Havving a smartphone or an iPad kind of thing has changed the internet drimatically. Personally I love it. You can have internet anywhere you go, I use it very frequently on my phone, and its faster than a dial-up computer. They alow you to not have to be at just one place to search the web, I think it was one of the best ideas come up with.
They haven't just changed the internet and the WWW they are also changing the way we read and study. They are starting to have iPads in classrooms because there are lots of education apps and you can download books to it, which would save you money in the long run (depending how much the cost to get on the device). I think this is a good idea but needs to be watch carefully with the school ipads cause kids aren't very smart and may get viruses on them and they definitely will be searching the internet in class any chance they get. They have changed a little part of the world and I think it is a good change and a good step to the future.
My favorite animal- Leopard
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Origin of Names
Twitter: The original project code name for the service was twttr, inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short code. "[W]e came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential information,' and 'chirps from birds'. And that's exactly what the product was." - Jack Dors;'ey.
Google: In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin called their initial search engine "BackRub," named for its analysis of the web's "back links."Sean and Larry were in their office, using the whiteboard, trying to think up a good name - something that related to the indexing of an immense amount of data. Sean verbally suggested the word "googolplex," and Larry responded verbally with the shortened form, "googol" (both words refer to specific large numbers). Sean was seated at his computer terminal, so he executed a search of the Internet domain name registry database to see if the newly suggested name was still available for registration and use. Sean is not an infallible speller, and he made the mistake of searching for the name spelled as "google.com," which he found to be available.
Facebook: The name was inspired from the custom of universities in USA to give their newly enrolled students a paper Facebook introducing people on the Campus to them.
Yahoo!: The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
Yelp: The project arose out of research into the local services market by David Galbraith, who worked with Jeremy Stoppelman on the early stages of the project and chose its name as a contraction of Yellow Pages.
Wikipedia: "Wiki" means quick in Hawaiian. The Wiki Wiki Bus is Honolulu International Airport's shuttle, and has shuttled people between the Main Terminal and the Domestic/International Terminals since the mid-1960s. The "pedia" part is from the word encyclopedia.
Amazon: founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company Amazon (from the earlier name of Cadabra.com) after the world's most voluminous river, the Amazon. He saw the potential for a larger volume of sales in an online (as opposed to a bricks and mortar) bookstore.
I don't think there is a science to naming businesses, maybe sometimes but not always.
Google: In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin called their initial search engine "BackRub," named for its analysis of the web's "back links."Sean and Larry were in their office, using the whiteboard, trying to think up a good name - something that related to the indexing of an immense amount of data. Sean verbally suggested the word "googolplex," and Larry responded verbally with the shortened form, "googol" (both words refer to specific large numbers). Sean was seated at his computer terminal, so he executed a search of the Internet domain name registry database to see if the newly suggested name was still available for registration and use. Sean is not an infallible speller, and he made the mistake of searching for the name spelled as "google.com," which he found to be available.
Facebook: The name was inspired from the custom of universities in USA to give their newly enrolled students a paper Facebook introducing people on the Campus to them.
Yahoo!: The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
Yelp: The project arose out of research into the local services market by David Galbraith, who worked with Jeremy Stoppelman on the early stages of the project and chose its name as a contraction of Yellow Pages.
Wikipedia: "Wiki" means quick in Hawaiian. The Wiki Wiki Bus is Honolulu International Airport's shuttle, and has shuttled people between the Main Terminal and the Domestic/International Terminals since the mid-1960s. The "pedia" part is from the word encyclopedia.
Amazon: founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company Amazon (from the earlier name of Cadabra.com) after the world's most voluminous river, the Amazon. He saw the potential for a larger volume of sales in an online (as opposed to a bricks and mortar) bookstore.
I don't think there is a science to naming businesses, maybe sometimes but not always.
sun
Its beautiful today, I would like it to be a little warmer, but for this time of year this is great. I hope its this nice when I play tennis on saturday but I wouldn't mind it being a little less warm. Had a test in math today, I think I did better than the last one I took so thats good. Well I have to eat dinner and get ready for swing dancing!
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
birthday party and ramble
My friend had a birthday party on Saturday. It was fun, I got to see someone I haven't seen since high school, so that was cool. We danced, and stayed up pretty late.
The weather has been weird... I went outside to sun bathe because it was actually sunny and a little warm. After I'm out there for a full minuet it starts to sprinkle.. then rain (once I had gone back inside) So I was a little mad, but I just read inside instead and waited till I had to go to work.
The weather has been weird... I went outside to sun bathe because it was actually sunny and a little warm. After I'm out there for a full minuet it starts to sprinkle.. then rain (once I had gone back inside) So I was a little mad, but I just read inside instead and waited till I had to go to work.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Introduction
I'm Ellen I am working and going to college to become a veterinary technician. I like movies though I am pretty picky, but I am kinda picky about a lot of things. I like playing the piano, listening to music, dancing, singing and hanging with my friends. I love stars, that is why I entitles the blog star girl I couldn't think of anything else.
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