Millions of PS3 owners experienced problems with the network. Problems included not being able to log onto the system, playing online games, playing games that had online trophies. Apparently, the PS3 Slims were not affected.
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."
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.
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.
Report on "digital natives." Includes studies of relationships, online gaming, facebookery, etc. Interesting resource and shows the mainstreaming of these topics.
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.
I chose this site because I am doing my project on how relationships between people have changed since the advent of social networking. This article discusses what an "online" friend actually is.
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.
the perks to using facebook as a postive form of advertising for business. facebook users have pinpointed that they are interested in 3 major things, whats new, whats cool, and what products to consume. Producers have promoted movies using facebook by creating groups, certian companys will created their own page like giant eagle and members can view the new advertisments for the week.