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C-Suite

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Sorry, this post has been translated using google translator.

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C-Suite is the group of people, each of which directs an entire area of a corporation. A corporation means a company or a group of large companies, people or in terms of turnover.

It is a concept that comes from aglosaxó and generates many acronyms, which indicates the importance that we give.

For example:

CEO: Chief Executive Officer. Is the title we see most often. The decisions of the Chief Executive of a corporation involve several thousand. Is the title of Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Samuel Palmisano.
COO: Chief Operations Officer. A highly elastic concept, as is subCEO, which depends on the CEO and part of the executive can upload it. Some companies have it and others do not, like some Government vice president and others have not, although you never know exactly what they do (well, yes, Vice-Chairman).
CFO: Chief Financial Officer. It is the treasurer of the corporation. Handling a large amount of money, while it is responsible for promptly paying a lot of payroll.
CTO: Chief Technology Officer. Head of technologies generated by the corporation. A head of research and development.

In our environment, but do not have many large corporations. Neither have much research. But the social position, which is the majority, more important than income, is reflected in our card. We can put CEO or Manager. Accountant or CFO. Climbing or CTO, as well as supermarket cashier or technical billing.

And when we give a card that carries these titles-bubble, what options do we have? I leave that for someone in full-bodied psychology to answer the question.

Dos Attacks

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I recently had the opportunity to track a DoS attack caused by an issue that particularly aroused my attention. It is the operaciovalencia, designed by Anonymous from cutting emissions multiplex TVC from different repeaters in Valencia.

I’ve been following not only that, but everything related to the feedback network to cut emissions. Really the rest of the reactions were very successful and have had success and impact that the most optimistic could expect, but what about the reactions operaciovalencia?

A DoS attack in a series of public service as the website of the Generalitat Valenciana, and off he suffered in the service, can be seen in many ways, most can be extrapolated:

* Once an institution that makes caciquism its modus operandi and that must stop
* The denial of the rights of other citizens enjoy services that may be needed.

As the first point is trivial and everyone has an opinion more or less made me downtown to discuss the second point.

The attack invited to download a free software and run it by adding some parameters. Very simple. This program was that she did send requests to port 80 of the massive web of the Generalitat Valenciana by writing a string (an insult). If this is done from many computers, the attack is unstoppable, a single server. This is what we call a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).

I know the web services of the Generalitat Valenciana. The services provided in an abstract way I see them, but many people may need these services because they are pending adjucacions of some kind, or simply eager to access some information needed urgently.

And compare the deprivation of their rights to the deprivation of the rights of people who want to work and train drivers, subway or bus to deny them a right supposedly superior: the right to strike. But why this law punishes the worker and the employer rewards? It should be the opposite? The same when workers are on vacation and want to enjoy wildcat strike at the airport. In truth there right?

Attacking a public website is especially punishing citizens and political rewards, it becomes a martyr (and win votes). It is a wise strategy? I think not. And the other ways are more effective.

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The listening company

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Via ReadWriteWeb I learned the following question raised in Quora: What are the distinctions between Social Business and Enterprise 2.0?

I think it is interesting because it makes us deeper into the 2.0 concept, we can reach interesting conclusions and we can change the terms we use to explain what appears around 2.0.

Starting Point: 2.0 is the tandem between community and technology that make the contents to be user generated.

Curent point : companies have been working on this concept since they realized it can have a major impact on their businesses.

The question: how can we tag these companies?

When sayng Enterprise 2.0 we focus on the fact companies do marketing through social networks, but we know that this does not mean that the company is interested in what people say. When saying  Social Business, we are excluding non-profit organizations. In the article by ReadWriteWeb the writer likes the concept  read /write company, but to me it sounds like about storage device.

For me, the most important thing is the company is capable of listening. And it does not have to do so via the Internet, there are many other ways. As an singer needs the breath of the public and being face to face, companies must also do this exercise. And Internet is the tool to amplify the ability to listen.

Maybe the name does not make the thing and maybe the name makes new things. And like the Romans called SPQR their state to give it body, I believe that a new  acronym could institutionalize a new way of relating to those who give life to the company: customers.

Here the link to post ReadWriteWeb: http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/01/late-night-blog-fight-enterpri.php

What our browser says

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Sorry, this post has been written using google translator

Better read the original : http://www.david.cat/ca/bloc/el-que-diem-quan-naveguem

Today I wrote a new article Argus website with a couple of questions that is interesting to know to know to what extent we can feel safe.

Pages been visited

It turns out that there are websites that are interested in knowing what else is visiting the public part of them. With javascript you can do

Hackers with inside information

Companies like Microsoft give the source code to governments and demand that they make such a malevolent

Do mandarins cause flatulence?

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Mandarins contain soluble fiber. This is food for the probiotic bacteria. Probiotic means that, beneficial for our body.

The process by which probiotic bacteria feed generates gases.

And this only happens when we begin to take food with soluble fiber, such as citrus and our body is not used to it.

So yes, starting to eat mandarins causes flatulence and continue with them or other citrus, like oranges that come later, do not.

Courtesy Susan NYC/Flickr

Spell checking in firefox

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I often see articles and tweets containing misspellings avoidable with tools offered by the open source community

Tool

While writing we like being assisted by a tool highlighting mistakes and gicing options. It is mandatory the existence of a plugin dictionary.

