Social networks vs A Job?

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter can help and hurt your chances of finding a job. On one hand you could use these sites to find a job through networking. A company my post about its employment availability and you could use your page to promote yourself. However, posting too much information about yourself could hurt your chances of ever being hired. Showing pictures of yourself at the club and using foul language hinders you. Many companies are now viewing it's potential employees social network pages to find out more about them. I took the initiative of deactivating my Facebook account after sending out applications for internships. Many should go through their pages and clean/filter it and check their privacy settings (just in case).

Schools Spy on Students through Laptops

The Lower Merion School District is accused of spying on their students through the webcam on their school-supplied MacBooks while they were at home. A green light would turn on (to indicate a live camera) at unexpected, random moments. The school district says it never used webcam images to monitor or discipline students and believes one of its administrators has been "unfairly portrayed and unjustly attacked." A suit filed by a student, has acknowledged that webcams were remotely activated 42 times in the past 14 months, but only to find missing, lost or stolen laptops — which the district noted would include "a loaner computer that, against regulations, might be taken off campus." "Despite some reports to the contrary, be assured that the security-tracking software has been completely disabled," Superintendent Christopher W. McGinley said in a statement on the district's Web site late Friday. Officials vowed a comprehensive review that McGinley said should result in stronger privacy policies. Students worried that they were being watched while they were undressing.

"The Robbins family caught the school out in a big lie. On November 11th 2009, their 15-year-old son Blake was disciplined by his school's assistant principal Lindy Matsko as he had "engaged in improper behaviour in [his] home." The 'fun' part was that Matsko provided a photograph of the improper behaviour taken by the webcam in Blake's school-provided laptop."

-itWire

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/school-spies-students-9907184

Future Technology

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Automatic Parallel Parking

New cars have even more innovative technology than ever before. It uses bluetooth so that you talk while driving, mp3, itunes, satellite radio, navigation, internet, electricity, laptop, rearview camera, camera security, etc. Now, Lexus has created a car that can parallel park itself! In theory, you would just pull up ahead of a space, make a few minor adjustments on a computer screen then slightly lift your foot off the brake. As you back up, the steering wheel turns this way and that way and there you are. What's next?

Read more: http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2006/09/ls_460_parking.html

New iPhone Revealed

The latest buzz in the Apple world is about the “outing” of a prototype of the iPhone.

Heres what happened:

An Apple engineer, Gray Powell lost his iPhone at a bar in Redwood City, CA. Brian Hogan says it was given to him by another person in the bar who asked if it was his. Brian "says" he asked around about it, and then left the bar. According to bar staff, he made no attempt to notify them. He took the iPhone home and removed the case, realizing it was an Apple prototype. Eventually, Hogan sold the phone for $5,000 to a gadgets Web site, Gizmodo. Gizmodo shared photos, videos, and information about the device. The investigation continues. The new model is due to be announced in June.

Facebook OWNS You

Facebook, the popular social networking site, has announced that it is taking control of any content anyone posts on its site...including your photos.

-Knoxville blogger Katie Allison Granju said:
“Apparently, Facebook has recently slightly revised its Terms of Service so that users have essentially forever signed away all rights — including commercial rights — to anything they upload to the site.

“I can see it now: Facebook harvests hundreds of randomly entertaining ‘25 Things’ lists written by users, and publishes a book … without paying the contributors a dime.”

Wal-Mart Takes Over the World

Wal-Mart has officially taken over the world. The company has officially launched its new mobile network, Straight Talk. The prices include $30 for 1000mins, 1000text, 30mb web access -OR- $45 for unlimited everything for 30 days, pre-paid. I recently asked an employee about the phone and they confirmed, its legit. The service runs off of the Verizon network. Think about it, there is a Wal-Mart in every town, on every corner. It even as an Iphone replica. The only downside is the actual cell phone itself. You have to use their phones, which aren't the latest, greatest technology, but it sure beats paying $60-$100 a month just to talk to your mom. Don't believe me check it out for yourself at your local Wal-Mart or online.

