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Submission + - Can Ubuntu reach over 16,000 anime lovers in April (thesilentnumber.me)

shadowmage13 writes: "After months of planning, i am happy to finally announce that the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team will be preparing a booth at the upcoming 2010 Anime Boston convention. We need support from the community to secure a booth and print materials including copies of the Ubunchu! manga. I really believe the Anime fandom is a perfect match for Ubuntu, and they are by nature very much in line with open source and remix culture."

Comment Linked In is not FaceBook (Score 1) 474

It's good to be skeptical or even paranoid on the net. I say that as a former professional paranoid.

Linked in has a reasonable default set of privacy which you can raise or lower. Since it's about resumes and professional networking, the default is a little more open than sensible folks would use one rather more personal FaceBook profiles, and that is ok.

Linked In also has a more transparent business model on how they are monetizing your free service. They are on the give 99% free to build a community for which 1% will pay for advanced access. Anyone can buy access to fuller search results and to ability to send job inquiries - to those who indicate interest in such - to folks without being introduced. You don't have to build a better game to spam peoples friends, just buy recruiters level access. That's transparent, and in my interest - If I need a job later, I will want active hiring managers not in my network yet to be able to find me.

I wouldn't use LinkedIn for purely social networking, but I don't think I want to give professional references on dating-and-music sites like FaceBook or MySpace either.

Bill

Comment Re:Hope they park cars better in Boston! (Score 1) 35

In South Boston not a half mile from the exhibit hall, at Broadway Sq, there is a parking lot using lift-jacks to double up. This is new.

In downtown there's a postage stamp of a garage (is it Province St?) that has valet-operated freight lifts to get cars to the parking levels. (No SUVs please.) This from the look is an older installation.

As far as I know, these are each unique in Boston.

  -- Bill

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