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description of social networking and how it is both present in person as well as internet. Online social networking is one of the most popular forms of social networking. We see this with sites such as facebook, myspace, and even twitter. Its an interesting concept.

Kind of an interesting idea, the age of adult entertainment viewers has gone up to 25 and older and 18 to 24 years old are more interested in facebook over those particular sites. Pretty weird but a neat comparisons between the internet usage now a days!

The new Google Wave application may be the next "big thing" in internet communication. Unfortunately, the best demo of Google Wave is over an hour long. This one also has a very good demonstration of its capabilities, however, it is to the script of "Pulp Fiction" which has MANY swear words.

Teaching with Internet-Based Resources Increase Interest in Learning

This shows some of the most well written, thought out advertisements of the year. Videos like these are re-defining the term "viral", and steer away from the more traditional types of videos. The user does not care that these videos are ads because they are so captivating and entertaining.

US survey reveals that 56% of journalist research on social media while conducting stories. All most all of journalist use Google, 89% use blogs, and 89% use company's website. Facebook and Twitter are slowly cathing up to these figures

This article is about the use of online databases for professional research. The author explains how university databases make documents available to researchers that would have taken years to access otherwise. Essentially, one can do research in hours that would have taken an entire career to conduct decades ago.

This website discusses some recent viral video advertisements on the internet. It shows why they work, and why viral video advertising was (in some cases) their only option to advertise the product.

This is a great website devoted to the theory of Guerrilla Marketing. It is hard to define Guerrilla Marketing/Advertising, but the basic concept is to market the brand in un-conventional ways, in an attempt to grab the attention of the viewer. This could be applied to outdoor, print, television or internet advertising. If you click the "articles" link at the top, it will discuss many different aspects of guerrilla marketing.

I'm sure by now most college students have heard of chat roulette. Before reading on, I will warn everyone that before you click on the link, there may be some offensive material. Anyways, chat roulette is a website that allows people with webcams to speak through microphones, or type in a chat bar, with anyone in the world that has also has a webcam. There has been recent coverage by the media concerning the innapropriate material that some users have been filming. However perverted some users may be, chat roulette is an interesting new way to communicate with people via the web. There are two things about this website that I think are interesting. The first is that the site is run by a 17 year old in a European country. The fact that at any given time, there are over 30,000 people connected to the site makes this a potential goldmine for advertisers. The second thing I find interesting is that while the site is meant for communication, almost nobody uses it to speak to other individuals. It is mostly used to satisfy the curiousity and voyeuristic tendencines that lie within most of us. The average user will just click through random people without speaking to anyone. This says something about the way the internet may be breaking down communication in some aspects, instead of uplifting it

I found this website while searching for free educational material for a separate class. While this site may not tie into my research report of "internet advertising", I think it is very important. Academic Earth is a free site that anyone can sign up for. It offers free online video lectures from some of the most prestigous universities in the country (Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Princeton). The lecture topics range from Psychics to Psychology, and everything in between. The importance of this website is pretty obvious. The average Joe that can't afford college tuition can learn much of the same material for free that the wealthy and privileged are receiving for $100,000 a year.

Copyright is an exceptionally popular subject on the Web, as a simple search on Alta Vista or one of the Web Crawlers will show. The usual rag bag of articles, advertising announcements, academic sites and so on will be picked up by such searches. In this brief article, I want to draw attention to some of the sites that I find useful when wandering lost in cyberspace. The sites are in no particular order, and many of them are linked to each other. I have given them a personal smiley rating as follows:

An attempt to answer common myths about copyright seen on the net and cover issues related to copyright and USENET/Internet publication.

I am actually thinking of focusing my project on music sampling and how artists get permission to sample various songs. This website is cool because it gives you a list of different songs that have been sampled in the past. Some songs I had no idea were samples, I thought they were original songs.

You may have seen this PSA on television, Facebook, radio, or websites; Text HAITI to 90999. To date, this campaign has raised over $30 million. It's generated the largest donation from text message in history. Just anther way multimedia/technology is changing the world, right before our eyes!

Social Media websites are growing and is becoming the fastest source to receive news and information on others from all over the world. In the US, the first pictures from the recent disaster in Haiti was released from social media.

Douglas J. Wood is a partner with Reed Smith, chair of its media & entertainment industry focus group, and editor of the firm's white paper on social media, "Network Interference: A Legal Guide to the Commercial Risks and Rewards of the Social Media Networking Phenomenon."

This article talks about the history of instant messaging and how it works. It states that "IMing" is used as a faster way to emailing.

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."

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.