miami jam! November 6, 2008

Here is a great site for free and legal music downloading! It is free and legal through a Creative Commons license and there are over 7,000 artists with over 60,000 albums available for downloading! The music can be downloaded to your computer and imported directly to your choice of music player (iTunes, Windows Media, etc.). [...]

cavashawn October 30, 2008

Check out this band from Chicago, Cavashawn. They are on a free and legal music downloading site, Jamendo. other cavashawn

social media influences buying patterns October 13, 2008

an article from mashable ran a study that concluded that the social media is influencing what we buy. The article states, “It conclusively proves that as we thought, social media is now directly impacting the way we buy products and services.” Now that anyone can get online and post comments on blogs or about products [...]

Reframe It October 8, 2008

There is a new site out that allows users to annotate the web. Reframe It, provides users with the ability to highlight passages on webpages and add your thoughts on the side. This gives Internet browsers more control over the content they are reading because they can share their opinion with others and go back [...]

in class assignment 10/1/08 October 1, 2008

Our current events story – Tina Fey; Our other topic -World War II What types of results do you receive with each search engine? With google, we found pictures, wikipedia articles, and websites of fans of Tina Fey. With Technorati, we found blogs wiht opinions. The main differences are with Technorati, it is more opinions [...]

in-class assignment (9/29/08) September 29, 2008

We were given ask.com and google.com for our assignment of comparing images and videos. Both websites offer a broad amount of search appendages. The difference between the two sites is when you complete a search. We typed in “Latest scientific discovery” and both sites yielded different results. When you get more specific in your search, [...]

jamendo September 29, 2008

we’re working on a project for my entrepreneurship class that involves marketing for a company called Jamendo. Jamendo.com is a website where artists can go and upload their music for fans/new listeners to download their work for free. Right now, the website is basically all European artists and our job is to market it to [...]

youtube’s new feature September 29, 2008

I think it was smart for youtube to offer its viewers/users new options. Youtube is obviously the most popular website for uploading videos but there are other competitors out there. Youtube’s competitors were offering the option of inputing information for the video while it was uploading. Youtube did not offer users this feature which upset [...]

how businesses can benefit from social networking September 22, 2008

I read an article from digg.com titled How Businesses can Benefit from Social Networking. Jonathan Yarmis, an analyst at AMR Research, says that businesses need to figure out what conversations are meaningful and impact will your business. He describes Comcast as doing a good job by using Twitter. Some companies push their employees into using [...]

flux September 22, 2008

I read an article from TechCrunch about Flux, a new social networking site. The article talks about how MTV has officially signed on for the rest of the Social Project they had not owned already. The site states “Flux is an open platform that allows websites and bloggers to add community tools to their sites. [...]