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The world scenario is changing fast. The mysterious earth/world has been transformed into a global village through latest communication technology like face book, twitter, bloggers, website and above all internet.
:http://www.breakingnewsonline.net/features/7586-will-facebook-and-twitter-replace-the-traditional-media.htmlThe world scenario is changing fast. The mysterious earth/world has been transformed... more
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The communication is totally based on the language skills of a person. Language has the prime importance and makes us able to understand what is being said. But, the knowledge of only one language restricts our knowledge of different cultures of the world. Therefore, you should learn different languages to make yourself learn about different cultural variations. Learning a foreign language is always a fruitful activity and it enhances the personality and brings some diversification in the nature of a person.
The main advantage of learning the language skills is to open the new job opportunities for you in any field with very efficient communication skills. The knowledge of the culture and historical richness of any country or civilization requires a vast knowledge of the native language and a strong interaction with the natives. Moreover, knowledge of different set f languages proves to be a great potential for the company and it increases your professional credibility too....Read More @ http://www.articlescolumn.com/communications/the-challenge-of-studying-a-foreign-language.htmlThe communication is totally based on the language skills of a person. Language has... more
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The welding equipment of Miller Electric Mfg. Co. is being displayed in many programs of TV. Even “American Chopper” and History Channel’s “American Restoration” have displayed this welding equipment. Vickie Rhiner is the brand manager of Miller Electric; she said that her company has found the correct way of reaching its audience. Those people watch such shows who prepare their equipments by themselves, they fabricate the things what they see on shows.The welding equipment of Miller Electric Mfg. Co. is being displayed in many programs... more
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If we speak about people who shaped informatics / software engineering, we cannot forget "the father of information age", Shannon, who died nearly exactly 10 years ago, on february 24th, 2001. One of his writing was claimed the "Magna Charta of the Information Age" - and probably this essay shaped our present much more than the now 10 years old other "Magna Charta". His master's thesis from MIT is the most influental master's theses ever written, as of today: it's about the application of boolean algebra to digital circuits, so, in short: he invented digital logic.... http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/36479-the-ultimate-machine-by-claude-elwood-shannon-qthe-father-of-information-ageqIf we speak about people who shaped informatics / software engineering, we cannot... more
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An excellent animation from RSAnimate Steven Pinker who shows us how we use indirect and direct language to overcome embarrassing and socially awkward situations.An excellent animation from RSAnimate Steven Pinker who shows us how we use indirect... more
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If you haven’t heard of Skype yet, you will soon. It is fast becoming one of the preferred modes of communication, particularly over long distances. Grandparents, particularly, are learning to use Skype to allow them to have both visual and audio communication with their grandchildren in other cities, other states or even in other countries.
Link : http://www.internetserviceproviders.net/blog/2011/10-common-misconceptions-about-skype/If you haven’t heard of Skype yet, you will soon. It is fast becoming one of the... more
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(Reuters) - American researchers have found a new way to predict the success of a relationship -- compare the speaking style of a couple.
In a study of college students they found that couples whose language was in sync were almost four times more likely to want to see each other again than those who did not use similar language.
"We are able to predict this at higher rates than the people themselves," said Professor James Pennebaker, of the University of Texas, who headed the research team.
The researchers, who reported their findings in the journal Psychological Science, focused on function words -- which are not nouns or verbs but the words that show how those words relate. For example: a, be, anything, that, will, him.
"Function words are highly social and they require social skills to use," Pennebaker explained. "For example, if I'm talking about the article that's coming out, and in a few minutes I make some reference to 'the article', you and I both know what that article means."
As part of the experiment, about 40 pairs of college students participated in four-minute speed dates and had their conversations recorded.
"We found that function words are a powerful reflection of somebody's psychological state," Pennebaker said. "You can tell when people are in the same state or are on the same page."
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Bacteria communicate with chemical languages that allow them to synchronize their behavior and thereby act as multi-cellular organisms. This process, called quorum sensing, enables bacteria to do things they can’t do as a single cell, like successfully infect and cause disease in humans.
Bonnie Bassler, Ph.D., the Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and President-elect for the American Society for Microbiology, has been researching strategies that can interfere with quorum sensing and will hopefully yield novel antibiotics to prevent disease.
In this episode of MicrobeWorld Video we present the full presentation Dr. Bassler gave at the Marian Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C. on June 18, 2009. Not only does Dr. Bassler explain the mechanisms of bacterial communication, but she also puts forth her theories on how we can disrupt this communication for human benefit.Bacteria communicate with chemical languages that allow them to synchronize their... more
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Blogs, podcasts, and other new media outlets have changed the way people get their news. Immediate access to information presents new opportunities as well as challenges for science communication. Watch Carl Zimmer, science writer for the New York Times and host of MicrobeWorld's Meet the Scientist podcast, at the Marian Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C. discuss how scientists and journalists are using new media outlets while avoiding their pitfalls.Blogs, podcasts, and other new media outlets have changed the way people get their... more
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The neutering of the Internet is now the unofficial policy of the Federal Communications Commission. Contrary to the happy talk from FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski at a rule-making announcement today in Washington, the move is well underway to turn the Internet into a regulated playground for corporate giants.
link: http://www.salon.com/technology/network_neutrality/index.html?story=/tech/dan_gillmor/2010/12/21/fcc_network_neutralityThe neutering of the Internet is now the unofficial policy of the Federal... more
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For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year.
On the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was leading a meeting in the Aquarium, one of Facebook's conference rooms, so named because it's in the middle of a huge work space and has glass walls on three sides so everybody can see in. Conference rooms are a big deal at Facebook because they're the only places anybody has any privacy at all, even the bare minimum of privacy the Aquarium gets you. Otherwise the space is open plan: no cubicles, no offices, no walls, just a rolling tundra of office furniture. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, who used to be Lawrence Summers' chief of staff at the Treasury Department, doesn't have an office. Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and co-founder and presiding visionary, doesn't have an office.
