A “Filthy Rich” Facebook

In a time of recession one man, Frank DeRose — managing partner of Ferrata Capital Management– plans to invest at least $1 million into Total Prestige, an invitation-only social networking site for rich. The website will be an invite only site that will more than 50,000 of the richest names throughout the US. This social [...]

Youtube VS Hulu

Hulu VS Youtube
 
            To compete in today’s day and age the media industry needs to make sure that they have some place in the virtual world. The American Broadcast Company started this trend of showing full episodes online after it aired on television. Youtube, which was basically born out of copyright infringement, is being very [...]

Virtual Divorce

So the institution of marriage has come under fire recently, whether it be proposition 8 or the divorce rate skyrocketing for new couples. Couples divorce for many reasons, with infidelity being one of the many causes. Here’s a new one: cheating 2.0. The interactive video game, Second Life, has become very popular recently. With games such as Second Life [...]

Gyminee.com

Who would have thought that losing weight was something that could be done online. Obviously this doesn’t translate to you sitting behind your computer, and shedding off the pounds. This site takes a new twist on blogging and communication. It includes many weight loss applications. For example a nutrition log that counts the calorie intake in your [...]

The Attack of Koobface

Viral spam has moved from you e-mail inbox to your facebook messages. This new “koobface” virus works the same way many other internet viruses work, it all starts with an eye-catching message title of somekind. It takes you through a complicated maze where it asks you to download software, and if you fall for that, [...]

Who Needs a TV? I’m Watching on a Laptop

Throughout the semester we’ve discussed how the internet is expanding its capabilities and moving into more aspects of our lives. A few of the posts on this blog have found some sort of relation between television and the internet. I recall one post in particular that dealt with how people tend to watch television while [...]

Terrorists use Google Earth

Sometimes the effects of Web 2.0 are ground-breaking for the wrong reasons. Recently, in the Mumbai Tragedy, it has been discovered that attacked used the Web application Google Earth as apart of their sinister operations. This goes into copyright issues on a country basis. Countries like Iran block web applications by the day, should other [...]