How the Smartphones changed the use of the Internet and the WWW

   One change is where Google’s dominance of the Internet advertising space seemed assured just a year or so ago, now things appear more complicated. More and more of our online activities begin with a smartphone app rather than a browser window and a search box. More and more of our discovery activities involve referrals from social networks or recommendations from smart algorithms rather than searching for something specific. Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook are all battling for a slice of this pie.
Remember when Internet time felt fast? It felt like a 24/7 onslaught of innovation and new services and new business models, but it wasn’t – not really. It was constrained by wired connections in homes and offices and clunky desktop and laptop computers – things that don’t fit in your pocket, things you need to go out of your way to use. Smartphones move faster – literally all the time, everywhere.
   They help us stay connected by integrating contacts, social networking, email, instant messaging, SMS and now even video chat. They are giving us increasing control over our lives: navigation and traffic prediction, dinner reservations, travel planning, energy management, remote car starters.
   Do you browse the Web on your phone, iPod touch or other portable wireless device? You're one of the 450 million mobile Internet users, according to IDC. The analyst firm today predicted that number would reach 1 billion by 2013.
  "Internet-connected mobile devices are reshaping the way we go about our personal and professional lives," John Gantz, IDC's chief research officer, said in a statement. "With an explosion in applications for mobile devices underway, the next several years will witness  change in the way users interact with the Internet and further blur the lines between personal and professional."
  These changes don't really surprise me that much. I constantly use my smartphone to check emails when i'm at home or travelling. By 2014 I think more people will be using mobile phones or some other device than PCs to access the net.

the origin of Amazon

After my search in the origin of Amazon, Wikipedia had this information :

The name Amazon.com was chosen because the Amazon River is the largest river in the world, and so the name suggests large size, and also in part because it starts with 'A' and therefore would show up near the beginning of alphabetical lists.

Have you ever wondered how Twitter, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Yelp!, Wikipedia, and Amazon got their names? I have, heres a little history on the origin of these names. Is there a science to naming internet business?

From the Twitter entry on Wikipedia, co-founder Jack Dorsey explains:
"We wanted to capture that in the name -- we wanted to capture that feeling: the physical sensation that you're buzzing your friend's pocket. It's like buzzing all over the world.
"So we did a bunch of name-storming, and we came up with the word 'twitch,' because the phone kind of vibrates when it moves. But 'twitch' is not a good product name because it doesn't bring up the right imagery.
"So we looked in the dictionary for words around it, and we came across the word 'twitter,' and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential information,' and 'chirps from birds.'
"And that's exactly what the product was."

 

In my search on how google got its name this is what I found:

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google, they wanted a name that conveyed the idea of the huge amounts of information that is available on the internet. It is a play on the math term "googol" which is a 1 followed by 100 zeros.The reason they wanted to call it Google was that it was their goal to reach that many websites.

 

Heres some information on the history of how Facebook got its name.

The internet site Facebook.com is based on paper directories of members of an organization (typically students), featuring mug shots, names (indexed by first and last name and other useful indicators) and brief descriptions of them. These face books are used so students and professors in new classes can recognize each other. It was a logical extension to call a web site performing a similar function by the same name.

The internet site Facebook.com is based on paper directories of members of an organization (typically students), featuring mug shots, names (indexed by first and last name and other useful indicators) and brief descriptions of them. These face books are used so students and professors in new classes can recognize each other. It was a logical extension to call a web site performing a similar function by the same name.

After searching about how Yahoo! got its name this is what I found.

The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.

 

Heres some history on how Yelp! got its name.

David Galbraith (a guy in Max's incubator MRL Ventures who was helping us with Yelp in the early days) found it on his own. It was available for purchase from a squatter for 5k. Russ and I didn't immediately like the name since it was "the sound of a dog being kicked" and I was strangely enamoured with "yocal" - a terrible name. Fortunately Scott Bannister (another guy hanging out in the incubator, who was also involved in the naming of PayPal) immediately loved it. He told us he'd buy it and sell it to us the next day when we came to our senses. In the ensuing discussion Jared Kopf (yet another incubator employee) put down his credit card and actually bought the domain. The next day it was transfered to the company (we paid back Jared) and the rest is history.

 

After looking up the origin of wikipedia I found two answers.

 One is Wikipedia is a portmanteau, that is, a word made up from two different words, in this case 'wiki', a computer technology for websites, and 'encyclopedia' (encyclopaedia, in Commonwealth English), a compendium of knowledge. Thus, Wikipedia.
 Two

"Wiki" means quick in Hawaiian. The Wiki Wiki Bus is Honolulu International Airport's shuttle, and has shuttled people between the Main Terminal and the Domestic/International Terminals since the mid-1960s.
The "pedia" part is from the word encyclopedia.
Wikipedia, then, means ----> quick encyclopedia
Wiki websites like Wikipedia and WikiAnswers (not related) run on wiki software which allows for collaborative editing and easy creation of pages.
Some people believe wiki stands for "What I Know Is" but that is a false acronym.

getting to know Kristina

 Hello my name is Kristina, Iam 24 years old. I was born and raised in Santa Cruz Ca. I truely love my home town. I come from a big family  four sisters and one brother, Iam in the middle. I am close to my family and love to spend time with them. I have a wonder boyfriend, who is an tattoo artist. I love being outdoors and staying active.