tech article 10/25/12

Yahoo is currently experiencing large amounts of competition. So it decided to test out new logo ideas. They are currently surveying different logos ect. To see what people like. They are also trying things like intoNow. They are trying to keep up with Google by releasing new products too.

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wiki

         A wiki can be used in any class. For social studies you could have students research locations so they could understand places they are learning about. For Spanish they could create study guides for anything from verbs to word meanings. For English they could share notes and tricks for memorizing how to use punctuation. For science you could create portfolios of all the projects you have done. For math you could have peer editing on math homework. The benefits of wikis are that they allow you to quickly find and spread information for anyone to view, which is unlike every other distribution method. We could go to a website and create a wiki such as wikispace and use it in class for anything from peer editing too just creating guides.  I currently am a member of the Wikipedia editing community and help with fact checking and getting credible sources.

Google had just announced that it added 25 million new building footprints to google maps. The update had to do with 3d maps and buildings in google earth and pdates street view pictures. They did this using aerial images and computer image techniques. It allows google maps to determine heights and shapes of the buildings.
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THANKS

for the free surprise not sure how it happened but of course you who read this know what i am referring too and are prolly laughing to your self right now thanks for the surprise it was very pleasant.

tech article 10/12

Red bull is scaling up their advertisement campaign by going to space. They have started by building the biggest and doing what has not been done before so that they can start conversations. With their latest try they were making the biggest ballon ever and attempting to make a supersonic space jump. The plane was aborted because of atmospheric conditions.

PHOTOSYNTHESIS =CAR FUEL?

As gas becomes rarer automakers are looking for alternate fuel choices. The process is similar to photosynthesis. You take the sun's energy to convert water and co2 into liquid fuel. Instead of using electricity and mechanical processes to turn water and co2 into fuel, they use micro organisms to convert co2 and water into electricity. The organisms will use the electricity to turn the water and co2 into fuel. Instead of growing the organisms are forced into endlessly creating fuel for vehicular transport.
 

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