Google Book Search becomes more comprehensive

Read this article about a new book search.

Questions:

• What has changed with the book search? ~ allows you to instantly search the full text of over a million digitized books, but we thought that wasn't quite enough. Now when you search you'll get both digitized book results as well as records for millions of other books that still just exist in the analog world.
• Do you think people will still be reading books in 10 years? Why or why not? yes I do. Why? because what are you going to do with all the millions of books that you made by destroying trees.
  
• How long do you currently read online per day (in hours)? How long do you currently read offline per day (in hours)? I usually read sports article any time. About 3 or more article.
  

Future of advertising:

Three posts today for grades.

First read this article.

This is from the blog of the guys who wrote the book "Freakonomics".

Three questions:

• What is 'product placement'? ~ promotional ads placed by marketers using real commercial products and services in media, where the presence of a particular brand is the result of an economic exchange.
• How much does Martha Stewart charge to mention a product on the air? $ 100,000
  
• Do you think her use of this is hurting her ratings? Maybe for the amount of money she's charging but that's all.
  
• What do you think of product placement? I like the idea, Just letting people get to know the products your trying to sell.
  

Article Summary # 2

(out of three)

Read this article about money, gender, age and intelligence.


-Do boys and girls think differently according to the article? How?

Boys performed, on average, better on perceptual analysis, whereas girls earned higher marks on tasks involving physical dexterity and processing speed. Girls were also slightly better at verbal tasks involving learning and reciting groups of nouns—however, beyond the age of 11, boys caught up to them.

-When do most people develop most of their cognitive abilities? Is this new information for scientists?

11 or 12 years of age. No it's not.

-Does income relate to intelligence according to this article?

Not really because they are actually just talking about a child's life in their early years.

Article Summary # 1 (out of three).

(out of three).

Linux vs. Microsoft:
Visit this site: http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/

-According to this obviously biased site, when should people stick with Windows?

1. There is proprietary software you can't live without
2. You're a hardcore gamer
3. You work in the book/printing industry
4. Your hardware is not yet supported

-Which are the three most compelling reasons to migrate to Linux, according to the web site ? Elaborate on each.

1. Forget about viruses ~ Most people use Microsoft Windows, and pirates want to do as much damage (or control) as possible

2. Is your system unstable? ~ When a system crashes, it needs to be shut down or restarted. Therefore, if your computer can stay up and running for a long time, no matter how much you use it, then you can say the system is stable. Well, Linux can run for yearswithout needing to be restarted (most internet servers run Linux, and they usually never restart). Of course, with heavy updates, it still needs to be restarted (the proper way). But if you install Linux, and then use your system as much as you want, leaving your computer on all the time, you can go on like that for years without having any trouble.

3. Linux protects your computer ~ Viruses, trojans, adwares, spywares... Windows lets all these enter your computer pretty easily. The average period of time before a Windows PC (connected to the Internet and with a default "Service Pack 2" installation) gets infected is 40 minutes (and it sometimes takes as little time as 30 seconds).

-Create a hyperlink to the above website on your blog. A hyperlink is able to be clicked and doesn't need to be copied and pasted into the address bar.

Be Amazed!!!!!!!!!!111

http://ore.baci.googlepages.com/home

Questions Part III, 5/17

1. What are Internet cookies? HTTP cookies, sometimes known as web cookies or just cookies, are parcels of text sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server.
2. What are packets? a formatted block of data carried by a computer network.
3. What route do packets take over the Internet? simply transmit data as a series of bytes, characters, or bits alone. When data is formatted into a packet, the network can transmit longer messages more efficiently and reliably.
4. What is a 404 error on the web? an HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but either the server could not find what was requested, or it was configured not to fulfill the request and not reveal the reason why.
5. What is 'e-commerce'? exactly analogous to a marketplace on the Internet.
6. What is the difference between ebay and craigslist? eBay ~ an American Internet company that manages ebay.com, an online auction and shopping website where people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide. Craiglist ~ a centralized network of online urban communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, internships, housing, personals, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs and resumes categories) and forums sorted by various topics.
7. What is SSL? Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging and other data transfers.
8. What are the two major ways for home users to connect to the Internet via a high speed connection?
   
