Thursday 27 January 2011

S2W2 Friday: Zuckerberg hacked, Qwiki unveiled, Lady Gaga and Shakira songs leaked

1. Facebook Hack

Right, the first link for today proves that even if you are a billionare and the owner of Facebook, your account is not safe:


Please provide your thoughts on online privacy and social networking in the comments. 


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2. Qwiki
 
And from Zuckerberg's erstwhile business partner comes a new website Kwiki which looks interesting and purports to offer "information experiences":

Qwiki.com

Here are videos about it:





What do you think of the "information experience" - write a comment to relate your views.
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3. Pop Star Songs Leaked

 Meanwhile, it is not just Mr. Zuckerberg who is being hacked. Here is an article about a recording company who lost a few songs by stars Lady Gaga, Shakira and others:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,741667,00.html#ref=nlint



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4. Web Page Project

 Use the rest of your time today to work on your website project in pairs.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am happy to see that the worl is taking matter in their own hands and that with this kind of actions the famos and geeks, can realize that if they are not safe, neither are we and there is something to be done about it.

Anonymous said...

I think the qwiki is a great idea for a webpage, and has great potential to develop into a major information source. Although I do think that there should be a text based site to go along with the audio.

Anonymous said...

Haven't found a topic yet that doesn't exist on its database

Anonymous said...

I know where I am going to for my homework

cjb said...

I really love this website!! It is cool and fast. It was glitching a lot though but i do not know if it was the websites fault.

Anonymous said...

that voice on qwiki is really annoying

Taylor said...

Friggin' awesome idea! I love that it links up with Wikipedia, and how much detail is put into the information. The only thing I'd have to say about it is with the flow of the computer generated voice, although I understand that's a difficult thing to improve upon. Another feature they could include would be other voices, as the one at the moment is pretty irritating.
I also think that you should be able to highlight or copy the information that is being spoken about, so maybe a page with the "script" as such could be included.

Anonymous said...

it looks really cool how we wont have to be overloaded with useless info, but instead we can just watch a vid!! awesome:) can we find people like our friends here?

Anonymous said...

It sounds like something from the future! I really like it and I hope I can use Qwiki soon, it will be much easier to search stuff if I can use it!

Anonymous said...

I think qwiki might be something for the future, but right now it seems as though people are happy with websites already established. There's too many sites trying to gain popularity, people aren't going to keep up.

Anonymous said...

has potiential however it needs a lot of work to ensure people get the infomation they are looking for. For instance, instead of scrolling through looking for on bit of information in particular on a web page now you have to watch an entire video.