Five sites from last weeks lecture

number one is: http://www.archive.org/index.php is the first one. now this one is actually pretty cool. you can put in any site and it not only tells you how long the site has been about but it shows you snap shots of the site through out the years. its pretty awesome to look at the changes from when html were hand written to now when programs do them, lol. check out yahoo http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://yahoo.com

number two is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites this one was so funny in the lecture. there is one site that this mentions 'elf world' and it is full of some weird people. This site is cool for that reason (the fact that it has elf world) and because you can look at all of the social networking sites (nd choose which you'll join)

number 3 is: http://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/facebook-myspace-twitter-social-network/ this one isnt cool as much as its just interesting. it just ranks the social networking sites. facebook is number 1, myspace is 2 and twitter is 3. Jason (in the lecture) predicted that twitter will go 2 number 2 and then drop. he also mentioned that specialised sites (elf world) will start taking over.

number 4: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php ok im really into this one. it is a link to a map which shows all emergency and disaster sites around the world. It is so awesome cause it acts at the news (telling you what is happening at the exact instant it happens) without the annoying news editing (which cuts the good bits and isnt as raw, even tho i want to be a journalist). wow! right now a 4.5 earthquake hit China, far out :)

number 5: http://www.speedtest.net/index.php?nojs=1 this one is kinda weird (as in it seems useless but thats mainly because a. it goes a bit over my head and b. i dont much care). this link takes you to a site which allows you to ping other countries (cities or continents or something) and it times how long it takes for the data to be sent to the other computer. its kinda funny cause it says that we're in Sydney and because we're pinging real computers across the world.