9. What is a T-1 line?
   

Questions, Part II 5/15

# Who edits Wikipedia?



# What is Web 2.0?

a perceived second-generation of Web based communities and hosted services — such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

# What is a social network?

a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of relations, such as financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, trade, web links, sexual relations, disease transmission (epidemiology), or airline routes.

# Which corporation owns Myspace.com?

News Corporation

# How do Digg.com and Reddit.com work?

Digg ~ It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.

Reddit ~ The site also has discussion areas where users may discuss the posted links. Users may also vote for or against others' comments. When there are enough votes against a given comment, it will not be displayed by default, although a reader can cause it to be shown through a link or preference. Users who submit articles which are liked and subsequently voted up receive "karma", points which a user receives as a reward for submitting interesting articles.

# Why do people visit Monster.com?

Monster has a powerful job search engine which those seeking work can use to find job offers that match their skills and (present or preferred) locales.

Today, Monster is still one of the largest job search web sites on the Internet, claiming over a million job postings at any time and over 41 million resumes in the database. With approximately 5,000 employees in 26 countries, the company has a powerful global brand and unparalleled international reach. Monster is the only pan-European employment website and is growing fast in developing markets such as India.

# What does FTP stand for?

File Transfer Protocol is used to transfer data from one computer to another over the Internet, or through a network.

# What does HTTP mean?

a method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web. Its original purpose was to provide a way to publish and retrieve HTML pages.

# What is the file extension for Flash media that is available to see online?



# What is the file extension for Microsoft Word files?

.DOC

# What is the file extension for Microsoft Excel files?

XLS

# What is the difference between Excel and Word?

Excel ~ is a spreadsheet program written and distributed by Microsoft for computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system and for Apple Macintosh computers.

Word ~ is Microsoft's flagship word processing software.

# What is the file extension for Microsoft PowerPoint?

PPT

# How is Google Documents different from Microsoft Word and Excel?

G.D. could do both. It does Spredsheets and Word Processing.

# What is Linux?

a Unix-like computer operating system family, as well as one of the most prominent examples of free software and open source development; its underlying source code source code can be modified, used, and redistributed by anyone, freely.

# How does Linux differ from Microsoft Windows?



# What is Adwords?

is Google's flagship advertising product, and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads.

# How would one profit from Adsense?

Questions Part I, 5/14

1. When were the following companies founded?:

(a) Google ~ September 27, 1998

(b) Microsoft ~ April 4, 1975

(c) Yahoo! ~ March 2, 1995

2. Who were the founders of each of those companies?:

(a) Google ~ Sergey Brin, and E. Page

(b) Microsoft ~ Bill Gates, and Paul Allen

(c) Yahoo! ~ Jerry Yang, and David Filo

3. Last year (2006), what did the following companies make in revenue?:

(a) Google ~ 10.604 Billion

(b) Microsoft ~ US $44.3 billion

(c) Yahoo! ~ $6.43 Billion

4. What is .NET?

an umbrella term that applies to a wide collection of products and technologies from Microsoft.

5. What is the Google Page Rank Algorithm? Basically, how are the placements of searches made?

a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references.

6. Which company purchased Flickr.com?

Yahoo!

7. Which company very recently purchased Chrysler?

Magna International

8. What is the difference between a private equity company and a public corporation?

private equity company ~ a broad term that commonly refers to any type of equity investment in an asset in which the equity is not freely tradeable on a public stock market.

public corporation ~ a company which is permitted to offer its securities (stock, bonds, etc.) for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange.

9. What is money coming in to a company? [Erase the incorrect answers.]

(d) Revenue.

10. What is a share of stock?

11. What does Alcoa do? [Erase the incorrect answers.]

(c) Mine aluminum

12. What does the abbreviation GE stand for?

General Electric

13. What does the CEO do in a company?

in charge of total management of a corporation, company, organization or agency.

14. What does the CFO do in a company?

a company or public agency is the corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of the business or agency.

15. What is the NYSE? NASDAQ?

NYSE ~ a New York City-based stock exchange.

NASDAQ ~ an American electronic stock market.

