The Cyberunions Podcast Episode 48 The Forums were down!!

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0:33 Forums are back!

• Stephen tried to update the forums and messed it up, but things are back to normal now!!
• Walton shares his experience with Union Solidarity International
• Stephen uso computadora en español, poquito difici

6:30 Stephen tries to jump to tech update

• But Walton swings in with a great labor story from South Africa
• COSATU made some
  amazing achievements protecting union and non-union workers including political strikes
• DA (right wing group) organized and marched on Cosatu, blood in the streets, neither side looked good.
• The unemployed in South Africa are well organized

14:23 Tech Update

• We try out jitsi as a cross platform replacement of skype
• We recall the beginning of the show when we were on the search for a skype replacement
• Stephen had toubles on debian with it as he could not record, but Walton had more success
• It is easy to setup and easy to replace skype and has built in recorder
• Stephen is picky with Java as the language being used but it has a lot of potential

19:30 FriendFace hIPO free CUKE!

• Stephen thinks Facebook will go to shit finally
• Walton explains that the feeling is that it is overpriced as it has dropped since it’s opening
• Dotcom 2.0 bubble crash…dotcom 1.0 crash was quite interesting
• Rant on ad revenue businesses as not stable cause it relies on a manufacturing and other economics to survive
• Stephen feels Facebook will crash like the rest of them
• Walton explains a tension between user wants and shareholder wants

23:35 Free Software meets Solidarity Economy

• Noosfero is solidarity economy based social network with many features
• The sites running noosfero make it appear to be a great piece of software for many different social movement campaigns.
• Stephen explains the challenges of using Ruby
• Noosfero reminds Stephen of Orkut before it was bought by google
• Module based site, not a one size fits all, features include XMPP and online image editor.

28:01 Feedback

• In feedback from our interview with Smári from the … I M… I M M…..the  Icelandic Modern Media Institute and International Modern Media Institute
• Doughlasawh from Identi.ca explained his point on the First Amendment in relation to the states and Stephen continued the discussion to make his point

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