Kasi-Blog

StudiVZ wants to discuss his code of conduct with his users. In my eyes a good strategy, but it depends whether the codex is put in practice and whether StudiVZ has the possiblity to ensure that the Codex ‘is lived’ inside the company. If they need somebody who is proud and adept in Philosophy and Economics, then they might take a look here.

Katja Kipping and Christine Buchholz have released a book called “G8 – Gipfel der Ungerechtigkeit” (G8 Summit of Injustice) which contains a number of critical articles on the influence of the G8.
Contributing authors include:

• Elmar Altvater
• Alex Callinicos
• Hugo Chávez
• Oskar Lafontaine
• Chantal Mouffe
• Peter Wahl

It can be bought at the Attac Webshop. Publishing House: VSA-Verlag, ISBN: 3-89965-200-2

The German Federal Union Council and fairworks e.V. has started a petition at the German Parliament to regulate internships. The petition demands that internships are limited to three months and are paid with at least 300 Euros. (See German Federal Union Youth, Students at Work)

www.g8-germany.info updated its website with infos on all the activities surrounding the G8 summit, Civil Society activities both running up to and during the G8. They also offer a tool for announcing events and activities in your own countries.

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Today I received the following email:

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StudiVZ went down – for unknown reasons and with a lot of justification. Maybe they just want to hide some of their Stalker and anti-semitic Nazi-Groups?

Update: Now it was an XSS- worm (see Customer of Hell) that copied itself on the guestbooks.

And Spiegel Online is covering the Stalking issue.

Two great scenes featuring the Camelot-scene from the Monty Python movie “Knights of the Round Table” – one with Lego Toys and one Real. Found at IchLache

On Monday, it’s the big day! I have to take an GRE test for my application to universities outside of Germany. Today and yesterday I reviewed math and vocabulary.

Here is a list of words that foreigners are expected to know when studying at an American or British university. I am sure that all Americans and all British know these vocabs by heart.

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The blogger Florian Altherr is suggesting humorously that the PR of StudiVZ resembles a more recent failed “coup de PR” in the Middle-East (see left). However StudiVZ investor Lukasz Gadowski suggested in his blog today that he sees his PR role more closely resonating the most-famous “éminence grise” (see right): Read on, my friend »

The blogosphere is running so fast that I have a hard time keeping up with the StudiVZ news. Even though I try to keep the Encyclopedia fairly accurate and up-to-date, it is difficult to include the recent developments as fast as they are happening. So here for all my English-speaking readers, a short but hopefully accurate description of what happened at StudiVZ.

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Recently a list of the 100 largest business blogs in Germany. But by having a look at the list of blogs, I wondered: are these really corporate blogs? Where is the corporation? And is blogging business? Even Robert Basic (#1 on the list) earns only about a few hundred US-Dollars per month.

The government of Chancellor Merkel celebrated that the Grand Coalition survived the first 12 months. On this occasion they released a resume of their plans and achievements, which indicates that international climate protection will be a focus at the next G8 summit.

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Me and some friends are working on a new blog for PR and Sustainability – “Nachhall-Texter“. Read on, my friend »

Last night was a meeting of the Model G8 Team. We are organizing a simulation of the G8-Summit in Heiligendamm in 2007.

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“Dear diary -

I have just created a nice new place where all my friends connect to each other. Already a million of my friends and their friends have come to my place. They left pictures, they left details of their private life, they left messages to each other. Wow, what a nice community. We all love each other. Despite some small problems.

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This morning Don Alphonso reported that StudiVZ has a huge data leak – which seems to be the next big problem in the StudiVZ history.
The images are saved on a different server and have public access – despite the StudiVZ announcement that data privacy is ensured. Even more, their competitor and potential buyer Facebook.com reveals the same security leak which fuels speculations about identical program codes and ongoing co-operation.
Read on, my friend »

This is a summary of articles and blogs related to StudiVZ.

Introduction

StudiVZ is a German-based social-network platform for university students. According to their website, it was started in October 2005 by three German students: Ehssan Dariani, Michael Brehm, Dennis Bemman (registration is needed). ‘StudiVZ’ is the German abbreviation for StudiVerzeichnis. Read on, my friend »

As far as I know, Germany has one of the most interesting systems to choose its delegates to the United Nations Youth summits in the framework of its General Assembly in New York. Read on, my friend »

An invitation from AEGEE Konstanz:

You wake up…crawl out of your bed…walk through the hall…into the bathroom…under the shower – BUT there are just drops coming out of it? How far would you walk to get a shower? Not far?

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The G8 Research Centre released a communique on the G20 and its reform agenda at http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/g20/.

The African Youth Foundation has just released “Africa’s New Journey: Can the Youth Claim NEPAD’s Promise?”, a paper written by, among others, G8 Research Group alumnus Kartick Kumar. The paper is available at
http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/scholar/index.html#africanjourney and also from the African Youth Parliament’s website at http://www.ayparliament.org/publications.