Google Maps Mash-ups

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This mash up is a handy tool . It allows yo to track the position of a campus shuttle bus, in real time. This would be an even greater tool if you used in a much larger transit system, such as the San Diego Trolley or the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). If Used in conjunction with the San Diego Trolley, perhaps on board the train, people could determine how near or far there destination or help find land marks, all in real time. In addition, an interactive touch screen version could be used in stations, and people could select a location and it will provide the directions to get there, via public transit.

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Online Presentations Assignment

Google Docs: Google docs had the best presentation creator. It was almost entirely comparable to the functionality of Microsoft PowerPoint. I personally liked how you are able to right click, just how you would in PowerPoint. The set was very easy, and anyone that understands PowerPoint would be able to go directly to google docs and have no problems, unlike the other sites where it is like learning an all new program.

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Empressr: Empressr was my second favorite choose. It had functionality but was very limited, to my knowledge, and require “learning a whole new program”, because unlike google docs that stayed in a very similar fashion to PowerPoint, this site is entirely different looking and personally quite complicated to use.

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Brink Pad: Brink Pad was my least favorite choose. It was easy to use, but very limited. I would compare it to Microsoft Paint, simplistic but nothing professional. I would recommend this as a kid powerpoint application, it is very limited and simplistic.

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Blog Assignment #11 – MySpace “Data Availability”

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MySpace “Data Availability”, provided by myspace with conjunction with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own subsidiary company, Photobucket. Myspace says that their new service will “playing nice with the rest of the Internet”.

“MySpace is essentially making key user data, including (1) Publicly available basic profile information, (2) MySpace photos, (3) MySpaceTV videos, and (4) friend networks, available to partners via their (previously internal) RESTful API, along with user authentication via OAuth”, and states that their service will turn the traditional webpage, an “island”, away from seclusion and will promote interconnectivity.

Myspace states; “partners will be able to access MySpace user data, combine it with their own, and present it on their sites outside of the normal widget framework. Friends lists can be synchronized, for example. Or Twitter may use the data to recommend other Twitter users who are your MySpace friends.”

a mochup of myspace Data Availability’s potential