Prep Notes

16: Social software — trust, privacy, choice … and the web (III)

1/ We'll start by discussing the prep from lesson 15, where you were asked to think about: privacy and how it might be changing; frictionless sharing and social apps; Facebook's timeline. 2/ Facebook recently launched their IPO (stock market offering).  Documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claimed that it had a staggering 845 million active monthly users, half of whom sign in every day, $3.7bn in annual revenue and a rocketing growth rate. It also has a very healthy profit margin of 27%, just above fellow internet giant Google. This is a company that seems to give the final lie to the image of tech firms as coming prematurely to market with more in the way of wild dreams than a solid balance sheet. Guardian Some think the company could be valued at as much as $100bn.   Why might Facebook end up being valued at $100bn? One suggestion: Here's the Number That Matters in Facebook's IPO Filing - Technology - The Atlantic — the revenue per active monthly user is somewhere around $4.39–5.02. To justify the kind of valuation that Facebook is seeking, the company is going to have to generate a lot more revenue that they currently do. … even if Facebook gets to 3 billion users, if it doesn't increase its revenue per user, the company will only generate $13 billion in revenue per year … there is only one strategic direction for Facebook to go. It needs to generate more revenue per user. A lot more. … Two things are likely to happen: … 1) A lot more advertising. … 2) More Facebook Payments. … My guess is that Facebook's need to monetize at higher levels and users' desires will come into conflict more often the higher its revenue per user climbs. As Wired noted,  "With a huge new source of personal information, Facebook can now serve some of [the] most micro-targeted ads in history. You could probably call them nano-targeted ads." And the FT reported this February that advertising will come to Facebook on mobile devices 'within weeks'.   Some commentators have questioned the accuracy of Facebook's own estimate of the number of active users it has: "Facebook appears to be using the term “active” as a euphemism for “engaged” rather than how many users are actually going to its site every month" — NYT. From the same article: Facebook’s “Like” button on third-party sites or through “Facebook Connect” — its platform allowing users of other Web sites to sign in through Facebook and share information — is valuable, even if it isn’t easily monetized. … All of those “Likes” help Facebook create a treasure trove of data that should make its ability to target advertising to its users all the more valuable. (Of course, some people will be unnerved by how much Facebook knows about them.)  For an indication of how some of this could play out, read this blog post by an Old Pauline, Michael Henley, about Spotify and Facebook. Or, read As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter, the Wrong Friends Might Just Sink Your Credit:  … in the last year or so, financial institutions have started exploring ways to use data from Facebook, Twitter and other networks to round out an individual borrower’s risk profile—although most entrepreneurs working on the problem say the technology is three to five years away from mainstream adoption. Finally, here's an overview of what Facebook disclosed (last November) about its use of tracking data: The company compiles tracking data in different ways for members who have signed in and are using their accounts, for members who are logged-off and for non-members. The tracking process begins when you initially visit a facebook.com page. If you choose to sign up for a new account, Facebook inserts two different types of tracking cookies in your browser, a "session cookie" and a "browser cookie." If you choose not to become a member, and move on, you only get the browser cookie. From this point on, each time you visit a third-party webpage that has a Facebook Like button, or other Facebook plug-in, the plug-in works in conjunction with the cookie to alert Facebook of the date, time and web address of the webpage you've clicked to. The unique characteristics of your PC and browser, such as your IP address, screen resolution, operating system and browser version, are also recorded. Facebook thus compiles a running log of all your webpage visits for 90 days, continually deleting entries for the oldest day and adding the newest to this log. 3/ It has become important to understand how our data is used on the web and internet and by the services we use. We've looked at privacy, tracking and how to find search results in ways that don't prefer those on any given company's network or service. It is also important that users are educated enough about the services that a Facebook or Google operates to be able to hold these companies to account. As a result of focused pressure and an investigation, for example, Facebook recently made significant changes to their privacy policy: Facebook is close to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it acted in a deceptive manner in regards to its privacy settings, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal. The settlement would require Facebook to receive user consent before making "material retroactive changes" to its privacy settings. It would also require independent privacy audits for the next 20 years.* * (more on this just below) And this week, the White House announced a new privacy bill of rights (Do Not Track). If time, we'll look at Max Schrems’ David and Goliath struggle with Facebook. (Related: Get your Data! Make an Access Request at Facebook!) Pressure and scrutiny are effective: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Facebook had made claims about its privacy policies that were "unfair and deceptive, and violated federal law." … The FTC said it had reached a proposed settlement with Facebook that would force it to obtain consent before making changes to privacy settings. The firm will also have to undergo an independent audit of its consumer privacy policy every two years for the next 20 years, to make sure it complies with the FTC ruling. … In future, the firm will be required to obtain consent from its users ahead of making changes that change their privacy settings, and it will be required to prevent anyone from accessing a Facebook user's account 30 days after they have deleted it. — Guardian, Facebook reaches deal with FTC over 'unfair and deceptive' privacy claims (November 2011). Facebook has been told to stop its practice of indefinitely retaining data about which adverts its 500 million users outside the US click on, following a review by the Irish data protection commissioner of its non-US operations. It has also agreed to take immediate steps over data collected from third-party sites when people use their Facebook identity to log in to them. Until now, that data about people's behaviour was passed back to Facebook and retained indefinitely. Following the review, Facebook can keep the data but it has to make it anonymous – for example it can share how many people clicked on an advert but can't provide details of specific users – within 10 days and completely delete the data after 90. The social network has also been told to improve users' control over social adverts, and simplify its explanations of its privacy policies which must also be made more prominent for new users, following a detailed report by the commissioner. — Guardian, Facebook told to stop indefinitely holding users' advertising data (December, 2011) … we don’t always get everything right. The launch of Google Buzz fell short of our usual standards for transparency and user control—letting our users and Google down. While we worked quickly to make improvements, regulators—including the U.S. Federal Trade Commission—unsurprisingly wanted more detail about what went wrong and how we could prevent it from happening again. Today, we’ve reached an agreement with the FTC to address their concerns. We’ll receive an independent review of our privacy procedures once every two years, and we’ll ask users to give us affirmative consent before we change how we share their personal information. — Official Google blog, An update on Buzz (March 2011)

