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Week 1

week 2

Twitter poker tour tweeps:
@Panndyra - Web Content Developer, Partially Raw, Mommy, Poker player, writer/developper of tourneyblog.com and Mamalovespoker

@pokervixen - Girl next door who is also a poker degenerate. I have times she tweets ALOT. You have been warned. check out her blog on pokernave

Social media tweep:

@mistygirlph - events specialist, designer, loves music, food, travel, art and self expression.. facebook fanatic. also check out her blog http://digigirlmisty.blogspot.com/. I might be putting her in the wrong category but she has cool tips and news about twitter.

All around cool people:

@heidiheartshugs - A very proud Aussi who tweets about all kinds of awesome things. Good connector and seems to be always there when you need her.

@pauliver - runs #twitterverse on IRC. Also, 4th year UCLA english/psych major. Upon graduation? Plans so far: published short-story writer and/or hold’em dealer (help?).

I am sure I am forgetting or leaving out people this week. I really am sorry, but there are more weeks to come!

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) - Praise for them (and a rant as well)By steve | Feb 26, 2009Poker | View commentsCommentsDadsPokerBlog, Dec 2008

You should read the whole article.

I have been reading some articles lately about how the Social Media Sites aren’t making the money they should (Facebook, Youtube) or no money at all (Twitter). On Dutch radio I have listened to quite some news and discussions on how news-sites also aren’t making enough money, causing some newspapers (physical) to stop offering a web portal to their news and articles.

Since I started hearing about web 2.0 (the interaction Internet) of which I already was part, I started thinking about what web 3.0 is going to be. What will be the next big transition? I hope and think it will offer a more safe internet, an internet where reliable information is easily found AND shared with others.

But the current internet is already so big in order of existing sites and options for hackers/web-criminals to infect your computer with spyware, shareware, phisingware or whatever kind of –ware, which in the end will cost your money or time, probably both. If I use a windows XP or Vista machine I really hate the constant security pop ups from the firewall, virus scanner or the OS itself. I know the right thing to do it go for a Mac machine (which I have been doing for the last 10 years) but I also realize windows won’t likely stop being popular (read: widespread) anytime soon. I think the era of web 3.0 will probably be here faster.

I think the is a change the new internet will have two big features:

1. Safety

2. Reliable information

In order to offer these two things it has to be made very hard to bring bad software to the internet and both news sources and social interaction sites have to be making enough money to maintain a high level of reliability.

This makes me thing that there is a change the new internet won’t be as anonymous anymore as it is now. Will it be a “gated” internet where you enter to one “Door” and from there on be monitor, rated and checked for criminal internet activities? It will make it able to catch up with the internet criminals faster, but would mean we have to give up anonymity. Surfing the internet trough this door would also mean you can be very easily identified by the websites/services you visit. Instant log in and access to your internet account I would like to see happen, a lot like openID but working this time.

When I visit a site like the New York Times via this new internet, it would be also very easy to charge me .10 for an article or a few cents for any information. This would mean the people writing them can be paid for their work and giving the opportunity to research and do their work well.

With a service like twitter not having a earning-model, and it obvious it REALLY isn’t making ANY money, but costing a ton to maintain, I see a real possibility we will have to start paying money for the use of them in the future. If it isn’t going to be paying money, then it sure is going to see more targeted ads, and how better to target ads to people you are monitoring since the entered the internet “door”?

I would be a lot like a phone contract, pay as you go for the things you use. If this would happen, we probably wouldn’t be paying for the type of internet connection we use (slow/fast/cable/ect) but for the things we do with our connection.

Having this typed down, it leaves me with some questions for you:

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Thanks for reading my thoughts, please leave a comment sharing your thoughts on the new internet!

We all think twitter is cool,

But how do you know who to follow, and why? Like in real life, taking suggestions from others is a good thing. I guess thats why #followfriday is such a hot item on twitter. Let see my suggestions for this week:

Twitter poker tour tweeps:

@stevebrogan Author of dadspokerblog.com and a very connected and engaging person. Also he has a son on twitter, both have beards: @chrisbrogan

@Fleapid One of the winners of the “twitter poker tour contest” and writer of a very moving blogpost. This guy really is one of the nicest people around on twitter so please check him out.

@rawrstar He is really a friend on twitter, always willing to retweet and help out with my translation errors, follow this dude!

Social media tweeps:

@chrisbrogan I mentioned his dad above, Chris is also one to follow on twitter, help Chris get more followers then his dad.

All around cool people:

@jpyoung Really this guy know his stuff about mac, always willing to help AND a poker player

@samedelstein Engaging and fun guy

@twichhiker If you don’t follow him already, you really should start. This dude is going to try to get to the otherside of the world by only using twitter. Of course it’s all for a charity:water. Check him out.

@sebdude One of the cooler dutch people I know on twitter, always willing to help. He pointed me to some nice site more then once.
@buzzblog Don’t know much about him yet, but he was my #500 follower and he deserves his own shout out!

