Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz

First TEDxParis event tonight - was nice

The official site is up too : http://tedxparis.com/

1,000 followers on Twitter

Frederic has just pinged me to tell me that I have one thousand followers on twitter.
I should better watch what I say now :)

Checking my carbon footprint on Dopplr

This service is getting better by the day.

Very very very nice integration of web services (friends list / openID), picture integration (flickr), carbon footprint (AMEE), etc.
Congrats to Matt & Lisa.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: dopplr, carbon

Facebook now on maintenance

Oups... did I do something wrong again ?
Hey I'm not complaining here, we're doing some maintenance ourselves on our service tonight...

These web 2.0 services really are challenging the laws of scalability of web 2.0...

I'm back on Facebook

I owe all my thanks to an old friend, who helped me sort out the situation. A big thanks to him.
Not sure It'll work the next time.

So summary for using Facebook:
- take warning messages very seriously
- read the Terms & Conditions very seriously
- abide by the Facebook LAW ;)

- do not rely on Facebook for anything important on your life, because after a certain point, you have ZERO control on your access...

 

Facebook has disabled my account

Something is wrong with the algorithms of Facebook: if they are trying to become a social network, they shouldn't disable accounts when people start to use them, even mildly heavily.

Last night, and today I discovered that many of my extended family members were on Facebook. As you know, genealogy is a hobby of mine, and with more than 20,000 in my family tree, using Facebook seems a great way to keep in touch with some of them (less than a hundred), exchange latest info on the family, see pictures, etc.
We have even created a group for one of the branches that has 456 descendants of a Danish immigrant to Chile.

So indeed I started getting warning messages, when I started sending the URL, user and password to some family members to our online family tree. Indeed, it seems that promoting an external web site is against the terms of use. Huh ? you can't send a link in an email anymore ? To your own kins ?

Anyways, I got a warning email last night. I immediately replied telling the Facebook people what I was doing, and I really slowed down the number of pings to my family members. Maybe one every few minutes max.

This morning I started adding family members again. I got a 2nd warning email today, and a disabled account email 73 seconds later. Waow... As if you read your emails immediately... Worse than a cease & desist.

email 1:

From: Facebook <info+oc0caz2c@facebookmail.com>
Date: 26 avril 2008 15:41:57 HAEC
To: "Rodrigo A. Sepulveda Schulz" <rodrigo@riscpartners.com>
Subject: Warning: Your Facebook Account
Reply-To: Facebook <info+oc0caz2c@facebookmail.com>

Hi,

Our systems indicate that you've been misusing certain features on the site.  This email serves as a warning.  Misuse of Facebook's features or violating Facebook's terms of use may result in your account being disabled .  Thanks in advance for your understanding and cooperation.

If you have any questions, please contact warning@facebook.com from your login email address.

The Facebook Team

email 2

From: Facebook <info+oc0caz2c@facebookmail.com>
Date: 26 avril 2008 15:43:10 HAEC
To: "Rodrigo A. Sepulveda Schulz" <rodrigo@riscpartners.com>
Subject: Warning: Your Facebook Account
Reply-To: Facebook <info+oc0caz2c@facebookmail.com>

Hi,

Your account has been disabled for persistent misuse of the site.  Please contact disabled@facebook.com for more information.

The Facebook Team

I understand Facebook belongs to themselves, and that they are free to kick you out manu militari. Somehow I get a feeling of total unfairness.
I've emailed both contact addresses I got in the emails. So do you think I'll get my account back ?

I really don't see the point of registering with a second account (and not lying about my ID, just not saying anything more than requested), and start adding my family members again...

Reminds me of when Robert Scoble got kicked out of Facebook too...
Something definitively wrong with the automatic algorithms at Facebook...

checking my twitter stats

do you see a trend here on my twitter usage ?

Microblogging seems to be the latest trend

Check the stats...

Social genealogy

Amusing piece of software online at www.geni.com. Too bad it's nowhere as good as www.geneanet.org, my current genealogy provider...

Presenting at the Monaco Media Forum later this month

Later this month, I will be speaking in a general session panels (friday 20) at the Monaco Media Forum. This is an invitation-only media event, put together by Publicis Events Worldwide, with a large number of executives from the media world, with a small twist of entrepreneurs, VCs and the like.

My panel, just after the opening session keynote will focus on
“New Waves”: Sharply focused presentations from the leading edge of digital  innovation.
. Jason Kerkorian CTO Slingmedia
. Suranga  Chandratillake, Founder & CTO Blinkx
. Michelle Wu, CEO MediaZone.
. Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz, CEO vpod.tv.

Although we haven't yet talked to each other on how we want to structure this panel, my guess is that Slingmedia will talk about place, time and device shifting of media consumption; Blinkx will talk about how to find the proper content in this massive arrival on new online video; Mediazone will tell us about their experience with bringing TV content online; and vpod.tv will probably talk about quality user generated content and the monetization of it.

We have about 2 weeks to go before the event, so I'd love your suggestions for more examples about user-generated video monetization; In particular I'd appreciate great pointers to great original content that we haven't all yet seen. It will make the session more interactive, and hopefully provoke more reactions. Use the comments below for feedback. Thanks.