Prep

The release of 60 new apps that employ Facebook’s “frictionless sharing” has sparked another round of internet debate about the value of the functionality, and the shift to getting users activated on the site’s new Timeline design.


A poll by Sophos suggests many users are unhappy with Timeline and Philip Landau posed the question on the Guardian’s work blog: What if Facebook Timeline was read instead of your CV?


Nick Bradbury blogged about how actually more friction is added to the sharing process, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped 5 billion song plays being shared. Whatever that means.


Facebook are introducing a new, inline privacy setting that allows a user to control who can see their app activity on Facebook. With this setting, people can share their app activity with as large or small an audience as they'd like. … On February 1, 2012, all apps will be enabled for the improved dialog, but those that haven’t fully configured their dialog can disable the setting in the Developer App until February 15, at which time it will be turned on for all apps.


The latest changes which make app permissions in Facebook more prominent … will definitely get brands and marketing types tense, but for once I think users are going to think it's brilliant. Facebook (rightly) get a hard time on privacy so it's good to see them giving more power and control to their users.

PREP NOTES

Google has changed the way they've presented search results in the past focusing on marketing objects at you as they can build up a virtual profile about you based on your searches and market items that you are interested in.

Google says, "We never manipulate rankings to put our partners higher in our search results and no one can buy better PageRank. Our users trust our objectivity and no short-term gain could ever justify breaching that trust.”