16. What does the board of directors do in a corporation?

granting proxies to the board to vote their shares at general meetings and the large numbers of shareholders involved, the board can comprise a voting block that is difficult to overcome. However, there have been moves recently to try and increase shareholder activism amongst both institutional investors and individuals with small shareholdings.

17. What is an IPO?

the first sale of a corporation's common shares to investors on a public stock exchange.

3 Higher Education & Business Schools.....

Miami Dade College ~ http://www.mdc.edu/home/

University of Southern California ~ http://www.usc.edu/

Penn State University ~ http://www.psu.edu/

The 3 " QUESTIONS " !!

• Are you interested in the job? Simple Yes or No answer. { No }
• What type of salary is available? (Put a link to the information.) .....
  
• What type of education is necessary for the job? ....Did you still want me to do these last 2 questions?!
  

Small Business or Large Corporation?!

1. Blog ~ Large Corporation, Anytype of commentary, or journal entries about life, or anything else.
   
2. Web Site ~ Large Corporation, Helps you find photos, images, information, news, whatever.
   
3. FTP ~ Large Corporation, Help send data from one computer to another.
   
4. HTTP ~ Small Business, Helps you transfer information from the Triple W (World Wide Web).
   
5. Web services ~ Small Business,
   
6. Podcasts ~ Large Corporation, Any type of news, On the go.
   
7. RSS feeds ~Small Business, Let's you receive files from XML, RSS streams, RSS feeds, and more RSS stuff.
   
8. VOIP ~ Small Business, Let's you have conversation about business, sports, about anything you want to talk about with someone else.
   
9. Web mail ~ Large Corporation, Helps you receive any type of messages from another computer by another user through a Mailing site.
   
10. Web browser: Firefox vs. Internet Explorer ~ Large Corporation, Software apps help user display text, images, and much more.

The 2 " Q U E S T I O N S "!!!!!!!

1. I think the thing we've done this year that is the most useful and important up to this point is the 2007 budget. I think it's really going to help us out in the future, If we get a job in a big business company.


2. All I want to learn from computers is what I don't know about Computers. I would like to learn how to design a website (I have tried it before it's on Yahoo! but nobody visited it).

Summary about More video games, fewer books at schools? Article:

It's like More schools, fewer video game consoles. This article is trying to tell us that for some of us students it's harder to concentrate because We aren't doing what we like doing and are good at doing, playing video games. Like myself I wouldn't mine having school video games for Elementary, Middle, High schools all around the world. With that, Students would ask more questions, ask for help, and STAY QUIET!! in class (Isn't that what all teachers want from their students when they about to announce something?!). Actual replicas of one video games don't count so actually there's more books at school > at a EbGames, or GameStop.

Same thing with Video games, and Books all around the world. Fewer stores of both things, but tons of both things in a Store, or Library.

My Fav. Movie Of All-Time

Guess What I Like Doing......

Gables Under The Sea.....LITERALLY

I suppose the developers were acting very selfish about the whole thing so no their behavior was ethical.


We could all be avoiding this in the future by not trusting guys with good looking work suits on. Hey! I seen alot of people with nice looking suits and they act like a**es

Critique About My Favorite Movie Of All-Time: Freddy Vs Jason

Well like you already know Freddy, and Jason have movies with 16+ years old teenagers getting killed in nightmares and a camp. In this movie both characters unite for a epic battle, winner takes over if so you guys think. The movie starts off with Freddy being hell, Kids have forgotten about him he needs someone to come back to life. Guess Who?! yeah my boy Jason Vorhees is revived to do Krueger's dirty work for awhile so people start remenbering again.

