those traditional news companies that are hiring? They aren’t looking for the same old thing any longer. A spirit of innovation is mandatory, previous experience is not. If you are willing to learn new ways of communicating to – and with – an audience, including inventing some of your own, you’re ready for a job in a new era news business.It's easy to create your own blog—a good-looking one, with text, photos and links to other sites—in a flash, no technical know-how required.
A newsreader will get a website's content in the form of a feed—essentially a list of headlines, with summaries, excerpts or the full text of each item, and links that take you back to the source. Feeds come in one of three formats: RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication), XML or Atom. If a site offers a feed, you'll usually see a tiny icon or link on the home page.
Facebook Inc.’s estimated worth is now bigger than EBay Inc.’s valuation, making it the third- largest U.S. Internet business and underscoring the growing allure of social media for investors.
Facebook’s stock is trading at more than $16 on SecondMarket Inc., an exchange for shares of privately held companies, said a person familiar with the latest pricing data. That would put its worth at about $41 billion, more than EBay’s $39.3 billion valuation on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Facebook only trails Amazon.com Inc., worth $74.4 billion, and Google Inc., valued at $192.9 billion, among U.S. Internet companies.
1. Facebook Saves Things That Have Been Deleted
Whatever status updates or unglamorous pictures of you are still inside the server somewhere. A word of advice, think carefully and be tactful when uploading photos or making a status update.
2. Facebook Knows Your Viewing History
Log of clicks are used by Facebook to determine your viewing history. Hence, it knows whose photos you are going through.
3. Facebook Knows How Often You Interact With Or Click On The Profile Of A Given Person
Depending on the number of visits you made on your friend’s profile, Facebook uses this data as a method to judge who your good friends are. This is visible through Facebook search where your friends are not listed in alphabetical order but by the people who you interact most with.
4. Facebook Carries Out Psychological Tests On New Features
Instead of doing group sampling or beta testing on their new features, Facebook does the above plus eye ball tracking to get an idea of where you are looking at.
5. Facebook Employees Are Able To Retrieve Any Message You’ve Sent Out
Since all data are stored in the server, employees have the clearance to pull out any data about you through a simple query on your profile.
As a linguist, Baron in interested in computer-mediated communication, writing and technology, language in social context, language acquisition, and the history of English. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, and president of the Semiotic Society of America, she has published seven books. Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World won the English-Speaking Union’s Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Award for 2008.
Baron taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Emory University, and Southwestern University before coming to American University in 1987. At AU, she has served as associate dean for undergraduate affairs, associate dean for curriculum and faculty development, and chair of the Department of Language and Foreign Studies in CAS. She was named University Honors Program Professor of the Year and received an AU Presidential Research Fellowship. Baron also teaches in the AU TESOL program and is currently doing cross-cultural research on mobile phones.
Second Life is a computer-simulated environment which users inhabit. They interact with the environment via their on-screen representatives known as avatars. An avatar is a person in Second Life. People in second Life are referred to as residents. Second Life is a social environment where people learn, explore, work, shop and play.
The day what we getting to know this new technology was amazing. This new technology can make people have their real second life in the internet world. People can chatting, have meetings, go shopping,dating in this second world.This new interesting technology can also increase world trade economy.
Second Life has an internal currency, the Linden dollar (L$). L$ can be used to buy, sell, rent or trade land or goods and services with other users. Virtual goods include buildings, vehicles, devices of all kinds, animations, clothing, skin, hair, jewelry, flora and fauna, and works of art. Services include "camping", wage labor, business management, entertainment and custom content creation (which can be broken up into the following 6 categories: building, texturing, scripting, animating, art direction, and the position of producer/project funder). L$ can be purchased using US Dollars and other currencies on the LindeX exchange provided by Linden Lab, independent brokers or other resident users. Money obtained from currency sales is most commonly used to pay Second Life's own subscription and tier fees; only a relatively small number of users earn large amounts of money from the world.
Some companies generate US dollar earnings from services provided in Second Life.
