This morning I read my Google Reader and I stopped at this article. The first ever black (Afro-American) US President, made another “breakthrough” movement. He gave the Presidential address using YouTube. This new US President -Mr. Barrack Obama- seems like very updated and technology minded. He’s been using internet as one of his mainstream presidential campaign. He also uses Facebook, and many other social networking sites. And now, if he is consistently doing the presidential address at YouTube weekly, he will write a history as the very first President who is giving regular speech via YouTube.  

Let’s just wait for another “tech-breakthrough” that he will make in the future. From what I read, Barrack Obama will have ‘trouble’ to sacrifice his beloved Blackberry to his Secret Service, for the security sake and confidentiality of his emails. (Is there anyone who knows Obama’s BB PIN? so that I can chat with him, hehehe…)

Walaupun we all believe that kesadaran berdemokrasi di US sudah demikian tinggi, tapi tetap saja situs social networking mengajak masyarakat luas -khususnya US citizen- untuk menggunakan hak pilihnya. Saya sih berpikir, mungkin untuk warganegara US yang malas or “lupa” nyoblos, begitu check situs Facebook, then merasa tertegur “loe warga yang baik ga, nyoblos donk..”In this same day -hari ini- harusnya saya juga ikutan nyoblos di Pemilihan Gubernur Jatim putaran II, tapi honestly speaking saya ga nyoblos tadi… “Abisnya, ga diingetin ama facebook untuk nyoblos sih.. hehehe” 

As we all know… what happened later… Being first it’s not always good. Being the market leader is not that easy to hold.

Let’s watch and monitor how Google maintain their leadership ;-p

I bet they will…

Untuk sign-up ke blogsite ini aja kita perlu approval dari adminnya, yah sama sih kurang lebih sama passionland, tapi kalo passionland bisa dibuka public, ini gak bisa… Pas sign-up pun kita juga mesti ngajuin alasan yang jelas kenapa mau ikutan… Dan kalau gue gak salah, gak semua diapprove sama adminnya…

Sedangkan untuk contentnya, MTV sticky ini kurang lebih kayak trend centre-nya MTV. Di blogsite ini staff MTV di seluruh dunia posting hal-hal yang dianggap deket dengan audiencenya MTV. Selain itu, blogsite ini tujuannya juga untuk filtering informasi. Jadi kan kita sering dapet spam atau berbagai forward-an, nah gak semuanya itu gak berguna kan… Jadi lewat MTV Sticky ini, membernya saling merekomendasikan artikel-artikel yang bagus dan worth to read/know.

Mungkin perbedaan MTV Sticky dengan blog kita ini ada di newsletter yang dipublish oleh MTV. Jadi dari tema-tema yang paling populer threadnya, MTV nyusun majalah per 3 bulanan dengan tema-tema tersebut. Tentunya, majalah itu juga ada value lebihnya, yaitu informasi-informasi tadi udah didukung oleh data riset…

Mungkin karena blogsite ini MTV tetep dekat dengan audiencenya, tapi mungkin juga nggak.. soalnya gue sih sekarang udah jarang banget nonton MTV secara isinya reality show, tapi mungkin gue udah gak masuk itungan target audiencenya mereka, ya gak?

Word of Mouth did it again. Saat ini website www.cynthiaraalona.com sedang ramai dikunjungi, hanya dengan email blast yang sifatnya un-official.

Kalau in WOM by design maka kita akan lihat bagaimana Alona bisa memanfaatkan keadaan ini. Maklum saat ini dia sedang atau akan shooting Kawin Kontrak 2. Dan walau sebelumnya sudah sempat menjadi cover majalah Female dan Popular, sempat tampil di iklan Mie Sedap, Lippo bank dan Sabun cuci Bu Krim namun namanya not ring a bell. So dengan langkah ini, tentunya sekarang lebih banyak orang yang ‘aware’ dengan nama Alona.

Tapi kalau mengikuti beritanya, pihak Alona menegaskan bahwa ini bukan untuk mendongkrak popularitas. Ia menduga ini dilakukan oleh mantan managernya. Hubungan mereka sebagai artis dan manager putus karena perselisihan.

Pertanyaan saya, sekarang kan website www.cynthiaraalona.com up and running, apakah Alona tidak punya hak untuk minta foto-foto bugilnya diturunkan? selain itu, siapa pemilik website tentunya bisa diusut kan?

Until today, that is, when the project was rekindled with a modern twist.

Using a giant “electronic telescope” and state-of-the-art technology, England and America were joined once again when the tunnel entrances were reopened beside Tower Bridge in London and Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It meant that New Yorkers and Londoners could wave to each other across the sea and begin the kind of mute dialogue that was only a dream all those years ago for eccentric engineering entrepreneur Alexander Stanhope St George (deceased).

Or at least, that’s the way the story goes.

What is certain is that now you can indeed stand on the South Bank of the UK end of the 21st century “Telectroscope” - and see someone standing 3,460 miles away across the water. And - oh dear - it didn’t take the Brits too long to utilise it for a bit of fun at the expense of their American cousins. The truth is that the Telectroscope - installed by Artichoke, the same people who spectacularly paraded a mechanical elephant through London two years ago - probably employs the latest broadband, camera and satellite technology to close the gap between our two great nations.

The Telectroscope uses 6ft screens and a Jules Verne style telescope that gleams with brass and an array of Victorian dials. Participants peer into one end of the screen - and hey presto - they can see anyone standing at the other side. “Part of the idea is just to allow people to use it in whatever way they want,” said Mr St George, 53, from Bristol, who insists he developed the Telectroscope after discovering his great-grandfather’s dusty notes and diaries in an attic.

“The thought of a tunnel under the Atlantic is fascinating,” he said. “What child has never dug a hole at the beach and wondered how long it would take to go through to the other side of the world? “The Telectroscope is a stage, and the people who use it are the performers. “Their unpredictability is all part of it. It’s encouraging people think about different ways of communicating, to see people living everyday lives thousands of miles away - and, perhaps, to study the way everyone reacts differently to something they’re not quite sure about.”