Week 2 blog

Blog this week about your presence in The Cloud. Do you play games online, save photos at Flickr, IM, have a social networking site, email, videochat, use online tools like Open Office, etc? Talk about "your cloud" and what it entails. What was your Web 2.0 experience 5 years ago? Can you see where you may be heading in the future?

Five years ago my "cloud" wasn't the way it is today. Today my cloud is full of text messages, iming, emailing, phone calls, Skype, video chating, and of course blogging. I use all sorts of online and Microsoft applications including office, excel, and access. It is crazy to think about how we survived 5 years ago without everything we have today. Especially when you think of something like a cell phone, last week my cell phone broke and I felt like I was lost!

I couldn't do anything or I couldn't contact anyone, it is sad to think about how we lost connection with the world we once knew as simple. I can totally see where this is all heading in the future. I really do think it will be like all the latest sci fi movies. I think we will be living in such a electronic world that we wont have to remember anything. We wont have to remember phone numbers, directions, emails, or any information at all. Everything we will once need will come in a one handed device. I mean for instance like Iphones.... have you ever used one of those things? There is more applications and things to do on it than a computer!

In the end I think everything will be fine, the only thing that scares me is whats if this "main" operating system as Ted says might crash one day. The thought is scary!

5000 days of the internet review

I found it really interesting on how BIG the internet is. It is crazy how much work we do through the internet. It is almost unimaginable. There are more than 2 million emails that are sent every second. This was a crazy number to me, it is also wild to think about when Ted said that the internet used 5 % of all electricity used in the world.

I believe that this causes some very large problems for us. We are getting so unattached form the "real world". We have to think about what will be best for us as humans in the future, but its important to think about all pros and cons of this internet world.

Ted says that the numbers are so big on the internet that it is become very meaningless. Does anyone know what he means when he says that?

Ted says that there is over 100 billion clicks a day! 100 billion... I never thought that it would be that much. I think its also so true and so crazy to think that everything we do, spreadsheets, computers, tvs, everything will be part of the web. Everything is connected to the "Machine".

What do you think will be the problems in the future with this internet world?

Ilya's First blog to class!

Ilya's goals for Multimedia Apps and Tools

I am really looking forward to taking this course and putting my computer knowledge to work. What better way to do this than to take an online course in Multimedia Apps and Tools! I hope to gain a lot of knowledge on how to present media to the public. I ama business major and would really liketo learn how "big business" gets the word out about their product and/or services.

Throughout this course each week I will plan on learning all the required online tools such as blogster.com, wikispaces.com, etc... These are the ones we have learned so far. I hope I can take a lot from this class, I have already learned a ton!

As you can see I am little bit computer challenged since this about my 10th time writing this and trying to make my blog live. I hope to get better at using internet course and applications that I can use in my future.

Week 1 Blog post.

I think I finally figured out how to us blogger.com