Laura (our online community manager) just made a post of all the new things in MyTIG. You can read it here http://www.tigblog.org/group/tignews/post/327287.

I will however mention a few things again, just because we keep getting the same complaints.

1 - Your groups/projects subscription list. This will be coming back. It will be under "My Content", a new section called Involvement. This is still under construction so for the time being, you can make do by going to the main page of projects and/or groups to view your list.

2 - List of people that recently visited your profile. This will also be coming back. Although right now we're not sure where we're going to put it.

3 - "How do I edit my info?" I think a few people are missing the new tabs along the top. So for example under "Profile" there are 3 subtabs, called "Basics", "Contact", "Personal". You will find these subtabs on a few other sections as well.

As to new features...

- Bulletin Board This is super awesome. If you befriend anyone, you can see their participation on the TIG site.
- Resources For you. It recommends resources based on your city, interests, country, etc.
- Submitted Content. You can view everything you've done, whether its been featured, etc.
- Comments I've Made. This is really cool. You can see if there are new comments after yours.
- Tagging and tagclouds http://www.takingitglobal.org/tags/
- Widget. So if you like this post, rate it UP! :)

That's it for now. If you have any issues, email broken [at] takingitglobal [dot] org. Or go to our discussion boards and post it under "Error & Bugs".

So, that's it for now. I hope you truly like it. A lot of hours, effort and thought has gone into this, trying to make it as best as it can be. :)

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http://tigurl.org/kkavau

My thoughts on an article “With friends like these…” [source]

Geez all this guy does is b!tch about the creators of facebook and how they’re all getting rich.

I find funny how he’s saying people are substituting dancing/talking/going out with facebook. Like really? Haven’t we all at some point or other decided to be solitary by either reading a book, or watching endless tv or playing a game (world of warcraft anyone) for hours on end instead of going out there and ‘socializing’? What is this guy, 10? Can’t you multitask? You can be on facebook, while you read, or watch tv, or you ARE with your friends (facebook mobile…)

I specially love the privacy thing at the end.

1. We will advertise at you: Everyone on the web does this. Did you know that gmail scans your emails to target ads to you?

2. You can’t delete anything: Of course, because they have something called BACKUPS!

3. Anyone can glance at your intimate confessions: because something got cached? Thats not a facebook specific issue!!! Because someone hacked into their database? Again, not something that may only happen to facebook. Because someone downloaded the content to their computer? Not even going to bother explaining that one.

4. Our marketing profile of you will be unbeatable: I think this is great. They created a system that ‘knows’ what I want to see. Amazon does this btw. And they did it first.

I obviously disagree with the article. The only thing I can maybe, possibly agree with is that they have a lot of information about you. What they do with that data is not up to us. But if you think about it for a bit, havn’t you given your information to other websites at some point or other? Amazon has your credit card AND address. Ebay, Paypal, BestBuy, FutureShop… How do we know they’re not showing/selling/giving that data to someone else?

Originally posted here on my blog.

51% win! Thanks to the students and all their effort. They made this possible. That maniac will hopefully not be our president come 2012. It almost makes me want to go back and be in my country.

Anyway, here's a really good article about yestarday.

Read article here

"Why don't you shut up?" the king shouted at Chavez, pointing a finger at the president when he tried to interrupt a speech by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Serves him right. For blabbering on and on.

** EDIT **
English dubbed video:

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/11/11/ariosto.chavez.shut.up.cnn