Wikipedia, THE MOTHER OF INFORMATION ON THE WEB!!, well...to me anyway. I know it's not good, and we're constantly advised not to, but I am one of those terrible sinners that take information straaaiiight off wikipedia( I don't mean "copy and paste" but I don't cross check that the information is completely factual and is all correct).
But probably the most interesting and useful thing I have found out about is the fact that you are able to trace changes and modifications in articles back to the precise location of the computer where it was edited (generalising that all edits are done on a desktop computer).
This tool also allows any user to view the history of the page's edits which can be useful in checking the reliability of the source, e.g. if the article was vandalised moments before you were viewing the article, or if months ago, the latter being the more reliable and therefore useful.
By memorising the IP address of every computer to edit an article or page on wikipedia, you are able to cut down vandalism dramatically by blocking certain computers form editing on wikipedia at all.
Very few people will bother going to another computer just to vandalise an article as many people just do it for fun or fr a joke and is usually a one off thing.
I just saw this a few days ago and had to include it.
Monday, 6 April 2009
Monday, 16 March 2009
Web Tagging (to the extreme!!!)
Before this week's lesson, I'd seen Delicious all over the web, but I'd never bothered to actually type those letters into google.
It wasnt till now that I actually realised how useful it could be and what it could achieve.
People who did realise this were Yahoo and although they realised the potential of delicious two years after it was first released, on 5th December 2005, Yahoo made a great investment.
You may not actually realise how many 'social bookmarking' sites there are on the web, but its closing in 100. But delicious is by far the one leading the way and creating the example.
I currently have only a few bookmarks with Delicious, but I'm sure this will grow due to school and work, and to pages I just find interesting!
The fact that you could share your bookmarks with people of similar interests has made Deliocious as popular as it is.
That is what I believe the best part of it and is why I'm going to stick with Delicious.
It wasnt till now that I actually realised how useful it could be and what it could achieve.
People who did realise this were Yahoo and although they realised the potential of delicious two years after it was first released, on 5th December 2005, Yahoo made a great investment.
You may not actually realise how many 'social bookmarking' sites there are on the web, but its closing in 100. But delicious is by far the one leading the way and creating the example.
I currently have only a few bookmarks with Delicious, but I'm sure this will grow due to school and work, and to pages I just find interesting!
The fact that you could share your bookmarks with people of similar interests has made Deliocious as popular as it is.
That is what I believe the best part of it and is why I'm going to stick with Delicious.
Monday, 9 March 2009
Flickr
Flickr started off life as an online game which incorporated sharing photos into it. But little did the creators of flickr know that it would turn out to be as big as it is today.
"Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed," Caterina Fake says, a co-founder of Flickr . "We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things."
The game was never released though and in March 2004, Yahoo bought the company for an undisclosed fee and moved the 11 'Flickr' team members, with its company, from its home country, Canada , to the united States.
Flickr's traffic grew 448% to 3.4 million from December 2004 to December 2005, according to Internet measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings. In the nearly 12 months since Yahoo purchased it, the site went from 250,000 registered users to more than 2 million.
Flickr is such a massive photo base, and has so mnany people using it world-widem, that in the last minute that i have been writing this blog, over 42,000 photos have been updated onto the website. The site has revoulutionised the way we use photo sharing.
"Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed," Caterina Fake says, a co-founder of Flickr . "We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things."
The game was never released though and in March 2004, Yahoo bought the company for an undisclosed fee and moved the 11 'Flickr' team members, with its company, from its home country, Canada , to the united States.
Flickr's traffic grew 448% to 3.4 million from December 2004 to December 2005, according to Internet measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings. In the nearly 12 months since Yahoo purchased it, the site went from 250,000 registered users to more than 2 million.
Flickr is such a massive photo base, and has so mnany people using it world-widem, that in the last minute that i have been writing this blog, over 42,000 photos have been updated onto the website. The site has revoulutionised the way we use photo sharing.
Sunday, 1 March 2009
With over 175 million people all around the world (that's 3% of the world) on facebook, its no wonder that facebook's terms and conditions page is extremely long aswell as all its safety and advice pages.
With this high number of people on facebook it is also no surprise that facebook cannot change a thing about the network without someone starting a group or page against it.
And thats one thing that facebook got wrong. They thought that they could change their terms and conditions page drastically with very few complaints and people skipping to the end and pressing accept (myself included).
What I learnt in the past two lessons is that not many people realise the amount of information that they are putting onto facebook, with some people they are putting ALL of their personal information onto facebook, because they read only one word in facebook's terms and condiyions list: that all of it would be SAFE.
Little did these people know that to be truly safe they would have to manually go into their accounts settings and change it to their level of privacy. I personally only have my email adress and phone number on facebook, but , because of the last two lessons I have had in ICT, I have made sure that only people that I have agreed to be friends with on facebook canm access this information about me.
