What is the name of your planet?

April 26, 2010 No Comments

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“If they turn on advanced search tools, this can threaten Google.com. All this social aggregated content will yield a powerful database of what you and your friends like, the precursor to customized web experiences and social advertising.” ~ Jeremiah Owyang, an internet analyst with the Altimeter Group

Welcome to the opportunity to create your own planet. Starting with your Facebook page and then adding a Flickr account, a YouTube channel, a SecondLife avatar, a Last.fm channel, a Twitter profile, a StumbleUpon or Digg profile, a WordPress, Tumblr or Blogger blog, you can assemble your own tribe, create your own advertising, monitor the traffic within your world and be its leader. Find intelligence from leading sources. Ready your rocket and leave planet earth for your own planet, fellow Human. Earth is Chalmun’s Cantina. Come and visit when you like, especially when you need a tactile experience with flesh, sand, forest, and fellow friends, easily found through services like MeetUp.

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April 25, 2010 No Comments

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The transition from a paradigm of opacity/power to transparency/ethics IS the bridge humanity now crosses. It is a passage best led by individuals and groups with evenly-balanced masculine/feminine polarity, pluralists and those who oriented more around Eros than Phobos. ~ Nathaniel Hansen, Athens, Greece.

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Eros by Neumann (the best writer on the story of Psyche and Eros. He is a depth psychologist).

Facebook heals humanity through ancient Greek technique – Know Thyself

April 24, 2010 No Comments

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Facebook and Twitter have a self-healing power which was once harnessed by ancient Greek philosophers, according to a new study.

PhD student Theresa Sauter, from the Queensland University of Technology, is examining how social-networking websites help people form their own identity.

“Social-networking sites, blogs, online discussion forums and online journals represent modern arenas for individuals to write themselves into being,” the Courier Mail quoted Sauter as saying.

“A lot of people see social networking as a new way for people to interact but I’m interested in examining it as a way to form an identity and understand ourselves,” she added.

The study will focus on the history and benefits of writing about oneself.

“The ancient Greek philosophers used a reflective notebook to write down what they had read and their thoughts on it,” she said.

“Early Christians and Puritans kept confessional diaries, while … in the 20th century self-writing was commonly used in therapy to enable people to explore and heal themselves,” she added.

In her opinion, Facebook is the modern-day equivalent.

“We now live in a secularist society but people are still concerned with getting things off their chest. People put status updates on their Facebook account confessing everything.

“They are feeling compelled to be honest and reveal themselves. People have always felt this way but doing it in the public realm means they are simultaneously surrendering some of their privacy,” she said. (Source: ANI)

Social networks owe a lot to the hippie movement

April 23, 2010 No Comments

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Social networks owe a lot to the hippie movement, which introduced 20th century humans to the concept of weaving relationships, celebrating pluralism and harmonizing difference. We are currently in a fabulous age characterized by syncretism, “both-and”, synesthesia, multi-valence and other such fabulous poly-phenomena. Generosity and hospitality between sub-cultures and religions is highly suggested. ~ Nathaniel Hansen

An excerpt from Robert Scoble's experience at the F8 conference…Amazing stuff!

April 23, 2010 No Comments

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Facebook’s ambition
by ROBERT SCOBLE on APRIL 22, 2010

1. It gets Facebook plastered all over the web. Already Facebook likes are on many many sites and I’d expect to see Facebook’s new social features to show up on at least 30% of the web’s most popular sites within a month.

2. It lets us apply our social graph “fingerprint” to sites we visit. You do this by adding social plugins to your site, which is pretty easy to do.

3. It lets us apply our behavior “fingerprint” to sites we visit. Again, by adding social plugins onto your sites.

4. Facebook gets to study everything we touch now and will bring a much more complete stream back to the mother ship. This lets them build new analytics features for publishers, too, as All Facebook’s Nick O’Neill writes, but now Facebook will have the best data on the web for advertisers to study.

5. Facebook gets us to keep our profile data up to date. Marketer Ed Dale nailed why this is such a big deal.

6. Facebook gets to overlay a commerce system, called Credits, on top of all this. Justin Smith of Inside Facebook writes about that.

7. Facebook has opened up to enable all this stuff to flow back and forth and has removed the 24-hour limitation on storing data gained from its API. This is probably the biggest deal for developers, Inside Facebook writes about that, but they’ve also made their API more granular so that sites can ask for, and get, very specific data instead of getting everything stored on a user. We’ll be talking about this for a while, because it actually has good implications for privacy.

