By: Sarah Pucillo
In recent news, there have been many articles concerning the fraud and criminal offences involving the popular website known as “Craig’s List”. Craigslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events. People can post anything they would like to sell on here, giving out their information [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 29, 2008
Craig’s List: Good or Bad?
October 28, 2008
Google Settles Suit Over Book-Scanning Project
By Ben Hertz
This is a great article that is sort of a follow up to Kelly’s Article that we read earlier this year on scanning books for the internet. Enjoy!
Google said Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $125 million to settle two copyright lawsuits brought by book authors and publishers over the company’s [...]
October 27, 2008
Oprah’s New Favorite Gadget
By Denise Tran
Last Friday, on the Oprah show, Oprah announced to the world her new favorite revolutionary gadget. It is called the Amazon Kindle. She believes that the Kindle has changed her life. The Kindle is a wireless electronic, hand held, device that allows you to access over 190,000 books, blogs, newspapers [...]
October 27, 2008
Juicy Campus!
Most people have at least heard of Juicy Campus, if not visited or posted on Juicy Campus before. However for those of you that have not, Juicy Campus is a gossip website where people can anonymously post about other people on their college campus. Who doesn’t love a little gossip anyway? It is fun to [...]
October 27, 2008
A Tourist’s Dream
By Zaid Shuhaibar
According to an article entilted “Google Earth Brings virtual tourism to iPhone” by Stephen Shankland on CNET news, Google Earth has become available for the iPhone. Google Earth is a geographical software that allows its users to view satellite and aerial images of anywhere in the world. Now available for everyone to use [...]
October 27, 2008
The Internet is Reshaping the Brain
Research has shown that the brain is being changed and is adapting to the internet. Studies have found that the brains that were tested showed more activity when reading and searching the internet than when reading a book. Gary Small, the researcher who is responsible for the research, claims that while the brain is being [...]
October 25, 2008
E-Reading
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/10/24/pleitgen.digital.paper.cnn
I couldn’t upload the video because it is on CNN news. It is a very interesting video that may change not only newspapers, but magazines and books as well. Do you think this environmental friendly change to plastic is a good idea? How will it affect books, newspapers and magazines being published? Do you think [...]
October 25, 2008
123People moves to US
I was looking through some articles online and found an interesting one that seems to fit well with the UW class, especially the topic my group is presenting on. The article found at http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20081024/tc_afp/usitinternetsearchcompany123people talks about a European website which acts as a free search engine that gathers and displays as much personal information about someone [...]
October 24, 2008
Obama Wins the Web 2.0 Election
By Melanie Hoffman
I found this article talking about how Obama is winning the Web 2.0 election. The article talks about how Obama has the most Facebook and Myspace friends, and the most YouTuble videos. His videos also have the most views compared to McCain videos and other presdential nominee’s videos.
Everyone heard about the Obama girl, [...]
October 23, 2008
Putting Facebook and Twitter to work
(taken from cnn.com)
“Why can’t I have this at home?” Employees in the office used to ponder this question about corporate technology not easily available to consumers. Today, the question has been inverted. Simple technologies such as Skype, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are being desired on the job: “Why can’t I do this at work?”
Corporate information technology departments [...]