With this high number of people on facebook it is also no surprise that facebook cannot change a thing about the network without someone starting a group or page against it.
And thats one thing that facebook got wrong. They thought that they could change their terms and conditions page drastically with very few complaints and people skipping to the end and pressing accept (myself included).
What I learnt in the past two lessons is that not many people realise the amount of information that they are putting onto facebook, with some people they are putting ALL of their personal information onto facebook, because they read only one word in facebook's terms and condiyions list: that all of it would be SAFE.
Little did these people know that to be truly safe they would have to manually go into their accounts settings and change it to their level of privacy. I personally only have my email adress and phone number on facebook, but , because of the last two lessons I have had in ICT, I have made sure that only people that I have agreed to be friends with on facebook canm access this information about me.
Monday, 9 February 2009
- Facebook chat: MSN KILLER
- Status updates: Social or Nosy?
- Your profile wall: Part Of Your Life
- Applications: Fun Or An Invasion Of Privacy?
- Simplicity: What makes a network ...urrr...WORK!!
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Privacy in the internet world
Privacy is something that everyone in this world wantsm ut not something that everyone has.
You may say that some celebrity dont have any privacy, but they are exceptions.
As I said in one of my earlier blogs, "the web is a dangerous tool if used badly, but you must embrace the power of it with open arms"; it can be a dangerous tool because of the amount of information that people store on it.
Almost 100 million people are on social networking sites, such as facebook, and the amount of information that is on a website like that is staggering. You can find out peoples phone numbers, their email adress, where they live and a lot more. Starting a network such as facebook is an enormous responsibility.
One of the creators of facebook in a recent interview said that the site was originally started so that several universities could communicate and keep in touch with eachother and he had no intention in it growing as big as it is today.
I am on about four or five different sites such as twitter and facebook, and on both of these sites I have given only my name and e-mail address.
This reveals very little about me which is what you need on the web, privacy, because without that, what have you got?
You may say that some celebrity dont have any privacy, but they are exceptions.
As I said in one of my earlier blogs, "the web is a dangerous tool if used badly, but you must embrace the power of it with open arms"; it can be a dangerous tool because of the amount of information that people store on it.
Almost 100 million people are on social networking sites, such as facebook, and the amount of information that is on a website like that is staggering. You can find out peoples phone numbers, their email adress, where they live and a lot more. Starting a network such as facebook is an enormous responsibility.
One of the creators of facebook in a recent interview said that the site was originally started so that several universities could communicate and keep in touch with eachother and he had no intention in it growing as big as it is today.
I am on about four or five different sites such as twitter and facebook, and on both of these sites I have given only my name and e-mail address.
This reveals very little about me which is what you need on the web, privacy, because without that, what have you got?
Sunday, 1 February 2009
Microblogging!
Blogging,as we all know,is alive and well and is growing at an incredible rate. But dont you think that it is a bit of a devotion to be writing full length articles all the time? CHANGE HAS COME TO BLOGGING!
Microblogging is the all new form of blogging in which you write short sentances (only 140 characters!) about what you're doing at any moment in time.You can update it anytime so that your friends and family can see what you're doing.
You simply sign up to a microblogging site(e.g. Twitter) and you're off on your exciting new journey to the land of the future...
You may think that you won't have time to log in very frequently during the day onto your computer, but never fear.Twitter is also available on your Phone! So you really can update it wherever and whenever you want.
You may not realise it but you are probably using microblogging already. Facebook is a great example of this as at the head of your homepage, it says ' What are you doing right now?' which is what microblogging is all about.
This is one of the best features of facebook and is one of the many reasons I think that Microblogging will take over the world of blogs.
Because it is so similar to facebook, I don't think that there is going to be a huge surge of microbloggers on twitter as there was on such sites as blogger when blogging first became big,but don't get me wrong;Microblogging is the future....
Microblogging is the all new form of blogging in which you write short sentances (only 140 characters!) about what you're doing at any moment in time.You can update it anytime so that your friends and family can see what you're doing.
You simply sign up to a microblogging site(e.g. Twitter) and you're off on your exciting new journey to the land of the future...
You may think that you won't have time to log in very frequently during the day onto your computer, but never fear.Twitter is also available on your Phone! So you really can update it wherever and whenever you want.
You may not realise it but you are probably using microblogging already. Facebook is a great example of this as at the head of your homepage, it says ' What are you doing right now?' which is what microblogging is all about.
This is one of the best features of facebook and is one of the many reasons I think that Microblogging will take over the world of blogs.
Because it is so similar to facebook, I don't think that there is going to be a huge surge of microbloggers on twitter as there was on such sites as blogger when blogging first became big,but don't get me wrong;Microblogging is the future....
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