Monday 26 January 2009

What I thought of the Three Websites.

This is what I thought of the first wiki that you gave to us. I thought that the wiki on the science museum was quite good as it first of all told us that it had over 250 different document or topics that it had on the wiki. Also it was good from a business perspective as most of the links went onto the science museum website and the wiki was very siomple and not very boring as it had wuite a few pictures and a numerous amount of hyperlinks. I have learned that form this wiki one can still have links onto the other websites. From the ThinkWiki website the thing I liked was that it was full of life and very active. Yet what I learned form it that was bad about the wiki was that there was a lot of advertising from ebay for example that made it a bit tacky. Also I liked the fact that one could bookmark the sit on FACEBOOK for example. And for the final one on the school of architecture

Wikis.

In the words of Wikipedia, the worlds biggest online encyclopedia in the world, a wiki is a combination of thousands of millions of webpages on one site, which enables anyone in the world, to ascess what ever page they want and to edit the page to how they like it, yet this may not be approved of by the creators. Wikis are best used in businesses to where they are able to provide intranet and Knowledge Management systems where one will now never need to email again, they can write and edit others and their own ideas, which is so much easier and quicker and simpler than your email. WikiWikiWeb was the first sit to officialy be called a wiki. A man named Ward Cunnigham started inventing and doveloping WikiWikiWeb in the year of 1994 and published it on the internet on March 5 1995. the trademark of a good wiki is many mor hyperlinks onto its own website which is simple easy and fast, (wiki is fast in Hawiian) for someone to use.

Sunday 25 January 2009

Google Earth

Now, I expect that most of you have used, seen or heard of Google Earth, but just to brighten up your day I am going to tell you all about one of the coolest things of all time. As you most probabl;y know, Google Earth is a very complicated 3D visual simulation of our earth and it was created by one of google's own companies, by Keyhole Inc. It is a supercomposition of satellite images andaerial photography and of course GIS 3D Globe. It was released in June 2006 and is availible opn all computers and even your usual Iphone. furthermore on the latest version of Google Earth, Google have invented a flight simulator which is a completely hidden feature. Also Google have included a sky feature which enables one to look at the galaxies and stars in most of the universe just like an astrologer. Finally it has a mode named street view which is so intimate that it gives one a 360 degree view of a street in most places in the world

Monday 19 January 2009

My blog And the History of Blogs.

I have been asked to keep and update this blog because of my ICT project in which I will be investigating the history of blogs and many other topics do do with ICT.The modern blog evolved from the online diary,which is when a person would post comments and keep updating their life. The term 'weblog' was invented by a man called Jorn Barger.  In 1993, a man named Glen Barry who also started the first political blog,  the forest protection blog. Evan Williams and Pyra Lab then launched this website, blogger, in 1999. and as we all know, a blog is one's own small websitewhere we can find regular entries of commentries, events, or important things that are going on in ones life.