Lecture number 5

lecture number five for new com tech,

Jason Nelson screwing around,

This lecture was very raondom. I'm not sure what i learnt or what the topic was but Jason spent the hour talking about dot com boom/crash and showing us sites such as elf world. It was a really fun lecture that pretty much showed how funny and useful the internet can be (as well as being full of a lot of crap that makes it hard to find things). During the lecture we learnt that at 8.30 am there was a 2.1 earthquake in Alaska and it takes 900 pings to send data to Rwanda (which is apparently slow?). Jason also spoke about Cadbury owning google and its headquarters being in Tasmania (joke by the way). He told us about Woofer as well which is like the opposite of Twitter (first there was max 140 words and now there's mi 1400 words). We also found out we were in Sydney during the lecture and that Elf world has a lot of weirdos. The main thing we were told is that facebook is number one rank for social networks (although I prefer myspace) whereas myspace is number 2 and twitter has gone up from number 12 (last year) to number 3. Jason predicts that twitter will reach number 2 then drop and that specialised social networks (like elf world) while start rising.