http://www.blog.mypacis.com SOCIAL NETWORK - Social Network to promote peace - MyPacis.com Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:19:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello! We gave a presentation at Web2Open, part of Web 2.0 Expo Berlin. An abstract from the presentation is available here: | View All available presentations are published on http://www.slideshare.net/tag/web2expoberlin http://www.blog.mypacis.com/web-20-expo-berlin-presentations-5-8-november-2007/2007/11/08/ October 2007 -- Can Web 2.0 be a tool to support peace, multilingualism, European NGOs, social enterpreneurship, European enlargement and raise awareness about Neighbourhood policy? European Social Network http://www.mypacis.eu was launched in September as a positive answer to this question. Now, this European Social Network with a social agenda is ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/european-social-network-web-20-for-peace-and-multilingualism/2007/10/23/ Second Life Herald is running an advertising campaign for us, promoting HybridLife.net. This is the post appeared on the site, in addition to a banner pointing to the social network. HybridLife.net is a social network to connect Second Life residents. It is also a platform for social experiments HybridLife.net social network is ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/second-life-avatars-social-network-for-social-experiments/2007/10/22/ Technology glitterati looking to stay on the cutting edge of all things cool say Web 2.0, generally regarded as hosted services, is out of style and Web 3.0 is in. But solution providers are wary of what some are defining as the next big bang in technology.This week at the ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/partners-are-wary-of-web-30-technologies/2007/10/21/ At one point during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, I thought I’d fallen into a time warp. I suddenly found myself listening to pitches that might have been appropriate in the 1990s at a mainframe computer convention, not a cutting-edge event like this summit is billed. First, ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/is-web-20-growing-up/2007/10/21/ Microsoft is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build a 3-D replication of the world that would become the platform for data overlays to provide people with useful information. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are intensely focused on building 3-D maps of the world and adding social elements ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/web-20-summit-google-microsoft-focus-on-3-d-and-social-mapping/2007/10/21/ Recently, rumors have been flying over whether or not MySpace would use this week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco as a venue for announcing a developer platform akin to Facebook's. Well, now we have a final answer: sort of. MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe and News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch took ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/myspace-facebook-bantering-at-web-20-conference/2007/10/20/ From ABC News, By SARAH LAI STIRLAND The web-hip "community-driven" presidential debates touted by the television networks have been a disappointment so far. The events may use voter-submitted videos, instant messages and e-mails, but all that packet juice is poured into the same old, tired broadcast formula that appoints journalists as ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/web-20-project-taps-wisdom-of-the-crowd-to-probe-presidential-contenders/2007/10/20/ Thanks to O'Reilly Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, media have been floaded with Web 2.0 related articles and opinions. We are going to review the top stories soon. For now, enjoy some information about the US conference itself. The Fourth Annual Web 2.0 Summit Only the Web 2.0 Summit (formerly named ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/web-20-news-avalanche/2007/10/20/ An important Web 2.0 event, previously hold only in San Francisco, is coming to Europe. This is the official description: To meet the increasing demand for Web 2.0 comprehension and skills, and to build a broader European Web 2.0 community, O’Reilly Media and CMP Technology have launched Web 2.0 Expo Berlin ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/web-20-expo-berlin-5-8-november-2007/2007/10/20/  Some background information the state of social networks in Europe. First, I would like to make a distinction between European Social Networks and Social Networks in Europe. The latter, being Web 2.0 sites which started targeting users elsewhere, and then moved to Europe to gain bigger market share on a ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/european-social-networks-and-social-networks-in-europe/2007/10/03/ Even if we do not aim to be a "technical blog" about Web 2.0, focusing on benefits for end-users, we cannot avoid to talk about Ajax. As Wikipedia says, it  is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/ajax-for-web-20-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-ajax/2007/10/01/ We have been very very busy recently, working on MyPacis.Eu and other projects you will hear soon about! The first "breaking news": from now on, this blog will not be devoted only to the development of our social network to promote peace, but also to Web 2.0 news. Which are the ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/web-20-picking-the-best-web-20/2007/10/01/ As promised earlier on, we have a great news for you: MyPacis.com has already a spinn-off! Now, there is a new born among European Social Networks,  because we launched a Social Network for European and Neighbouring countries. Please visit http://www.mypacis.eu/ to see it. It already uses the next release of the social network platform ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/european-social-network-social-network-for-european-and-neighbouring-countries/2007/09/21/ International Day of Peace: today is the big day! It is both the last day of our blogging marathon and the reason why we started it in the first place. Please, join us and thousands of people taking actions and position for world peace! To follow realtime updates about events organised all ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/international-day-of-peace-peace-day-blogging-marathon/2007/09/21/ In this first day of blogging, we would like to remind all the 911 victims. In our opinion, a minute of silence and meditation is the most respectful way. Please take a minute to think about the innocent people who went to work in the morning, with plenty of plans ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/911-921-join-the-online-marathon-for-peace/2007/09/11/ As promised, our blog carnival devoted to peace is ready and waiting for you to join! We are going to have a