YouTube Friday: “College Saga”
May 16, 2008
To celebrate the end of the college semester, here is a fairly large clip (about 40 minutes length) of an interesting perspective of college… the RPG perspective. If you remember the game “Final Fantasy VII”, this interface may look familiar… Anyway, enjoy!
Until next time…
The power of “Twitter”
May 12, 2008
We are in a new age of information. E-mail is the aging medium, instant messaging is sort of the norm. Twitter has become the new form of communication for the early adopters. Some may think that twitter is just “a bunch of Silicon Valley people talking to each other”, but as of recent events of the earthquake in China, that is not entirely the case. Thanks to tech blogger and technology socialite Robert Scoble, people heard about the quake before major news vendors reported on it. Another example was back in April when a student from the University of California-Berkeley got arrested in Egypt and twittered, “Arrested”, in which set off events for his release.
Mark my words, in the next few years, Twitter will be the next Facebook. It just astounds me of how technology evolves, how information is disseminated and how people form a sort of “external” community.
To end this post, I would like to say that my thoughts and prayers go to the families in China and to the people involved in the relief effort.
Until next time…
One of today’s clips will first feature the classic “Life” cereal commercial that I grew up with…
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Here is a commercial for the original Nintendo Entertainment System… [P.S. who ever bought the little robot (R.O.B. - Robotic Operating Buddy) that was only made to be used to play like two games?]
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Here is one from the many “Time to Make the Donuts” commercials from Dunkin’ Donuts that features Tattoo from “Fantasy Island”. (Who doesn’t remember “Fantasy Island”, and the famous lines, “The plane! The plane!”).
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The last clip is from Alka Seltzer that is hilarious…
Until next time…
RSS Awareness Day
May 1, 2008
May 1st, rent is due (for most of us) and today is also RSS Awareness Day. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. This is a way that information is “fed” into a presentable way that could be custom tailored by you, the user. Information can consists of news, blog entries and other frequently updated content. One way to explain this is when you watch CNN on television, you have up to date news, stock prices, sports scores and other tidbits of information. Now think of this for the Internet. You can subscribe to blogs that you read, podcasts that you listen to and news reports; all tailored to your own whims. Another example is on Facebook. When you first login, you come to the “notification page”, this page has recent activities of your friends on Facebook. This is an example of a feed.
Perhaps you have seen the little orange button on websites with the white arches, the one on the right side of my blog column? This is the RSS symbol, which you can click on to subscribe (and this is not a plug to subscribe to my blog, REALLY. But you can, if you want). But first, you need a program called an RSS reader, feed reader, or sometimes called an RSS aggregator. I use Newsfox, which is an add-on to my web brower, Firefox, but there are many other programs you can use, too. Then it’s as easy as subscribing through the RSS reader and whenever information is updated, it will appear in your reader. Easy as 1-2-3.
Until next time…