The team was going over the launch of Facebook's revamped Messages service, which had happened the day before and gone off without a hitch or rather without more than the usual number of hitches. Zuckerberg kept the meeting on track, pushing briskly through his points — no notes or whiteboard, just talking with his hands — but the tone was relaxed. Much has been made of Zuckerberg's legendarily awkward social manner, but in a room like this, he's the Silicon Valley equivalent of George Plimpton. He bantered with Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, a director of engineering who ran the project. (Boz was Zuckerberg's instructor in a course on artificial intelligence when they were at Harvard. He says his future boss didn't do very well. Though, in fairness, Zuckerberg did invent Facebook that semester.) Apart from a journalist sitting in the corner, no one in the room looked over 30, and apart from the journalist's public relations escort, it was boys only. (See pictures inside Mark Zuckerberg's inner circle.)
The door opened, and a distinguished-looking gray-haired man burst in — it's the only way to describe his entrance — trailed by a couple of deputies. He was both the oldest person in the room by 20 years and the only one wearing a suit. He was in the building, he explained with the delighted air of a man about to secure ironclad bragging rights forever, and he just had to stop in and introduce himself to Zuckerberg: Robert Mueller, director of the FBI, pleased to meet you.
They shook hands and chatted about nothing for a couple of minutes, and then Mueller left. There was a giddy silence while everybody just looked at one another as if to say, What the hell just happened?
It's a fair question. Almost seven years ago, in February 2004, when Zuckerberg was a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard, he started a Web service from his dorm. It was called Thefacebook.com, and it was billed as "an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges." This year, Facebook — now minus the the — added its 550 millionth member. One out of every dozen people on the planet has a Facebook account. They speak 75 languages and collectively lavish more than 700 billion minutes on Facebook every month. Last month the site accounted for 1 out of 4 American page views. Its membership is currently growing at a rate of about 700,000 people a day. (See a Zuckerberg family photo album.)
What just happened? In less than seven years, Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity into a single network, thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as the U.S. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest, behind only China and India. It started out as a lark, a diversion, but it has turned into something real, something that has changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale. We are now running our social lives through a for-profit network that, on paper at least, has made Zuckerberg a billionaire six times over.
Facebook has merged with the social fabric of American life, and not just American but human life: nearly half of all Americans have a Facebook account, but 70% of Facebook users live outside the U.S. It's a permanent fact of our global social reality. We have entered the Facebook age, and Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here. (See pictures of Facebook's overseas offices.)
Zuckerberg is part of the last generation of human beings who will remember life before the Internet, though only just. He was born in 1984 and grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., the son of a dentist — Painless Dr. Z's slogan was, and is, "We cater to cowards." Mark has three sisters, the eldest of whom, Randi, is now Facebook's head of consumer marketing and social-good initiatives. It was a supportive household that produced confident children. The young Mark was "strong-willed and relentless," according to his father Ed. "For some kids, their questions could be answered with a simple yes or no," he says. "For Mark, if he asked for something, yes by itself would work, but no required much more. If you were going to say no to him, you had better be prepared with a strong argument backed by facts, experiences, logic, reasons. We envisioned him becoming a lawyer one day, with a near 100% success rate of convincing juries."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html #ixzz18Ba3TM4OFor connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among... more
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This is a map of the world according to Facebook. The entire image is defined not by the topographical features or political boundaries, but by Facebook friendships.Instead of trying to make yet another unwanted design re-vamp of the social networking during his internship at Facebook intern Paul Butler, who created the map, wanted to see "how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends."
He took ca 10 million friendships - that is, pairs of Facebook friends - and, using the locations provided by those friends, calculated the number of friendships between cities.By combining the data he got from Facebook with the coordinates of the cities on the globe, and plotting weighted lines between cities - the brighter a line, the more friends between those cities - he produced what he describes as a "surprisingly detailed" map of the world.
Detailed it is indeed, especially in the U.S. and Western Europe. But the map also shows the big gaps in Facebook's global dominance, China is indistinguishable from deserts or oceans, as is much of Africa.If you fancy reading more about what Butler got up to during his internship and his explanation of his methodology click here.
This is a map of the world according to Facebook. The entire image is defined not by... more
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Last week the Australian Parliament passed a bill to build a high-speed national broadband network.
Should the US be giving serious consideration to similar plans? Are investments in technology and infastructure a worthwhile idea to boost the economy while offering benefits for citizens?Last week the Australian Parliament passed a bill to build a high-speed national... more
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News Corp has put MySpace on notice, letting the company know it needs to show some improvement.
There was a time when MySpace was the social network to join--but more and more networks have gotten into the game in recent years. From Facebook to Twitter, there are new options for staying connected.
How can older social networks stay active and appealing as new ideas come on the scene? Or have we reached social network overload, and it is time to let some go?News Corp has put MySpace on notice, letting the company know it needs to show some... more
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The first survey of men in the six-year history of The PRWeek/Barkley Cause Survey has uncovered surprising data regarding men’s attraction to brands that have a cause marketing program. Running contrary to the natural assumption that women are solely attracted to cause programs, 88% of men say it’s important for a brand to support a cause, 61% have purchased a brand because it supported a cause, 67% would try a brand because it supported a cause, and 55% would pay more for a brand that supported a cause.
Download survey here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/40906606
http://www.barkleyus.com/The first survey of men in the six-year history of The PRWeek/Barkley Cause Survey has... more
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