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You like recommending and supporting other people's work and equally when they spread the word about your stuff? You use social booking marking services to do so? Great. Just imagine you and others could earn money with what you've been doing all along the way. Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, gives us a quick but nice introduction about what the micropayment service Flattr offers. It works similar to other social bookmarking tools. With paying a self-chosen flat fee each month everything you liked will be rewarded and the money is equally split up.

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Making invention a legitimate career choice is what Pablos Holman claims at the beginning of his talk. For thirty minutes he takes us on a tour around stunning and amazing inventions created by the Intellectual Venture Lab. While picking locks may come in handy, possible answers to fighting malaria, hurricanes or what to do with nuclear waste are impressive. Inventions can change the world and it feels like it can be saved after all. I don't know about you but it doesn't seem like being an inventor is a too bad career choice.

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Do we actually maintain online relationships or are they just relations? Brian Solis argues for the latter. He believes that we are moving into a state of relations rather than relationships, defining a new era of society. We may be connected to people who we don't know but think alike and have the same interests. Groups start to form around context while creating value for everyone. And context in social networking actually defines the nature of relations and how we interact with each other.

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