The Smartphones such as:(iPhone, Blackberry, Droid) along with personal devices like the iPad, Kindle and now the new generation of notebooks and the MacBook Air have changed the use of the Internet and the WWW, by simply making it a lot easier and beneficial for people to use.
Mobile phone's offer more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone.Smartphones and feature phones may be thought of as hand held computers integrated with a mobile telephone.
Personal devices like the iPad, Kindle offer great benefits for those who you are an avid reader.
Having something like a Kindle makes sense because it's more portable than a single book. It doesn't weigh much and gives you something that you can always be reading, no matter where you are. You can carry hundreds of titles with you at the same time without taking up so much space or adding so much weight.
The battery life lasts for quite some time. You can charge it once and use it for more than a few days reading here and there without thinking about charging it each night. This is especially nice for vacations like car rides or long flights.You will have access to millions of books with tens of thousands of them as Kindle only books that aren't in print. This gives you plenty to read. It's more than any one person could get through.
Typically the ebook price is cheaper than the price of a physical book. If you buy multiple books a month, you can end up saving money in the long run despite the initial cost of the device.
As far as the ipad goes, many professionals are discovering that many of the qualities of the iPad that make it a great personal device can also be a tremendous benefit in the corporate environment. The primary benefits of the iPad include: portability and convenience, ease of use and intuitiveness, instant-on capability, long battery life and support of work/life balance.
The new generation of notebooks and the MacBook Air promote their change by the New MacBook Air which is ultra-slim, with a modern iPad laptop with flash drive. It ignored bunch of Old technologies like Hard Drive,CD/DVD, Mouse Buttons and Flash. Although I did find some advantages and disadvantages offered towards the change in use of the Internet and the www. Here are my results: the advantages are that the 1-inch MacBook Air is lighter and thinner than available 10-inch netbooks, Ultra-Slim and Lighter than previous MacBook Air.Both the 13-inch and 11-inch MacBook Air 0.11-inch at their thinnest point. The 11-inch MacBook Air weighs merely 1.06-kg, while the 13-inch MacBook Air weighs just 1.32-kg — lighter than the 1.36-kg of previous MacBook Air. Flash Storage. Apple ignores Hard drives to improve the battery performance and get Ultra-portability.We can choose between 64GB (on the 11-inch MacBook Air) to 256GB (13-inch MacBook Air) of flash storage on the new Macbooks. Price 13-inch Rs.80000. Its Rs.5000 than old one and 11-inch MacBook Air – 61000. New MacBook Air comes with two USB Ports. Old Airs had only one Port. High Resolution Displays:11-inch Macbook(1366×768 pixels) and 13-inch Mac Book(1440×900 Pixels)
The disadvantages are: No Intel Core i3 processors.Because the newer Intel Core i processors are better performing than past Core 2 Duos, No SD Card slot on 11-inch MacBook Air, No Touch Screen, No USB 3.0. This information definitely gave me something to think about if I were to purchase one of these.
Friday, March 18, 2011
What is the origin of the Names Twitter, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Yelp!, Wikipedia, and Amazon. Is there a science to naming businesses on the Internet?
This was the information I found on the origin of:
TwitterTwitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" that was held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. While sitting in a park on a children’s slide and eating Mexican food, Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.The original project code name for the service was twttr, inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short codes.
Google was born in the Gates Computer Science Building at Stanford University by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin called their initial search engine "BackRub," named for its analysis of the web's "back links." ean 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. Larry liked the name, and within hours he took the step of registering the name "google.com" for himself and Sergey (the domain name registration record dates from September 15, 1997).
Facebook, (according to wikipedia) is the name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the USA to help students get to know each other better.