8. All this new data will enable Facebook to build new kinds of search experiences, as All Facebook hints at in a post where they say Facebook is trying to build a version fo the semantic web. Search Engine Land goes further in detail about what these changes will mean.

9. It lets Facebook minimize the need for a “public” fan page, like mine. Inside Facebook explains more in detail why this is true. Mostly because they’ll spit all those bits over onto my blog, if I add the code to my blog (which I’m pretty sure I will).

10. Finally a stream of focused bits for the people who are actually visiting your page can be pushed back out to you, as Inside Facebook demonstrates.

11. They made the API much simpler and shipped a powerful graph API so more developers can build apps for Facebook (this has been one of the advantages of Twitter, for instance, because Twitter’s API was simple to figure out). Heck, you can even hit it from a web browser to see what it returns. Here is what it returns for http://graph.facebook.com/scobleizer (if you want to try it yourself, just include your Facebook name instead of mine).

(full article, including many great videos of the F8 conference, here)

Social networks have changed the face of what it means to be human.

April 22, 2010 No Comments

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Social networks have changed the face of what it means to be human. We are no longer bound by the confines of the physical realm. Human social networks are launching pads, entrance halls, to the fantastic and limitless realm of spirit…welcome to Forever, mankind. We are moments from a collectively-experienced “tasting” of once intangible concepts like Infinity, Forever and Eternity.

Virtual goods are the new economy. We are firmly caught in a river of thought that is carrying all of us into vicinities known by ancient peoples: places like Dreamtime AND Hyperborea. Our very dreams, the images that fill our minds, have a value to ourselves, our communities, our pareas, our World.

The nature of competition has changed forever. And the earth from which we now may mine gold IS firmly the Imagination.

Those who are primarily physically-oriented and adept in the realm of Density (not a negative or perjorative realm at all) are now being introduced to the Subtler realms – places well known by artists, poets, philosophers, meta-physicians and the like. They need only apply the same principles to the Invisible realm and their livings will be secure. The practioners of the subtle are now free to peddle their goods, their crafts and, most importantly, the fantastic realms of Within, a far vaster realm than Without. ~ Nathaniel Hansen

NO FACEBOOK FOR PRIESTS – Really?

April 22, 2010 No Comments

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NO FACEBOOK FOR PRIESTS
APRIL 22, 2010
ATHENS, GREECE
(Source: kathimerini)

A prominent bishop has warned priests to take extra care when using Facebook and perhaps even avoid the social networking site altogether to avoid becoming embroiled in situations that could embarass the Church.

Archbishop Irenaios of Crete sent a circular yesterday in which he advises priests to be cautious when either posting messages or setting up a profile on Facebook. “It is a precautionary measure so that our priests do not get involved in matters the extent of which they do not fully comprehend,” he told Kathimerini.

The social networking site is becoming an increasingly popular way for priests to keep in touch with their faithful. “Worshippers often ask to confess their mistakes,” said Father Pavlos, a priest from Thessaloniki who has more than 1,500 Facebook friends. “The distance seems to help and makes young people, especially, feel more comfortable expressing themselves.”

(It is FABULOUS and NECESSARY that ALL spiritual beings, teachers and practitioners be in Social Networks. Social Networks are inherently spiritual, tapping into the emotional sub-strata of humanity ~ Nathaniel Hansen).

Being tapped into the spiritual and emotional root of a circumstance is vital to true contribution.

April 20, 2010 No Comments

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Being tapped into the spiritual and emotional root of a circumstance is vital to true contribution. There is literally an image-lineage behind everything you touch in the physical realm. This is no less true in the social realm. The human imagination sources from a seemingly endless, relatively invisible realm. Creatives populate screens with their translations of this realm. A fabulous result of the increasing transparency taking place IS the revealing of humanity’s spiritual and emotional eco-system. This same environment has yielded all of our inventions. The chronicling of movement has reached the minutest of shades. Every single step is now visualized and then re-mashed into a multitude of configurations.

One might ask, What is humanity up to right now? Our old paradigm is in shambles, yet at the same time so many new channels have opened up that, at least in some communities, no-one seems to mind. Concepts critical to the previous infrastructure have disappeared overnight, quickly replaced by fabulous new methods of relating to and communicating with one another. So what are we up to? In the face of crisis, we are huddling together, circling together, bonding with one another and seeing one another (in some cases for the first time). Virtual nations have been birthed within weeks, virtual economies have flowered within months, virtual relationship is a red-hot experience and commodity. Humanity is tapping into its greatest resource: It’s heart.

~ Nathaniel Hansen, April 21, 2010 – Athens, Greece