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How Far will the internet revolution go? Where will it go? Where will it end?
In 2004 this video offers a hypothesis. However, now in 2008, almost 2009,  we question ourselves how close are we to this terrible truth?

Find Your Significant Other Online

by Ruby Patel
                This post was inspired by a fellow student’s project on internet relationships. Now it is evident that the internet is a major tool in bringing people together. But what if the internet became more than just a way to meet people or even dates. In my culture, the internet is a major [...]

What if?

Lots of people have brought up the idea of using the WEb 2.0 model as an initiave in the right direction. The increased connectivity has helped artists as well as business men, networking for both social and business reasons, as well as a host of other benefits. the problem with this however, is WHAT IF [...]

Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites

Great article on new marketing campaigns for advertisering in the Web 2.0 era.
The article talks about difficult it is to advirtise on sites like facebook .
FOR some time, Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest advertiser, has been dipping its big toes into the vast pool of Facebook, now the world’s [...]

Juicycampus.com … who knew GW had so much going on?

by Ruby Patel
                Every watch the show gossip girls, now there is an actually website that encompasses the basic idea behind this popular show. Just log on to juicycampus.com and you can look up any interesting gossip about GW. When scanning this website I because sucked into the never-ending random information about students on campus. [...]

A New Type of Classroom

by Ruby Patel

            While surfing through the web, I came across a very interesting article that combined what we were discussing in UW and the influence of the internet and a UW group 2 project. The article is written for teachers at Dartmouth College and encourages them to harness the global communication abilities of the [...]

Un-regulation Leads to Exploitation

by Ruby Patel
          In the new age of the internet any type of information can be displayed and accessed by users of the web. As was presented in the group projects in UW, there is no international regulation of the internet and because of this lack, there is no way to generate some type of [...]

Cyber Monday takes over Black Friday

By: Melanie Hoffman
Two weeks ago was this year’s “Black Friday,” also known as the busiest shopping day of the year. The monday after Black Friday is known as cyber monday- which is the online equivalent of black friday, created as online shopping became more and more popular. one many wonder which is more popular, and [...]

The Rise of the Citizen Journalist

I recently attended a Public Diplomacy Institute discussion at the Jack Morton Auditorium on the decline of the use of foreign correspondents and the rise of the so-called “citizen journalist“. The panel consisted of the editor of NPR, a Media and Public Affairs professor, and several other media experts. They discussed how people at large, and sometimes even news [...]

YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money

This is a great article about the intersection between youtube.com and normal working society. Take a read.
Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times
Michael Buckley, YouTube host, at home in Connecticut.
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By BRIAN STELTER
Published: December 10, 2008
Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of [...]