Posts Tagged ‘google’
Monday, October 12th, 2009
Beyond Microfinancing
If you pick up any newspaper or magazine covering economic issues, every month you will find articles about microfinancing.
The idea of microfinancing expand globalization benefits available to developing countries, by changing the way funding is accessible.
Figures do not lie. And the picture that is projected, despite the 2006 Nobel peace prize to the Grameen Bank founder, is closer to the old way of managing financial relationships with developing countries, creating what was described already in 1990 in a Museum in Germany as the “spiral of debt”.
The idea? Merging microfinancing and charity to deliver self-sustaining development.
(2000 words)
Tags: acumen, banking, dev2009, development, financing, google, grameen, micro, microsoft, nobel, town, village, wolfram
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
This post is announce about an announce.
But if you do not care about my multilingual experiment, and want just to apply it to your own web-writing, be it personal or professional, go here.
First, when I wrote on August 5th that Multilingual online publishing – part 2 that from August 16th the posts would have been “GoogleTranslate Ready”- I lied.
On August 2nd, upon request from some Eastern European online friends in my “virtual village” (1100+ people scattered worldwide), I published a first example of my new Russian handwriting skills.
The lie? Because, from July 30th, I started a weekly multilingual blogging exercise (see at the bottom of this post for the list as of 2009-08-16).
Using GoogleTranslate.
Tags: access, democratic, english, google, italian, latin, latvian, multicultural, multilingual, russian, technology, translate
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Do you have a multilingual audience?
Then, maybe you could join my “Powered by GoogleTranslate” and “GoogleTranslateReady” experiment.
From August 16th, but enrolling now…
Tags: automatic, basic, draugiem, google, language, lingual, multi, translate
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Are you interested or involved in decisions about using outsourcing and web-based applications?
Then, business-oriented (i.e. non technical) post is for you.
How to define a contractual minimal level of security, with some examples.
Let me explain: not simply outsourcing, but also SasS (Software as a service).
If you do not understand what I mean… it is like GoogleDocs- the idea that you do not install software on your machine, and instead use a website to both give you the software and keep your documents.
A wonderful concept.
And I totally subscribe to it.
But…
Tags: 14508, 27000, book, common, contract, criteria, google, googledocs, infrastruc, orange, outsourcing, saas, secure, sensitive, service announces, software, tcsec
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
One month ago, I published online the draft outline of a series of book and writing concepts.
One of the concepts had a geek sci-fi ring about it, “memories of the cloud”.
Or- how seemingly unrelated news items can build a completely different picture, just few years down the road
Tags: behind, cloud, concept, condor, creative, divx, google, memories, of, seti, stage6, the, wikipedia, writing
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
Some creative writing for the past present future
I registered only the outline/prologue/concept of few writing ideas that are actually behind the design and structure of this blog.
Tags: amazon, cloud, creative, google, knowledge, method, some, the, wikipedia, writing
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
It is about time. People are starting to realize that what you post online, stays online. But both the “authors” and their “readers” are trying to shift the blame on search engines like Google. Personally- I agree with Google. Completely.
Tags: and, arthur, century, clarke, google, privacy, xxi
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GoogleTranslateReady: one month later
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009More than one month ago, I wrote that from August 16th I would have started using something that I suggested to Google for fun, my GoogleTranslateReady concept.
Then, I wrote that I had actually started the experiment in early August, in my “virtual village” on Draugiem.Lv
This is my report, one month later.
I could not resist the temptation to publish it on… 2009/09/09
Tags: english, google, italian, latin, latvian, multilingual, report, russian, translate
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