I am sure I am forgetting or leaving out people this week. I really am sorry, but there are more weeks to come!

But in promoting Apple I always used the “really nice built quality” argument. But here’s the thing: I own a 2.0 macbook white which I bought in January 2008. I totally love the machine and it was running as stable as it could be. Only the casing of the case sucks, it keeps cracking (had it replaced twice) and breaking off. I don’t have it with me right now so I will update this post with pictures later. for now google will have to do:

I recently had some real big/good days at playing poker so I decided to upgrade to the expensive macbook aluminum 2.4 Ghz with 4GB o memory (after market upgrade from corsair, wich SHOULD be compatible, just dit it today). I not migrate from my old system and went on with it. I didn’t notice any speed difference but its still a fast machine. I cleaned up my old macbook and then migrated it to the new macbook. For a night all things went real nice…. Next day it had all time of errors with syncserver (ate up my memory) and had to go to all kind of shit to fix it. I have had errors about adobe flash player at least 4 times and safari closed on my also about 10 times already. iSync I can’t even open without waiting for 10 minutes and finder is slow as hell… Maybe I am just ranting but this is not good IMHO.

The alu unibody and screen are EXTREMELY nice and sturdy, but the latch for the battery seems to have a bit of “room”, leaving me to think it will cause me problems in the near future…. again a bit disappointed.

Finally I have an iPhone, I have had it for 1,5 years now, obviously it’s a 1st gen. I LOVE it, use e-mail, twitter, games, music (with album covers) and am a heavy caller. Lately it’s really starting to suck more and more. It loses signal about 4-5 times a day. It says sim-locked whenever it likes, keeping me off line and in need to enter PIN again. The vibrate function doesn’t exist in myPhone and the camera takes split pictures…

I never felt so negative about my Apple products and I am wondering if the quality I love apple for is not a valid reason anymore. I hope it’s just me hitting a few bad things and hopefully I am a regular @guykawasaki once again in a few days. Right now I just feel bummed and not to happy about Apple.

Thanks for reading

#applefail
#justventing

I was pretty much dissapointed with the speedincreas I got but figured out after awhile it is a software problem.

I have this thing/process called “syncserver” eating my Macbook alive and I tried every possible solution I could find on the internet. None are working for me. Now everytime I restart of open macbook I have to kill the process before it eats my computer alive, which sucks!

I’m hoping to find a working solution soon and I will update later. If you want something like benchmarks/pics/review/thoughts please hit me up and I will happily respond!

A big thanks goes out to the following tweeps who helped me with suggestions/links/tips:

@jpyoung

@IBGPN

@petercasebow

@Sebdude

I got the Macbook aluminium 2.4 Ghz 4GB (3rd party upgrade from Corsair) with backlit keyboard and 250GB HD

I needed to do something for Valentine’s Day (obviously) and here is what I came up with:

Of cours course we will go out for dinner (click if you want to know what were are going to eat) too but this is the present for tomorrow…

What do you think, #FAIL or #WIN?

p.s. Don’t worry about Girly reading my blog. It never happened before and she doesn’t even read my twitter!

We all think twitter is cool, otherwise you would’t even know about me or this small website. One of the great things things of twitter is you get to know and connect with new people. Those that you probably wouldn’t been connected too without twitter.

But how do you know who to follow, and why? Like in real life, taking suggestions from others is a good thing. I guess thats why #followfriday is such a hot item on twitter. Let see my suggestions for this week:

Twitter Poker Tour tweeps
@cprpoker - He is one of the great people organizing the Twitter Poker Tour, he is also really helpfull when asked for help.
@pokerplasm - He is the other organizer of the #tpt and makes me smile (sometimes) when he is bashing @street3
@the_gov : Esoteric and possibly psychotic poker player, but it’s a real nice guy who will help you out when he can. No Sadam fan tho..
@arispoker - Poker player aiming to break into “big times” during year 2009 - follow his progress on Twitter and on his video blog
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Social Media tweeps / Twitter specialists
@mike_wesely - Internet Marketer, Life Coach, Trainer, Author, Cool Business Positioning & AutoResponder, SEO, Give Secret Google Marketing Expert. He also has a cool show about twitter on http://twit.tv
@unmarketing - Twitter phenom. Speaker & Jedi of viral marketing. Have made 60 online movies with over 60 million views, Also speak on Soc Media & Authentic Marketing. (Vegas addict t). He also made the cool viral about retweetitng
@superaffil - Internet Marketer, Affiliate Marketer, e-zine publisher, speaker mentor and coach.

All around cool people (or cool/hot people)
@shaundraa - Engaging tweetist, good for some cool tweets
@crackbarbie - coolest hair stylist in the USA.
@liamvickery -The World’s greatest guitarist. Revolutionizing the way you think, one tweet at a time. Come on in and join his party!

I think this is enough for one week, more next #followfriday!

If you would like to take the time to comment/or tweet me about this post and who you follewed from it, I would really like it!