NEW GOOGLE SEARCH FEATURES:

1. Personal Results, which enable you to find information just for you, such as Google+ photos and posts—both your own and those shared specifically with you, that only you will be able to see on your results page; 
2. Profiles in Search, both in autocomplete and results, which enable you to immediately find people you’re close to or might be interested in following; and, 
3. People and Pages, which help you find people profiles and Google+ pages related to a specific topic or area of interest, and enable you to follow them with just a few clicks. Because behind most every query is a community. 

Starting today, Google+ members, and to a lesser extent others who are signed into Google, will be able to search against both the broader web and their own Google+ social graph. That’s right; Google+ circles, photos, posts and more will be integrated into search in ways other social platforms can only dream about.

Google+ profiles will now be a part of the search query box. As long as you’re signed into Google+, Google will try to finish your search query with the most likely in-your-Circles match. Google, in other words, is assuming that you’re looking for someone you know and not just a random person with the same name.

What you'll find with Search plus Your World:

 

Photos from you and your friends

Search for photos shared with you on Google+ or uploaded by you and your connections.

 

Google+ content from your circles

Relevant Google+ posts and comments that have been shared with you will now appear in your search results.

Profiles in search

Find people faster by seeing their Google profile appear right as you type their name in search.

 

Related people and pages

Discover people and brands related to your search and connect by adding them to your circles.

