US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook — (Article Review #10)

Article Title: US Judge Orders Hundreds of Sites "De-Indexed" From Google, Facebook

Article Author:

Nate Anderson

Article Publication Date:

November 29th, 2011

URL: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/us-judge-orders-hundreds-of-sites-de-indexed-from-google-twitter-bing-facebook.ars

Article Summary:

Chanel, A luxury goods maker steps in to alert the US courts about sites that are selling counterfeit luxury goods. For having won cases in the past, Chanel reports hundreds of sites to be investigated by law officials. A ban on search indexing was ordered, but was ignored by google and bing.

Relevance to Class:

The Government steps in once again to boss around Google. They are ordering them to de-index sites from their search engine which could mean that Information that needs to be found will be more harder to find than before. For the Users they would get "legit" information by the Government Standards.

Key Quote:

"I'm not sure how this court can direct a registry to change a domain name's registrar of record or Google to de-list a site, but the court does so anyway. This is probably the most problematic aspect of the court's orders."

J.P Morgan Adds Chip-Based Cards — (Article Review #9)

Article Title: J.P Morgan Adds Chip-Based Cards

Article Author:
Andrew R. Johnson

Article Publication Date:
November 22, 2011

URL: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204443404577052614274591518.html

Article Summary:

Chase Bank adds microchips to customer cards so it would be harder to hack and for customers to use their cards with foreign merchants.

 The problem is that US retailers haven't upgraded their cash register system to handle the new card because the cost of upgrading is too expensive.

Relevance to Class:

Information is very vital to People. These new chips are implemented to block access from a certain group of users which are called hackers. The chips allow the user which is the customer to be more secure from fraud and also to use their cards in foreign countries.

Key Quote: A J.P. Morgan Chase spokesman declined to say how many customers have applied for those cards but said by email that demand has been strong.

HTML5: A Look Behind the Technology Changing the Web — (Article Review #8)

Article Title: HTML5: A Look Behind the Technology Changing the Web

Article Author:
Don Clark

Article Publication Date:
November 11, 2011

URL: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203537304577030033160849296.html

Article Summary:
HTML5 is becoming widespread due to its usefulness around the web. This type
of programming is rapidly changing the face of the web because apps for mobile
devices are being developed by HTML5 and not flash. HTML5 seems to be making flash more uses because companies are turning towards HTML5.


Relevance to Class:
HTML5 is becoming the lead innovator of the web. It enables designers to be
creative once again on the web.


Key Quote:
Danny Winokur, Adobe's general manager for interactive development. "If you want
to be delivering a Web experience around multiple devices, you have to be doing it
in HTML5," he says.

Which Programming Language to Learn – Web Programming — (Article Review #7)

Article Title: Which Programming Language to Learn – Web Programming

Article Author:
James Bruce

Article Publication Date:
November 9th, 2011

Url: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/programming-language-learn-web-programming/

Article Summary:
PHP - Serves more of a user purpose (Facebook,Wikipedia and Word Press)
MySQL - Database - Presents Organized Information for the user
Javascript / Jquery - Responds to user actions on a web page.

The best to start with is PHP/MySQL for web programming because its useful for real world experience.

Relevance to Class:
How different types of web programming can influence the structure of data presented to the users.

Key Quote:
"PHP is mainly used in conjunction with MySQL to pull information from a database,
manipulate it and present it to the user."

Google faces more government demands for user info — (Article Review #6)

Article Title:
Google faces more government demands for user info

Article Author:
MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Technology Writer

Article Publication Date:
October 25th, 2011

Url: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-google-demands-info.html

Article Summary:
There has been an increase of government demanding information
and censorship from google. They see google as a site that holds
valuable information of what people do online and also want to
protect their country laws. Google is very sensitive with personal information and denied
their requests.

Relevance to Class:
Google is a huge library where users can get public information. The big bad government steps in
to demand more personal information from google users for their needs.

Key Quote:
"the government takes the threat of online extremism or hate content very seriously."

New Adobe Plugin Removes Photo Blur — (Article Review #5)

Article Title: New Adobe Plugin Removes Photo Blur

Article Author:
Charlie Sorrel

Article Publication Date:
October 18, 2011

Url: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/sci-fi-tech-new-adobe-plugin-removes-photo-blur/

Article Summary:
Adobe introduces an early prototype plugin called the "Deblur Tool" that can remove blurs from both photographs and text.

Relevance to Class:
This would attract web designers and people who photoshop to see this as a good thing. As for this tool
it takes the blurry image and conjures the pixels to give you a clear image. More like structuring your
information in IA.

Key Quote:
" The plugin — currently in the early prototype phase — first examines the image to work out what kind of blur it has.
This generates a grayscale map which can be visualized as a line, with direction."

OCCUPY WALL STREET REVIEW

What information is made available on the site?

•   Videos of speeches and signs.
•  Information about what is going on at the site and why they’re protesting.
•  Twitter Feed to display what is happening live and updated news.
•  A blog called ADBUSTERS that provides in depth information on the protest.

How is Navigation Structured?

·         I barely caught the navigation at the top, but it makes up for the home page when

You scroll down to see articles and links to the blog.

How might you categorize the different types of users who might visit this site?

•    Students
•   The Working Class
•   The Unemployed
•   The Struggling Poor
•     Conspiracy Theorists
•   People who work at Wall Street

How does the format of the site serve the needs of different groups of users?

It provides a variety of information based on facts and also corruption within Wall Street.

What about the tools integrated into the site? 

 Youtube – Is generating more supporters for the protest and also exposing the corruption of police officers unintentionally.

Twitter – Providing real time information.

Livestream – Providing real time video of the protest.

Does the site make direct use of the Twitter hashtag #occupywallst?

Yes.

Any other observations?

The user can download posters.

How does it fare in search results?

Excellent. Pops right up.

Do they use variants of their URL to capture traffic that might otherwise be redirected elsewhere?

No.