Maria Älli's List: course6

• media is playing a very significant role in making the world smaller.
• Through various mediums of media whether it is radio, television, newspaper or internet, we are able to connect with large number of people around us. Especially internet has truly become the need of every individual both for our work and to connect with our friends and well wishers
• Besides connecting with our friends, media also informs us about the world happenings. In one line I can say that media is like a mirror of the society which reflect each and everything about the society to us.
• But one also can not overlook this fact that slowly commercialization is also
• coming in media. Media
• not just
• also affects out thinking patterns as well
• When it comes to media, how can one forget to talk about the entertainment industry?
• movies, radio, internet
• Music and movies

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• This chart shows us that Google and Yahoo were ahead of Facebook in unique  visitors in August.
• neither Google nor Yahoo
• sticky engagement
• each Facebook account is using the service for an average of 20 minutes per day
• "the Internet's ultimate time-waster
• Has anything like this ever happened before
• I don't think so. It looks to me like we are witnessing, participating in,  bootstrapping, the biggest social phenomenon in our species's history. 
• inherently social creatures
• we are inherently social creatures
• New York City
• prided ourselves on being the biggest city in the world
• another in real life
• online.
• probably for the same reasons
• the presence of more people like (and unlike) ourselves is exciting. Socially.  Culturally. Economically.
• Soon, many people will spend their whole lives in cities, never leaving. And  soon, many people will spend their whole online lives on Facebook.
• For those people Facebook is the Internet

•  Some social phenomena—like the development of  agriculture and the attendant   shift away  from hunter-gatherer culture—are uniquely transformational. 

   

   I'm wondering if Facebook just might not be one  of them 

• Some social phenomena—like the development of agriculture and the attendant  shift away from hunter-gatherer culture—are uniquely transformational.

   

  I'm wondering if Facebook just might not be one of them.
• they connect with Twitter in some ways
• the future would be everyone having their own social network like Ning
• Every empire falls, and I anticipate Facebook will someday be surpassed
• application authors. A huge part of the site's stickiness comes from uses
• by third-party vendors.
• Facebook is a time sink and 300 million is less than 5% of humanity. It provides  a hub for interaction, but just one among many

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• The English names for large numbers are coined from the Latin names
• a billion is 10⁹ = 1 000 000 000 in the American system and 10¹² = 1 000 000 000 000 in the European system. For 10⁹, Europeans say "thousand million" or "milliard."
• In recent years, American usage has eroded the European system
• due to American finance
• The result of all this is widespread confusion.
• In science, the names   of large numbers are usually avoided completely by using the appropriate SI   prefixes. Thus 10⁹ watts is a gigawatt and 10¹² joules   is a terajoule. Such terms cannot be mistaken.
• 10¹²

        trillion      billion     

  tera-

        tetrillion
• 10⁹⁹

        duotrigintillion      sexdecilliard     

   

        triacontatrillion

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