Aside from the progress on your newsletter layouts, Michael and I would like for you to watch the following video about the new Google Chrome browser.
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Also, listen to this audio clip from NPR on Cloud Computing.
(Click "Listen Now," after you've navigated to the page).
Using Google Chrome's methods of acknowledging the Web 2.0 experience, quickly envision an application-based tool for the web. What would it be? Is it a form of cloud computing?
Post your ideas here before class on Tuesday (this is a graded exercise).
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image poller - a 'shell' interface for embedded images- polls google images for all known instances of that same image. this application could potentially discover unauthorized use of a copyrighted image. it could also be useful in searching for higher or lower resolution posts of the same images.
this would be considered a form of cloud computing in that the image poller examines remote content as opposed to files from a local computer.
Personalized Media Hyperlinks - a streamlined content-rich application functional across the entire internet which produces instant pop-up PERSONALIZED media (video, images, sound) search results on any and all content through the "livetext". Content would appear on mouse-over over the content. Defining a profile of personal interests beforehand, and the uploading of media will give the user more specific media content results. Through tagging and and hyper-linking, connections to others using the application in the same manner will create interaction.
Using Personalized Media Hyperlinks, the user can browse quicker for more directed content while storing and sharing media.
"Cloud Cache"
This application would virtually boost the speed of lightweight transactions made and developed by web surfers. Ever notice how certain pages that you often visit load much faster than ones you've never visited? This signifies that your temporary internet files folder - or "cache" - is archiving those heavier web elements for quick reference when you return. This is why web surfers with ample space on their computers often increase the size of their cache folder for optimal performance.
With Cloud Cache, visitors contribute to an online archive of linkings for everyone to use. This solution is ideal in optimizing the browsing performance of portable devices that don't utilize temporary cache folders such as iPhone and PALM. Best of all, this entire process would be executed behind-the-scenes, without any extra effort from the viewer.
image collector-an application that would allow users to browse and collect images based on content rather than anchor tags. This would allow for a richer, more productive image search. Users could also draw from a rich archive of images supplied and updated by the users. Users could also use this application to match images to find the best possible image for their use.
This would be a form of cloud computing because all of the sharing and collecting would be online.
With a rise in online publication of magazines, books, and newspapers it could be useful to have an application that would act as an "online library."
Similar to music applications already online, but books. Not only could there be one big library to reference but also personal libraries. This could allow people who don't have the space for books to still own a copy.
Visipedia
Searching capabilities seem to have come along way, but in recent years I’ve had this one qualm. Numerous times I have run into an obstacle when searching; how can I find information on something when I can’t seem to generate the proper key words to produce relevant results? What if I could search using an image instead of text?
I found a few sites that come close to what I want: Riya, Like, and Ookles (still in private beta) all use some sort of image recognition technology to help you organize (tag) your photos or find products you might like based on visual similarities.
I envision a sort of Image Recognition Wikipedia where I could for instance, search using my photo of a strange plant growing in my yard, or an antique item that has lost its identifying markings and the application would present me with encyclopedia-like results that would identify and help me learn more about it. TagCow comes close, identifying nearly anything in an uploaded photo and tagging it with a highly descriptive and accurate tag. TagCow however, uses no recognition technology, but sends your photos through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing community, where networks of actual humans work on the ID process. But this process, according to TagCow, can take up to 48 hours for one photo. TagCow is slow. Riya, Like, and Ookles are highly limited. So it seems a combination of these two approaches could work—An automated image recognition technology that gradually learns, with the help of a social network of real people like Wikipedia, to identify more and more images on it’s own.
Web Insinuator - a plug-in that will look at your recent browsing history and then use that data to search for more pages that would interest you. it will cache these pages and have them ready for you when your ready to look for them.
The Program would have two settings, "Free Look" would brows your entire history and find the relevent pages. "Directed Look" would allow the user to enter key phrases about what they are interested in (i.e. Alaskan Governors, disasters.) and the program would search and cache like free mode but without the access to your browsing history.
