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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
TV shows have now (legally) joined the internet!
Today, Hulu was opened to the public. This new site offers MANY popular TV shows.
This project has the support of NBC Universal , Sony, MGM, FOX and over 50 other media companies.
The shows are accompanied by small commercials and they are doing something I thought was quite [...]
Tags: Family Guy, Firefly, Heroes, hulu, Ice Age, Monk, online movies, online tv, Prisonbreak, Simpsons, tv, tv shows online, watch movies online, watch tv online
Posted in Internet | No Comments »
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
“Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.
The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.
Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.
If the [...]
Tags: Internet, Internet anonymity, privacy, Tim Couch
Posted in Internet | 2 Comments »
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Student faces Facebook consequences
"Freshman hit with 147 academic charges for online study network at Ryerson University"
"Yet students argue Facebook groups are simply the new study hall for the wired generation." We find new ways to learn and what do they do. Anyone else used Facebook for studying?
Tags: Facebook. study groups, Ryerson University"...
Posted in Facebook | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
It slips my mind who it was, but someone in class had a great idea of an online newspaper or "e-zine"
I stumbledupon this and the concept seems similar similar or at least would help augment the idea proposed in class. The gist is that you create a personal newspaper from your RSS and Atom [...]
Tags: Atom, e-zine, ezine, Feed Journal, Online Newspaper, RSS
Posted in Web Tools | 3 Comments »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Here is a really cool photoblog of the workspaces of some of the big players in web 2.0 The blog also gives a brief view into what each one does.
Facebook
Digg
Twitter
Craigslist
Mozilla
Joost
Flickr
Last.fm
jaiku
LinkedIn
Reddit
netvibes
LinkedIn workspace
Tags: craigslist, digg, Facebook, flickr, jaiku, joost, last.fm, LinkedIn, mozilla, netvibes, reddit, twitter, Web 2.0
Posted in Social Networking | 2 Comments »
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Captchas are getting ridiculous but this takes the cake! Maybe this isn't so bad for some of you engineering/math types…
Tags: Captcha, captchas, registering
Posted in Blogging | No Comments »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
It’s fun to try and envision the future. Who could have imagined the capabilities of the internet just 10 years ago! Lets see if we can make some predictions about the near future of the web. This post will give a good overview of the direction of the web. Comment and give me your predictions!
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Tags: Internet, meta data, microformats, semantic web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, web future
Posted in Google, Web Tools | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Going off of Chris’s post and our class discussion, this post is about the problems facing students trying to find a job. And it’s also a continuation of my post on using your name as a website and protecting your reputation.
What can a student do to differentiate themselves from their peers?
What can you hand [...]
Tags: career, differentiate, job search, reputation management, resume, unemplyment
Posted in Networking, Tips | 1 Comment »
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
I think its more fitting, in a way, to have a video explaining Second Life than text. So, checkout this YouTube video of Second Life. (4:13) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b72CvvMuD6Q&rel=1]I thought the part about Star Wars "roleplaying" was a hysterical idea. Sorry, but I can just picture a bunch of these "avatars" playing from their mom's basement.
Tags: 3D, avatars, Internet, linden labs, Second Life, video, Virtual world
Posted in Case Studies, Second Life | No Comments »
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
I came across this great article by Sean Ammirati, a Grove City College CIS grad and VP of Business Development and Product Management for mSpoke. He came and spoke at Grove recently and was an incredible speaker. Very inspiring! A few interesting points from the article… The attrition rate for Second Life is [...]
Tags: 3D, Grove City College, Sean Ammirati, Second Life, Virtual, Virtual worlds
Posted in Second Life | No Comments »