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I wasn't in class last Thursday so I missed the in class tutorial for Quicktime. I was trying to find something online to teach myself. This is an obvious place to go for help with the Quicktime if any needs it. This site also may have been used in class or already bookmarked but I figured it would probably be useful.

This website could also be helpful to several people while working on their projects. It discusses copyright laws, multimedia laws, website rules, etc.

This website just gives a description and outline of some authorship guidelines. I thought this might be helpful to a lot of us.

talks about how twitters popularity is mostly due to older users over the younger audience that is stereotypically known. this article also goes through a number of certain other popular networking sites and how it is relatively a myth that teens have made the site popular and this even as the article states goes for gadgets as well. More people over the age of 18 are buying a wii to help with there health and allow them to become more active. The age range is changing.

Nick Gonzalez has put together a new tool called CheckFacebook it was invented to help users do exactly that, people mostly advertisers can check the growth of facebook and where its popularity is rising and determine where to market there newest ideas. It is a really interesting idea and shows how technology and social networks are converging together to make a powerful marketable concept.

Although this article is from 2002, it's interesting and important. It talks about how the web has helped deaf people be able to communicate and relate to others easier and more effectively (i.e. with the telephone).

Open table is a website that is based on user experienced postings of restaurants throughout the nation that offer high-end, expensive entrees. Once someone has visited a restaurant, they will rate the restaurant on a variety of categories such as "ambience", "service", and how "romantic" it is. The restaurants that are on this website do not have to pay to get a posting, near do they have to pay to upkeep the site. While this type of advertising is nearly opinion, It can have much more bearing on an individual than a television ad or newspaper ad. The only difference between this user experienced advertising and traditional advertising is that the users could cast the restaurant in a bad light. I also can't help but think how many times employees or owners of restaurants have logged onto this site and rated their restaurant "outstanding" in all categories.

This website is basically the largest index of text/ chat abbreviations used on the web. It chronicles abbreviations from A-Z. "With the popularity and rise in real-time text-based communications, such as instant messaging, e-mail, Internet and online gaming services, chat rooms, discussion boards and mobile phone text messaging (SMS), came the emergence of a new language tailored to the immediacy and compactness of these new communication media. If you have ever received an instant message or text message that seemed to be written in a foreign language, this Webopedia Quick Reference will help you decipher the text chat lingo by providing the definitions to more than 1,200 chat abbreviations."

This brings up a good point of how everyone is always blogging or facebooking or tweeting about a cause, but is anyone actually doing anything besides that?

A mother tells her account of how Facebook occupies 20 hours every week including time she should have been helping her kids with their homework.

Though self improvement and self help books often provide corny or cliched advice, valubale knowledge often exists underneath. SolveYourProblems.com boasts a vast array of topics that one can research, from job interview advice to marriage counseling.