://i-gorod.org/itblog/2009/07/16/the-20q-a-i-artificial-intelligence-can-read-your-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilya G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came recently across this curious web site &#8211; 20q.net. In less than 20 questions this virtual monster can guess any thing you think of! I tried the word &#8220;ameba&#8221; and indeed, after the 8-th question &#8220;ameba&#8221; was displayed on the monitor! Try it out!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came recently across this curious web site &#8211; <a href="http://www.20q.net/">20q.net</a>. In less than 20 questions this virtual monster can guess any thing you think of! I tried the word &#8220;ameba&#8221; and indeed, after the 8-th question &#8220;ameba&#8221; was displayed on the monitor! Try it out! </p>
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		<title>Get your Alibi from Internet.</title>
		<link>http://i-gorod.org/itblog/2007/09/24/get-your-alibi-from-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilya G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the USA alibi-agencies exist already for a long time. In Europe they are quite new. Kleinezeitung reports about two online alibi agencies a french one alibila.com and a swiss one alibi-beton.com. Thus you can order a telephone call and if you pay a bit more you get even payment bills, flight or hotel reservations. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the USA alibi-agencies exist already for a long time. In Europe they are quite new. <a href="http://www.kleinezeitung.at" title="kleinezeitung">Kleinezeitung</a> reports about two online alibi agencies a french one <a href="http://alibila.com" title="alibi online">alibila.com</a> and a swiss one <a href="http://alibi-beton.com" title="online alibi">alibi-beton.com</a>. Thus you can order a telephone call and if you pay a bit more you get even payment bills, flight or hotel reservations. <span id="more-49"></span>The prizes depend of course on the scale of your alibi. The chippest service at <a href="http://alibila.com" title="alibi online">alibila.com</a> is the phone call and it&#8217;s 19 Euro. By the way, the chef of the french agency is the former private detective Regine Mourizard.</p>
<p>The legitimate aspect of fake documents the agencies comment as the own responsibility of the customer. And if some day the truth is unearthed the agencies will not pay the money back.</p>
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		<title>Spock &#8211; the First People Search Engine.</title>
		<link>http://i-gorod.org/itblog/2007/08/16/spock-the-first-people-search-engine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilya G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the way to the work I heard today on radio a report about the first search engine enabling people search. This unic (at least it was stated so) service is called Spock. About 8 Mio. $ were invested in the development. The search critera can be a name of the person, his age or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the way to the work I heard today on radio a report about the first search engine enabling people search. This unic (at least it was stated so) service is called <a href="http://www.spock.com/" title="spock">Spock</a>.  About 8 Mio. $ were invested in the development.  The search critera can be a name of the person, his age or an e-mail. <span id="more-41"></span>The search result contains found people with their photos. How does <a href="http://www.spock.com/" title="spock">Spock</a> finds the persons? Quite easy, the <a href="http://www.spock.com/" title="spock">Spock</a>&#8216;s robots go through the social networks like <a href="http://www.xing.com/" title="Xing">Xing</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/" title="my space">Myspace </a>and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/" title="facebook">Facebook</a> and gather the information. I found even my name&#8230;  some years ago I created an account at <a href="http://www.linkedin.com" title="LinkedIn">LinkedIn</a> just for fun.</p>
<p>From the point of view of privacy <a href="http://www.spock.com/" title="spock">Spock</a> is clear. The user profiles on the social networks are accessable for the whole world, so the users gave implicitly their addmition. Apart from this, every person can delete the information about him at <a href="http://www.spock.com/" title="spock">Spock</a> website. But still some feeling tells me that the new service will raise a wave of privacy discussions.</p>
<p>What is the actual sence of <a href="http://www.spock.com/" title="spock">Spock</a>? Apart from the fun, it should help the firms to find the specialists they need and vice versa.</p>
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		<title>KWICK! Discovers New Perspectives.</title>