Fields to be checked

Where we are less willing to make mistakes is precisely the title. Firefox only checks textarea fields, by default. And the titles are in  text fields (one row). how to solve this?

* Check the address: about:config
* Filter: Spellcheck
* To layout.spellcheckdefault usually there is 1. Set 2
* Check directly, without closing the page, in another tab

This is how Firefox helps us to be correct in terms of spelling

E-commerce

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Sorry, translated using google

You might better read the original in catalan

The latest issue of The Economic opened yesterday charged Sunday with the news that companies are being put ahead of users in terms of trade via the Internet. Good news because we were talking about breaking a vicious circle which prevented the normalization of such transactions. The point where we are today is clear: the supply is up and visits are becoming a very slow demand.

Confidence in the shopkeeper

Experts say that not seeing the expression on the face of the other is seen as aggressive. So we are both behind the wheel. Not being able to talk to anyone face to face is always threatening but Web 2.0 has come to resolve it. The article notes that the e-Zara opened on September 2nd stall and fired visits to its website. 80% of which came from where? Block. I think a decent percentage and highlight the conclusions that they can get there one clear. Internet users use the blocks to be updated. When someone is subscribed to a blog via your RSS or was simply following the bookmarks, you are giving him renewed credibility to each article. This is the key to confidence in the shop: references, good and bad. With a Google search, more or less quickly, we can see what bloggers say different (Google is very efficient indexing articles from blogs), forums and social networks and build us a confidence based on what they say.

Potential buyers

What will happen when nacuts between 85 and 92 have sufficient purchasing power? We are not yet talking about their own incomes, grew up with Internet and together form a critical mass enough to change the landscape. Missing for 5 years and can cause a boom according to the article will be an important opportunity for SMEs in mind that if you have Internet only works what is good.

Buy Mobile

Pizza Hut has made available an application for the iPhone the first month generated a turnover of $ 3 million. Be seen as mobile helps to drive this boom.

Shop Physical

The point that struck me most in this article and the next page, titled “The Web is the small” is related to the physical store. Attracted my attention because it seems to solve the main problem of electronic commerce: shipping. The physical store will save money and time. All end up having a close to home. Even highly advanced MRW has this issue. Offering from this month, a collection service for more than 2,000 virtual stores online that use your e-commerce channel: 600 collection points distributed by the state. Are their franchises.

The question is not if we have to do or not. If now is the time or not. Not what way. The question is to be entered into this world and, as always, the answers do not exist now, come alone. And shows us where to go.

Twitter and users

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(sorry, translated by google)

Versió en català

There are some practices of twitter users I’ve been watching what people do and wanted to share with the community because I think there are always some that may seem interesting and unknown.

Change username

You can change the username? Totally. In fact it is easier to change their avatar. And just as not recommended. Well, if your avatar does not recognize your face, it is always advisable. But if it is recognizable and have not changed much. Many people use avatars for mental filter and if there are changes in the images is complicated by the invention.

Returning to change username. If you are editing the profile, you will see that the username is an editable field. Just write a new one. While not used twitter and respect the rules, no problem. Many people making (there are many who do not, too) is immediately created another user. This will not come and someone will use the previously used identity (enter on issues of identity, which is always a sensitive area). Often there are incoming links that do not want to continue to exist but to someone else. Or just do not want people to remember that the previous username will go for us and think that has changed, sex and even have made a leap in age.

User ID

This is a concept, not practice, but to enter the explanations below.

Twitter identifies us with an id. They even used to know how many users have, since it is incremental. So no problem for them that we change the username, is used more as a fact. This is used by all the id, ie, the URLs constructed referring to someone internally is through the id.

Those who do not follow me

Twitter lets you know who does not follow (though perhaps obligation) but not encouraged. If we see people who follow us, click on Followers. And those who do not immediately see retroseguim. Following that we click through, but it teaches us who we retrosegueix. How do we know? Very easy, go user by user clicking and looking at whether the right, with the user information and the latest tweets will appear on the button to send a message. This way you can see the reason for not retroseguidors to an average of just over one second every

Those who do not follow me, but fast

There are external tools that help us free to tweet, but we can dance a little head.

The most talked about is between the tweets of Friend or Follow. We list the people that followed us back the (following), who did not return them (fans) and those who have at least one who prod quo (friends). We can download a csv file with the same data that shows us and others with additional (as d).

What makes us dance to?

It is running a little strange.

* Seems to take the ups and downs and are saved. And it never checks whether the user is changed. And shows us the old photo. If we do an onMouseOver, we link the new image, though.
* If a user has changed the username, only teaches us the original user name and says he can not find or display the username defensive. Or that someone who has used but we obviously do not follow. How do you unfollow the-back? Complicated. It is safest to use tool that offers twitter, even if many people follow, slow. Maybe we can download data in. Csv and look what has id. Maybe there is a tool that given an ID number tells you which user corresponds (not know any)
* Often when we onMouseOver shows a Follow button when we are following already.

There are other tools such as sending an email qwitter so (not) saying who has regularly made to follow from the last mail. I recommend that you pay to get the information more often.

Users Catacrack

You may be wondering how a user has 15,000 followers and only 5 tweets. More cracks that are Catacrack. Such a situation is “reason ceases” (twitter has its rules.) The practice is to continue to get this many people then let them continue. As it probably should have followed more than 250,000 people to reach this level at any time and twitter can run the sudden dismissal, we think that makes a computer programeta. So Catacrack.

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