Taylor Neubauer
CSC 101-08N
Spring 2013
January 17,2013
Showrooming
 Showrooming
is described as being the
act of appraising merchandise from a
retail store and then shopping online to
find the same merchandise for a lower
price.
 Showrooming is on the rise and while it
may be detrimental to the retail stores it is
especially helpful to consumers looking for
a better and cheaper price,
including myself.
How I Learn
I
have a mixed style of learning.
Depending on what is being taught I like
to learn through visual, verbal, and/or a
social style. For example:
 Computer
Course- Visual and Social
 Psychology Course- Verbal and Visual
Digital Wildfires
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“Digital Wildfire” refers to the digital world and
it is the phenomenon of information traveling
with extraordinary speed and reach
Information spreading can be either
intentional, unintentional, misleading, or even
provocative and can lead to dire
consequences and false information
To try and stop this digital wildfire many
jurisdictions already have laws that limit
freedom of speech but this interferes with the
first amendment. Furthermore, it could lead
to more government censorship of the
Internet which will not be quietly accepted
MOOC:
Massive Open Online Courses
 MOOC
is a type of online courses aimed
to large-scale participation that offer
open access through the web
 MOOC’s typically do not offer awarded
credits like college, However, assessment
of learning may be done for certification
 Two Main Components:
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Open Access
Scalability
Innovation
 The
development of new customers value
through solutions that meet new needs,
inarticulate needs, or old customer and
market needs in value.
 Innovation is accomplished through more
effective products, processes, services,
technologies, or ideas that are readily
available to markets, governments, and
society.
Intellectual Property
 Commonly
known as IP
 IP is a legal concept that refers to
creations of the mind in which exclusive
rights are recognized.
 Types of intellectual property rights
include copyright, trademarks, patents,
industrial design rights and in some
jurisdictions trade secrets.
Copyright
 Copyright
is a legal concept enacted by
most governments. It gives the creator of
an original piece of work exclusive rights
to it, usually for a limited time.
 Usually, it is "the right to copy", but it also
includes giving the copyright holder the
right to be credited for the work, to
determine who may adapt the work to
other forms, who may perform the work,
who may financially benefit from it, and
other related rights.
Open Source Software
 Commonly
referred to as OSS
 OSS is a computer software with a source
code made available and licensed with
an open source license.
 The copyright holder provides the rights to
study, change and distribute the software
to anyone and for any purpose.
 Open source software is often developed
in a public and collaborative manner.
Open Source Textbooks
 Open
Source Textbooks are textbooks
licensed under an open copyright license.
 These textbooks are made available
online to be used by students, teachers
and members of the public for free.
 Many open textbooks are distributed in
other print such as e-books and audio
formats that may be downloaded or
purchased at little or no cost.
Human Rights
 Human
rights are described by
inalienable fundamental rights in which a
person is inherently entitled simply
because she or he is a human being.
 Human rights are conceived as
applicable everywhere and are the same
for everyone.
 A right that is believed to belong justifiably
to every person
Jquery Mobile
 The
jQuery mobile framework applies the
"write less, do more" mantra
 The mobile framework is designed to
simplify and enhance the development of
mobile web applications.
 The framework enhances the
development by integrating HTML5, CSS3,
jQuery and jQuery
Internet Governance
 Internet
Governance is the development
and application of shared principle,
norms, and decision- making procedures
 There are controversies occurring about
how the Internet should or should not be
governed in the future; these
controversies will always be present no
matter what is or isn’t being governed
Google Application
 The
Google Application is a service from
Google providing independently
customizable versions of several Google
products under a custom domain name.
 The application features several Web
applications with similar functionality to
traditional office suites
Geolocation
 Geolocation
refers to the practice of
assessing the location, or to an actual
assessed location
 Geolocation is described as being the
identification of the real-world
geographic location of an object
Net Neutrality
 Net
Neutrality, also known as network
neutrality or internet neutrality, is the
principle that Internet service providers
and the government should treat all the
data on the Internet equally
 Providers and the government should not
discriminate or charge differentially by
user, content, site, platform, application,
type of attached equipment, or modes of
communication
Spam
 Spam
is the use of electronic messaging
systems to send unsolicited bulk
messages, especially advertising,
indiscriminately.
 While the most widely recognized form of
spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied
to similar abuses in other media.
Office Live
 Microsoft
Office Live is a discontinued
web-based service providing document
sharing and website creation tools for
consumers, small businesses and even
personal e-mail.
Security
 Internet
security is a branch of computer
security specifically related to the Internet.
 Security often involves browser security
but also network security on a more
general level
Standardization
 Standardization
is the process of
developing and implementing technical
standards.
 The goals for correct standardization can
be to help with the independence of
single suppliers
Zillow
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Zillow is an online real estate database that
was founded in 2005 by Rich Barton and Lloyd
Frink
Zillow has data on 100 million homes across
the United States.
In addition to giving value estimates of
homes, it offers several features including
value changes of each home in a given time
frame, aerial views of homes, and prices of
comparable homes in the area.
Privacy
 Privacy
is the right or mandate of personal
privacy concerning the storing,
repurposing, providing to third-parties,
and displaying of information pertaining
to oneself via the Internet.
 Privacy can entail either Personally
Identifying Information (PII) or non-PII
information such as a site visitor's behavior
on a website. PII refers to any information
that can be used to identify an individual.
IPhone 5S?
 The
IPhone 5S would be the next Iphone
to come into market for the MAC industry.
 The iPhone 5S could be delayed until after
June however because of problems with
a new fingerprint-scanning feature
designed by Apple. The design will
replace the passcode-based unlocking
system on previous models.
Instagrok
 Instagrok
is an online database that
gathers information on any topic one
needs.
 There Mission Statement: Our mission is to
help everyone discover the joy of learning
and empower them to be lifelong
learners. So we are dedicated to building
innovative technology to enable
engaging, safe and personalized learning.
Essay-Grading Software
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This software was created by EdX, the
nonprofit enterprise founded by Harvard and
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The software introduced a system that will
automatically grade essays and give you
back a grade instantly and give you the
option to fix your work.
It will make its automated software available
free on the Web to any institution that wants
to use it.
The software uses artificial intelligence to
grade student essays and short written
answers, freeing professors for other tasks.
Ushahidi
 Ushahidi
is an open source project
 With this project it will ultimately allow
users to crowd source crisis information to
be sent via mobile.