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The Romulans attack the Federation for they can’t read the Peace Treaty sent to them in Word 2307 format… they only have Word 2303. A hilarious cartoon by Geek and Poke. Joke? Perhaps … or not.
 
How many files, documents and paper that you composed during your university days (or a couple of years ago), which now -- suprisingly -- become unreadable?
How many files, documents and paper that you compose today (which you already keep, backup, copy, store very very carefully these days) yet -- unexpectedly -- would/might/may become unreadable soon (or later into the future) ??
 
This is exactly the reason why open document format (ODF) is important. ODF ensure content can be read, no matter when, where and what type of tool you use to create it. It ensure content can be read no matter what type of tool you use to read it -- today, and into the future.
In that retrospect, that's where OpenOffice becomes relevant and important. It ensures ownership of the content (and its format) belongs back to the user, and not being 'proprietarily trapped' inside the silos of particular companies, nor company.
 
OpenOffice fully embrace ODF concept since day 1. Microsoft Office until today is not. People need to make the right strategic choices in regards with such. It's people that shall be the owner of their digital content, at all time. Never companies, nor company, after all!
 
It's content -- not tools -- that is really important, and truly matters.

   

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Social_Cause_Continue_To_Exist.zip (50 KB)

In the past, most social causes lives-in because of the vision and idealism of its founder. These people put their effort, faith, believe, initiatives and even their own money to make the idea exist and persist.

As these causes matures, they seem to have tendency to keep on living (and expanding) because -- this time -- the global society funds it. Global society decides these open initiatives contributes something useful and powerful to society as a whole, hence they together act and continue fund it.

This is the latest fascinating trend in the development of social causes (and open causes) around the Globe! Something that is fascinating enough to see how it would evolve into its final format.

Interactive big-size-banner-ad! I love it so much!

When the concept of a 'car' still sounds silly and strange for many, do you know what they called a 'car' is ? ... a horseless carriage! -arv

Never been in history that a campaign is this momentous, inspiring, energetic, emotional and strong. People self-organizingly stand up for what they believe is a hope for a great change, a movement, a chance to contribute a change for a great future. The hope spreads not just in America, but around the globe. Win or loose, Barack Obama probably already winning in sparking the light of hope that now resides in the heart of the people.  -arv

This is how the distribution of usage of social networking sites looks like in February 2008:

This is how it looks like 8 months later, in October 2008:

Seems Facebook eats out some of the smaller player segments, as well as capturing some of the MySpace segments.

Anytime, anywhere, whenever you're connected, you're at the office already.

     

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Office_Of_The_Future.zip (9612 KB)

Could this be the look of office of the future?; where everybody just connecting from everywhere, and once they're connected, the exact same place where they got connected becomes their office right away? Take this view at Hongkong Airport for example. Could this be the "early look" of people's "office" of the future? 

At Worxcode:

We're putting together web2.0 for business, integrate office-desktop system with the web, and make everything seamlessly interactive, mobile, tag-based, linked and connected. http://www.worxcode.com

• We call it "Workprocessing system". "Work 2.0". "E2.0". "Facebook" for business (tm) ...

• We call it New way of working, people work connected, people work digital, people work mobile (sm) ..

These has been our truest passion -- since day 1.