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I’m getting really geeky with this post, if you are a web/computer geek this will be boring to you. For the rest of the population that don’t spend hours on the Internet we need to make sure they understand what we are saying. Like text messaging or lingo used in chat rooms the web 2.0 world comes with thousands of abbreviations and words that can get you confused if you are new around here.

Starting with the basics, many websites are incorporating Web 2.0 abbreviations that makes it hard for some to find what they want around the web, one example is the photo sharing/community type site Flickr.com. The correct word would be spelled “flicker”, by dropping the “e” in this word they have created a popular website that it may not be hard to find but surely is hard to spell. The trend is spreading all around the web, take my site as an example, my name is Luis if I want people to pronounce it the way it sounds in Spanish you would have to say Lwees, that is why I selected this web 2.0 word for my site.

My recommendation for you that are not used to this way of putting words, is to find a good web search engine and trust it with your searches. I like Google, if I try to get to Flickr by typing the web address in the browser website bar, I would never make it. On top of that you are risking getting into a fishing site that mocks what you are looking for and get all sorts of spyware or viruses on your computer.

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As I was reading a post from Robert Scoble at www.scobleizer.com about bill of rights for participants in the social web, I realize that my affinity for the entire social environment, social networking, and social understanding idea is very strong. I didn’t plan this, most of our positions about things like religion and politics get stronger in us as we grow and have a better understanding of the reality of life. Our social environment is part of it, the way I understand the terminology of social life on the web has mature enough for me to talk about it.

The bill of rights for the participants in the social web initiated with a post on the www.opensocialweb.org blog on Sept 5, 2007, several important people contributed to it. People like Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Michael Arrington, and the only one I recognize on the list, Robert Scoble. So far, they outline three items on this bill of rights that they expect to have it evolve; doing my part, I will go into detail on these items and include my own personal opinion on each one of them. Additional, I will try to come up with one more thing that, hopefully, we will all agree to and may be added to the bill.

The first item on the bill is the Ownership of your own personal information; personal information on the web without proper control is a dangerous practice. Which is why I separate my personal social sites from those who are just links to my website, making sure that only the people I trust gets access to my personal information. I make a distinction between social sites where my family and close friends have access to and those social sites that only hold a presence of who I am and what is my blog about.

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