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"Hip Hop the Vote" !
This is so cool and empowering. 7th graders from the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, urging us to vote "however you like" with a lil song and dance that I promise will make you smile...
Posted at 12:00PM Oct 29, 2008 by Joyce Solano in Personal | Comments[0]
The future of search by Joyce Solano
The internet is buzzing today with news of the new search engine Cuil, which boasts a gargantuan index "three times more than any other search engine." Launched by former Googlers, Cuil (pronounced "cool") displays results according to content as opposed to popularity, a direct challenge to the Google format.
While some are speculating that Cuil will be the new Google who was the new Yahoo who was the new Netscape..., the jury is still out on this one. I took it for a test ride, and searched for my favorite bands, travel places of interest, some academic info and of course info on myself and the results were actually disappointing. Honestly, with an index of 120 billion web pages the relevance was still lacking and the layout was not appealing to me. In terms of fresh and compelling new search engines, I'm much more intrigued by Searchme, which is still lacking in index size but offers a visual search experience similar to the cover flow feature of iTunes.
Posted at 03:52PM Jul 28, 2008 by Bernadette Anat in Personal | Comments[1]
Flipping out by Joyce Solano
There are many reasons we resent our parents but I'm unhappy that mine did such a poor job documenting the many banal, insignificant but fond moments of my life. The manic panic green haired days, the flannels around the waist with black eyeliner summers and ooooh those horrid painful braces years. These coming of age, albeit embarrassing moments, are now long lost dots in the pages of Joyce Solano history.
Perhaps this is why our community loves to document anything and everything around us. I know what I wore the last five birthdays, what liquor I drank to excess and what friends were there to laugh with for days after. Of course you all know as well within several minutes on my Facebook or Myspace profile.
My latest love for day to day documenting is the affordable and painlessly easy to use Flip camera. You record, flip the USB plug, connect to PC or Mac and voila your video clips can live on forever! Apparently Pure Digital, the small San Francisco based startup has already sold over a million of these cute little buggers. They come in different colors and you can get 1gb and 2gb versions. Go get one asap, vlog, blog, youtube and podcast and share your awesome collection of the little moments you don't want to forget, or the ones we won't let you forget.
Posted at 03:14PM Jul 07, 2008 by Bernadette Anat in Personal | Comments[0]
5 things I'll miss when I'm __ years old by Joyce Solano
I have a friend who hates all things new, and loves the old, the vintage and the nostalgic. He hunts for 1980's memorabilia, recycles my old ipods, phones and computer parts and somehow manages to breathe new life into what I deem "useless, ugly and last year's models".
I, on the other hand have a love for the new, shiny and technologically advanced. I'm an early adopter and will shell out for first generation gadgets galore. Call it summer solstice seasonal affect disorder (say that fast 5 times), but this week, I have become nostalgic for some quickly disappearing products. Honestly, I may spend the rest of my days never touching these again. So please join me in shedding a tear and taking a moment of silence. Thank you dear old friends for these past years of service.
1. The 35 mm film spool:
Kodak's digital sales overtook film in 2005 and regular film has continued to decline.
2. The mix cassette tape:
Sales of music cassettes in the U.S. dropped from 442 million in 1990 to about 700,000 in 2006.
3. The record player:
Unless you are a collector or a scratch-happy DJ opposed to iPod mixers , these dinosaurs are only coaster worthy.
5. The physical diary:
One word: Blogs. Also, no one wants to keep secrets anymore.
6. The handwritten letter:
When I took the GMATS they made me handwrite in script for their security/identity screening process. My only writing these days is on a bday card or a post-it. Not only had I forgotten half of the alphabet in script, my hand cramped after the third sentence.
Posted at 04:43PM Jun 26, 2008 by Bernadette Anat in Personal | Comments[0]
Welcome to DigiDiaries
Who
are the Millennials?
Who is Generation Y?
Are we the Echo Boomers?
We hear all kinds of other fancy names implying our generation's
obsession with instant communication.
We are beat senseless on a daily basis by developments on the next Blogspot, the next MySpace, the next internet-thingy with a name that someone must have sneezed out, and like a lot of you students out there:
We are confused.
With internet marketing constantly telling you to
Plurk your Facebook and Wakoopa your Twitter...
Sometimes, it's a
little too #.!@$^% much.
That's where DigiDiaries comes in.
Don't be shy. We don't bite. Often.
We're Berna & Joyce
– a couple of curious, mouse-clickin' Sun Microsystem marketing
interns trying to muck through the trends,
the gossip, the stories and our worlds.
Our
ultimate mission: Navigate through every nook
and cranny of the worldwideweb and make some sense
out of all the tech-marketing noise out there!
We're covering the
latest in online networking,
user-generated
content, and everything in between.
DigiDiaries is a conversation between
us,
the social-media student detectives, and you.
So. Let's talk.
Posted at 02:03PM Jun 12, 2008 by Bernadette Anat in Personal | Comments[0]
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