Corina Murafa » Facebook http://corinamurafa.eu Analyze, Criticize, Reaction(ize)! Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:07:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Facebook Political Protest in Croatia http://corinamurafa.eu/2008/12/04/facebook-political-protest-in-croatia/ http://corinamurafa.eu/2008/12/04/facebook-political-protest-in-croatia/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:55:44 +0000 Corina Murafa http://corinamurafa.eu/2008/12/04/facebook-political-protest-in-croatia/ I have visited Croatia and I have a couple of very good Croatian friends. To me, their level of development seemed quite high and they seemed rather Westernized in everything from economics to political views. Thus, I always thought the fact they were left out of the European Union was merely bad timing and that things will be sorted out soon. Latest news was that they were scheduled to join the EU as early as 2009.

However, a couple of days ago worrisome events occured in Croatia. Political opponents of the current regime (Prime Minister Sanader) were arrested by the Zagreb police for political protests via Facebook. A Facebook group called “I bet I can find 5,000 people who dislike Sanader” became the main proof of anti-establishment behaviour :)   I believe such judiciary practices are obviously not fit for an EU member, to say the very least. I’m curious on the results of the investigation commissioned by PM Sanader…

]]> http://corinamurafa.eu/2008/12/04/facebook-political-protest-in-croatia/feed/ 2 Facebook goes open source! http://corinamurafa.eu/2008/05/31/facebook-goes-open-source/ http://corinamurafa.eu/2008/05/31/facebook-goes-open-source/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 18:27:12 +0000 Corina Murafa http://corinamurafa.eu/2008/05/31/facebook-goes-open-source/ facebookNow that’s this week’s news! Facebook (you all know I’m a Facebook sucker, which I find brilliant – for a huge number of reasons) goes OPENSOURCE! Third parties will be free to change the Facebook Platform components for their own use and deploy them on their own sites. I’ve always admired Sun Microsystems for their open source philosophy, and I’m glad others back it up, too.

Techcrunch (where I got the news from) says “this is a nearly inevitable response to Open Social, which is backed by Google, MySpace and Yahoo.” Read all about it here!

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