During Thursday's class, we visited several websites including:
Hulu.com
gapminder.org
akamai.com
liveplasma.com
wefeelfine.org
What makes Hulu so popular is that it allows you to watch movies and TV shows from several TV stations on your computer. Gapminder.org puts an interesting twist on reporting statistical information. On this website, you can view a very visual representation of anything from "Best teeth in the world" to "Family size and length of life". You see this information on a graph, but the site allows you to press a "Play" button to view progression over a period of time. Geographic regions are represented by bubbles of various colors and sizes. The size and positioning of the bubbles changes over the time period being played.
Wefeelfine.org takes "I feel" and "I am feeling" phrases found in weblogs, identifies the feeling represented, and organizes/reports them on the site. These are all very interesting websites that can be very useful for the distribution of information over the internet.
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