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Just got back to school and I've started rowing but to be honest I'm pretty POOR at it :( Whatever who says I shouldn't try to get in a team (probably the D's or worse)!! :D :) :-| :( :'( Well it's been great updating you guys (my hundreds of fans) but I've really got to go now as (to be honest) I can't stand the fame :O&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AU REVOIR and ADIOS!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1154788229810815143-7411769236757240759?l=yubstar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/feeds/7411769236757240759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/2012/01/im-not-dead.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/7411769236757240759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/7411769236757240759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/2012/01/im-not-dead.html' title='I&apos;m not dead!!!!!!!'/><author><name>Tobacalafrajalisticexpialadocious</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02560068958948290808</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytnLcIMYZhET9Ks3IBMjtYt6TeJNEUDoo9NKr214mFmz5yooInYtKaVsKO66SVwcJa5XkrecFf3NcL7h8674lujQhUqR7NxeEhSJtx_Yxws1oNGt6uyVw4DzvHOv1Ciu2YD32itRPz-s/s220/Photo+on+2011-06-04+at+16.04+%25232.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1154788229810815143.post-1812826537495959843</id><published>2011-12-08T02:33:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-08T02:35:51.065-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HTML</title><content type='html'>What I wrote in HTML:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;My First Heading&amp;lt;/h1&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;My first paragraph.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;My first italics!&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;My second paragraph!&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;My first list!&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;end list&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;My second heading&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;BOLD&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I saw:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;My First Heading&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first paragraph.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;My first italics!&lt;em&gt;  My second paragraph! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;My first list! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;end list  &lt;h2&gt;My second heading &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;BOLD&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cool huh?? 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I've decided that my presentation will be on how they are made and what they look like as playing one is a hobby of mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a bit of information about them:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term most properly refers to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body. It can also refer to a violin fitted with an electric pickup of some type, although "amplified violin" or "electro-acoustic violin" are more accurate in that case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Electrically amplified violins have been used in one form or another since the 1920s; jazz and blues artist Stuff Smith is generally credited as being one of the first performers to adapt pickups and amplifiers to violins. The Electro Stringed Instrument Corporation, National and Vega sold electric violins in the 1930s and 1940s; Fender produced a small number of electric violins in the late 1950s. There has been a great deal more commercial success of well known manufacturers of electric violins since the 1990s for both well known, established companies and new makers too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't wait to make my presentation!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1154788229810815143-5782305889934410086?l=yubstar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/feeds/5782305889934410086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/2011/12/electric-violin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/5782305889934410086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/5782305889934410086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/2011/12/electric-violin.html' title='ELECTRIC VIOLIN!'/><author><name>Tobacalafrajalisticexpialadocious</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02560068958948290808</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytnLcIMYZhET9Ks3IBMjtYt6TeJNEUDoo9NKr214mFmz5yooInYtKaVsKO66SVwcJa5XkrecFf3NcL7h8674lujQhUqR7NxeEhSJtx_Yxws1oNGt6uyVw4DzvHOv1Ciu2YD32itRPz-s/s220/Photo+on+2011-06-04+at+16.04+%25232.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1154788229810815143.post-7060390650815896845</id><published>2011-12-01T02:57:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T02:57:56.795-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HACK !!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="https://webmail2010.stpaulsschool.org.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=52b541c6bcb34cb5bab4d7373e8118e9&amp;amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fpoof.hksr.us%2furkbxkxy" style="font-family: Tahoma; 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I found it interesting because you can see the makeshift "heart" of the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second video tells us how mobiles have&amp;nbsp;integrated&amp;nbsp;themselves into our modern day life and how they have become standard and common now. To not be "connected" is now uncommon and it makes you realise how much the world has moved on and how quickly things have changed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1154788229810815143-3329328315785592874?l=yubstar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/feeds/3329328315785592874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/2011/11/two-videos-for-prep.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/3329328315785592874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/3329328315785592874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/2011/11/two-videos-for-prep.html' title='Two Videos for Prep'/><author><name>Tobacalafrajalisticexpialadocious</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02560068958948290808</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytnLcIMYZhET9Ks3IBMjtYt6TeJNEUDoo9NKr214mFmz5yooInYtKaVsKO66SVwcJa5XkrecFf3NcL7h8674lujQhUqR7NxeEhSJtx_Yxws1oNGt6uyVw4DzvHOv1Ciu2YD32itRPz-s/s220/Photo+on+2011-06-04+at+16.04+%25232.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1154788229810815143.post-2442558170568394472</id><published>2011-11-23T05:04:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T05:05:07.482-08:00</updated><title type='text'>WOW!</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sMoKcsN8wM8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1154788229810815143-2442558170568394472?l=yubstar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/feeds/2442558170568394472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/2442558170568394472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/2442558170568394472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-post.html' title='WOW!'/><author><name>Tobacalafrajalisticexpialadocious</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02560068958948290808</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytnLcIMYZhET9Ks3IBMjtYt6TeJNEUDoo9NKr214mFmz5yooInYtKaVsKO66SVwcJa5XkrecFf3NcL7h8674lujQhUqR7NxeEhSJtx_Yxws1oNGt6uyVw4DzvHOv1Ciu2YD32itRPz-s/s220/Photo+on+2011-06-04+at+16.04+%25232.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/sMoKcsN8wM8/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1154788229810815143.post-8536276624999339278</id><published>2011-11-23T04:56:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T05:02:59.816-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE PACE OF CHANGE</title><content type='html'>In Matt Edgar's blog, we learn how quickly the world is changing and how it is changing. For example: if someone came up to you and said "Do you think our world is changing?" I'm pretty sure you would say "yes of course" but I am also sure that if the person who asked you the original question then said "did you know that it took the radio 40 years to reach a sale market of 50 million, did you also so know that it took the iPod only 5 years and YouTube only 6 months to reach this same milestone!" I think these point (as examples) show clearly how quickly things are moving on and thus show us the "Pace of Change."