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Entries from March 2008

Docs and Brett

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments

During class last week, Brett and a few of his collegues did a presentation on what they do for work. Brett and two of his collegues work for DOCS. DOCS is a government body which stands for the department of Community Services.
Brett and two of his collegues expalined what the department is responsible for, which [...]

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RSS and Aggregation

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments

RSS is a web based application that enables users to recieve news and update directly to the page they want it sent to rather than viewing the website itself. The way that this occurs is that RSS aggregates information from the websites that get updated and send it through your preferred web page or home [...]

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Activity 1.2- Web based Applications

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

There are a few web based applications that i am fimiliar with, which include: weblogs, chat, e- portfolios, social networks and podcasting.
Weblogs: I am fimiliar with weblogs as i have been doing it for two years at university for e-learning course requirements.
Chat: I have used msn as a chatting website, where i can see which [...]

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Activity 1.2- Web based Applications

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

What is a web based application?
From what i have read and understood so far about web based application i have come to conlcude that it is any form of application that may be accessed through the internet or the intranet. Web based applications include blogs, wikis and discussion boards.
Web 2.0 has emerged since the introduction [...]

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Activity 1.1- Current Technologies

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Technology is ever changing and upgrading faster than ever expected. According to the Horizon Report in February 2008,         the report found that there were six emerging technologies, which are: grass roots video, collaboration webs, collective intelligence, mobile broadband, social operating systems and data mashups.
 From a user perspective all these “new” technologies sound interestingly complex and [...]

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