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.