		<link>http://i-gorod.org/itblog/2007/08/14/kwick-discovers-new-perspectives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilya G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KWICK! Community is one of the German social networks. The users are mostly teenagers from the south region of Germany. Compared to other social networks KWICK! has &#8220;only&#8221; 900 000 registered members and thus is in no way a concurrence to such large projects as studiVZ or lokalisten. My attention was attracted by a news [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.kwick.de/" title="kwick">KWICK!</a> Community is one of the German social networks. The users are mostly teenagers from the south region of Germany. Compared to other social networks <a href="http://www.kwick.de/" title="kwick">KWICK!</a> has &#8220;only&#8221; 900 000 registered members and thus is in no way a concurrence to such large projects as <a href="http://zweinull.cc/seiten-und-dienste/?com=studiVZ" title="studiVZ">studiVZ</a> or <a href="http://www.lokalisten.de/" title="lokalisten.de">lokalisten</a>. My attention was attracted by a news posting at <a href="http://www.zweinull.cc" title="zweinull">zweinull.cc</a> that this is the first social network that decided to extend its service by using at mobile phones. <span id="more-40"></span>In cooperation with German mobile phone provider O2 a web client for mobile phones was developed. The registered members of  <a href="http://www.kwick.de/" title="kwick">KWICK!</a> can be  constantly in contact absolutely for free (no additional charges for using internet) with three of their friends. For 2 Euros per months one can get the access to the whole network.</p>
<p>This curious step is surely profitable for both sides. <a href="http://www.kwick.de/" title="kwick">KWICK!</a> will attract more users and for the mobile phone provider its a good advertisment. The young people use very often sms service and this is a quite expensive pleasure. At least compared to the prices that <a href="http://www.kwick.de/" title="kwick">KWICK!</a> offers for the new service.  The question is which social network will next follow this interesting way.</p>
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		<title>The Virtual Cemetery of &#8220;LA Times&#8221;.</title>
		<link>http://i-gorod.org/itblog/2007/08/10/the-virtual-cemetery-of-la-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilya G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I had to award a prize for the most cynical Mashup of the year, Los Angeles Time would be my favourite. On the Homicide Map these guys show the victims with their photos and the places in Los Angeles where the people were murdered. To make the thing more funny, they realized a filter [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I had to award a prize for the most cynical Mashup of the year, <a href="http://www.latimes.com" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Time</a> would be my favourite. On the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/crime/homicidemap/" title="homicide map - Los Angeles Times">Homicide Map</a> these guys show the victims with their photos and the places in Los Angeles where the people were murdered. To make the thing more funny, they realized a filter<span id="more-39"></span> and the visitors can sort out the victims by their age, race, gender and other parameters.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know, maybe the american mentality finds such projects informative and useful, but for healthy psychic sensitivity of a human beeing it&#8217;s unacceptable. How might the reletives of the victims feel, contemplating the photos of the beloved people on the victim map? what for is this virtual cemetery?</p>
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		<title>How Can &#8220;I Rate My Day&#8221; ?</title>
		<link>http://i-gorod.org/itblog/2007/08/07/how-can-i-rate-my-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilya G.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had you a good or a bad day? Being a registered user of I Rate My Day you can rate your day. There are five different funny icons from Great! to Worst!. This Web 2.0 service offers a possibility to view own month rates on a graph and to view the rates of other users. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Had you a good or a bad day? Being a registered user of <a href="http://www.iratemyday.com/" title="i rate my day">I Rate My Day</a> you can rate your day. There are five different funny icons from  Great! to Worst!. This Web 2.0 service offers a possibility to view own month rates on a graph and to view the rates of other users. There is a possibility to leave comments to the certain rates. Besides one can<span id="more-37"></span> manage a buddy list and there exists an API that enables to build in a widget to a blog.</p>
<p>What I mostly like about <a href="http://www.iratemyday.com/" title="i rate my day">I Rate My Day</a> is that notwithstandig it looks like <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> in some degree, it bears something special , that makes it different from thousands of other services that remake the idea of <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>. Generally speaking I began to comprehend what makes such Web 2.0 services so popular. I guess one can compare e-mails writting and instant messaging with a twitter-like service and a service like <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/">livejournal</a>. Personally I prefer very often to send a short ICQ message to someone than to send this message per email. Why? In ICQ no one expects that your message is long and includes beginning part, the actual message and the end like &#8220;sincerely yours&#8221;, &#8220;see you later&#8221; etc. For writing an email a certain inspiration is required. The same logic is when you just write &#8220;oh god, what a perfect weather!&#8221; or when you compose a posting for your online diary.</p>
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