It supposedly bans financing terrorism, but that's already illegal. It’s
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Did Whitney Houston Plan The Grandest Of Her Exits?
It may be too soon to speak
without being disrespectful to the departed, but whether the diva, famous for
her sensational concert exits often with her signature piece “I will always love you” wished it to be
or not, her death in reality has turned in to her grandest of exits!
“A
surreal scene unfolded at the hotel as the party continued while Miss Houston's
body remained in her room on the fourth floor, which was sealed off with yellow
police tape.”
No one in history, except Julius Caesar,
perhaps had his or her praise sung to the world and immortalised, while the soul
which was separated from the body must have been looking down on it and smiling
in greatest of joy at the fulfilment of the life just ended.
"Whitney
Houston, simply put, had the greatest voice in the world. She was a gift of
God. Hearing her sing was like listening to magic. If it wasn't for Clive Davis,
the world may not have known about this miracle voice," Combs
It must sound cruel and uncaring
to think of still holding a party
when an invited has just departed, especially if it happened in the next room.
But in the case of Whitney, who has been honoured with six Grammy awards, it
was not just a party she was supposed to attend that evening, it was her mentor
and music producer Clive Davis's customary pre-Grammy party, typically one of
the most fun-filled highlights of the week leading to the music industry's top awards
ceremony
For Whitney, it would have been a
party held by her mentor who made her the Whitney Houston the whole world pines
for, where she would have found herself the happiest. How could Whitney have
asked it to be stopped, if her soul could, it would have sung “I will always
love you” for all in the party hall to hear!
"Simply
put, Whitney would have wanted the music to go on and her family asked that we
carry on,"
Though some statements have been issued by the coroner about the cause
of Whitney’s tragic death, and we may never ever know exactly, one thing seems
to be true. Whitney Houston may not have asked for it but God has granted her
the best stage she could have wished for a final performance.
Article first published as Did
Whitney Houston Plan The Grandest Of Her Exits? on Technorati
What On Web Will President Obama Need To Win The Next Election?
Move over Google, Twitter and Facebook. EnterWiseWindow, Arktan, Percolate and Klout. Search, tweet and like are out. Sentiment analysis, taxonomy, social stream, passive curation, second screen conversation, are a few of the new buzzwords President Obama and anyone else aspiring to win the US election needs to master in a hurry.
Whoever wins the election, one thing the 45th US president can be sure about is the unprecedented power the country has gained to shape the future of the world, thanks to the internet giants and new technologies of upstarts like WiseWindow and Arktan.
These innovative technologies, with amazing data collection, filtering, analysis, curation and interaction capabilities, can tell you what people are thinking right now and their intentions before they become action, enabling you to curate and chose what you tell them and how you interact with them so that you can shape the world and the market place the way you need, all in real time. That is also why who wins the next US election is also crucial to the world than ever!
"You can think of social media as a hole that has opened into the collective consciousness and we're tapping into it." Sid Mohasseb, CEO WiseWindow
Apart from President Obama and artists like Lady Gaga who has a fan base of about 20 million, who will need these new, mind boggling technology products of branding and influencing human race? Well, in the words of WiseWindow, anyone with management responsibility that belongs to the C-suite:
• CEO - Chief, Chief
• COO - Go-to-Guy
• CIO - No.1 Nerd
• CMO - Brand Boss
• CFO - Money Mogul
• Consumer Researchers
• Customer Support Personnel
• Common people, that's you and everyone else!
In reality you, the consumer, are most benefited by the new collective power derived from the application of these technologies, to influence like never before in the history, what the media, politicians, entertainers and the Industry at large will deliver. Any organization aiming to stay ahead of the market and fickle consumers, whose tastes change seemingly overnight, will need to heed to this collective power, which is already flexing its muscle in the media and entertainment industry.
Reuters recently launched 'Social Pulse', a new social media hub designed to show you the most talked-about news, companies and influencers across the Web, which features,with technology and service provided by WiseWindow, a revolutionary stock sentiment module, based on opinions from hundreds of thousands of sources captured and curated, clearly demonstrating the predictive abilities offered by the technology.
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Is a Local Language Essential to Preserve Cultural Identity on the Social Web?
"If music be the language of
love, sing on in English" will be how Shakespeare would have framed his
famous quote if he were alive today! In the age of globalisation and social web,
English seems to have acquired the status of a global currency, in which you
can trade your emotions without losing your identity.
Jayalalitha, the chief minister
of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, whose delirium tremens and
tantrums have become a part of the new X
factor politics destroying India, has issued in true Taliban
style, a
diktat that all children in her state must learn Tamil!
