| SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Francesca Salcido met 300 men in 24 hours without the slightest effort. Found in SpeedDate.com potential suitors, a U.S. Internet site by which you do not need more than 90 seconds to find your soul mate. "As much as we use webcams and other internet technologies, always looking for the alchemy. And if not there, just move on to the person following, "he told AFP SpeedDate co-founder, Dan Abelon. The portal uses the latest Internet technologies to 'speed dating' (speed dating), a devastating phenomenon destined to find a partner quickly, which began a decade ago men and women who rotated from table to table, the sound of a gong, looking for true love. "If people decide they do not like someone, is something that typically lasts 30 seconds," said Stephen Stokols, CEO WooMe.com, a rival site SpeedDate. "If you know someone who likes, three minutes is sufficient. If you do not like, 30 seconds is too long, "he added. On WooMe, as in SpeedDate, automatic timers online conversations interrupted after 90 seconds to three minutes. Those who felt the possibility of a romance should just reconnect later to revive the flame. operation is quite different from most online dating portals that require users to detail their lives and their sources of interest in complex profiles or extensive questionnaires. Aspiring love then exchanged emails with people who match your profile before deciding whether want to meet in person. "With us it's more like real life," says co-founder SpeedDate. "If in real life you see someone you like, not dealt with your resume for comparison. Just speaks," says Abelon. Only instead of sitting in a cafe, future couples are known through web cameras and microphones at the portals of 'speed dating'. "My mother told me" the more you send your CV, the more likely you'll get a job '. I thought that was the same meetings, "she told AFP Francesca Salcido, a user of SpeedDate.com. the night of his release a year ago, the site led SpeedDate 1,000 games. Currently taking place between 100,000 and 120,000 daily encounters in nearly 200 countries. WooMe meanwhile reported 1,000 to 4,000 users online simultaneously, whatever the time of day. for its director general, SpeeDate users looking to find true love, while those of WooMe are more realistic and looking to make friends. "On our site we know more new friends, not necessarily new love," says Stokols. Following this idea, WooMe sent two of its Internet and American roads to meet personally with a thousand new friends known through the website. His adventures are immortalized in WooAroundAmerica.com. Source: http://www.minutouno.com More about computing in:
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No, I'm new clothes, no job (I just keep the one I have) or boyfriend (same desire to work). Release post today. And that's not going to talk about anything new, nor to revolutionize the blog or anything like that. What happens is that I am writing from the computer as usual. That actually is not a novelty, because once wrote from New York, with a keyboard that was not eñes, and again I wrote a post cortito at work. But it is the first time I write with a computer on his knees, sitting up in bed, warm and Salsa at my feet, looking and listening carefully to the noises on the keyboard. It is also the first time I write in openoffice, and the first time I do on a computer with Linux. Not that this is very interesting (although I look like much sauce as she heard the rattle of keys and watches me closely), but for me it is a world of possibilities, well then do not take it, but now seem to me the sea of \u200b\u200bpromising. Because sometimes, in those endless minutes on the subway, those minutes to rob me at gunpoint the Community of Madrid, lying as miscreants selling ours is the meter that everyone wants to be when it is slow and inefficient one meter in most lines, I can think of many things to tell, I always think I'll remember later, or even about to, but they are diluted in long hours at night tired, in the emotional tasks, in the temptations of multimedia hard drive , and finally stay there, in a piece of paper in a corner of the "20 minutes" on the back of a ticket, or a Moleskine. I'm not too willful, so once the first impulse, which looks like I will write a post in five minutes, the ideas are gathering dust, wrinkling in your bag or in a hollow waste of my brain. Now I have the intention not to let out ideas, to have funny things, and not under any circumstances allow you to pass the ranting, because the English are very horny, and then quickly forget. No sir. Many rebounds, ranting, mosqueo, balloons, emputes (language canary), or anger deserve to be reported. Like the day that Monica lost his temper with a reviewer RENFE is that he thinks is his farm Atocha (but that story is so good that I think deserve a post), or as the day I pissed heineken in Room because I had 50 minutes waiting to catch