FINAL MARKS ARE IN!!

Hey Guys, 

The Results are now up on gradebook for the Assessment#2 and Assessment#3 of this subject. 
Please consult with your lecturer as soon as possible if you 
believe there is an error in the results of your assessment. 

That's it for this year guys, Thanks its been fun

Matt Barron.

Assessment #3 - Week 12

MPI104 2010 Assessment #3 checklist


o Each person must write a post on their blog of 250-500 words in length detailing what you done for each of your components covered, and also what you have learnt from the subject over the course of the semester.

o You must then post as a comment to the Assessment #3 page on the masterblog, with links to your:

1 - your Assessment blog post
2 - your blogger page
3 - your Flickr stream
4 - your Delicious
5 - your webspace (include address even if it didnt end up working)


o You must then Email me at mattbarron.mpi104@gmail.com, with the subject MPI104 Assessment #3 - your name - student ID , with links to your:

1 - your Assessment blog post
2 - your blogger page
3 - your Flickr stream
4 - your Delicious
5 - your webspace (include address even if it didnt end up working)


PLEASE ENSURE THESE LINKS GO TO YOUR FEED, NOT JUST THE BASE HOME SITE...... CHECK YOUR LINKS!!!




Checklist of things that get you to pass level:


Blogger

o User has more than the minimum posts (12)

o User has experimented with Templates, Fonts, Colours

o User has included a counter

o User has at least one RSS subscription(optional).

o Your blog has a favourite links element with links to your Csusap web page

o Your blog has a favourite links element with links to your Del.icio.us web page

o Your blog has a favourites links element with links to your Flickr web page

o Your blog has a favourites links element with links to the Master Blog web page

o User has added at least 3 other page element (widgets/gadgets etc)



Flickr

o User has uploaded pictures (minimum 20)

o User has progressively uploaded more pictures (over at least 6 days)

o User has uploaded original images OR acknowledged the source if not original

o Most images are tagged

o Most images have descriptions

o User Has Groups

o User has added some favorites




Del.icio.us


o User has Linked MasterBlog

o User has Linked another class members blog

o User has Linked their own Blog homepage

o User has Linked their own Flickr PhotoStream

o User has Linked their csusap.csu.edu.au/~username website

o User has saved Personal Links (minimum 15)

o User has progressively saved more Links (over at least 6 different days)

o Most Links have descriptions

o Most Links have tags

o Most Links include the MPI104_2012 tag





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Your final assessment for MPI104 will be due at the start of your class on week 12.

AT 9AM


We will present as we always do , showing each of your accounts:

1 - your Assessment blog post
2 - your blogger page
3 - your Flickr stream
4 - your Delicious





FAILURE TO BE ON TIME WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

FAILURE TO SUBMIT ON THE DAY WILL RESULT IN A MARK OF ZERO

FAILURE TO ATTEND ASSESSMENT WILL RESULT IN A MARK OF ZERO



Marks will be awarded for the ability to follow direction, technical aptitude, experimentation, aesthetics and overall growth and progress over the term.

Previous Years Examples

Hey Guys,

Here are some previous years examples so you know what to aim for for the assessment

A Batman Inspired Web Page
http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~sangel06/Index.html


A Website about Herself
http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~hbandi01/index.html


Snake Encounter Site
http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~lsteer01/


Art Blog
http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~datien01/

Assessment #2 Checklist

Assessment will be held at the normal time.


Check List

Things you must do for Assessment #2

o User has created a website which has been uploaded to csusap webspace.
o Website demonstrates at least that the student has customised a template
- changing colours, fonts, pictures, content, backgrounds, videos, pictures etc.
o User has controlled their HTML website with an external CSS sheet
o Website includes a counter
o Your Website consists of at least 3 pages with navigation links including a
“home button” on each page linking back to the front page.
o Website includes a link to your blog
o Website includes a link to your Flickr account
o Website includes a link to your Del.icio.us account


you may include

o Website includes an RSS feed subscription of their blog


HOW TO SUBMIT!!!!!

you will make a post of 250 words outlining the work that you have completed for your HTML webpage on your blog, what you have learned and the things your most proud of.


then make comment on the ASSESSMENT #2 PAGE TAB (of the masterblog)
 linking to your html page and blog post.

IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS:
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Matt Barron

- Assessment #2 Blog post (as a link)

- http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~yourusername (as a link)


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Also you need to do these few things:

1- follow and adhere to the checklist

2- post on the Assessment #2 page of the masterblog,  your name and a woking link to your web address
                                                -   http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~username

3- SHOW UP TO CLASS , you will be presenting your work on the main computer to the class from the internet.

4- bring your assessment files on a named CD if your webspace did not work, as you will be opening up your webpage on the lecturers computer.

5- you will fail if you do not come to class, you will be considered as not submitting your assessment even if you have posted on the masterblog. (unless previously arranged with me).

6- DONT BE LATE.


thanks
Matt.

Week 10 - External CSS

HTML and CSS is a very easy concept, please follow this w3schools tute to find out more.


External Style Sheet

An external style sheet is ideal when the style is applied to many pages. With an external style sheet, you can change the look of an entire Web site by changing one file. Each page must link to the style sheet using the <link></link> tag. The <link></link> tag goes inside the head section.

An external style sheet can be written in any text editor. The file should not contain any html tags. Your style sheet should be saved with a .css extension.

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_howto.asp




HERE IS A VIDEO TUTE I HAVE MADE PREVIOUSLY ABOUT EXTERNAL CSS

DO WATCH!!!


CSS EXTERNAL SHEET and UPLOAD TUTORIAL


password: mpi104

Week 9 - FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the Internet.

FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server. FTP is used with user-based password authentication or with anonymous user access.

Wikipedia definition of FTP

You will all be assigned webspace on the uni servers.

Online webspace is like having a USB Hard-drive which is held on the internet.

FTP is the way in which we transfer data on and off our server space.

To get webspace follow the link below

it may take a few days to a week to work.

Check to see if your web space is working by going to your web address
http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~username/

(eg, ~mbarro04)

Sign up for Server space

To be able to complete you Assessment#2 you must have web server space. To do this you must follow this process.

1- Setting up your webspace
                 http://www.csu.edu.au/webpublishing/personal.htm

2- request access
                 http://vupdate.csu.edu.au/cssu/athene.aspx

3- Log in

4- click on request.

5- wait for it to come back with a response

Thank you for requesting access to publish to the web at CSU. Please note, provisioning of your account can take up to 2 hours to process

* Your login is your csu username
* Your password is your active password.
* You will be publishing to the CSUSAP server
* The address of your personal home page will be http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~mpinne01

* Please note you will need to sign into your CSUSAP account, and upload content before your web address becomes active

It is important to understand your obligations with regards to your use of CSU Computing and Communication facilities as outlined in the CSU Web Publishing site.

This site also provides instructions on how to publish your pages to the web as well as basic tools to write and edit web pages.

If you require assistance, please contact Student Central via the web http://ask.csu.edu.au or by phone internal 37508 or Australia wide 1800 275 278
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How to use your webspace

open my computer (on pc)

1- right click - add a network location
next

2- choose custom
next

3- ftp://csusap.csu.edu.au

4- untick - logon anonymously
type in: username

5- log in with username and password
wait an hour or two for your space to be activated.


6- go to my computer, click on your network folder.

sign in with your username and password


7- now copy any files into your server space
the folder you want to put these under is public_html.


you must name your original file
index.html, for it to be the first html page to come up when you go to your web address which will be

http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~yourusername/

w3schools link!!

Very handy link for everything to do with HTML and CSS, check it out!

W3schools.com

Week 8 - CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.

CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.[citation needed] This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design).

CSS specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called cascade, priorities or weights are calculated and assigned to rules, so that the results are predictable.

In other words instead of telling each paragraph each colour, you only have to change one to effect the rest

Marks Are Up!

Marks for Assessment #1 are up on interact/gradebook.

if there are any questions or queries, please don't hesitate to email me at mattbarron.mpi104@gmail.com



Overall the effort was pretty good for Assessment #1!

cheers,

Matt Barron.

Week #7 HTML

What is HTML?

HTML is a language for describing web pages.

• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
• HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
• A markup language is a set of markup tags
• HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

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HTML Tags

HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags

• HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like <html>
• HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b>
• The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
• Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

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What You Need

You don't need any tools to learn HTML

• You don't need any HTML editor
• You don't need a web server
• You don't need a web site
• You just need notepad to get started

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HTML Documents = Web Pages

• HTML documents describe web pages
• HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
• HTML documents are also called web pages

The purpose of a web browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox) is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

Assessment #1, Checklist

Assessment #1 will be held WEEK 6 during your workshops on Thursday.
The total culmination of work/posting/picture uploading is what will be marked.

Attendance for the assessment is compulsory, so by not being present and not supplying the mentioned details to ME a zero (0) mark will be awarded.



How the assessment will work:

50 marks will be awarded as per the mpi104 checklist below, whilst another 50 marks will be awarded for “interestingness”. This means that if you have completed all the task in the checklist you will pass. However if you go beyond this, both aesthetically and through research on your blog posts, your mark will be escalated to reflect this.


For all of the assessments you will have to write a post on your blog before class on the day of your assessment of between 250 – 500 words to summarise what you have done in the subject by that time.


This blog post should detail:

Blogger
• The number of posts on your blog, and some links to your more interesting posts
• The work you have done on the aesthetic look of your blog (templates, colour, fonts)
• Comments that you have made to other blogs – with links to the more interesting comments
• Tags that you have used
• Other work that you have done in Blogger
• link to your blogger

Del.icio.us
• The number of bookmarked web pages
• Why these are of interest to you
• Links to your favourite 3 web pages
• link to your Delicious profile

Flickr
• The number of uploaded images
• A link to your 3 favourite images
• link to your Flickr stream (you tab)

thoughts
•  Any specific thoughts on the subject so far.

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You need to email ME the following to be assessed:


• Your Blog URL

• Your del.icio.us URL

• Your flickr photostream URL

• a link to your 250-500 word post.



(Please email ME at the following email, with, your name and MPI104 number as the subject:
You will need to email ME (with "Your Name MPI104_2012" as the subject) .)


example: Your name MPI104 2012

TO

mattbarron.mpi104@gmail.com



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READ AND ADHERE TO THE CHECKLIST TO ENSURE A PASSING GRADE!!!!!

CHECKLIST
Assessment #1

Google
o User has subscribed to a Google Calender

Blogger
o User has links in side bar
o User has more than the minimum posts (6)
o User has links in posts (minimum 3)
o User has updated profile
o User has uploaded picture for profile
o User has experimented with Templates
o User has experimented with Fonts
o User has experimented with Colours
o User has at least 2 pictures in a post
o User has a Flickr post in their blog
o User has a delicious post on their blog
o Posts have titles
o Blog has a description
o User has added at least 1 other page element
o User has commented on at least 2 other peoples posts

Flickr
o User has uploaded pictures (minimum 6)
o User has progressively uploaded more pictures
o Most pictures have titles
o Most pictures have descriptions
o User has a used tags, including MPI104_2012
o User has created a set
o User has joined a Group
o User has added some favorites
o User has commented on at least one other person’s pictures
o User has uploaded an original image OR acknowledged the source if not original

Del.icio.us
o User has saved MPI104 Links (minimum 4)

o User has Linked MasterBlog
o User has Linked another class members blog
o User has Linked their own Blog homepage
o User has Linked their own Flickr PhotoStream

o User has saved Personal Links  (minimum 4)
o User has progressively saved more Links (over at least 3 different days)
o Most Links have descriptions
o Most Links have tags
o Most Links include the MPI104_2012 tag


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Summing up!!
students must:

1 - write a 250-500 word blog post (on your own blog)

2 - make sure you have completed the comprehensive CHECKLIST

3 - email me at mattbarron.mpi104@gmail.com a working link to:
                          - your assessment #1 blog post
                          - your blog
                          - your flickr
                          - your delicious
             (please make this all one email)


 4 - MOST IMPORTANTLY

you must make a comment on the Assessment#1 page of the master blog
     and it should read exactly like this:




Matt Barron

gmail - mattbarron.mpi104@gmail.com
flickr - www.flickr/mattbarron
"link"
Delicious - "etc etc"
"link"
Blogger - "etc etc"
"link"


This is a link to my Assessment #1 blog post
"link"

Week 5 - Delicious

What is Delicious?