You can't blame her! The poor
soul, despite her 65 years on earth probably has never heard of
Shakespeare let alone realise how the world has changed with globalisation, and
social web, how regional language no more is an essential element of regional
culture.
For Jayalalitha, a film actress of yester years whose mother tongue
is not Tamil but Kannada of the neighbouring state of Karnataka where she was
borne and brought up, evoking chauvinistic emotions has nothing but political
expediency.
For millions of Tamil speaking people, who have wasted
hours staring at Jayalalitha on the silver screen, movie after movie,
because of a complex and weakness they have for her
fair skin, however, "Kolaveri
Di" is the new sound of Tamil music which makes them proud rather
than her sermon on the virtue of Tamil.
“Kolaveri Di” is a Tamil
song video created in English, which went viral on the social web scoring 150 million
hits and was parodied in numerous languages, all because people everywhere
could relate to its real music content and simple lyrics about the throngs
of love as they were penned in English of a sort.
In fact the song dominated the
media for better part of past three months since its release, invoking such
universal enthusiasm which provoked the youth from Tokyo The Hague
Doing the whole video in a
universal language has no way taken away anything ‘Tamil’ from the wonderful
production which is nothing but an expression of genuine creativity. If
anything, it has only helped to introduce Tamil along with its creator Dhanush and his team to the
whole world.
This is not the only example why
language shouldn’t matter for true understanding and harmony between cultures.
A similar video production created a few months earlier by the popular American
artist Akon with a team from Mumbai also bear proof that power of music as food
of love has not changed from the days when the Bard of Avon proclaimed it.
Through a song titled “Chammak
Challo” created for an Indian film of Sharukh Khan, a famous
Indian screen actor, the American singer and rapper Akon has proved the point.
Akon, with very little effort and time,
managed to muster the few Hindi words in the lyrics written in English and
managed to sing the song to music composed of elements from the middle east,
all to enchant and capture the hearts of an Indian audience.
As it turned out, the song and
its video recording turned a viral hit on the internet proving yet again that,
when it comes to music as food for love, cultural assimilation happen pretty
fast and the social web is the modern platform where it happens.
It is really amazing that two
productions which as music or artistic expressions of young artists have
nothing much to write about, have become phenomenal success with an
international audience in such a short time. Then isn't that the case with most
of the hits with pop music?
One can hope that this is a trend which will catch up and
bring more of such unifying efforts from all languages and culture on to the
social web.
It looks like at least on the
social web no one really cares what language people communicate with as long as
it is English. As in the real world, real talent not ethnicity or cultural
background which matters. As far as the language of love is concerned, it looks
like the easiest way to some one’s
heart is just saying ‘I
love you’ rather than ‘Je t'aime’
or ‘Ya tebya lyublyu’
If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Google and Facebook.
The office of the prime minister
(PMO) of India, the biggest democratic
country, with a population of 1.3 billion people, has at last opened
an account on Twitter and announced its
decision today to join Facebook, following the old saying if
you can’t beat them join them.
Dr Man Mohan Singh, a renowned
economist and India India India
Fed up with the abusive posts,
morphed pictures and all sorts of twisted and contorted facts and false
accusation which appear in the social web in the name of democratic freedom and
criticism, Man Mohan Singh seems to have given up and taken the bold step to
take the bull by the horns and use the social web to communicate and set things
straight.
The timing of the move by the PMO
is interesting. A junior court in India, where petitions were filed against
Google, Facebook and twenty odd social media companies for breech of infringement
of a law only enacted last year, making companies responsible for user content
posted on their websites, had warned of a crackdown "like
China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.
Last month, the companies said it was
not possible for them to block content.
However, Google and Facebook removed
content from some Indian domain websites today, following a court directive
warning them severe restrictive action if not complied.
Though no one really thinks that India China
By joining the networks, the
Prime Minister and his government is clearly showing that the Social web in India
At the same time India has also
sent the right signals, through its administration and judicial system that it
is in no mood to tolerate and live with excessive and irresponsible use of the
social web and will look forward to exerting the same level of control over the
regular media, as a country with religious sensitivities and prone to violence.
In fairness to Dr Man Mohan Singh
and his office, whose priority was to fire fight various political and other
crisis over the last two years, having the fun of tweeting and posting updates
like many other world leaders and millions of ordinary citizens is a reward long
over due.
Article first published as If
You Can’t Beat Them, Join Google and Facebook. on Technorati.
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