Thursday, March 31, 2011

Twitter Critical Review

Twitter is a social networking site. Twitter is used to share short (140 character) updates about your life, called tweets. You can look up your friends or other people that you can follow in order to see their updates. Twitter was created by members of the podcasting company Odeo. The codename for the service was twttr. The first twitter message was created by Dorsey at on March 21st, 2006 at 9:50 PM. The tweet said "just setting up my twttr".  Twitter became its own company in April 2007. Twitter grew rapidly. By March 2010, there were 70,000 registered applications and twitter users were sending 50 million tweets a day. Twitter can be used for business, social, entertainment, news, and recreational purposes. Businesses can use twitter to update their employees on what they are doing and they can use it to twitter to keep things up to date and in order. Twitter is also a great way to keep in touch with your friends and other people in your life to see what they are doing for social use. Many celebrity's use twitter and their fans can follow their twitters to see what their favorite celebs are up to for entertainment purposes. For News purposes, people can go on Twitter and look at what politicians are writing on their Twitters. People can also use Twitter for news like sports, where they can get updates and many other useful information. Twitter is also good for recreational purposes because you people can post pictures and videos. .Some people complain that people are becoming to obsessed with Twitter and believe it is unnecessary to let people know exactly what you are doing at every second of the day. Others disagree and believe Twitter is a great way to keep in touch with busy friends and is great for many other purposes as well.

Blogger Critical Review

A blog is a website used to to write stuff on an ongoing bases. You can make it however you want. You can post links, pictures, videos, and anything else you want on your blog. Every blog has a different purpose. They create communities for group discussions on a specific topic. They are a form of communication and are used for information, entertainment, opinions on certain subjects, and more. Blogger is a type of blog-publishing service. Blogger was launched on August 23rd, 1999 by Prya Labs. It was one of the earlist blog-publishing websites. Businesses can use blogs to promote their business. Blogger allows people to connect and share opinions by commenting on each others blogs. Blogs can be used for entertainment, movies, music, news and other topics people may be interested in. People can blog about their favorite sports team, TV show, or local events happening that interests them for entertainment. For social networking purposes, blogs can be used to keep in touch with your friends. Newspapers are becoming outdated and people can now use blogger for daily news updates. People can post whatever they want on their blogs so everyone can see their ideas and even make a comment about them for recreational purposes. However, the use of blogs can be negative. There is no security in the blogging system which can lead to people posting inappropriate things which can be seen by everybody and cyber bulling. Besides that, blogger is great for business, social, entertainment, news, and recreational use. 

This video takes you on a tour of New York City throughout the entire 24 hour day. It shows you the Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown, Central Park, and many other places. There is always something going on in the city no matter what time it is.
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NewYorkCity

A Guide to NYC

Wednesday, March 30, 2011


New York city is a very famous city in the United States. It is located on a natural harbor on the Atlantic coast of the Northeastern United states. New York city has five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhatten, and Staten Island. It has a population of 8.4 million and is the most populated city in the United States. Many famous landmarks and places in New York city is the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the Empire State Building, Central Park, and Rockefeller Center.