Donor, yes or no ?

This question will be asked permanently on Hyves. All the 9.937.790 users of Hyves can register in their profile of they are a donor or not.

It is the first adjustment with a social goal since the establishment of Hyves in 2004. Besides data as name, age, residence and education people can see of a member donor is or not. With this adjustment Hyves is an official partner of the national Yes/NO campaign, that is developed by KesselsKramer. This campaign incites people to make a choice about organ donation and to fix this choice in the donor register. The concept for the cooperation with Hyves is developed by NOISE.

Hyves and the Yes/no campaign launch also a personal Hyves-campaign about the question: ‘What if you can save someone’s life, would you do that: Yes or No?’. In a gadget the users of Hyves put their own name and photo , in that case they can ask that question personal to their friends on Hyves. The question in that case is: ‘Would you safe my life”.
Within Hyves everyone can register themselves online as a donor directly. Together with partners as Hyves and through extensive guidance/actions the initiators hope the increase the number of donors in the Netherlands.

Broadcast missed on Hyves

The public broadcasting collapsed on the popular social networks in the Netherlands. From tomorrow, users of hyves can announce for the gadget of broadcast missed.
With that gadget the digital archive of the public broadcasting can be use by users of Hyves. The newest novelty was presented last week during a meeting about ‘social television’ in Hilversum.

Personal
The gadget offers users the possibility to look back en store the programs of the Dutch channels 1, 2 and 3. But also the see what the favourite programs of your friends are and to tip friends about entertaining programs. With the gadget the users can compose their own program-offer and on base of what programs they watch, users of Hyves get a personal viewing advice with suggestions for other TV programs.

Connection
With the presence on the Dutch online friends network, the NPO (Dutch Public Broadcasting) wants to get the connection with a younger target group. The NPO also hopes to get more insight in the talk about the programs.
William Valkenburg, director internet coordination NPO said: “On networks as Twitter and Hyves there is a lot of talk about the programs of the public broadcasting. By offering our programs on places where people are active, we get an enormous wealth of information. Which programs watch people in the urban conglomeration and which programs watch people who live in the country. That information is very important for the public broadcasting.

Students are addicted to social media

According to research from the University of Maryland, American students are so addicted to mobile phones, social media and the internet that the students shows withdrawal symptoms if they have to do a day without social media.

The investigators asked 200 students to abstain from all forms of social media for one day. After 24 hours many of them showed signs that correspond to those of people are drug and alcohol rehabilitation, such as fear and greed and they could not function without their social relationships.

The students complained the most about the need to send SMS messages, chat, mail and to use Facebook. ‘Text messaging and IM, gives me a constant comfortable feeling’, wrote one of the students. ‘Without these two luxuries, I felt very alone and disconnected from my life’.

Feet for the iPad

Apple offers for $69 a keyboard to make it more comfortable to type on the recently launched iPad. The company Bluelounge offers a cheaper solution: feet which can be stick under the tablet of the iPad.

By placing the plastic feet under the iPad, there will be arroused an optimal quarter for typing via the virtual keyboard. A set consists out of two higher feet and two lower ones which can be fixed on the iPad with suction cups. For that matter, the feet can also be used for the notebook. A set ' iPad feet' costs just $12.95.

Advertisements on Twitter

The American micro blog service Twitter started Tuesday with inserting advertisements on the site. The advertisements become visible by search tasks of the user, reported the American business paper The Wall Street Journal.

In the first instance Twitter ensnared ten advertisers, including Starbucks en Best Buy. Between two and ten percent of the users of Twitter will be seeing the advertisements. That number will increase the next days, thus the concern.

This step has to lead to the profitability of Twitter. There are millions of people who disperse tweets, messages with a maximum of 140 signs daily, but that did not produce much sales. The first revenues came in recently out of agreements with Google and Microsoft about the delivering of tweets on the search engines of that companies.

Mobile phone for spying on employees

New software for the mobile phone enables curious bosses to follow every movement of their employees at a distance.
Investigators of the Japanese telephone giant KDDI developed a mobile phone which can even register the smallest movements of the users. Next the data will be sent to a head office.

The program makes uses of gear meters which normally can be found in modern sets.
By an analyze of these sensors, complex movements can be different from each other. The program sees of the use walks, climbs a three or of the user is cleaning. Even the difference between the cleaning activities such as scrubbing or sweeping can be distinguished by the program.
The company has the intention to sell the technique to managers, chef or Job Centers, but it can also be skilful by monitoring a patient at a distance.

Efficienty
The aim of the new system is according to KDDI to enable employees to work more efficient and it gives managers the possibility to judge their employees better.
“Of course there is the privacy aspect and the employers have to achieve an agreement before they are going to use the system” says Hiroyuki YokoYama, chief web data research of KDDI.
It is not the first time that employees are spied on via their mobile phones by their bosses. Japanese truck chauffeurs are spied on for a longer time with the GPS-receiver in their mobile phones.

Machines
Privacy interest groups are not pleased with the developments in Japan, where the privacy discussion is less fierce then elsewhere. “People are treated as machines, or as cattle’s which are watch out constantly” says human rights layer Kazuo Hizumi. “New techniques have to be used to improve our quality of life, not to spy on us”.

Amber Alert from now on via Twitter !

Amber Alert from now on via Twitter !

Amber Alert is the national warning system by urgent child missing and child kidnapping. With this system the police can warn whole Netherlands - via SMS, TV-screens, websites, e-mail, instant messaging, TV and radio - by a missing of a kidnapping. At this way the change of a good outcome will be increased. Everyone can come forward voluntary of the Amber Alert.

Amber Alerts are from now on spread via Twitter. In the messages there will be a link to the photo of the missing people.

The aim of this new way of communication is to show the photo of the kidnapped child to much as possible people. Bert Hoen, director of the software company ‘Netpresenter, says that in a official statement. Netpresenter is the company behind the Amber Alert and thinks Twitter is exceptionally suited for this.

Especially for people who travel a lot and keep up Twitter with their mobile phone, they can deliver a useful contribution by tracing missing people. Posters of the missing people will be sent by e-mail.
That posters can be printed immediately and can be disperse by stores etcetera.
Since the launching in November 2008 about three thousand organizations and people are member of the national alarm system Amber Alert.