Delicious is the place to collect and showcase your passions from across the web. Save what you like - videos, pictures, tweets, blog posts, or articles - on topics you enjoy and search through others’ collections of links to discover cool stuff!

To get started, drop the Delicious bookmarklet in your browser bar and use it to add links to your account.

The Company

Originally founded in 2003 as a social bookmarking service, Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS, a company helmed by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The site was rebuilt from the ground up and re-launched in fall 2011 with a new focus on curation and discovery.

Delicious is headquartered in a cozy San Mateo, California office within convenient reach of some of the Bay Area’s tastiest ramen.

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THIS WEEKS TASK

1- Sign up for a Delicious account at www.delicious.com
                                 -Username:  yourname           (all one word)
                                 -Password: what ever you wish
                                 -Email: (your gmail account)  yourname.mpi104@gmail.com

                                                                        [JOIN]


2- goto  Profile > Settings
                                  - Ad Profile Pic
                                  - choose file   (crop photo once loaded)
                                  - fill in bio

3- Add link to the MasterBlog :  mpi104-2012s2.blogspot.com.au

4- Add a link to your  - flickr photostream
                                 - personal blog

5- Create a New bundle, group tags together applicable to MPI104, call this MPI104 Links.

once done
6- Create a post on your blogspot about Delicious and ts uses and functions

7- After you have created your blog post (about Delicious) with an image, create a link of your actual post, as a comment to this post on the master blog.

remember: to link from a comment, click your comment Date and it will open up your comment on a separate page, you can then copy the URL from the Address bar in your browser.

create the 'link text' under this naming convention: name, Delicious post. eg: Matt Barron, Delicious post.

Week 4 - flickr

THIS WEEKS TASK

1- Sign up for a flickr account at  www.flickr.com
                  - sign in with your gmail account  (click the google button in sign up)
           for example:  yourname.mpi104@gmail.com

2-  Screen name: your name MPI104

3- Work through the getting started numbers on initial flickr homepage
              1- Personalize
                           - create buddy icon
                           - choose custom flickr URL
                           - personalize your profile
             
              2- Upload your first photo

              3- Find your friends on flickr
                         - click the flickr icon, search for: matt barron mpi104   (add as a contact)

 4- Create a new post on your blog. Include at least one working link to your flickr images – something which relates to your post.

In flickr click and view your image then in the "share" menu, copy the html code and paste it in your post

After you have created your blog post (about flickr) with an image off your flickr, create a link of your actual post, as a comment to this post on the master blog.

remember to link from a comment, click your comment Date and it will open up your comment on a separate page, you can then copy the URL from the Address bar in your browser.

create the 'link text' under this naming convention: name, flickr post. eg: Matt Barron, flickr post

Flickr: what is it?

Flickr (stylized as flickr)

is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.

In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.

Yahoo reported in June 2011 that Flickr had a total of 51 million registered members and 80 million unique visitors.

In August 2011 the site reported that it was hosting more than 6 billion images and this number continues to grow steadily according to reporting sources.

Photos and videos can be accessed from Flickr without the need to register an account but an account must be made in order to upload content onto the website.

Registering an account also allows users to create a profile page containing photos and videos that the user has uploaded and also grants the ability to add another Flickr user as a contact.

For mobile users, Flickr has an official app for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7 operating systems.






On their page.

About Flickr

Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals:

1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.

Maybe they want to keep a blog of moments captured on their cameraphone, or maybe they want to show off their best pictures or video to the whole world in a bid for web celebrity. Or maybe they want to securely and privately share photos of their kids with their family across the country. Flickr makes all these things possible and more!

To do this, we want to get photos and video into and out of the system in as many ways as we can: from the web, from mobile devices, from the users' home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their content. And we want to be able to push them out in as many ways as possible: on the Flickr website, in RSS feeds, by email, by posting to outside blogs or ways we haven't thought of yet. What else are we going to use those smart refrigerators for?

2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video.

