Friday, November 28, 2008

THE BAHAMAS



The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an independent, sovereign, English-speaking country consisting of two thousand cays and seven hundred islands that form an archipielago.



It is located in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of the United States; north of Cuba Hispaniola (Dominican Replublic & Haiti) and the Caribbean Sea, and northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands. It remains a Commonwealth realm.


The Bahamas is a sovereign independent nation. Political and legal traditions closely follow those of the United Kingdom and the Westminster system.


The climate of the Bahamas is subtropical to tropical, and is moderated significantly by the waters of the Gulf Stream.
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BARACK OBAMA


like they are the most important politic and powerful country of the world, those elections are more important for the rest of the world.


The elections are divided in primary and general, the primary ones are celebrated before and in them it is decided who will be the candidate to the general elections, a primary election means that the candidate will be named by that political party for the general election.

In those elections competed: Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. It was very interseting because they were even. But at the end, Barack Obama got the position and started another election, longer, harder, and more difficult than the other.

He competed agaist the old president; John McCain.

and at this moment, Obama is the President of the United States of America.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Technology
and
Education


The technology and education, is the new teachings of the future, applying the criteris of now education , the benefits of the future.


The technology is nowadays the future. With a simple computer you can do what ever you want, only with studies and persistence.

The technology and education, are already visible in many schools, places around the world.

This breakthrough has been changed things, that no longer need to wait for a future, I will now an example of a school in the modernization process:

Last week came the news that a school in northern U.S. will begin the course, with other materials, will replace the standard slate blackboards interactive, instead of books bought portable paratodos children, the book each subject is on your computer using a program progressed, the tests will be conducted on computers, and at the end examinations will be sent to the professor.

These are some of the progress already can be seen in many schools around the world, but this is more, is trying to technology and education and that any change is made in a way much more comfortable and more easy to make classes, without needing to spend money on books, computers sinplemente having books.


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Web 2.0


Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, and collaboration among users.


These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.


The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web.



Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, and collaboration among users.


These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.


The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web.



the Web 2.0 can be compared with the Web 1.0:
web 1 ............................................................. web 2
doubleclick............................................. google
Adsenseofoto............................................................ Flickr
Akamai ....................................................Bit
Torrent mp3.com ...................................................Napster
British encyclopedia................................ Wikipedia
personal Webs ..........................................blogging
Evite........................................... upcoming.com and EVDB
Seen pages............................................ cost by clickscreen
scraping...................................... services web
publication ...............................................participation
system of management of contents.......... wiki



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