the coat wardrobe and stuffed them a complaint form, or those times when I do not do more than blow grumpy while reading the meter is dying from station to station and the clock is ticking towards the hour when the bus leaves me and I have to pay 10 euros for taxi because the lords of Metro de Madrid does not give them too embarrassed to say that the next train will arrive in 7 minutes during rush hour at 08:00 am. And thanks to this toy that I've scrounged. A toy that weighs just a kilo and bail me out if my old desktop PC decides one day to give me an upset, and, incidentally, I will help you Goiete not leave me with a " I told you so "on plan mother. When I was little, a very few times premiered year: perhaps the Epiphany, the day after your birthday, and on Palm Sunday. All Palm Sunday my mother gave me something to release, nothing too flashy, used to be a pants or socks that she knitted perlé to five needles, a technique that never got to learn. Now those ojios to be achin and stay small when you smile, give more trouble than joy, and has trouble sitting knitting. So ever since Palm Sunday premiere, even though my mother always warned me: "Domingo de Ramos, who did not debut has no hands." Like the saying has a point, though, more than not having hands, is that I am extravagant, and release more than it should be throughout the year. Now, in addition to this toy, and without having to pay anything, I get a brand new year, and as with the toy, I have high expectations for him. We'll see if I get this toy as good as my old desktop, and if this year that comes to me free, let me continue premiering things. At least one H & M panties next Palm Sunday, though not of pearls and bows with roses on both sides. Sunday, December 28, 2008Spray Paint Side EffectsIn the long (or short, as we see it) way of children, our parents are teaching us all: to walk, talk, to behave (well, that some parents) ... teach us to live, and especially to survive. In my case, I have had with parents tough, hard, used to dealing with a difficult life, so I was taught that there were things are not easy, that everything requires sacrifice, this is a vale of tears and there to strain. I was taught that work is the foundation of all, that saving is convenient, which is before the obligation of devotion. Anyone reading this might think I'm a strong person, ready to undertake the comings and goings, ups and downs, the difficulties of life. You might think that my parents have done a good job, I have made a person well, straight and committed. Yes, but my parents failed at something. They missed an important detail. It is likely that his teachings made me survive a war, to this crisis, difficult times, but today I have to tell my parents about something that did not teach me: a face to MOVISTAR. Sorry, Dad and Mom, you have failed. Yesterday, for your guilt, I felt powerless, helpless, depressed. I did not know what to do, how to pass this event. Though I tried, I could not change mobile. 3 ½ years ago to live with my wonderful Nokia 6820, probably the best phone I will ever have. Well, actually I live with my second Nokia 6820, because the first sported this look so sad, and my friend Johnny, which is a great guy and loves me more than I should, I bought on ebay a better condition. The fact is you do not hear too well, and a bus passing by and I am unable to maintain a normal conversation. So when MOVISTAR sent me a message saying that they would give me 50,000 points to change my mobile an i-phone, because I thought that just had time to change. In the message, the message they see in the picture, I say go to a store MOVISTAR. Well, that's what I did, go. In particular I went to the Gran Via, such that when you go at night, you have to close my eyes, because it's like looking at the sun, the amount of light given off. They kindly assisted me a boy, who showed him the message. Began the process and, when the time came to do, I said that, in addition to the 80,100 points I have, I pay 197 euros. No, that was not what I had seen. With my 80,100 points, plus 50,000 who gave me MOVISTAR only had to pay 66 euros. Does the problem? That computer did not show these 50,000 points. According to the boy, there was nothing to do on your part. In any event, call 4636 and tell them what happened. Up Here, the obstacles that lay ahead. It is not easy to deal with MOVISTAR, I already knew, even though my parents never would have warned me. So there, sit-MOVISTAR shop, called the 4636. A machine welcomes me Movistar and asks me to tell you what I want to make points about the program: If you want general information, if you want to know my balance or to make other arrangements. I say that other steps, because they want information and I know how many points I have. Then something happens: the machine tells me: "If you have any management bonus program, call 4636. HOW? That was the number that was calling! Can not nothing. The boy says "I'll be gone already, which