Once you make the switch to digital, it is all too easy to get overwhelmed with the sheer number of photos you take or videos you shoot with that itchy trigger finger. Albums, the principal way people go about organizing things today, are great -- until you get to 20 or 30 or 50 of them. They worked in the days of getting rolls of film developed, but the "album" metaphor is in desperate need of a Florida condo and full retirement.

Part of the solution is to make the process of organizing photos or videos collaborative. In Flickr, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your stuff - not just to add comments, but also notes and tags. People like to ooh and ahh, laugh and cry, make wisecracks when sharing photos and videos. Why not give them the ability to do this when they look at them over the internet? And as all this info accretes as metadata, you can find things so much easier later on, since all this info is also searchable.

Flickr continues to evolve in myriad ways, all of which are designed to make it easier and better. Check out theFlickr Blog to stay apprised of the latest developments. The fact that you've read to the end of this entire document and are hanging out at the bottom of this page with nothing but this silly text to keep you company is proof of a deep and abiding interest on your part. What are you waiting for? Sign up now!

FLICKR a History

Flickr was launched in February 2004 by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake.

The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game.

Flickr proved a more feasible project, and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved; however, Butterfield has since launched an online game of similar intent.


Early versions of Flickr focused on a multiuser chat room called FlickrLive with real-time photo exchange capabilities.

The successive evolutions focused more on the uploading and filing backend for individual users and the chat room was buried in the site map.

It was eventually dropped as Flickr's backend systems evolved away from the Game Neverending's codebase.

Some of the key features of Flickr not initially present were tags, marking photos as favorites, group photo pools and interestingness, for which a patent is pending.

Yahoo! acquired Ludicorp and Flickr in March 2005. The reported acquisition cost was $35 million. During the week of June 26 – July 2, 2005, all content was migrated from servers in Canada to servers in the United States, resulting in all data becoming subject to United States federal law.
On May 16, 2006, Flickr updated its services from beta to "gamma", along with a design and structural overhaul.

According to the site's FAQ, the term "gamma", rarely used in software development, is intended to be tongue-in-cheek to indicate that the service is always being tested by its users, and is in a state of perpetual improvement.  A further connotation, more specific to photography and the display of images, is that of gamma correction.

The current service is considered a stable release.

In December 2006, upload limits on free accounts were increased to 100 MB a month (from 20 MB) and were removed from Pro Accounts, permitting unlimited uploads for holders of these accounts (originally a 2 GB per month limit).

In January 2007, Flickr announced that "Old Skool" members—those who had joined before the Yahoo acquisition—would be required to associate their account with a Yahoo ID by March 15 to continue using the service.

 This move was criticized by some users.

On April 9, 2008, Flickr began allowing paid subscribers to upload videos, limited to 90 seconds in length and 150 MB in size.

On March 2, 2009, Flickr added the facility to upload and view HD videos, and began allowing free users to upload normal-resolution video. At the same time, the set limit for free accounts was lifted.

Week 3 - Blogger

Week 3 Blogger -  http://mpi104-2012s2.blogspot.com.au/

- goto www.blogger.com

- sign in using your yourname.mpi104@gmail.com account

- enter details

- create your blog >>

                blog title :  Your Name MPI104
                Blog address : yourname-mpi104

- choose a starter template


Tasks:

Setting up:
- set your layout type (Design > template)

- add a few gadgets to your blog (from Design > Layout menu)
       - add a links gadget, and link to the master blog
       - add fish gadget

- change timezone to the correct zone

- add  a profile pic to your profile if not already there

 
Getting started:
- create your first post
       - post about blogger on your blog, what you think so far, and what potential it has.
       - add an image to the post
       - at least one working link

- once done, On the Masterblog, on the Week 3 - blogger post
       - make a comment. In that comment you should post a link, linking to the post you just wrote on      your blog.

remember, to link a post, click your post heading and it will open up your post on a separate page, you can then copy the URL from the Address bar in your browser.

And then paste the URL into the url spot in this code '

create the 'link text' under this naming convention: name, blogger post.
eg: Matt Barron, week 3 Blogger post

post all of this, as a comment on this master blog post




                              

The story of blogger

"Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999. This was in the midst of the dot-com boom. But we weren't exactly a VC-funded, party-throwing, foosball-in-the-lobby-playing, free-beer-drinking outfit.
 (Unless it was other people's free beer.)

