Jure Cuhalev

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29 Jul, 2008

Cuil – where’s the social media in the launch?

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech| ideas

Image by nattu via Flickr
It’s now more than a day since Cuil, the latest hyped Google killer launched, and we can reflect on looking at how that went.
According to TechCrunch and a number of other sources, it didn’t go too well, with their servers crashing a number of times. I’ve seen this also happen, failing [...]

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What is political participation:
 

Collaborate for a common constructive objective
Practice and defend freedom of speech
Freely meet and engage with people and causes
Discuss in order to obtain census
Engage in non-economic initiatives
Consume with responsibility
Watch the watchers
[and much more..]

 
Voting from time to time is also a form of political participation.
 
What’s the political participation with [...]

  
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Zbigniew Braniecki – the power of communities; how to create communities, what does it mean to have a community and what does it mean to participate to communities.
 
Why people do things
The do it because they want a reward in some way. There are different types of rewards:

external motivations (good grade, money, airline miles)
hobby

Driven [...]


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jure100px_colour Jure Cuhalev is an Open Source Hacker, with background in Social Sciences and Usability and User Experience (UX).