is Christmas Eve." Well, as far as I know, on Christmas Eve is working, and are open until 22.00, and at that time were only 17.00. Anyway, I give up and decide to call on 26. I do. I call 4636, and again, the loop. I call again. Again I say to call 4636. I start thinking about making light of gas to customers. Of course, each and every one of these calls to 4636 are priced by MOVISTAR. I think, in my good faith, are just as broken machine, so I call from a landline to 1485. I served a lady to tell him what had happened. I asked my phone number and my ID, and asked me to wait, to confirm my data. Back at the time told me to continue waiting to confirm my data. He asks again. And another. I do not know what data needed to confirm, but the thing a few minutes longer. In the end, telling me about the department. A mechanical voice sounds across the phone: "Welcome to Movistar, indicate which operation you want to do with the points program. No, I can not believe. It has happened with the 4636 that I had known! I decide to try again to see if they are doing them themselves. But no. Again the wall, again the voice that tells me to call the number I called. Beginning to despair, of course. I call back to 1485. The process is repeated. I call the mobile number and ID. I give, I tell the story, and I have gone through a number that tells me to call the same number. I said that this time I spend with the department. Again the same recording. I still also desperate and starting to get pissed. I call again. And another. A fifth in which, without losing his temper, but already showing clear signs of being ready to explode, I ask you again I go through a machine, but a person. On this occasion, I think I opened an incident, and Miss tells me that if when I go to the appropriate department I get the machine to call back (as long charging such calls, of course) and give that number. Of course that leaves the machine. In the last call I try to tell the lady what I said above, but do not want to take the number you give. He says he sees it, and this time I go to a department. I tell them to pass me with complaints, tells me they are. I insist that I am angry, that I lost 40 minutes as if they were to keep talking to a gathering at Café Gijón, where you talk to people and machines communicate, signing off with a "Merry Christmas" that sounds like sarcasm and joke. In short, I say do what you have to do but I do not go through a machine. Impossible. Again the "Welcome to Movistar. At this point, I see only two options, throw me to mourn or destroy everything that has to do with that company. Still, I take heart of grace, because life is a vale of tears, and I decide to go back to the store Movistar Gran Via I arrive, I tell them what happened, we again make the operation to see if this time out and no, no sale. I say they can not do anything, they are not even MOVISTAR, which are Telyco. And I say two things: I do not care who they are, and why I have to know me and subcontracting organization of this company? What happens, that I have shares? At this time I'm already more than angry, tired, tired, deceived and cheated. Because I called them to ask anything, because it has been MOVISTAR who made me an offer, so we kindly ask the boy a complaint form. After a while, returns with this: At one point I think is the inner sheet of suggestions, so I look almost with satisfaction, because I cheat at least have something even more dodgy than count, and say, "Yes, very well, and now I bring the complaint form, the truth." He looks surprised and hides a "wow, I was wrong" and asks me sheet. Approached me and say, "No, no, this sheet to me leave me for submission to the documentation." Leaves with a face and, after a longer time, returns with them. Then, looking at first page, I've noticed is ... BILL! We, the height of contempt for the customer. And the rest, because as usual. Fill the foil and escape thinking that will give them exactly the same and that you have lost a lot of time and some money. But no matter, because I'm not going to enter their world. I'm not going to make porting to another company to call me and give me the iPhone. I am not well. I'm the customer, and the minimum I expect a big company like MOVISTAR is that I care as a client, not me having to threaten me not to go after 10 years that I have never not paid a dime. When I am serene, it is likely to redeem my points for a phone anyone give away to someone, and then yes, I'll portability. And at that moment, I hope to maintain the dignity and do not call me, because if my phone rings, just like me who spoil me and I enter the loop, and I assure you that what I say, there will be "Welcome Movistar, "much less" Merry Christmas. " And please, that you may be parents, do not leave anything to chance with education your little ones. Adistradles in the art of warfare against big companies. Only then will be prepared to survive.
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