 We were three friends, funded by doing annoying contract web projects for big companies, trying to make our own grand entrance onto the Internet landscape.

What we were originally trying to do doesn't matter so much now. But while doing it, we created Blogger, more or less on a whim, and thought — Hmmm... that's kinda interesting.

 Blogger took off, in a small way, and eventually a bigger way, over a couple years. We raised a little money (but stayed small). And then the bust happened, and we ran out of money, and our fun little journey got less fun.

We narrowly survived, not all in one piece, but kept the service going the whole time (most days) and started building it back up. Things were going well again in 2002. We had hundreds of thousands of users, though still just a few people.

And then something no one expected happened: Google wanted to buy us. Yes, that Google. We liked Google a lot. And they liked blogs. So we were amenable to the idea. And it worked out nicely.

 Now we're a small (but slightly bigger than before) team in Google focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organizing the world's information from the personal perspective. Which has pretty much always been our whole deal."
                                                                               - the blogger team


More info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)

Blogging 101

Things you may not know about Blogs

- A new blog is created somewhere in the world every half a second. That goes on to prove how popular blogging is on the Internet.

- Blogs have influence. Surveys suggest that lot of Internet users prefer reading reviews published on blogs before making a purchase.

- You don't need to spend a single penny to publish a blog. All you need is a computer and an Internet connection. You may even write blogs from a mobile phone.

- You don't need any technical skills to create a blog. If you know how to write an email on the computer, you are good enough to write a blog.

-If you are worried about sharing your details on the Internet, you can create personal blog that can only be read by your close friends and family members.

- You can put advertising on your blogs and make some decent income. There are people who have quit their regular jobs to become full-time bloggers.

- You don't need to know English to write a blog. There are free tools available to help you publish blogs in any Indian language including Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bangla, Tamil, etc.

- If you like clicking pictures with your digital camera, you can join the growing community of photo bloggers in the world who display pictures on their blogs.
44% of all bloggers are parents, 70% have college degrees, two-thirds are male and 50% of them lie in the 18-34 age group.

- You'll find an audience if you write what you’re passionate about. - Mark Frauenfelder

Week 2 - Google

Some info about Google as a company.
https://www.google.com.au/intl/en/about/company/

50 Amazing Facts and Figures About Google

Written by Jeff Bullas - 26 Comments
Categories: Google, Search

Google has become an integral part of our lives and  the word has even become a verb as we are often heard to say let’s “Google” that. I have even heard the web giant referred to in hushed tones during heated discussions and when a controversial fact or figure is being debated across a dinner table or at the local bar as to whether it is true or false and a person will pull out their iPhone and say “let’s check Lord Google”.

Google was founded in 1997 by two Stanford University PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin whose initial company mission statement was

“To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”

Which they seem to have made a good dent in achieving since they started the company.

Technology is enhancing us as human beings and the integrating of artificial intelligence is slowly being weaved and embedded into our activities and habits almost without us noticing. This reliance that is permeating our day to day existence even extends to a reported 60% plus of all buying decisions now starting with a Google search as we start our research online rather than walk the shop aisles and asking sales attendants questions.

It’s been barely 13 years since conception but the search company whose slogan is “Don’t be evil”  (reputed to have been coined by the Google engineer Paul Buchheit in 2006 ) has now struck out into other technology areas beyond their core search business such as

• The successful Android mobile operating system which is reporting 400,000 activations per day (April 2011)
• Picasa photo organisation
• Google ‘Earth’ the 3D view of the earth technology that was initially the start up Keyhole
• Google Energy that is developing and investing in renewable energy projects such as wind farms in North Dakota
• Google Driverless Car that uses Google Street View with artificial intelligence technology

The law of abundance is evident here if you want a glimpse of the facts and the staggering global statistics for Google in its search engine and associated online properties such as YouTube, Android and other associated subsidiaries and technologies