Ipad Saves the World

Apple's sleek new invent, the Ipad, has many people buzzing. However, it is just a kindle with music and the internet. A few things that could improve the Ipad are:

• web-cam
• USB plug-ins
• note-taking app
• textbook app (saves trees)
  
• MORE apps
• flash

Joseph Kim, MD even tells of how it could help doctors improve patient care: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/02/10-ways-apple-ipad-doctors-improve-patient-care.html. The Ipad could save the world!

MTV Website Review

MTV.com the website for an American cable television network based in New York City. MTV still plays a limited selection of music videos, but the channel primarily broadcasts a variety of popular culture and reality television shows targeted at adolescents and young adults. The coolest thing about this website is the backgrounds that change every time you click a new page or even if you refresh your browser. The website uses a main top bar navigation that pull down when your mouse hovers over it, and a search option, however all of the category navigations are at the bottom of the page. This site is bright and colorful to appeal teens and young adults. The content in the middle is cluttered with information about upcoming shows, music, and celebrities.

Craiglist Sued By States for Sex Ads

Craigslist, the premier online classified ad provider, has gotten itself into some trouble with its personals section. Many people have used the site as a means to advertise for prostitution and other illegal sex activities. 39 states have rallied against the site to increase supervision of the personal section of the site and decrease the number of sex ads. This is not the first time that this has been an issue for the site.

Web Sites Entice Users With Reward System

Many different web sites are now giving users badges or points as they become frequent users. As soon as a member signs up they are given an original welcome badge and as they perform other tasks that get them acclimated with the site they are given more rewards. This is pretty intelligent because it addicts people to the site. They might only be four hundred points away from being able to upgrade to the next level. This tactic has been around for years with the airline companies trying to encourage user loyalty.

New iPhone Launched in June

Apple recently released the dates for the World Wide Developers Conference for June 2010. In the past Apple has debuted the iPhone upgrades at the keynote address that kicks of the conference. The fourth generation iPhone has been leaked and Apple has lost much of the surprise that comes along with most Apple product launches.

Principle Urges Parents to Remove Students from Facebook

Anthony Orsini, the principle of a New Jersey middle school claim, "there is absolutely, positively no reason for any middle school student to be a part of a social networking site!" He argues that the biggest problem with such young students engaging in social networking is the inability to resist harassment. He claims that the problems that arise from social networking such as Facebook and Formspring create far more problems than solutions.

First Lady Tweets

While at a fancy pants dinner the White House Corespondent for CNN convinced Michele Obama to send her first tweet. After getting approval from the powers that be her first tweet said, "from flotus: 'here at dinner this is officially my first Tweet. i am looking forward to some good laughs from the potus and jay'".

Topeka renames town Google in atempt to get faster internet

Google is releasing a new "Fiber for Communities" program that will increase internet speeds 100 times. In order to convince Google to bring this new faster internet to Topeka they renamed their town Google, Kansas for the month of March. Google did not say if this stunt convinced them to bless Topeka will crazy fast internet speeds.

PBS predicts iPad will change education

PBS points out five major assets to the iPad that enable it to change the way educators go about their work.
1. They are about productivity.
2.They are about convergence.
3. They are about mobility.
4. They are about price and availability.
5. They are about community.
They also point out that the iPad provides a much more eco-friendly option to textbooks.

Google Chrome is fastest web brower

The top four web browsers in descending order are Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. Google Chrome has consistently been the fastest browser beating out the closest competition by two-tenths of a second. Chrome is also nice because it is able to view pages that were designed for Internet Explorer, a feature that few other browsers are able to offer.

South Korea Internet Connection...Better?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/31/broadband.south.korea/index.html

Broadband internet speeds are about 1/4 as fast as those in South Korea. Connections are cheaper in South Korea also. South Korea has more varied choices to choose internet provider, unlike here in the U.S. They have higher population density that us. it is cheaper to set up internet in tightly populated areas than an open area. There are other reasons South Korea's internet connections are better. The article explains in more detail.

