Google+ vs Facebook

Google plus has already gained 25 million curious individuals to see what this new social network is all about. These type of numbers are defiantly giving Facebook concerns on how to stay on top of the social network pyramid.  We are curious individuals and when myspace was fairly new, we all wanted to see what it was all about.  When Facebook was launch we had the same reaction but something really caught our attention when Facebook hit 600 million users world wide.  Google+ has every right to make its mark in the social network, but I think they will have to have something different that Facebook doesn't have to convince the majority to switch over.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-08-02/google-draws-25-million-visitors-in-a-month-comscore-says.html

Our robots treating our unstable economy when it come to jobs?

The Tokyo International Robot Exhibition seem to be something out of a science fiction movie but it's a actually become more a reality then fiction.  More and more factories are going to the robotic world because they can obviously produce five times more work then the average person, but is this fair to us? Economically I would say yes, but ethically I would say no.  I can understand how robots can make production faster, but it will hurt the us all at the end. Robots are not being paid therefor our not contributing to our ethical duty's as in paying your debt to the social programs that help shape our economy.  Japan who has a technological  grasp, are also weary of this facet they could be created.  I'm not for this nor against, but just concerned on how this new technology could end up hurting our fragile economy.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6931585.ece

Solar cells that don't use the sun but only heat.

The Massachusetts Institution of Technology (MIT) have recently been conducting experiments on how to use everyday heat lost from electronics to reusable energy. How does this work?  Like current solar powers systems, we use radiation molecules that move very fast and they excite the atoms in a semiconductor structure, then pushes the electrons out and creating a generation current.  This type of Technology is pretty amazing, if we can some how harness most, but not all of wasted heat that our daily electronics or from the heat from our water heaters, we could end the worlds energy crisis. It sounds to good to be true, because there is always a profit to be made when it comes to cheap energy source.

For more informatin

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43989608/ns/technology_and_science-future_of_technology/

Technological advances in marine biology

As I prepared myself for shark week on the discovery channel, I was unaware on how much technology has been used to collect so mush date.  I found it very interesting how marine biologist where tagging great white sharks off of the cost of California with satellite transmitters.  After catching and releasing the sharks, the scientist  where able to track the sharks global position and patterns.  This type of technology is incredibly important to the marine biology world, since we really don't know to much on great white sharks and there behavior. When I think of GPS I normally think of onstar or map quest, but not discovery channels shark week.  It just shows you that technological advances have a much needed use in almost everything we do, and as we advance in the technological world, so will our understanding of it.

Data Mining

As a Marketing student data mining is a very useful tool to help marketers to identify shopping patterns. So what exactly is Data Mining?  The process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information, the information then can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both.  Data mining is all around us and most people don't even realize it.  If have some type of product and want to know how the public reacts to your product, then you would use some type of data mining program to help forecast future sells and help improve revenue.  Data mining is nothing but a statistical program on probability on how, why, and when we buy things and a possible look into the future in sales.

For further information click on http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/jason.frand/teacher/technologies/palace/datamining.htm

Biometric Technology

Biometric's have been seen as something you might see in a James Bond or Borne Identity movie but the reality of it is more in our grasp then ever.  What is Biometric? It is the most secure and convenient authentication tool. It can not be borrowed, stolen, or forgotten and forging one is practically impossible. Biometrics measure individual's unique physical or behavioral characteristics to recognize or authenticate their identity.  I think this type of technology is the true way to secure ones true identity with the smallest chance of error. In our near future, Biometric's will be part of our everyday lives and it could also help stop identity fraud which the United States looses billions each year. 


For more info on Biometric you can click on http://www.peterindia.net/BiometricsView.html