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1154788229810815143-8536276624999339278?l=yubstar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/feeds/8536276624999339278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/2011/11/pace-of-change-in-matt-edgars-blog-he.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/8536276624999339278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/8536276624999339278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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title='RWC!!!!'/><author><name>Tobacalafrajalisticexpialadocious</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02560068958948290808</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytnLcIMYZhET9Ks3IBMjtYt6TeJNEUDoo9NKr214mFmz5yooInYtKaVsKO66SVwcJa5XkrecFf3NcL7h8674lujQhUqR7NxeEhSJtx_Yxws1oNGt6uyVw4DzvHOv1Ciu2YD32itRPz-s/s220/Photo+on+2011-06-04+at+16.04+%25232.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/jIMxTZr5mnY/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1154788229810815143.post-3073410499551025404</id><published>2011-09-22T12:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-22T12:00:53.244-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What's a browser?</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" 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browser?'/><author><name>Tobacalafrajalisticexpialadocious</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02560068958948290808</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytnLcIMYZhET9Ks3IBMjtYt6TeJNEUDoo9NKr214mFmz5yooInYtKaVsKO66SVwcJa5XkrecFf3NcL7h8674lujQhUqR7NxeEhSJtx_Yxws1oNGt6uyVw4DzvHOv1Ciu2YD32itRPz-s/s220/Photo+on+2011-06-04+at+16.04+%25232.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/BrXPcaRlBqo/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1154788229810815143.post-4845949468414833657</id><published>2011-09-22T10:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-22T10:08:48.425-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Browsers</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;A chronological listing of some of the influential early web browsers that advanced the state of the art is provided below:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;WorldWideWeb&lt;/u&gt;.&amp;nbsp;Tim Berners-Lee&amp;nbsp;wrote the first web browser on a NeXT computer, called WorldWideWeb, finishing the first version on Christmas day, 1990. He released the program to a number of people at CERN in March, 1991, introducing the web to the high energy physics community, and beginning its spread.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;libwww&lt;/u&gt;. Berners-Lee and a student at CERN named Jean-Francois Groff ported the WorldWideWeb application from the NeXT environment to the more common C language in 1991 and 1992, calling the new browser libwww. Groff later started the first web design company, InfoDesign.ch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Line-mode&lt;/u&gt;. Nicola Pellow, a math student interning at CERN, wrote a line-mode web browser that would work on any device, even a teletype. In 1991, Nicola and the team ported the browser to a range of computers, from&amp;nbsp;Unix&amp;nbsp;to Microsoft DOS, so that anyone could access the web, at that point consisting primarily of the CERN phone book.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Erwise&lt;/u&gt;. After a visit from&amp;nbsp;Robert Cailliau, a group of students at Helsinki University of Technology joined together to write a web browser as a master's project. Since the acronym for their department was called "OTH", they called the browser "erwise", as a joke on the word "otherwise". The final version was released in April, 1992, and included several advanced features, but wasn't developed further after the students graduated and went on to other jobs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;ViolaWWW&lt;/u&gt;. Pei Wei, a student at the University of California at Berkeley, released the second browser for Unix, called ViolaWWW, in May, 1992. This browser was built on the powerful interpretive language called Viola that Wei had developed for Unix computers. ViolaWWW had a range of advanced features, including the ability to display graphics and download&amp;nbsp;applets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;FIRST WIDELY USED WEB BROWSER:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mosaic&lt;/u&gt;. Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the&amp;nbsp;NCSA&amp;nbsp;released the first version of Mosaic for X-Windows on Unix computers in February, 1993. A version for the Macintosh was developed by Aleks Totic and released a few months later, making Mosaic the first browser with cross-platform support. Mosaic introduced support for sound, video clips, forms support, bookmarks, and history files, and quickly became the most popular non-commercial web browser. In August, 1994, NCSA assigned commercial rights to Mosaic to Spyglass, Inc., which subsequently licensed the technology to several other companies, including Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer. The NCSA stopped developing Mosaic in January 1997.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1154788229810815143-4845949468414833657?l=yubstar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/feeds/4845949468414833657/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/2011/09/browsers.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/4845949468414833657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1154788229810815143/posts/default/4845949468414833657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yubstar.blogspot.com/2011/09/browsers.html' title='Browsers'/><author><name>Tobacalafrajalisticexpialadocious</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02560068958948290808</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytnLcIMYZhET9Ks3IBMjtYt6TeJNEUDoo9NKr214mFmz5yooInYtKaVsKO66SVwcJa5XkrecFf3NcL7h8674lujQhUqR7NxeEhSJtx_Yxws1oNGt6uyVw4DzvHOv1Ciu2YD32itRPz-s/s220/Photo+on+2011-06-04+at+16.04+%25232.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1154788229810815143.post-1856912547313741709</id><published>2011-09-22T10:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-22T10:00:44.190-07:00</updated><title type='text'>RWC 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;2011 Rugby World Cup&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;is the seventh&amp;nbsp;Rugby World Cup, a&amp;nbsp;quadrennial&amp;nbsp;international&amp;nbsp;rugby union&amp;nbsp;competition inaugurated in&amp;nbsp;1987. TheInternational Rugby Board&amp;nbsp;(IRB) selected&amp;nbsp;New Zealand&amp;nbsp;as the host country in preference to Japan and South Africa at a meeting in&amp;nbsp;Dublin&amp;nbsp;on 17 November 2005. The IRB Council eliminated South Africa in the first of two rounds of voting.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"&gt;It will be the largest sporting event ever held in New Zealand,&amp;nbsp;eclipsing the&amp;nbsp;1987 Rugby World Cup,&amp;nbsp;1990 Commonwealth Games,&amp;nbsp;1992 Cricket World Cup,&amp;nbsp;2003 America's Cup&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;2005 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand.&amp;nbsp;The organisers expect 95,000 visitors from overseas to travel to New Zealand for the event.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"&gt;The schedule of games runs over seven weeks starting on 9 September 2011. The final will be played on Sunday 23 October 2011, a date chosen because it falls on a&amp;nbsp;long weekend&amp;nbsp;caused by the New Zealand public holiday of&amp;nbsp;Labour Day&amp;nbsp;(Monday, 24 October 2011).&amp;nbsp;The final is scheduled to be played in&amp;nbsp;Auckland&amp;nbsp;at&amp;nbsp;Eden Park.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"&gt;After speculation that the number of participating teams would be reduced to 16, the IRB announced on 30 November 2007 that the 2011 tournament would again feature 20 teams.&amp;nbsp;Twelve teams qualified as a result of finishing in the top three in each pool in the 2007 tournament. The remaining eight berths were determined by regional qualifying tournaments.&amp;nbsp;Of the 20 countries that competed in the previous World Cup in 2007, there was only one change – Russia replaced Portugal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"&gt;THANKS FOR READING AND ALL THE BEST :D&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"&gt;TOBY :@&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1154788229810815143-1856912547313741709?l=yubstar.blogspot.com' 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YOU WOULD NEVER IMAGINE IT :O

