Ashis Gupta’s Weblog
Just another WordPress.com weblogArchive for November, 2008
Discussion:Wiki
Wiki is a diary of world’s speculation of visions or experience or just opinion. However, it is like a reflection of our monologue. May be, I am not sure because it is also a question how many people of the world have access to wiki or how many people of the entire world can read or write? There fore, readers you agree with me that we (wiki readers) are minority. In general wiki is a bunch of thoughtful codes or knowledge that gives us a sense of different directions but specific decision like discussion. Even though, discussion can be fact.
Wiki is our primary search about anything that we get interested. The other way, to get involved with wiki is reading, writing, editing or adding own experience on it. All these multi experiences give readers chance to verify their own knowledge and allow putting their opinion on wiki. So, involvement is the key that make wiki popular. At the same time, this involvement makes people responsible as well, just not to write improper way or to lie. The good thing is; there are special regional editors that always try to look over the wiki documents. However, there is no cent percent guarantee of its purity. That is why we all know that it is not a good idea to use wiki as resources of any documentation. There is another good reason for that is nobody checking those entire documentations timely manner. But life, history and everything are changing with time. For example, today’s Manhattan city did not look like ten years ago nor would be after ten years. So, if somebody wrote about it ten yeas ago, it is not going to be look like today’s Manhattan. At the same time it is impossible to review all data in wiki systematically. It is just huge.
So far wiki can be used in 90 different languages that help people to join wiki around the world, even not knowing English. To write or editing, you need to log in to wikipedia or register an account. Wiki encourage you to submit reference sources about your articles. So, you can create the page including your references. Wiki page works as like any other blog page but it has more flexibility for group. For example, you are four members in your group and you are making a web blog together or planning to go vacation together. The first case for web blog you all four members can have access on the same blog and you all can put raw materials or suggestions and ask or direct someone what to do next in order to create a easy, faster and comparatively better web blog. Not only that, by working with this process, you do not have to see or talk each other. You can join that page any time you want to. Because, it is possible to put directions on the same blog any time and you all have the access on it, you do not need to maintain a specific time to meet your other fellows on web. The second case for vacation, you all can share your opinion, experience, plans or split duties and update everyone together or just ask their opinions. Is it not cool? And you know involvement is the key that makes everyone feel good and every one of your group would be the same page, same time.
There fore we can say, wiki is about involvement and sharing that make everyone part of it. Wiki slogan should be: wiki is sharing and sharing is caring.
Discussion: You Tube
You Tube is one of the most popular site in web in any criteria. Here you can find videos about almost everything. Yes good or bed anything considering social and moral values. It is like more visual library with the different sort of people and their tastes. Even possible You Tube may influence our society in various ways of our every day lives now.
Since it is a visual encyclopedia of different time, manner, taste, social, economical, political, environmental or religious integrities of human or biological history of this continent, it can be consider as a visual library of our world history.
By typing You Tube on any search place of web you can get in You Tube site home page where it says broadcast yourself in stead of saying welcoming message like other usual sites. However, we feel very much welcomed because of its contents.
On the top of the site categories videos based on resources like: home, video, channels and community and than it categories again based on judgment like featured, rising videos, most discussed, most viewed, top favorited and more. Right after that, it categories again based on time period like today, this week, this month, and all time. Once again it categories items on the left hand site on the template: subjectwise when there are some popular grade video links (by whom?) on the main page. It likes more what is you see, what is you get. It is different than systematically research or marketing web page that makes it more around the world. That is why when I need to find something, I just type interested subject or topic on the search bar and click search. Otherwise you just may lost from your necessary interest to some where else, because we are always curious.
Discussion: Google, iPhone and the Future of Machines That Listen
Google’s new speech recognition iphone is something really interesting and has a great impact in future. This phone can recognize your voice and can query for you anything, anywhere. You do not need to type anything like blackberry. In stead of typing, you just make voice that you interested about. Right a way your iphone answers you by researching billions of data from Google search engine. This application is like phone operator that help you when you call many different offices but much more efficient with the knowledge of Google database. Top of that, you do not need to worry about typing when you are traveling or shopping unknown places with a bunch of luckages or packages. You just need to ask your iphone like where is the nearest train station or hotel or specific grocery to buy. How cool!
The funny or tragedy of this phone is understanding your accent. If it does not get your right approach because of any kind of noise or accent or similar sound, it would answer you wrong. But you assume that it answers right and by following its direction you might have problems as well. For example, you asked for nearest prison but it gets you like nearest verizon: you understand the differences. So it is important that you understand as a user how to use and verify your enquiries based on importance. Reader Andy Marshall express the situation, “If you do not have a US accent the results are poor.” However, according to author Markoff all search giant Google, Microsoft and Yahoo believe speech recognition is a new bright and important opening era for mobile computing. Understandable, that is why only Microsoft spent $1 billion to acquire Tellme Network.
On the other hand, when you search for something on web, there you can also find interesting link or add that could bring you their sites, even that site may do some bisuness with you instead of Google or Yahoo. There fore, the may loose valuable customers. But if you use Google iphone, Google search engine gives only specific information that secures their business with you.
Senior director for consumer service, Dariusz Paczuski said. “You want to be able to interact with your phone just like you would with your mom or friends, voice is a great interface and it can simplify interactions more than anything.” Darius Paczuski’s idea is great but still thinking, may be Google iphone will kill our social values and interactions with people like Google earth mapping. Some day we might not need anybody except iphone to exchange our emotions.
To read the topic click http://bits.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/google-iphone-machine/
Discussion:Help Me Redesign the Web by Roger Black
Author Roger Black is comparing, most likely anglicizing the web development between the time period of last two decades. Several times author stated in his writing about the changes of the web technology, its values and influences to our every day uses. The invention of the web, established a revolutionary change according to correspondent information and to change information between researches. There was been a time when web served as a typographical words exchange machine, now turned into a valuable data resource or support center for every single expect of our lives. Even just being a medium, its impacts is so powerful in our living style that now it is almost impossible to think to live without computers.
Since web invented, it had been used as a powerful communication medium. However, today’s web using purposes and skills are far different and complicated than before. For example, early ears when it was used for fastest and trustiest communication medium, is now a very difficult and complicate issue to verify information considering reliability through web. Now because of that, sometimes we have to afford research specialists. Another, important change that web brought to us that our generation’s lifestyle. Such as Face book, my space, Bolger, WordPress and many other web base services that make people closer but sometime makes us like marketing products. According to the huge development of the bandwidth, cabling, processors, scripting languages and applications web gives us flexibility in order to use one or more multiple options at a time. On the other hand, by using web for silly purposes like web cams or You Tube kind of threat or disruption for our social values. However, today’s web development with the help of the HTML, Adobe Flash, WPA, CSS and quick web browsing made a promising web future for our web technology.
