Category Archives: Community

Most will access web trough cellphone by 2020..

By lejla | December 16, 2008

People are addicted to their blackberries and iphones today but according to a study that was done this week, most tech savvy people will use their smart-phones as the primary internet connection by 2020. The cellphones will change so much that they will be small computers instead of primarily cellphones.
 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,233…

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mobile voting

By agorelik | December 15, 2008

Residents of Estonia can now vote in national elections via their cell phone.
http://gizmodo.com/5108828/estonia-will-be-the-first-country-to-elect-politicians-using-mobile-phones

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Yahoo! email becomes more social.

By gmera0226 | December 15, 2008

In this article, Yahoo! announces that it will launch new features to its free email service to enhance their product. It will add features that are commonly use by social networking sites (e.g Facebook, Myspace, etc). Some of these features include: creating social interactive communities with the help of their email (based on friends and interests), sort [...]

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What Louisiana Can Teach

By Tim | December 15, 2008

New York Times article on page A40 on the December 12,2008 that talks about how teacher programs arent always as good as its cracked up to be. They are looking at Louisiana’s accountability-based reform efforts to fix the issue and let other nations follow their example. I feel as though this article stronly related to [...]

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PLan to help poor and immigrants open and maintain bank accounts

By Tim | December 15, 2008

New York Times article on page A22 on the December 12,2008 stating that California is tying to create a program to make it easier for immigrants and the poor to open up bank accounts instead of keeping all of their money in cash. They would provide the public with free training on the new program [...]

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The New Examined Life

By ccastillo | December 11, 2008

This article talks about the online community and how many sites are offering life trackers. these sites offer agendas where people can write down everything they do and keep a record of it some of these sites are: Dopplr, which allows people to post their iteneraries and cshare them with others., Mon.thly.Info, tracks down menstrual cycles.  and [...]

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Poorer Nations Go Online on Cellphones

By ccastillo | December 11, 2008

Alot of people in emerging markets are accesing the internet through their cell phones because many of these poor areasa dont have phone lines for dial up or even cable for broadband. It is also cheaper to use their cellphones becuase if they already have a phone then they dont need to spend extra money [...]

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YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money

By ccastillo | December 11, 2008

Sucessful users of you tube who would just post videos on youtube for fun   “partnered” with them and are now making six figures incomes becuase of the advertisemnets.  millions of people post videos on you tube and alot of them get viewed alot of time, someone said they have already gotten 100 million view, this is crazy. [...]

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What the Search Engines Have Found Out About All of Us

By ccastillo | December 11, 2008

This Article talks about the how google gathers information on what people searched for in NYC for 2008 and then creates  a list of search queries from it. also it mentions how this information that is gathered by google is then used by other businesses along with the cookies that are captured and IP adresses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/nyregion/10about.html?ref=technology

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Blockbuster’s Big Gulp of Technology

By trav8587 | December 8, 2008

Blockbuster Video is selling a set-top box that could download movies and play them on a television. However, Internet connection in most homes in the United States may not be fast enough to make downloading movies a satisfying experience. I don’t think this will sell as well as Blockbuster hopes due to the rise of bootlegging and [...]

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Amazon.com Invades the Apple App Store

By naokohirayama | December 7, 2008

Amazon.com will launch a new application which will be available for iphone users and be downloaded through Apple App Store. The software offers a way for iPhone or iPod Touch owners to browse through all the products offered by Amazon.com, as well as by third-party retailers that make their products available online through Amazon. Also, another [...]

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Community – Oink.cd, RIP.

By bdeleon | December 7, 2008

As an avid user of the internet and even bigger music enthusiast. It’s easy for one like me to figure out new and efficient and (free) ways to get my music online. Back in the day was Napster and then Limewire. When the word got out that these sites may not be *gasp* FREE anymore, [...]

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Carnegie Hall Comes to YouTube

By tcincotta | December 2, 2008

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This article is about the recent collaboration between YouTube and Carnegie Hall to create an “Internet Orchestra.”

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Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web

By naokohirayama | December 1, 2008

Facebook Connect, as the company’s new feature is called, allows its members to log onto other Web sites using their Facebook identification and see their friends’ activities on those sites.  Connect also gives members the opportunity to broadcast their actions on those sites to their friends on Facebook.
This article discusses the privacy issue on this new [...]

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Visual Bookmarking Sites

By sashadiamond | November 29, 2008

Link:  http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/tag-that-image-visual-bookmarking-sites-worth-browsing/
Title: Tag That Image: Visual Bookmarking Sites Worth Browsing
Visual bookmarking sites allow for a community of members to gather their favorite images from all over the web and create a huge photo album.  Images are posted tagged with keywords by the registered users who find them.  There are various sites that have distinct features.

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