Notes

The video on plagiarism shows how people don't credit the people they copy from on the internet. They merely adopt the people's research and ideas as their own. These people should quote these sources with "...." to credit them for the work they've done and to allow the person them self not to be a fraud. With this these people can now develop these ideas and expand on them creating their own ideas on top.

BLOGGING

Blogs have been around for about 10 years. The word stands for ’web log’ and they’re effectively online diaries. Anyone can set one up, that’s the easy part. Thinking of something interesting to say each time you blog is the tricky bit.

Assuming you don’t understand or want to learn about writing websites in code, you’re probably best off looking at one of the sites that offers free blogging. A couple of the more popular are Wordpress, LiveJournal and Blogger. Others are available.

Both of these will offer you a free blog site with its own address – so it becomes, for example, http://www.yourblog.blogsite.com. This is the address you give friends who might want to take a look.

Blogging is a great way to get out there in the world and I highly recommend it!

I'm not dead!!!!!!!

Hello my multitude of blogging fans as you can see I'M NOT DEAD!! I've just been on holiday to SOUTH AFRICA :D It's much hotter there than it is here. One day it was over 30 degrees! Just got back to school and I've started rowing but to be honest I'm pretty POOR at it :( Whatever who says I shouldn't try to get in a team (probably the D's or worse)!! :D :) :-| :( :'( Well it's been great updating you guys (my hundreds of fans) but I've really got to go now as (to be honest) I can't stand the fame :O

AU REVOIR and ADIOS!