Kristo Vaher

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Google+

Google+ is a social networking service by Google that has been in development for a few years and was launched about a week ago. While still in invite-only testing phase, the interest in joining the site has been massive and the service quickly gathered over a million users. Feedback from early adopters has been very positive, despite Google+ not really inventing a wheel here. Best achievement of Google+ is that it takes what is already there and improves on it while also closing one of the most relevant gaps between the four more notable social networking services of the last five years: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn. This post will point out the features that are relevant to Google+.

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Electronic Payments

E-payment systems and bank services are everyday and common in Estonia, but both developers and companies, who implement e-payments to websites, tend to ask large sums of money for solutions that should be relatively simple. Having developed e-payment systems for years, I had not put together a single solution for this very common problem until now, when Estonia has adopted Euro as its main currency. This solution is released open source, under LGPL license.

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The Social Network

Please note that this is not review of the movie, but an opinion piece about its topics. For a review, I recommend a review from one of my most trusted reviewers, Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times.

David Fincher’s ‘The Social Network’ really is more of a movie about making enemies, than making those 500 million friends. But what the trailer depicts is not what the movie is really about. After seeing the trailer, I expected something entirely different. I expected what I guess Mark Zuckerberg  – one of the creators of The Facebook – expected, a movie that paints him as a monster. Instead it was a movie about our dreams, hopes and aspirations and how, at times, we exploit, manipulate and so completely cause self-conflict because of those things we like and want to achieve. The older generation will never understand and we can only hope that our experiences will be able to serve our children better. No one was holding our hand when the internet took over the world.

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