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Barcelona in Space: Rocket Launch Live Online 10:25pm CET, Friday

Barcelona TelevisiÃ³ will broadcast La nit aeronÃ utica, live,
on Friday 8 December, (10.25 p.m.). The special programme is for the
launch of the space rocket Ariane 5, which has been baptised Ciutat de Barcelona.

The Barcelona television programme will follow the launch of the rocket
from the base at Kourou (French Guyana) and at CosmoCaixa, where the
event will be shown on giant screens.

Cristina Vicente, who will lead the programme through space from the
Barcelona TelevisiÃ³ studio, will establish links with Silvia Carbonell
(at CosmoCaixa) and with Vanessa Petit (at the Kourou base).

The objective of the rocket launch is to put two US communications
satellites into orbit. When the nosecone is opened, it will fall back
towards Earth, and will disintegrate when it enters into contact with
the atmosphere.

You can also watch the broadcast live on the Barcelona TelevisiÃ³ website within the section “Barcelona TV en directe”.

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Why not buy me a pint – virtually?

David Petherick of LCarocada I’ve often been criticised for being far too generous with my time and advice, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. However, there are issues with paying for life’s little luxuries when you don’t really have a ‘proper’ job…

So now, I think I have the solution – when people want to say thanks for my help or advice, they can now buy me a pint, virtually…

Well, they can buy me a pint virtually, at www.buy-me-a-pint.com and they can also advertise the fact that they have bought me a pint, and link to their own web site… all automatically, as I patiently wait the 119.6 seconds required for the next pint of Guinness to be poured…

Pouring Pints by PayPal…
What www.buy-me-a-pint.com does is quite simple – it passes payments to PayPal for services and amounts which the site visitor can define, either by selecting a ‘drink’ to buy me, or ‘mixing their own’ and setting the price. And once the payment is cleared, they can elect to add their details and a link to the web site of their choice to my site as a sponsor, or as someone who’s bought a drink!

Sponsors are those who elect to set up monthly payments through PayPal in the same way, allowing them to sponsor me, or buy me a drink regularly – I like that idea, and can have my daily newspaper, or monthly magazines sponsored!

And being a Scot – don’t think I haven’t thought of offering to set up the same service for you, so you can have drinks bought for you by your friends! It’ll cost from $197 for a software license and for a custom installation so people can buy you a pint! The systems is enabled for English, French, German and Portuguese as standard.

See www.build-me-a-bar.com

Ecademy’s Thomas Power gets his online profile Makeover…

Thomas Power of Ecademy Thomas Power is Chairman of Ecademy, and has perhaps one of the the most-visited profiles online at the community. However, Thomas asked me to makeover his profile last month. Why was that?

The answer is that Thomas was objective, and recognised that he was not the best person to author his profile. Being objective about what to include and how to structure your own profile is very difficult. Most people can not be objective when describing themselves – that’s why so many autobiographies are unreadable.

Your profile is your first and often your last chance to make an impression on Ecademy. No matter how impressive your contribution to discussions, clubs, assisting others – your online profile is the touchstone and reference point. It’s a combination of a sales pitch, a personal presentation, a business card, a brochure, a personal statement, a list of recommendations, a mini web-site, and a wave from across the room. It has a lot of work to do. Is your profile doing you proper justice?

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Certain Host: Reliable, affordable Web Hosting is here…

Certain Host from Clarocada is launched to the general public in the UK today, 1st of July 2006 – offering reliable, affordable and certain web and email services, and features Speaka! in its identity…

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When Acronyms CAN be useful…

I have never been a fan of acronyms. Until now…

ASAP for As Soon As Possible makes sense, not least for its brevity – it is short and to the point, but the over-use of acronyms can simply confuse and make real meaning difficult to see, and is a ploy regularly used by those numpties who prefer to converse in ManagementSpeak and GobbledyGook.

However, a friend from Amsterdam, Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, blogged yesterday at the Fleck Blog about something that really got my attention: the use of acronyms to add meaning to messages, specifically email messages. That was something new…
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Online Networking: Now it’s BBCu, not BBC2…

The headline in the Financial Times on 25th April was: BBC to shake up web with more interactivity. Thomas Power of Ecademy brought this to my attention in his recent blog.

It’s been a while coming, but the BBC’s Action Network started the ball rolling in this direction, and it’s no surprise to me that they are embracing the kind of success that sites like of myspace, 15megsoffame.com and the astonishly fast-growing www.tagworld.com (Population: Zero at 11 November 2005, Current Population: 1,601,233) have shown. [Tagworld cornered a $7.5 million series A round of financing in early March.]

The BBC understands, as Murdoch does, that there’s a major change in what online content people are buying into. They are catching the wave that Apple rides with iTunes, and podcasting, videocasting, and sites that coherently challenge ‘big media’ are all riding: People can make content, and people are interested in ‘People opinion’ much more than they are in ‘Broadcaster opinion’ – especially when they can provide their own opinion, and can see, and contribute to the feedback that generates. It’s interactive media, so it beats passive media every time. We are fickle, and we want to be entertainedvwith ‘Channel Me’. Now we can, whether we’re 17 or 70.
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Make money every minute on Skype.

If you charge for your time, why not charge for time you spend talking on Skype?

The technology has now arrived to let you do this – and Ecademy is at the front of the pack as ever, offering its members special access to the revolutionary JyvePro beta software from Jyve.

To see the demo, get more details and register to get the FREE download and start making money from your expertise, click here: http://ecademy.jyvepro.com

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