http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog One Day Without Google Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:31:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On January the 12th Google announces on it's official blog that their and other companies' servers have been the target of sophisticated attacks from China. In the Google Inc official statement there's not much information concerning these attacks. Were they real? There is no evidence on this matter. Like many other ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/is-googlecn-the-new-gleiwitz-incident/ Evgeny Morozov - How the Net aids dictatorships, watch the keynote below Who is Evgeny Morozov? Writer Evgeny Morozov studies the political and social aspects of the Internet. Right now, he's working on a book about the Internet's role in politics -- and especially how the Web influences civic engagement and regime stability ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/connectivity-devices-democracy/ John Zorn is a man of metropolis, a men who suits the relation with the other above us, from the 34th floor. It gives him the joy of the first meet, the discovery of one's being through the eyes of the interlocutor. Muzicadevest.ro (which means West Music and it's another website of ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/one-day-with-john-zorn-on-ljubljana-jazz-festival/ Why only one day without google? Maybe because the rest of the days in the year we really need Google and the services it provides us. Let's see some Google Search Results: Results 1 - 10 of about 647,000,000 for iran street fight june 2009. (0.38 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/freedom-of-speech-in-iran/ Maybe a browser is Google! Or maybe is Yahoo! Or even Bing! Well, let's ask Wolfram Alpfa! But maybe is better if we ask some people http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/what-is-a-browser/ Being a OS X user, I didn't get to test Google Chrome until now. Although, as I have read about it in tutorials and seen on You Tube, I could conclude that Google Chrome is a useless application, it doesn't bring anything new, it does not create and does not ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/about-google-chrome-vs-privacy/ The war of the answer engines, searchology, Google Squared vs. Wolfram|Alpha. What is Google Squared? "Google Squared is launching later this month in labs. Google Squared returns search results in a spreadsheet format. It structures the unstructured data on web pages. So a search for Small Dogs returns results with ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/enemy-of-the-enemy-google-squared-vs-wolframalpha/ The next "Google killer", Wolfram|Alpha service from the creator of Mathematica & the New Kind of Science, Stephan Wolfram,  will be launched in next days. According to Stephen Wolfram, the goal of Alpha is to give everyone access to expert knowledge and the data that a specialist would be able to compute ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/wolframalpha-will-be-the-google-killer/ Concerning one of our last post about the initiative of EU parliament to lock up the Internet, we present a short movie of David Scharf. "We believe, that people willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither or loose both" . http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/stop-the-big-brother-state/ In an impoverished Germany by the war, with a Versailles convention which imposed very tough conditions as war damage and with a severe economic crisis, it was not a hard thing for Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - NSDAP) to acquire the power. ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/google-policy-or-googlization-of-politics/ A short movie about our lives. 10 minutes. Do you feel free? Unfortunately, YouTube, part of Google corporation, don't permit to emebed the subtitle for this awsome short movie. You must see it with English subtitle HERE. Hunger for traffic? :) Later Edit: Sorry Google, I fix it! :) But I ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/privacy-matters/ Don't let the EU parliament lock up the Internet! It will be no way back! Act now! Internet access is not conditional. On Tuesday, April 21st at 20:00, the ITRE report of the Telecoms Package, rapported by Catherine Trautmann, will come to a vote in the ITRE (Industry, TRansport, Energy) committee. It may reintroduce amendment ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/the-times-they-are-a-changin/ Crisis? What crisis?  2009 Q1 Google Earnings Slides   http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/google-earnings-for-1st-quarter-for-2009/ The Internet hasn't got a symphony yet. It deserves one? Of course, it does! Made by humans with passion and real instruments. You can watch their YouTube channel, here, will perform today at Carnegie Hall. Take a look: http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/the-human-music-of-the-internet/ Founded in my bookmarks; so let's prepare for weekend. Our set of values: respect, compassion, altruism, integrity, tolerance, care, be free, be patient, speak UP, be YOU. http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/the-message-for-humanity/ Yesterday, we posted a study about how Google works. In last days of March, the same research company, Faber Novel, presented another study called "Why Could Google Die", about the weaknesses and threats of Google. Legal threat; Internal weakness; Strategic threats; Other threat. Antitrust, copyright infringement, inability to control points of entry, privacy concern are ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/future-google-weaknesses/ We must know how Google conducts his social business and the model of development of his services. You will find the answers of some big questions: Why won't Google be affected by the crisis? Why does Microsoft fears of Google? Why is Google buying satellites? Why is Google stealing our voices? How Google wants to compete ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/how-google-works-and-his-model-of-business/ Since the beginning of 18th of march i was overwhelmed with emotions, waiting to see and hear Wayne Shorter. The three hours road to Budapest seemed to last 50. After we parked, we took a short tour of the surroundings to find a restaurant, so we went to Bohema, a ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/how-and-when-i-felt-miles-davis-an-example-of-a-day-without-google/ What kind of relationship we have with Google? You can do a search and come up with literally hundreds of Microsoft jokes. There are Linux jokes. There are Unix jokes. There are Cisco jokes. IBM jokes. There are even jokes about bloggers.So how come there aren’t any jokes about Google? Is Google’s ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/googles-jokes-anyone/ A story about force and humans: Like most Americans, I use Google's search engine several times a day without so much as a second thought. It was only in 2007 that my company's relationship with Google, Inc. temporarily escalated to that of a full-fledged customer, when Think Computer Corporation became yet ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/google-can-terminate-your-account-for-any-reason/ Jonathan Krohn, a kid without childhood? The WunderKid? I doubt about it. Parents, you can be proud of  him! America, here is your son! Glorify him and lead us to glory ride... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/the-wunderkid-brand-of-google/ I found this representation of how Google Search Engine is used.  Google is our master language teacher and in same time our "femme fatale"? Can we be serious? http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/usability-pie-of-googles-services/ Yes, I must be honest with you, I'm a Google addict too. I'm addicted to Google Search Engine, GMail, Google Analytics and Google Reader. Are they many? Or not quite so many? I don't know, but I'm totally addicted... What about you? Do you use some of the Google's products? If yes, which ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/im-a-google-addict/ What's a Google? "Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission ... http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/google-on-twitter/ Business cards. Symbolism or alienation? Freedom or dependency? Is it a tricky one? Or is it just saying something on what we were talking about here? Can't you say anything about YOU anymore? Only Google can? http://www.onedaywithoutgoogle.org/blog/what-do-you-think-about-this/