tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39552220276310966832024-03-13T05:42:08.740-07:00kalpanav3kalpanav3http://www.blogger.com/profile/17917160583731556915noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955222027631096683.post-59628192752202851532009-06-29T22:31:00.000-07:002009-06-29T22:35:22.817-07:00TECHNOLOGY<p><b>Technology</b> is a broad concept that deals with an animal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species" title="Species">species</a>' usage and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool" title="Tool">tools</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft" title="Craft">crafts</a>, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_environment" title="Natural environment">environment</a>. Technology is a term with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">origins</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> "<i>technologia</i>", "<i>τεχνολογία</i>" — "<i>techne</i>", "<i>τέχνη</i>" ("craft") and "<i>logia</i>", "<i>λογία</i>" ("saying"). <sup id="cite_ref-mwdict_0-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology#cite_note-mwdict-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> However, a strict definition is elusive; "technology" can refer to material objects of use to humanity, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine" title="Machine">machines</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware" title="Hardware">hardware</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utensil" title="Utensil">utensils</a>, but can also encompass broader themes, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System" title="System">systems</a>, methods of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization" title="Organization">organization</a>, and <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/technique" class="extiw" title="wikt:technique">techniques</a>. The term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include "construction technology", "medical technology", or "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-of-the-art" title="State-of-the-art" class="mw-redirect">state-of-the-art</a> technology".</p> <p>The human species' use of technology began with the conversion of natural resources into simple tools. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory" title="Prehistory">prehistorical</a> discovery of the ability to control <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire" title="Fire">fire</a> increased the available sources of food and the invention of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel" title="Wheel">wheel</a> helped humans in travelling in and controlling their environment. Recent technological developments, including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press" title="Printing press">printing press</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone" title="Telephone">telephone</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>, have lessened physical barriers to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication" title="Communication">communication</a> and allowed humans to interact freely on a global scale. However, not all technology has been used for peaceful purposes; the development of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon" title="Weapon">weapons</a> of ever-increasing destructive power has progressed throughout history, from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_%28weapon%29" title="Club (weapon)">clubs</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapons</a>.</p> <p><br /></p> <p><br /></p>kalpanav3http://www.blogger.com/profile/17917160583731556915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955222027631096683.post-72718932685628553972009-06-28T22:43:00.000-07:002009-06-28T22:44:16.972-07:00MY SPACE<p><b>MySpace</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service" title="Social network service">social networking</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website" title="Website">website</a> with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. Its headquarters are in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills,_California" title="Beverly Hills, California">Beverly Hills</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA" title="USA" class="mw-redirect">USA</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace#cite_note-1"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Interactive_Media" title="Fox Interactive Media">Fox Interactive Media</a>, which is owned by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation" title="News Corporation">News Corporation</a>. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> in June of 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace#cite_note-2"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComScore" title="ComScore">comScore</a>, MySpace was overtaken internationally by main competitor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace#cite_note-3"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace#cite_note-4"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> MySpace employs 1,000 employees, after laying off 30% of its workforce in June 2009;<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace#cite_note-5"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> the company does not disclose <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue" title="Revenue">revenues</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_%28accounting%29" title="Profit (accounting)">profits</a> separately from News Corporation. The 100 millionth account was created on August 9, 2006,<sup id="cite_ref-MySpace100Millionth_Profile_6-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace#cite_note-MySpace100Millionth_Profile-6"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Murdochcomments_7-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace#cite_note-Murdochcomments-7"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p>kalpanav3http://www.blogger.com/profile/17917160583731556915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955222027631096683.post-65591280215354824532009-06-25T21:19:00.000-07:002009-06-28T22:45:43.029-07:00TWITTER<b>Twitter</b> is a free <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service" title="Social network service">social networking</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging" title="Micro-blogging">micro-blogging</a> service that enables its users to send and read each others' updates, known as <i>tweets</i>. Tweets are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based" title="Text-based" class="mw-redirect">text-based</a> posts of up to 140 characters, displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to other users - known as followers - who have subscribed to them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS" title="SMS">Short Message Service</a> (SMS) or external applications. The service is free over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees.kalpanav3http://www.blogger.com/profile/17917160583731556915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955222027631096683.post-53050326574306405722009-06-24T03:16:00.000-07:002009-06-28T22:46:25.664-07:00FACEBOOK<p><b>Facebook</b> is a free-access <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service" title="Social network service">social networking</a> website that is operated and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_held_company" title="Privately held company">privately owned</a> by Facebook, Inc.