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

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

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 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.