Tuesdsay
We have been fortunate to get an extra hours teaching from Chris this week the subject of which was the Romanian styled oXygen engine. Our tasks was to use existing XML files and use the software generate html output. Of course we are only scratching the surface but it look like there's a lot out there for XML.
Friday
We listed to Chris talking about a pro gramme called LinkedIn. A business roladex type interface - more professional that FaceBook! It links (in his case) lots of professional contacts. We recognized that 150 is the optimum number of contacts and that split between the following categories:
- Professionals
- Friends
- Hobbies
- Neighbours
- Family
- Hobbies
There are so many social networking sites out there. I looked at another called orcut It
is an online community that can help you maintain relationships with pictures and messages, and establish new ones. Orkut helps find people who share hobbies and interests, look for romantic connections or establish new business contacts. You can also create and join a wide variety of online communities to discuss current events, reconnect with old school mates or even exchange your favorite recipes. It also has a feature called scrapping which is a form of offline communication. Anyone can visit anyone else's profile (unlike Facebook)
Orkut Büyükkökten a Turkish software engineer started the site as a google employee in Jan 2004. in Oct 2006 there were 37 million accounts and in August claimed 67m users
Why use orkut?
Because it is affiliated to google (is that a reason to use it?) - its free. It organises contact into "Social", "Professional" and "Personal" where you can rate these contacts as "Best Friends", "Good Friends", "Friends", "Acquaintances" and "Haven't met"
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