Monday, 12 April 2010

Information overload....

Do you ever feel like sometimes there is just too much to do?

Facebook, Twitter, sms, work email, personal email, phone calls, letters, junk mail, tv, magazines, books, the list is endless.

I wonder if its possible to suffer from information overload?

With all the things in life that need tending; the garden, the washing and ironing, friendships, the gym, spiritual practice, reading magazines, learning new skills, drawing and the ever amounting array of things I would like to achieve, how do I find the time when I am constantly plugged in to all these things?

Today, I am planning on resigning from my job, I have been here 4 months, but I cant take it any more.

The lack of creativity in this company is astounding. Considering our core product is creative media, I really am struggling to understand where this company went wrong.

Bebo recently went under, sinking to the bottom of the internet grave yard like a gunshot social media gangster with blocks on it's feet. Deep down to the bottom of the sea to sleep with the fishes.

This company was young, creative and bursting with ideas, it rose to fame in the last 5 years, but is now destined to be cut off and shut down.

According to figures from ComScore, Bebo's global unique visitors in February 2010 totalled 12.8 million, down 45% on February 2009. Facebook had 462 million visitors, MySpace nearly 110 million, and Twitter 69.5 million.

What went wrong? Being brought by a global corporation tarnished the cooler-than-thou image of an independent start-up that was particularly popular in school playgrounds. Aggressive expansion by Facebook also played a part.

Like most social networking sites, Bebo also benefited from a novelty factor that can disappear as quickly as it emerges. News Corp, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, bought MySpace for $580m in 2005, only to watch its appeal diminish along with its value as it loaded the site with adverts.

ITV took a gamble on another UK start up, Friends Reunited, paying £120m in the same year, only to sell it at a huge loss last year.

Company insiders criticise AOL for failing to invest in Bebo, and point out that an acquisition by a corporate giant tends to stifle creativity. That may hide a more uncomfortable truth, however, which can make a mockery of the savviest owners. Social networking sites are businesses based on the fickle behaviour of internet users, who are free to move on to the next site when a competitor emerges and are offered few reasons to stick with their existing site. In that sense, Bebo was a fad.

It may not have fallen into the trap of letting naked commercialisation scare its teenage users away, but nor did it evolve in the manner that many of its competitors did.

Facebook is used by adults as well as children. Much of Twitter's power, influence – and likely longevity – derives from the fact it has become a professional tool, rather than an online outlet for gossip posted by its users.

Start-ups rarely fare well when they are taken under the wing of a bureaucratic corporate parent, and Bebo may also have suffered by hitching its wagon to AOL, a business that has itself seen better days.

It is owned by Time Warner, an American media giant that owns CNN, Time magazine and a host of other assets, but the $162bn deal that brought AOL and Time together is now regarded as one of the most disastrous in corporate history.

Buying Bebo was an attempt to build on AOL's status as the world's first internet provider by bolting on a new audience, but internet users are notoriously promiscuous.

For Bebo's young users, the site turned out to be the online equivalent of a teenage crush – intense while it lasted, but it didn't last…

Thursday, 15 October 2009

World of warcraft - A child freaks out and behaves like a wild animal becuase his mother cancels his WOW account.

This video below is an example of what people are becoming. Slaves to technology. This young man, who has obviously been playing World of warcraft so much so that his mother has had to take control and cancel his account.

This game seems young men and woman and children sitting for hours and days on end glued to their machines, with out water and food sometimes.

It is not only extremely unhealthy, but it is stunting the physical and emotional growth of thousands of young people across the world.

Stop your children playing these games and get them outside in to the world to interact with real people.

Watch this clip, I have never seen anything like it.

Thursday, 8 October 2009

If you came home one day and watched your entire family be murdered, how would it effect you?

Can you imagine this? Please watch this film and share it around.

Wednesday, 9 September 2009

Love with out talking.....


Sometimes another person in your life can change you. You don't even have to say a single word.

Thursday, 3 September 2009

A MESSAGE TO THE RESISTANCE

We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a "metamorphosis of the gods," i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing. Coming generations will have to take account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science.