<sup id="cite_ref-Growth_0-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#cite_note-Growth-0"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus" title="Campus">campus</a> community that some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">US</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College" title="College">colleges</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University-preparatory_school" title="University-preparatory school">preparatory schools</a> give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg" title="Mark Zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a> founded Facebook with fellow <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science" title="Computer science">computer science</a> major students and his roommates <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Moskovitz" title="Dustin Moskovitz">Dustin Moskovitz</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hughes_%28Facebook%29" title="Chris Hughes (Facebook)">Chris Hughes</a> while he was a student at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-companybios_3-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#cite_note-companybios-3"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> Website membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> area, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League" title="Ivy League">Ivy League</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 200 million active users worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#cite_note-4"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p> <p>Facebook has met with some controversy over the past few years. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#cite_note-5"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#cite_note-6"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> although Iran later unblocked Facebook in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#cite_note-7"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#cite_note-8"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Privacy_concerns" title="Criticism of Facebook">Privacy</a> has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook is also facing several <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Legal_challenges_over_concept_rights" title="Criticism of Facebook">lawsuits</a> from a number of Zuckerberg's former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and other intellectual property.</p> <p>A February 2009 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compete.com" title="Compete.com">Compete.com</a> study has ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace" title="MySpace">MySpace</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kazeniac_9-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#cite_note-Kazeniac-9"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p>kalpanav3http://www.blogger.com/profile/17917160583731556915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955222027631096683.post-12667750854987476762009-06-23T12:49:00.000-07:002009-06-23T12:53:40.164-07:00ORKUT<p><b>Orkut</b> is a free-access <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service" title="Social networking service" class="mw-redirect">social networking service</a> owned and operated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a>. The service is designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCkk%C3%B6kten" title="Orkut Büyükkökten">Orkut Büyükkökten</a>.</p> <p>Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace" title="MySpace">MySpace</a>, it is one of the most visited websites in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut#cite_note-1"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> In fact, as of May 2009, 49.83% of Orkut's users are from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, followed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> with 17.51%<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut#cite_note-2"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p> Originally hosted in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, in August 2008 Google announced that Orkut will be fully managed and operated in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, by Google Brazil, in the city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belo_Horizonte" title="Belo Horizonte">Belo Horizonte</a>. This was decided due to the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal issues.kalpanav3http://www.blogger.com/profile/17917160583731556915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955222027631096683.post-83538545207473635792009-06-21T21:52:00.000-07:002009-06-21T22:12:53.713-07:00SOCIAL NETWORKINGA social network is a <a title="Social structure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure">social structure</a> made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, <a title="Sexual network" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_network">sexual relationships</a>, <a title="Kinship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship">kinship</a>, dislike, <a title="Conflict" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict">conflict</a> or <a title="Trade" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade">trade</a>.<br />Social network analysis views <a class="mw-redirect" title="Social relationship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_relationship">social relationships</a> in terms of nodes and ties. <a title="Node (computer science)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node_(computer_science)">Nodes</a> are the individual actors within the networks, and ties are the relationships between the actors. The resulting <a title="Graph (mathematics)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(mathematics)">graph</a>-based structures are often very <a title="Complex network" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_network">complex</a>. There can be many kinds of ties between the nodes. Research in a number of academic fields has shown that social networks operate on many levels, from families up to the level of nations, and play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals.kalpanav3http://www.blogger.com/profile/17917160583731556915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955222027631096683.post-36657945574139996332009-06-18T21:35:00.001-07:002009-06-18T21:35:38.303-07:00WEB 2.0<div align="justify">"Web 2.0" refers to a second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications such as <a title="Social network service" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service">social-networking sites</a>, <a title="Video hosting service" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_hosting_service">video-sharing sites</a>, <a title="Wiki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki">wikis</a>, <a title="Blog" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog">blogs</a>, <a title="Mashup" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup">mashup</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" title="Folksonomies" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomies">folksonomies</a>.</div>kalpanav3http://www.blogger.com/profile/17917160583731556915noreply@blogger.com0