synchronised blogging (September, 11th-21st) about peace, remembrance and reflection. Both these days have a strong emotional and symbolic meaning: 21st September has been voted by the United Nations ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/peace-blogs-10000-blogs-for-peace-september-11th-21st/2007/09/01/ Mc Kinsey is running a competition in Second Life. You can get financed in Linden, Second Life virtual currency, to start your own business. We decided to take part in the competition, to run a social experiment in Second Life, using MyPacis.com social network platform as support. Working on several ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/second-life-social-experiments-and-the-power-of-ideas/2007/08/26/ Hello! We are almost ready to launch a blog carnival, open both to users of our blogs and bloggers hosted elsewhere. We will all be blogging about peace, and share posts here on MyPacis.com and blog carnival aggregators. As usual, the main point of our initiatives and campaigns are not to give ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/mypaciscom-blog-carnival/2007/08/25/ How can Web 2.0 services support Open Society? This is the question we would like you to raise with this post Web 2.0 are second generation web-based communities, social-networks, wikis, folksonomies, etc. These services have one benefit in common: to facilitate collaboration and sharing between peers. We strongly believe ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/open-society-and-web-20-opening-society-with-web-20-tools/2007/08/22/ George Soros is the son of the Esperanto writer Teodoro Schwartz. Teodoro (also known as Tivadar) was a Hungarian Jew who was a prisoner of war during and after World War I and eventually escaped from Russia to rejoin his family in Budapest. The family changed its name in 1936 from ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/open-society-and-george-soros/2007/08/21/ Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS, FBA, (July 28, 1902 – September 17, 1994), was an Austrian-born British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also wrote extensively on social and political ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/open-society-and-karl-popper/2007/08/21/ Some inputs for discussion about how Web 2.0 can contribute to a better society. Let's make a step back and start from the theoretical foundation of Open Society with Henri Bergson. Henri Bergson Henri Bergson developed the concept of Open Society, as a society based on political freedoms and human rights, with ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/henri-bergson-and-open-society/2007/08/21/ User-interface for MyPacis.com ( http://www.mypacis.com/ ) has been quite stable during the current week. We are testing a brand new release for our social network, evaluating version 6 of Boonex Dolphin. Boonex developers have been providing, as open source, their excellent online dating platform; instead of going for the ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/updates-about-mypaciscom-and-seth-godin%c2%b4s-blog/2007/08/17/ An interesting discussion from http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/06/1427214 Starting from Wired's article "Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up" (http://www.wired.com/software/webservices/news/2007/08/open_social_net) users are discussing about openness of social networks. People should be able to choose between openness and privacy. While I want to share with as many people as possible ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/open-and-closed-social-network/2007/08/12/ Since references to our site/project started to spread on social bookmarking/news sites, we received a few questions about MyPacis.com and. If you got here by clicking to the link we sent you as reply, keep reading and you will find all the answers :-) -  SmileGrid.com and OS in MyPacis.com MyPacis.com is ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/open-source-mypaciscom/2007/08/11/ MyPacis.com is an open source, integrated, multilingual social network. MyPacis.com offers free blogs, social bookmarks and other Web 2.0  services. Once the integration among modules and existing open source solution has been finalized, the platform can be used by other sites to promote peace and freedom of speech, especially in ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/contact-us/2007/08/11/ If you developed applications in PHP which you consider useful for this site and its audience, just drop us an email to: php @ Our Domain Name (see it in the browser :-) Some examples of useful applications are: - integrated userID: unified to login for Boonex Dolphin, Scuttle, Pligg, PHPBB, WordPress MU, ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/contribute-scriptsdonate/2007/08/11/ My Blog (http://myblog.mypacis.com) is now available in several languages, including Esperanto, Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish, etc. For some languages such Russian and German, and for Asia and Europe as continents, specific blogging platform have been launched. Anyway, MyBlog will offer all the languages available, while specific subdomains will offer ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/my-blog-updates-about-myblobmypaciscom/2007/08/10/ More information, blogging spree :-) This blog is one of the main channels of communication for MyPacis. Emails are always welcome, and we will reply to all of them asap, but the blog has the advantage of being easy for you to subscribe to (soon, you will find here Feedburner ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/about-mypaciscom-blog-project-blog-and-social-network-blogs/2007/08/09/ Let's get a bit more into details. http://www.mypacis.com is an integrated and multilingual social network. Right now, the services provided are standard open source solutions. They have great functionalities, and they deliver you many benefits. But there are still some additional steps we need to take to make sure our ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/social-network-benefits-integrated-and-multilingual/2007/08/09/ Why starting our network now? Well, that gives us time to get our platform ready for 2008, which will be full of important events. Some of them, include Presidential elections in USA and Russia, plus the Olympic Games in China. For a more comprehensive list of 2008 events, please see ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/social-network-for-peace-why-2007/2007/08/09/ Well, this is the start of our journey. This project started to be shaped in May 2007, and evolved into an integrated, multilingual social network which aims to contribute to a better, more informed, peaceful and responsible society. Our mission is to promote peace by linking people. If you had a ... http://www.blog.mypacis.com/promoting-peace-by-linking-people/2007/08/08/