With the growing interest in cloud computing, more and more people are storing personal information, ideas, and interests online like never before. With this growing interest comes a growing need for web applications to fit this need. My idea is to create a web site where you can fill out a personal, musical, and visual profile which would act as a guide for the site to assemble various stories, songs, and images based on the perameters that you have set. You could also share this information with other users and even create an online persona or avatar that allows you to interact with others as you wish.
Videos: When searching for a video a lot of times videos unrelated pop up in your search this application would search through the tags as well as previous post by the individual to see if this is video you would want to watch. Example: If I type in "royals" in browser video I want have to get pic of the Queen Elizabeth, instead I would get pics of KC Royals.
while cloud computing is incredibly popular today with people using internet companies as a storage holder for their documents, photos, music, etc., the npr audio brought up some interesting points. for example, if the company that you are using suddenly goes under and terminates their services, the users will lose all of their data that is held there--while the terms of agreement (that no one reads) allows this deletion of all data.
in this respect, it seems necessary to have a different sort of data management to where only the user has the ability to delete their files. obviously, one could buy a domain and keep everything on their own personalized site, however, they may not want all their information public. perhaps a type of application that would be almost like a website, but solely an information database for the user that created it. --an internet external hard drive that is not governed by another company, just by the owner of the information. --
I can imagine perhaps a web development tool similar to dreamweaver that would reside completely online, versus designing on the computer and uploading to your server. Most webhost companies offer a very light barebones html editor in your cpanel but this could be improved upon with a robust lighweight browser that can run apps in its own environment combined with using cloud computing to keep all the content online during the build.
google chrome is creating a new browser for better protecting and minimizing the rending time for processing each application. By developing the new application for the browser it saves all the information that contains from the page in its own container, so it can excess the page faster.
"What were the words again?" otherwise known as WWWA?, is an application that searches for the lyrics of your favorite song. For example, if you somehow forgot the lyrics to "My heart will go on" you can just type in "my heart will" and the application will give you results that are most relevant to the words you typed in. So, one of the results might be "and on and oooonnnn". The results will also have samples of the song, so you know that you have the right lyrics that tune.
People can upload lyrics of existing songs as well as their original materials with an option of sharing the actual songs.
This application would make use of cloud computing, enabling users to freely upload, download and share the contents of the site.
there could be an application that links everysingle account that the user has together in one location. for example, on one page there could be a place for photos. all photos could be accessed from any site in one location. the photo section could also interact with email. so you could click photos from multiple accounts and attach them to one email and send it all with out leaving the main application.
What if there was a application that visually organized all of the sites you belong to at once... so you would go to one place where you could see the activity of all of your accounts: banking, blogs, etc. it wouldn't tell you in detail what is happening in each site, because that would take away from the experience of the individual site, but only tell you the level of activity that is happening. For example, if you have three transactions on your banking site and six new tags in your delicious, it would reflect that all in one place, so you could have a visual comparison. I think it would be a nice to have a one site that can manage all of your cloud computing! Kind of like your own individual could space that contains all of your other spaces in the big cloud.
Perhaps cloud computing could allow people to create a personalized internet profile within their browser that would result in much more accurate search results of various forms of content. Characteristics from your profile that match other people's profiles would allow to browse content that they have found interesting. This could also provide a much more spontaneous sort of non-linear web browsing. What if all the given search results were based off of a person's musical interests? It has been proven that people with similar musical interests are more compatible and have similar interests in other areas, this is why KCAI asks "what is your favorite band" when pairing roommates in the dorms. Overall, the results would be tailored through multiple filters and characteristics in order to deliver content that might not ever be discovered otherwise. Personally, I would rather have my search results filtered by people with similar interests and tastes than by google's hierarchy of relevance.
I agree, browsers do need an upgrade. I think all that this application stands for will pave way for a new interface/ virtual opportunity to recreate something that will seem like a thing of the past.
Chrome definantly seems to be an astounding innovation.
I want to have a database of natural sites so you don't have to go to the site or landscape but can experience it for yourself in high high quality. Google earth is an example of this but I am thinking mountain ranges, yellowstone, etc. A virtual vacation.
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