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Messing with websites has encouraged me to learn some of these tags! This website is full of easy ones to learn!

I thought I would post this site where you can make word clouds for our final project, if your interesting in adding some media to it!

An article from February about what "actually" gets done on Tumblr, and why it's so popular with our age group.

Great article of why there is a drastic statistical decline in people reading e-books

SPDY (pronounced " SPeeDY ") is a new technology that aims to decrease page load times by fixing a number of flaws present in HTTP 1.1. It's not a replacement for HTTP but instead adds a number of features that help to make web transactions faster.

This CNN article discusses research done to determine what young people do online. Concerned parents may not want to read this.

New website that generates your old Facebook statuses to make odd possible new ones that could either make sense...or it couldn't.

Interesting updated article about skype spying!

Sorry if this double-posts, I had to switch windows. So this is less "internet" and more "tech innovation", but it was so cool I just had to share it. This company has developed a piece of hardware (shaped exactly like a credit card), that can actually be swiped in credit card machines, that holds all of your personal credit, debit, and gift card information. You switch between cards using a button on the device, you add them to the card via a phone app and an attached card swiper, and as it's linked to your phone, it'll alert you if you get too far away from the card (in the case of leaving it on a table and walking away, or forgetting your wallet on the way out of the house, for example).

This was the super computer I was talking about in class today, the one that won on Jeopardy.

This is where I found the interesting info-graphic on blogging.

The Virus was carried to the ISS on a USB stick drive.

Although you should probably look a bit more into specific numbers, these facts are fascinating! For example, percentage of facebook users around the entire world and link to the very first website.

This is an article on the DMCA, so it may shine some light on my presentation yesterday on Pinterest and the copyright laws! It is also an interesting read and very informative!

These are different app for computers that will help you concentrate on your work rather than being on sites that you shouldn't be. Currently I am using the StayFocused chrome extension to block certain sites when I am working.

NY times article about developing nations and access to affordable technology for schools.

Todays Google Doodle found on the google homepage is dedicated to Shakuntala Devi. She is also known as the "Human Computer" I have attached the wikipedia article that details who Shakuntala Devi is and why she is important enough to receive the doodle! :)

This 2009 "subway map" of the Internet is based on Tokyo's subway system. This design company (like a few others, I think) does one of these every year. It's a articular genre of a thing called an "infographic" that you see everywhere.