Google keeps surprising me!

Hello! So today I found out that I'm really ignorant! I thought I knew so much stuff about Google and researching on google, but I really don't. I never realized that when you typed in your query, and all your results come up, on the top left of the page there is a sign that says: show options...

guys click on it because it will make your research quicker and so much easier! I didn't even see that option and just now I know that I could have and I can save my time now! In these options there are listed a bunch of specific keywords that will help you shorten your research. For example, if you search: What is the best soccer team, and you go on the options list, it will ask you if you want videos, articles, magazines, pictures, and there are a couple tools that you can use to make your research look kind of like a spider web. So I have learned today that there are so many things about Google that I didn't even know they existed.

Good luck with your researches :))

Google analytics

So people, today in digital media class we had to do this activity on Google analytics. When you first hear the word analytics you are like: Oh my God! This is going to be really boring! But guess what? Google analytics it's actually really interesting and cool! The hardest part basically is how to sign up, the rest it's really easy to figure out. This google "tool" is a very interesting thing to have because it gives you the opportunity to see how your website is going, if it's popular, if it's not, who are the people that visit it, for how long, from where, etc. My blog is new so it only had one visit, and I was really surprised to be able to see that a person from near South Burlington view it. I personally think it's something really useful for companies that relay on their website to get known, but it is useful also for other normal people just like students like us that want to promote their talents in a very modern way!

Maybe twitter isn't that bad

Lately I read an article on how twitter became part of many people’s lives. The writer was saying that when you first get to know twitter, this social network appears to be nothing special, something that we have already seen. In fact, it could look like many other social networks. But twitter is different because it has its own way to communicate with people and it has its own dictionary. On this web site people can “tweet” what they are doing, who they are with, or where they are in a small amount of characters. Mean while in other networks privacy is a big deal, twitter allows “normal” people to follow even celebrities or politicians. In this way we can engage in interesting conversations with many people that maybe we don’t know and share our opinions. So twitter, according to the journalist, has a wider depth than we think, so it’s not only what we ate for breakfast, but we can share thoughts and opinions with people from all over the world without even knowing them. Twitter is a great way of communication that attracted more than a million people.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604,00.html