Visit www.C2E2.com for more info on C2E2, the 2010 Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, April 16-18! This is the first of four videos I made for the 2010 C2E2, with more to follow! Visit http for more videos!! Follow the Randoms!- www.twitter.com Random Note From Random Guy: No, we’re not changing our action figures. We’re just complying with Marvel’s request that we not use Spider-Man character action figures from the movies in these C2E2 videos.
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Is internet dating successful? This is a question that many people are asking around the world. In my opinion, internet dating is much better than other dating methods. However, I do think that it will not work for everyone. Everyone in this world is different, and this leads to different views about how people should live their lives. If you are trying to find someone to have a great relationship with, internet dating is the best way to go.
From the male side of things, the internet is not always the best option for dating. This is mainly because some guys like to be players. They would rather be involved with many women instead of having a committed relationship with one person. If you are looking for one night stands, you should focus on going to clubs. I have visited many clubs, and most of the women tend to be very sexual.
If you do want a relationship with a woman, internet dating is the way to go. You should focus on using social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook. This is the only way that you will achieve a high success rate with picking up women. Browsing profiles is one of the major benefits of internet dating. It is pretty easy to figure out whether a girl would be good for you or not. If it seems like she drinks a lot, then she is a party girl and is not ready to be in a committed relationship.
From the female perspective, if you are visiting clubs to find a boyfriend, you are making a bad decision. Most guys only go to clubs to find easy women that they can bring back to their bed. They don’t expect to find a great girl at a club. If you want a random guy to grind on you all night and make out with you, then a club is perfect. Don’t get overly excited if you begin having feelings for the club guy. More than likely, he’s not thinking about getting into a relationship.
If you want a relationship with a man, internet dating is the right choice. When you create a social networking profile, make sure that you are accurately describing who you are. Don’t come across as being the drunken party girl. Guys that want relationships are not looking for these types of women. They want girls that are intelligent, exciting, and fun to hang out with. There are tons of great guys out there, and you will be able to find most of them online.
Today may look like February 11 to you and I, but to Iranians it’s 22 Bahman, the anniversary of the declaration of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It’s sorta analagous to the 4th of July here in the U.S., in that it commemorates the “birth,” so to speak, of the country. As such, there’s massive pro- and anti-government demonstrations going on in Tehran. Fun stuff to observe from a safe distance away. The country’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who’s really more of a figurehead than anything else, declared, among other things, that the country is now a “nuclear state,” and that it will treble its production of enriched uranium. The country’s telecommunication agency has also used the event to announce the banning of Gmail, while simultaneosuly encouraging citizens to move to its officially supported e-mail service, mail.ir.
Now, why was Gmail banned? Nobody knows! It could be because Google started to make SSL connections mandatory, making it slightly more difficult to snoop unsuspecting dissidents’ email (I’m pretty sure SSL is easy to crack with something like ettercap). It could be because the Iranian authorities don’t want people Buzzing about, adding yet another service to its list of “see what people are saying” sites. Or it could be something else entirely.
The official reason is that Iran wants to boost the local development of information technology.
And really, who am I to criticize how Iran wants to run its Internet affairs? I’m not Iranian, I don’t know anyone there, and I don’t have so much as a B.A. in Persian Studies. I’m just saying it’s not the place of Random Guy who writes for SOCIAL-MEDIA-ROCKS.NET to criticize what Iran does from the comfort of his apartment in San Francisco. Your ideas of what’s right and what’s not apply to you and your situation, not to 70 million people in Western Asia.
For its part, Google released the following statement:
We have heard from users in Iran that they are having trouble accessing Gmail. We can confirm a sharp drop in traffic, and we have looked at our own networks and found that they are working properly. Whenever we encounter blocks in our services we try to resolve them as quickly as possibly because we strongly believe that people everywhere should have the ability to communicate freely online. Sadly, sometimes it is not within our control.
Flash: Google is subject to national rules and regulations.
The story here is that Reed Hastings, Netflix’s CEO of course, said at CES that the chances of Netflix launching on the Wii is “excellent.” That’s what he said. Excellent, not “Yup, it’s coming out on February 28, 2010,” so don’t get your hopes up just yet. But at least time we’re hearing it from the CEO and not some random guy. The last official word we heard about Netflix on gaming systems is that Microsoft has the service exclusively. [img via The Inquistitr]
The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim. But occasionally, it happens. Last week I went to local entrepreneur meetup BetaGroup and saw five startups pitch their stuff to the 200-person audience.
The last one to get its five minutes of fame was Cherry, a new mobile operator that promised to “revolutionize the telecom world”. Needless to say, I was as curious as I was skeptical.
Then the company’s CEO got up on stage, introduced himself, took out his Nokia smartphone, called some random guy in the audience and had him call him back on his phone afterwards. Projecting his mobile phone screen on a bigger screen for everyone to see, he demonstrated how he didn’t need to launch an application and just browsed his contact list to call the other person. Standard functionality, sure, but the cool part of it was the fact that the phone was lacking the presence of a SIM card, which is supposed to identify you as a subscriber of a telephony service.