Yahoo: The word "Yahoo" was invented by Jonathan Swift for the Travels. He and his friends used the word among themselves while Swift was writing he book, appearing in their correspondence.The name Yahoo! purportedly stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Jerry Yang and David Filo insist they selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
Yelp: Means to give a quick, sharp, shrill cry, as a dog or fox.Yelp was founded in 2004 to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and mechanics.As of January 2011, more than 45 million people visited Yelp in the past 30 days. David Galbraith (a guy in Max's incubator MRL Ventures who was helping us with Yelp in the early days) found it on his own. It was available for purchase from a squatter for 5k. Russ and I didn't immediately like the name since it was "the sound of a dog being kicked" and I was strangely enamoured with "yocal" - a terrible name. Fortunately Scott Bannister (another guy hanging out in the incubator, who was also involved in the naming of PayPal) immediately loved it. He told us he'd buy it and sell it to us the next day when we came to our senses. In the ensuing discussion Jared Kopf (yet another incubator employee) put down his credit card and actually bought the domain. The next day it was transfered to the company (we paid back Jared) and the rest is history.
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.Wikipedia, then, means to go to a quick encyclopedia. Wiki websites like Wikipedia and WikiAnswers (not related) run on wiki software which allows for collaborative editing and easy creation of pages.
Amazon: Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and the site went online in 1995. The company was originally named Cadabra, Inc., but the name was changed when it was discovered that people sometimes heard the name as "Cadaver". The name Amazon.com was chosen because the Amazon River is one of the largest rivers in the world, and so the name suggests large size, and also in part because it starts with "A" and therefore would show up near the beginning of alphabetical lists. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.
There is somewhat of a science in naming a business in the internet, because several founders changed their company's name at the end. From my searches I found that most companies name's were linked with what the company does, and there was a lot of thought, time, energy on naming the company. Its something to definitively take into consideration. I learned that most people like simple names that they can remember, in order to use it periodically.
TwitterTwitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" that was held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. While sitting in a park on a children’s slide and eating Mexican food, Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.The original project code name for the service was twttr, inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short codes.
Google was born in the Gates Computer Science Building at Stanford University by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin called their initial search engine "BackRub," named for its analysis of the web's "back links." ean 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. Larry liked the name, and within hours he took the step of registering the name "google.com" for himself and Sergey (the domain name registration record dates from September 15, 1997).
Facebook, (according to wikipedia) is the name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the USA to help students get to know each other better.
Yahoo: The word "Yahoo" was invented by Jonathan Swift for the Travels. He and his friends used the word among themselves while Swift was writing he book, appearing in their correspondence.The name Yahoo! purportedly stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Jerry Yang and David Filo insist they selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
Yelp: Means to give a quick, sharp, shrill cry, as a dog or fox.Yelp was founded in 2004 to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and mechanics.As of January 2011, more than 45 million people visited Yelp in the past 30 days. David Galbraith (a guy in Max's incubator MRL Ventures who was helping us with Yelp in the early days) found it on his own. It was available for purchase from a squatter for 5k. Russ and I didn't immediately like the name since it was "the sound of a dog being kicked" and I was strangely enamoured with "yocal" - a terrible name. Fortunately Scott Bannister (another guy hanging out in the incubator, who was also involved in the naming of PayPal) immediately loved it. He told us he'd buy it and sell it to us the next day when we came to our senses. In the ensuing discussion Jared Kopf (yet another incubator employee) put down his credit card and actually bought the domain. The next day it was transfered to the company (we paid back Jared) and the rest is history.
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.Wikipedia, then, means to go to a quick encyclopedia. Wiki websites like Wikipedia and WikiAnswers (not related) run on wiki software which allows for collaborative editing and easy creation of pages.
Amazon: Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and the site went online in 1995. The company was originally named Cadabra, Inc., but the name was changed when it was discovered that people sometimes heard the name as "Cadaver". The name Amazon.com was chosen because the Amazon River is one of the largest rivers in the world, and so the name suggests large size, and also in part because it starts with "A" and therefore would show up near the beginning of alphabetical lists. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.
There is somewhat of a science in naming a business in the internet, because several founders changed their company's name at the end. From my searches I found that most companies name's were linked with what the company does, and there was a lot of thought, time, energy on naming the company. Its something to definitively take into consideration. I learned that most people like simple names that they can remember, in order to use it periodically.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Cooking
My passion for cooking has brought me great joy to my life.I find much satisfaction on sharing new cooking adventures through new ideas. I hope to take you in a new journey, with a unique style of cooking.
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