This post isn't really of relevance to anything covered in the class other than being a cool commercial. With the recent release of the iPad many are lining up in the stores to get a glimpse of this ill device and many more made the sacrifice not to eat next week in order to afford this iPod maxi ! It has about the same purpose of the Mac Book Air, so none, other than being a cool gadget and that's about it. For those who appreciate their iPad nanos (ipod, iphone) and their iPad flip (your macbook) you might find this commercial quite entertaining.

Can you believe it has been 20 years since the first website was put up on the web?  This article takes a dab of what the Internet will be like in the upcoming years, or even right around the corner.  It takes information from what is already happening and guesses where the Internet could go.  It has some pretty neat ideas, here are just a few:
1) The web will be accessible anywhere, which is not exactly news, but it might eliminate the necessity for a computer.
2) Voice to text could quite possibility eliminate the need for a computer, but this will cause some concern for the 10% of the population that is deaf/hard of hearing, and their speech is not exactly crystal clear.
3) Websites that are designed to be touchstone interference like the iPhone.  Taking that farther, you probably will not even have to touch the screen--look at the Wall of Touch.
4) Social Media has increased 82% in the last year(cited from this article).  Interacting with friends will possibly be completely online.

These are probably valid assumptions, but I think that social media will definitely go farther than just making the interacting with friends solely on the Internet-- the future of the web will quite possibly be a complete immersion of an "avatar" type of deal (Meaning either the movie type of deal, without the blue skin and the avatar that people make for accounts).  Quite possibly everything that we do will be from the home computer/cellphone/device with access to the Internet, and we will all be in this "second life" conducting business, meeting friends, hanging out with friends, etc, all entirely on the Internet. What's your opinion?

Read the article here.

I was reading through some recent new releases and came across this interesting news release about a new interesting application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. It is true that there is an application out there for almost anything that one could imagine. Amongst the thousands of applications out there another arises for people with MS. (Multiple Sclerosis)

This application called i-inject, allows people with MS to organize and keep a journal without carrying paper and/or notebooks with them everywhere. Instead they can now whip out their iPhone or iPod Touch and keep record of anything for injections, and oral meds, to emails and coversations with their doctor. More info can be found at http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iphone-application-designed-for-multiple-sclerosis-patients-is-launched-80268162.html