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Archive for July, 2008

Gaming Improves Social Skills

26 Jul

Yes, finally!  I have an excuse for those long hours I spend in front of my computer play– Er, I mean, socializing.

“New research by Eryn Grant, a Ph.D. student at Queensland University, says the virtual reality game, Second Life, boosts people’s ability to socially interact. The game, according to Grant, improves social connections between complete strangers by making it easier for people to find common interests. Rather than limiting communication, as some may have expected, interactions in a virtual environment are the result of having tools that require the ability to communicate in real-life, such as textual chat features.” -Sam Barret

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Viewzi

13 Jul

As a flash-based search engine, Viewzi offers a great place to “fart around” the internet. This nifty tool offers many different options to view different corners of the web. Viewzi’s 3D cloud picture viewer, mp3 search, video search, or amazon book search are extremely useful search methods and are just a few among the many other search methods. The 3D cloud picture viewer comes across as something totally unique and has a lot of potential especially for graphic designers or someone looking for the right image. Viewzi’s site information view is first off useful to the site owner and the average user looking for those statistics. To make note of one last feature on Viewzi that is particular unusual, but helpful if looking for something new or just in a need of a memory refresher is the recipe search view Mentioning only a few of the search possibilities, Viewzi has a lot to offer to someone who wants to “fart around” the internet. Go to viewzi.com to see more.

 
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24 Hours of Iphone 3G maddness with Twit Live

10 Jul

Iphone 3GLeo Laporte has already started covering the Iphone 3G launch from his studio in Petaluma, California. Taking calls from those crazy people waiting in line for their Iphone 3G and streaming them live for your viewing pleasure on his stickam stream, which you can view at twitlive.tv. Along with the various calls, he’ll be adding in “his hype” and technical input about the Iphone 3G. If that’s not enough to get to you to watch Leo staying up 24 hours covering the Iphone 3G launch starting from New Zealand, where they first go on sale to Hawaii ,where the Iphone 3G goes on sale last in the world, then watch him to find out how to win your own Iphone 3G. Leo Laporte will be giving away free 10 Iphones 3G to a few viewers that catch his fancy. So go tune in now!! I know I will!

 
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Is YouTube Watching Us?

03 Jul

For years, YouTube has given all of us plenty of topics to talk about; Plenty of videos that made us laugh, and smile. But, while we are watching the content and videos that YouTube provides, YouTube is watching us, as well…

Just this Tuesday, an issue brought forth to a federal court by Viacom concerning copyright infringing content on YouTube, got a ruling by the judge, that all user’s personal information while on YouTube, such as user I.D, I.P address, and a record of every video that a user has ever watched on YouTube, must be given to Viacom to keep a “record” of how many YouTube viewers watch copyright infringed material as opposed to regular videos. YouTube and Google argued that the content and material that a user watches and experiences while on the internet is extremely personal information, and should therefore be kept to the user only. The court, however, ruled otherwise.

With this new Big Brother that YouTube has, does this mean that the government will take other measure such as this to control the content and material that viewers watch on the internet?

 
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