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If you use Gmail for your email, Google reader for reading your RSS feeds, Google Calender to schedule your events, Picasa Web Album for all your photos, Blogger for your blog, Google Analytics to monitor your website and Google Docs for all your office word processing and spreadsheets, then you should realize how much data you are relying on Google.

Sure it’s easy to fall in love with a good service. You might still trust Google to stay and you still believe that Google will stick to their informal cooperate motto, “Don’t be evil.”

But what if that all change? A change in the management made Google evil. Or they just decide to pack it up and leave or sell the company to someone else? What would happen to all your data?

Which is why it is good there are initiative like Google Data Liberation Front which is a central location for information on how to move your data in and out of Google products.

The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google with a single goal to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. They work with other Google product engineers to make sure there is a why to move your data. Their mission statement:

Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google’s products. Our team goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.

Visit dataliberation.org for more information.

Did you know that now you could search live Twitter updates on Google? Well yeah you could now. I also notice that sometimes Google includes Twitter updates in their search results. A little Twitter updates widgets sandwiched in between web and news results.

You could also have only Twitter updates within Google. Type in the latest Twitter trend you are interested in in the search box. On the result page right below the search box, there is a link, ‘Show options’. Click it and you’ll see on the left there are several links to search options. Click ‘Updates’ to have a live flowing Twitter updates.

My guesses is that this won’t only be for Twitter, but also Facebook status updates once Google could index them. Is this Google’s attempt for real-time search?

Next time whenever some major news breaks on Twitter, try using Google to keep track of updates, rather then Twitter’s search. Just a thought.

This is yet another Youtube success story. Fade Alvarez is an independent Uruguayan filmmaker. He directed Ataque de Panico! (Panic Attack!), a sci-fi short film.

Plot wise there is nothing much to say, big giant robot accompanied by a squadron of spacecraft starts to appear around Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. The robots then starts firing their weapons blowing up buildings up. Panic and chaos erupts in the city among the citizens. Military planes were called in but then the robots fuses together and self-detonates engulfing the city in a fireball. No explanation was given for the attack.

Fade Alvarez didn’t wow us on the story line, simply because there is really none to begin with. However the visual effects are impressive for something that cost $300. You can easily mistaken it for a feature length Cloverfield like movie trailer.

But what impress us more is the buzz it creates. Alvarez uploaded the short film on Youtube. The film’s reputation then spread by word of mouth over the Internet. It gets widespread media coverage after then. Alvarez’s inbox was full of emails from Hollywood studios.
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I remember those days when part of my daily online routine was browsing Digg.com. I use website like Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon for latest trends on the Web. Finding out what everybody is laughing at, what’s the latest online video people are watching, discovering the latest web meme.

Digg and Reddit shares the same formula. On Digg and Reddit, users submit stories and other users vote on stories they like. Item that has high votes are promoted to the front page. In a way this filters out all the crap and only the worthwhile crap are seen on the front page. The Internet is full of crap so this is good.

These days however, I find myself visiting Digg and Reddit less and less. I use to visits these sites multiple times in a day, now it’s a few times in a month, sometime almost never.

With Twitter, I don’t have to rely on Digg or Reddit for knowing what’s the trend. Most of the time I’ll be looking on my Twitter feed and clicking on links to discover interesting stories, breaking news or funny viral videos.
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Four web savvy guys with various background decided to start something together. With that, Nunc Ubique is born.

Nunc in latin translates to ‘now’ and Ubique in latin translate to ‘everywhere’. That is how we look at Nunc Unique. We are now, we are current, and we keep up with the trends, at the same time we are everywhere on the web.

We are a firm that specialize in making you and/or your organization heard throughout the web. We use social media tools in creating buzz for your brand.

No matter what your business is or what your brand represents, there is always a story behind it. We help tell your story. We think that storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

We realize that we are new in this field, then again the social media field itself is relatively new. We are learning as we go on with the help of other social media friends that we have made.

This blog is our way of contributing back by creating conversations and discussing latest trends in social media and the web culture in general. This is our official company blog.

If 37signals has their Signal vs. Noise, we have this blog. We are still working on some catchy name for the blog.

So welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay and do come again if you are someone interested and passionate about social media, new media and the new web in general.