Why an alternative to facebook is needed

Why an alternative to facebook is painfully needed

Back in September 2014, a new social media network called Ello made his entry talking about ad-free alternatives to some of the big players of the field (facebook, myspace, etc ...), but more that that Ello promises that the personal information will never be sold to any third parties.

The problem is that viewed from a platform like facebook - a registered user is 'the product' - everything he does is scrutinized, and tracked and recorded so every post that is shared, every friend or every link followed is then sold to advertisers.

Being spied upon is it seems the new trend, the natural way of living with surveillance cameras at every corners of the cities, and where mobile devices are following your every moves...

So when people launch a new social media network that basically says “You are not a product,” its manifesto attracts new people.

The fact that Ello after a few research ended up - being a $435,000 company in venture capital, closed-source code, and a centralized structure appeared to be in contradiction with his pro-independence manifesto.

It just happened not to be what people looking for freedom would be interested in.
Not the anti-facebook we were looking for.

The need is still there, though ...

Crystal : super sew it!

Remember my last post "Selvaria : sew it!" : My only regret is that Crystal doesn't have created a youtube account (yet).

Well, here it goes :

The costumes are spectacular, kudos for "Firefall" - the game looks a bit like Starcraft "Ghost" ...  So happy, it's really good and Crystal is going stronger and stronger, and this is awesome!

Whatever cosplay she wears, she is always stellar in it.


Now, I only wish she would star in a movie ?!
I wouldn't mind seeing her playing "Black widow"
But what are the odds of that ...

ComicSpace.com Rest In Peace

What is it lately, this unexplainable need to change everything that works ?
What about this idiom "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" ?

Is it like Digg v4 all over again ?

Same scenario here, users were misinformed about upcoming changes, users have lost pages, data, etc ... and worse users will have to invest 4-5 hours to get used to the new interface (based on Wordpress, Comicpress) which isn't very intuitive...

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Found a new one!

Remember the post about "The key is being blonde and having a mission"

Lucky me today I found another one Justine Ezarik... she's blonde but I'm still not sure about her mission ?!

See for yourself iJustine (ijustine) on Twitter:

"I am the internet! Apple fan, Youtuber, technology lover and avid twitter! Be my friend!"

Maybe she just want to be friend with everybody - sounds cool

Photo credit : Justine Ezarik at the 2010 Streamy Awards. From TheBuiBrothers.com

Digg has broken an ... axle ?!

Digg V4 ... At first it probably looked like a good idea, then there was the alpha phase (where most people thought to be a scam ) - but all geek are suckers for a newer version (see Bloggers Trade: Digg Launched New Digg)

Result ... Digg 4 is really, clearly a nightmare version and digg user (diggers) are running away... (including yours truly).

I don't care about the Double account creation issues with Facebook Connect issue, or the "Upcoming section" gone, or the missing bury button  ... (incidentally the report button also disappeared, meaning basically all spam links will stay forever) ... only positive point so far, the new design looks good (I give you that).

But what is upsetting me the most is that ALL my submitted links are lost, gone ?! (and I've been a digg user for over 2 years)

More information on the new version http://about.digg.com/blog/digg-version-4
and the inevitable "Known issues" page http://about.digg.com/known-issues

More rants on How the new digg sucks (not from me)  http://digg.com/news/technology/Bigg_Day_Today_for_Digg/20100827003318:3212b68f651a4bd6bf5d87631f5a8eb8 

Now If you'll excuse me ... I'm heading for my new account on reddit.com, thanks for reading

Blonde girls and Internet Celebrities : they can't fail!

There seems to be an infallible recipe for success if you're lucky enough to be a "blond girl" - it has been scientifically proven that Youtube is the best platform for your success.

To prove this point below check this short list (maybe a little random in the selection) but hopefully giving a little diversity in the appeal of these blond girls.

The key is being blonde and having a mission.

Marina Orlova (http://www.youtube.com/user/hotforwords) Channel Views: 20,560,475
Marina is hosting one of the most popular channels - Her mission is to teach her audience proper English. Also worth mentioning that she's Russian, single, very smart and she's not blond anymore (pretty ironic).


Lisa Nova (http://www.youtube.com/user/LisaNova) Channel Views: 16,904,947
Her real name is Lisa Donovan she's an actress and specialized in doing parody and interview
Her mission is to entertain.

Zuzana (http://www.youtube.com/user/charliejames1975)  Channel Views: 7,801,071
A Czech girl very athletic, her mission is to motivate you to do fitness and her workout are pretty impressive.

Cristina Rad (http://www.youtube.com/user/ZOMGitsCriss) Channel Views: 1,269,268
From Romania she is a bit of a poet, artist, musician and rebel her mission is to bring back the revolutionist or the artist or both from her audience.

Lilou Macé (http://www.youtube.com/user/liloumace) Channel Views: 294,390
Specialized in Spirituality,  New Age, Law of attraction, Lilou is a French-American author, her mission : to help her audience to improve their awareness.

Lux Kassidy (http://www.youtube.com/user/AskAPet) Channel Views: 40,684
Last but not least, Lux is a sporty top model (that might also be a Porn Star?!) and her mission was to educate her audience on the matter of relationship and sex ... but it seems that she has thrown the towel (unfortunately).

NB: The "channel View" is indicating the amount of people who have clicked on the "user profile page" - the number of videos viewed is usually a lot more.

Opera, blogger and still the "uploading picture" bug

I just updated my favorite web browser Opera (I was running version 10.10 and now I'm running 10.53) - first impression .... wow, it's a lot faster than before (kudos for that) but I still have this pesky issue when I'm blogging using blogger.com or draft.blogger.com - when I want to add a picture by uploading a new one ... there's simply no "choose file" button - the window looks like that (in blogger.com)

and same issue (with the new uploading feature of draft.blogger.com) the window looks different but same issue - no choose file button - but the bug seems to be known and reported.

Talking Photo

Slow Wave

Based on an interesting idea "" this website allows anyone to submit a dream to a skilled comic artist.  And after selecting one he will turn it into a comic, and publish it.

Slow Wave is an ongoing webcomic that incorporates actual dreams submitted by readers into a fictional narrative, written and drawn by Jesse Reklaw.

So instead of simply talking about your last night's dream during breakfast, you can actually show the comic it has inspired. Totally cool !

I would recommend to have a look at the archive section of the website too - it goes back to 2004 and it's awesome.

Slow Wave