Where is Keyvan ?

Google

I googlise, you googlise, he/she googlises, we googlise, you googlise, they googlise.

Nice several forms of the verb “to googlise” which means to use google or to make research on the internet and to explore it to its boundary. Yes “Google is fine, Google is good”. Everyday they offer an amazing amount of information, help, tools, entertainment contents, and all that for free!

Well, free… for the users…

To be googlised or to googlised someone.

That is another point… every information about people is known, everyone is online, whether he wants to or not. It’s a huge robot that just accumulates tones of information about people for people, but not only.

Yes, Google provides tools and contents for free but they use them to sell information to marketers for commercial purpose. Now, with their new tools they can track you. They can exactly know who you are, where you live, what’s your name, what’s your opinion, what you like, what you try to hide, everything. And they sell it. Of course they sell it anonymously to companies! They’re not mad!

Well, they’re not mad in our countries… but in countries like China ?

As long as they will respect a certain morality, I think people will continue to use their services. It is their interest. They know at Google that a huge part of their success is based upon trust. Trust of the people. So they might be more cautious with governments of countries like China, a friend maybe not so well-intentioned.

Conclusion : You understound, I am neither a pro nor an anti-Google, I’m just an average user who use their services as long as I think they remain trustworthy.

Emails became an incontrovertible way to communicate in everyday “business life”… But there is several principles to follow to email right and not to be put on the unwanted mailing list! So lets discover the guidelines our good friend and co-worker Dilbert settled up.

Rule number 1 :
Be concise and prefer a clear page setting

Rule number 2 :
Respect your reader, check spelling

Rule number 3 :
Avoid useless messages

Rule number 4 & 5 :
Do not forward untrustworthy content & and do not forget to remind the aim of your message

Follow the advise of a professional

More Dilbert at Dilbert.com

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Web, trust, and money

Trust has been a major issue these 5 last years, and its improvment permits to largley increase the online business. People don’t fear anymore to buy and even sell on the web according to the succes of online shops and the now notorious site ebay.com.

During the same period the principle of microcredit grown up and it has been even reward by a Nobel Price for one of his upholder Muhammad Yunus. Many web sites supporting microcredit uprised. They offer the possibility to the internet users of developped countries to lend money for tiny business projects in third world countries, at very low rates.

The Web 2.0 new wave maked it more and more actual.

A new player : Prosper.com

Surfing on this new wave and on the microcredit principles (people lending money to other people in need) appear the site Prosper.com. It proposes to link loaners and lenders, and to make the business easy for both parts.

An interesting initiative… or a very self-serving interactive plateforme ?

But a little look on the site may lead to see something less sparkling than genuine microcredit. Whereas Microcredit is based on the generosity of the lenders, Prosper.com offers to lenders the perspective of making good profits. The high level of rates offered by lenders just seems like usury : nothing under 14% and sometimes offers of more than 60%!! The lenders just look for something as profit-making as the stock exchange.

Sadly, we know what it does when lenders take great risk and offer usury rates to poor people… it leds to kind of Sub Prime crisis! And for moral values and generosity: tomorow is another day.