50 Amazing Google Facts and Figures

1. The original nickname was BackRub due to the backlink technology used to determine site importance but eventually changed the name to Google originating from the misspelling of the word “Googol (the mathematician’s term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros) to signify the large quantities of information for people that it would provide.
2. Google began as a research project in 1996
3. Google.com domain went online in 1997
4. The first funding of $100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Sun Microsystems
5. The CEO for ‘Excite’ George Bell rejected to buy Google when it was offered to him for $1 million when Brin and Page were finding the search engine taking  up to much time from their research in 1999
6. The first round of venture capital of $25 million was provided in 1999 by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital 5 years before it floated
7. Google incorporated in 1998
8. 30 million pages indexed in 1998
9. 1 billion pages indexed in 2000
10. Eric Schmidt named CEO in in 2001
11. Acquired Blogger in 2003
12. Adsense launched in 2003
13. Gmail launched in 2004
14. Google IPO in 2004
15. 8 billion pages indexed in in 2004
16. Acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion
17. 1 Trillion pages indexed in in 2008
18. Android announced in 2007
19. Chrome launched in 2008
20. 1.8 million shares given to Stanford University for its PageRank Patent sold by Stanford in 2005 for $336 million
21. It currently runs over 1 million computer servers in data centers around the world
22. Google search handles over 1 billion searches per day
23. 7.2 billion daily page views
24. 87.8 billion monthly worldwide searches conducted on Google sites
25. Google’s global search market share is 85%
26. Daily visitors to Google is 620 million
27. Google.com’s worldwide ranking is number 1
28. Revenue in 2000 was $19 million
29. Profit in 200 was a loss of $14 million
30. In 2009 Google’s revenue was nearly $23 billion
31. In 2009 Google’s profit was $6.5 billion
32. 97% is the percentage of revenue from advertising
33. Stock price at its IPO in 2004 was $85
34. Stock price in 2010 was $535
35. Over 19,000 employees
36. 37% are research staff
37. 37% are sales staff
38. A ‘Noogler’ is a new person at Google
39. 45% of Google’s products are currently in Beta
40. YouTube market share is 39.4%
41. 270,000 words a minute are written on Blogger
42. 146 million Gmail users
43. Google analytics is used on 57% of the top 10,000 websites
44. 400,000 new Android devices are activated every day
45. 100 million activated Android devices
46. 200,000 Apps available for the Android
47. 4.5 billion Apps have been installed from the Android Market
48. Google’s Android mobile operating system is the world’s leading smart phone platform surpassing Nokia and Apple with a 33% share
49. 33 million Android operating systems were shipped in the the fourth quarter of 2010
50. The Google Driverless car named the ‘Stanley’ won the DARPA Grand challenge and the $2 million in prize money from the US Department of Defense in 2005

Read more at http://www.jeffbullas.com/2011/05/16/50-amazing-facts-and-figures-about-google/#DkEIHsVpPEZZqFTM.99

Working At Google
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWlHtvZHbZ8

The Dark Side of Google - (conspiracy theories flourish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNofb-OlZyQ





THIS WEEKS TASK
This week we will be establishing a google identity. Having a Google identity allows you hassle free log in to many sites making multiple names and passwords a thing of the past.


1- Sign up for a new gmail account  www.gmail.com  (even if you already have one)
                    - name your account  yourname.mpi104@gmail.com
                    - eg.  mattbarron.mpi104@gmail.com

2- Set an image as your profile picture. (preferably an image of yourself)

3- Set a theme for your gmail account

4- go to Gmail > Contacts, hover over the list and create new group called: MPI104 2012
                              - add your own email, and mine

5- explore Gmail: Gmail, Contacts, Tasks

6- explore Google Calender, set your class time as a calender event

7- explore some other features available to you by having a gmail account such as: Google Documents, Youtube etc.

8- Send me an email at mattbarron.mpi104@gmail.com containing:
      - Your name
      - What you like to be called
      - What are you studying at uni to become.

Welcome to MPI104 and the MasterBlog!!!!!

Welcome to a new session of study at Charles Sturt University.

This subject provides an introduction to the elements and scope of multimedia.

It covers underlying concepts, takes an overview of multimedia operations, introduces some of the structures and processes of off-line and online interactive multimedia creation.

This is the MasterBlog, this will be the hub for all news, information and weekly tasks for this subject.