MATT TROTTA
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A Trattoria is 'currently' defined in Wikipedia as a is an Italian style of restaurant, less formal than a ristorante. There are generally no printed menus, the service is casual, the prices low, and the emphasis is on a steady clientele rather than on haute cuisine...Following
Diving Anyone???
Bokor Hill Station, Cambodia (via)
Bokor Hill Station is an abandoned French town in Preah Monivong National Park, located in northern Cambodia.
The town was built in 1921 as a resort by the colonial French settlers to offer an escape from the heat, humidity and general insalubrity of Phnom Penh. Nine hundred lives were lost in nine months during the construction of the resort in this remote mountain location. The centrepiece of the resort was the grand Bokor Palace Hotel & Casino, complemented by shops, a post office, a church and the Royal Apartments. It is also an important cultural site, showing how the colonial settlers spent their free time.
Bokor Hill was abandoned first by the French in late 1940s, during the First Indochina War, because of local insurrections guided by the Khmer Issarak, and then for good in 1972, as Khmer Rouge took over the area. During the Vietnamese invasion in 1979, Khmer Rouge entrenched themselves and held on tightly for months. In earlier 1990s Bokor Hill was still one of the last strongholds of Khmer Rouge.
Now abandoned, most of the buildings are still standing. The site is owned by the government but is under 99–year lease to the Sokimex Group who are undertaking to relay the road and redevelop the site, repairing the old hotel and casino along with new buildings.
Facebook posted that it is going to give users the option to share their real email address or a proxied email address.
According to Facebook, “In our tests we found that users strongly prefer having the option to share an anonymous email address. In rare cases we will set the default for the dialog to share a proxied email (instead of the user’s actual email address). We will only do this in a small number of cases (if any), based on an algorithm that will auto-detect applications that we suspect might be abusing email addresses.”
This will enable Facebook to maintain some sort of quality control over the email channel – preventing blatant abuse when users choose to share their proxied email address instead of their real one.
Facebook Platform Email Sharing API, Proxy Email Service Going Live in 5 Days
Rafer sez:
What would you like to bet that Proxied Email Addresses far outnumber direct email addresses in no time flat?
For the twenty of you that told me, “Rafer, you’re paranoid. FB’s email sharing mechanism will be fine. There’ll be no benefit to building our own or using Sweepery or whatever.” Wrong.
FB is very smart, very ambitious, and very good at what they do. They may not always charge you to get to THEIR user base (it ain’t yours), but they will find a way to retain the option for later.
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New office toy.
Retro.
My own personal New York…
The above is a heat map of my @foursquare checkins://bit.ly/6TwkM6
Trottoria Search
Matt Trotta Search
Trottoria, the ego manic is back.
I did a search based on this blogs name “trottoria” and was really excited to see that my twitter stream is also showing up as real time search.
What surprised me is that when I do a search on my full name ‘Matt Trotta’, while my blog name comes up, my twitter handle is no where to be found.
I am not sure how google is crawling twitter, but does thismean we need to start rethinking our twitter handles and have them fall more inline with our full name?