Twitter Ad Service

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/15/twitter.ads.wired/index.html

Twitter launched an advertising service. it will let advertisers' tweets appear at the top of the search results. Its the network's first attempt to make money from its users. Its similar to Google search ads. Google's ads appear on the top of search pages. They will be mostly be little texts and links.

Compete with iPad?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/ptech/05/04/tablet.competition.ipad/index.html

Analyists are saying that there is really no competition for the iPad. There are no real competitors. its questionable if anyone can replicate the iPad experience. Microsoft and HP are having to retool their tablets to compete with Apple.

Youtube User Fees

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/03/youtube.rental/index.html

Youtube is talking about charging users a rental fee for certain videos. There's not a lot of information on how this will exactly work though. Users can make money off of their videos instead of relying on advertising. Its unclear if it will be availiable to anybody or "industry professionals".

Webby Awards

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/05/04/roger-ebert-jim-carrey-webby-award-winners/

Roger Ebert won a Webby for Person of the Year. The rock band, OK Go, was honored with an award for their viral music videos. Amy Poehler won actress of the year for her online series, "Smart Girls at the Party." College Humor and NY Times website each won 5 awards. Jim Carrey's website won best celebrity or fan website.

Facebook Hacker

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/05/04/facebook-hit-hacker-fears/

A hacker hacked in facebook. Apparently, he logged into a lot of people's profiles and tried to sell them on the black market. He offered log-in data as low as $25 for people with 10 or fewer friends.

Google Books

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/05/04/google-sell-digital-books/

Google plans to release books online on their own. this will compete with amazon.com and apple who already sell digital books. Google said it will let users buy digital copies of books through its book-search service. This will be interesting to see how well it works i think. I think this shows that digital books are becoming more popular.

Cybercrime

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/05/michael-dell-calls-for-collaborative-effort-to-secure-the-internet/1

this article talks about cybercrime. The CEO of Dell want a collaborative effort to fight cyber crime. Its becoming a problem. He says that goverment and private companies should work together to develop the appropiate framework to secure cyber space.

USA Today

USA Today's website didn't really impress me. The header bothered me a little bit. It had different colors. I didn't know this was part of their newspaper sections. It still didn't look right for a newspaper website. that's my opinion. I don't usually go to this site. It has a lot of different articles and sections for readers to keep them in the website. It's not a bad website, though.

Yahoo.com

I liked the way Yahoo is set up. Its easy to use and easy to read. It has news on it which i liked. I was surprised that it had local news also. It has a basic design. Its not overcrowded with ads. It is a good, clean website.

Google getting in on the E-book action

Google recently announced that they will be releasing their own electronic books that can be read on any Internet connected device. This will include iPhones and the iPad, personal computers and even Kindles. With this move Google will join in on the competition between Apple and Amazon with the E-book craze.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100504/tc_afp/usitinternetbooksgoogle;_ylt=An2S2wV_OdDVSCixXmJoNwYjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTJ0dW03amFsBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDEwMDUwNC91c2l0aW50ZXJuZXRib29rc2dvb2dsZQRwb3MDMwRzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA2dvb2dsZXRvc3Rhcg--

Which news do you choose?