I thought the movie was awesome, Unlike the " Movie Experts " think it's horrible b/c you know how big A*****es they are. I always been a big Freddy Krueger and Jason Vorhees movies fan especially Jason's. The big man never stops killing. Funny how nobody was smart enough to run out of the camp they were in (Crystal Lake Camp). For now, I'm waiting for the Freddy Vs. Jason 2 movie to come out. I always liked Horror movies with " TOO MUCH " blood. My favorite part of the movie is when one of the teens is outside in his front door seating thinking about what happened to one of his friend and his dad comes outside and tells him to come inside and then says " Dad!!! one of my best friends just got killed, so please give me some time alone okay?! " so the dad goes back in and the son randomly falls asleep and has a dream(a actual nightmare but not so quite) he hears something about the bushes so he runs to the street and starts looking and then faces one of th bushes around him and he thinks it's Freddy I'm guessing, and then a goat jumps and then he sighs and laughs for awhile till he sees Freddy Krueger about 20 feet away from him and he turns into a shadow like thing and comes through the guy and then comes back and from his head to his waist he puts through the guys body and slashes him and doesn't kill him b/c He doesn't have " full power " yet so the guy starts running to the house and he wakes up and finds he's dad next to him asleep laying on him with a little alcohol can and the son taps him on the back and the can and he's head falls off and the son goes all like crazy and gets up and bumps into Jason Vorhees that's right next to him and before he could run Jason chops off his head with his Machete. Lol!!!!!!

One Suggestion to.......Make class more conducive to Learning

A system could be designed to kick out the students that don't want to pay attention or do anything in class at all the first time the teachers glance at them. So that way the ones that do want to learn will stay in class and pass the year.


P.S. - That's a pretty good idea.....Make grades and work worth more grades not just one. Just my opinion. It was Omar's idea though.

Best Rookie Flash Video Out In The MIA! RIGHT NOW!!

Clap ON!!!

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Fo0TBaLL!!! 08

Something Interesting I Do Online.....

I'm a very big sports fan so I really like checking out ESPN, and MSN for the News for the Miami Dolphins, and the Heat. If I'm not doing that, I would be on www.ign.com chatting with other people about life or video games once in awhile. I have been on that those boards since 03 or 02 I got about 12,294 posts, Yeah pretty crazy! I do use messengers to chat with my friends from school and etc. Last 2 sites would be going to FlavorGames.com and playing games when I'm bored or really want to waste time, and www.myspace.com yeah always check on my space for new pic, or non-picture comments, and Messages.


P.S. - Some of the sites I go to are hidden!!!! Lol!

Private Life?!

1. I'm guessing at school, and I'm okay with that.

2. Chase them down!!!!. It should be illegal to take a picture of someone that doesn't want to get their picture taken.

3. Not it's not. I heard and seen people that their whole life is inside their houses. All they do be careful about everything, buying a yearly amount of food, etc.

4. What does the author mean by the "Creolization of media"? - I do not know....

5. Yes it can.

6. I found this random.

Iamfacingforeclosure.com is a site written by an idiot. Acknowledge he is an idiot for getting in so much trouble with money.

What is your reaction to the article? Did you enjoy it?

P.S. - Not finished

Private Life?!

1. I'm guessing at school, and I'm okay with that.

2. Chase them down!!!!. It should be illegal to take a picture of someone that doesn't want to get their picture taken.

3. Not it's not. I heard and seen people that their whole life is inside their houses. All they do be careful about everything, buying a yearly amount of food, etc.

4. What does the author mean by the "Creolization of media"? - I do not know....

5. Yes it can.

6. I found this random.

Iamfacingforeclosure.com is a site written by an idiot. Acknowledge he is an idiot for getting in so much trouble with money.

What is your reaction to the article? Did you enjoy it?

P.S. - Not finished

2/6/07

Web 2.0 - phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004,[1] refers to a perceived or proposed second generation of Web-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2000AprJun/0340.html


Dot Com - generic top-level domain (gTLD) used on the Internet's Domain Name System. It was one of the original top-level domains, established in January 1985, and has grown to be the largest TLD in use.

Definition for 2/8/07 Words:

Marginalization - the overt or covert trends within societies whereby those perceived as lacking desirable traits or deviating from the group norms tend to be excluded by wider society and ostracised as undesirables.


Inarticulate - uttered or formed without the definite articulations of intelligible speech.


Political - the process by which groups make decisions. Although the term is generally applied to behavior within governments, politics is observed in all human (and many non-human) group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. In general, politics can be considered the art of navigating through tensions among multiple "I"s and the "we" to achieve collectively desired ends.

Ben Casnocha

Blogs will be important now a days b/c of him. More blogs, discussion, and etc.