In a recent poll done by "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair people voted CNN has the most trustworthy news source with Fox News as a close second. 1,026 people nationwide were randomly selected to participate in the poll. 32 percent of the voters picked CNN while 29 percent voted for Fox. Which would you choose?

http://www.aolnews.com/the-grid/article/poll-ranks-cnn-fox-news-most-trustworthy/19463902

Life with the iPad

With the release of the new iPad, Apple's next big thing, many people are putting their laptops down and grabbing the iPad. With the iPad you can surf the Internet, send out e-mails, and download your own apps like with and iPhone or iPod. Even though there are some small issues the iPad has seemed to change the landscape for internet surfing and computer usage.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/09/apple-ipad-one-week-later/

Twitter Archived

For all those that Twitter, look out! All the Tweets that occur will now be saved and documented by the Library of Congress. Along with Tweets the Library of Congress has been saving other website material including presidential campaign websites. So watch out you never know what you might be remembered for saying!

http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/

NBC and YouTube

A few months ago NBC ordered YouTube to remove clips from some of their shows from the site. After much debate, NBC realized that it would be more beneficial for them to team up with YouTube and broadcast some of their clips on the site. This agreement shows that YouTube is becoming a growing force within the media world and is sure to grow with more marketing adventures.

http://news.cnet.com/NBC-strikes-deal-with-YouTube/2100-1025_3-6088617.html

Lost and Found

The new generation iPhone that was lost on March 18th, was found and sold for $5,000 to Gizmodo. Gizmodo is now facing criminal charges, for purchasing the phone, that could be considered stolen property. Investigators have identified the man who found the phone and sold it to Gizmodo. He is also facing criminal charges under a California Law that states that any person who finds lost property and knows who the owner is likely to be guilty of theft.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003597-37.html

Honest Mistake

On March 18th, the new generation iPhone was lost by Gray Powell, software engineer for Apple. The iPhone was left at bar when Powell was celebrating his birthday. The new iPhone was disguised to be a 3GS phone while Powell was testing it in the field.

http://gizmodo.com/5520438/how-apple-lost-the-next-iphone

The Power of the Rising Social (Media) Class

New statistics have shown that there is a rise in African Americans and Latinos using social media. They are out numbering non-hispanic whites in the social media world. New discussions have arisen and these stats are finally coming out of the shadows and gaining media attention.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-power-of-the-rising-social-media-class-2010-5

Naming Business/Site

This shows mistakes that are made while naming a business.

The same idea goes for the website for the site.

You want to avoid certain things when choosing a name to make your business/site more memorable and recognizable.

This website can be used in guiding one in thinking of the name of their business/site.

www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/startupbasics/namingyourbusiness/article76958.html

CSS Help

http://artypapers.com/csshelppile/

This is a collaboration of information to give facts about CSS.

It gives you places to look for tips.

Places to look for tricks.

And just simple explanation and baby step guidance in using CSS.

Changing Social Media

http://learningsocialmedia.com/

Since social media is always changing, this is a great site to look at to keep up to date with the daily post that will help one keep up with social media.

This site also allows you to ask questions that will be answered on the site because communication is such a huge part of social media.

It provides tips and guidance on how to know more about social media and make the most of it.

Search Engines

http://searchenginewatch.com/2156451

This site shows the most popular search engines.

Google has an overwhelming majority of popularity when it comes to search engines.

Yahoo comes in second but is very far behind google.

The site can also show the changing within months.

HTML Tutorial

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

This is a reliable HTML tutorial to help the "HTML slow."

This site provides examples, teachings, and quizzes to make sure that you really are learning how to use HTML properly.

Social Media

http://www.labnol.org/internet/social-media-pdf-report/8212/

Social Media is a booming field. This provides some of the most popular way to connect with the world through social media.

People are using social media to create new business partnerships, increase traffic to sites, increase subscribers, etc.

Social media is something that is always changing therefore you can never truly be an expert at it.

It is something that you have to continue learning and continue researching to become successful in the field of social media.

Top Blogs

http://technorati.com/blogs/top100

This website provides the Top 100 Blogs.

This is a good place to look for ideas on how to make your blog look awesome.

With these 100 different popular blogs, you can most likely find one that will really help in guiding you in making your site pleasing to the eye.

Green Color Palettes

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/08/02/best-of-color-inspiration-130-green-color-palettes/

Green is the most popular new color for blogs.

With people on the new "go green" kick, green has become an extremely popular color for blogs.

This site provides more than 130 green color palettes.