FUTURE OF SOCIAL INTERACTION IN 10 YEARS

       Social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube have greatly changed user interactions on the World Wide Web. Vast user power and dynamicity have changed how people engage in and experience their social interactions, interests, and collaborations. Online social interactions will evolve within the next decade to deal with the growing needs of its user community and build entries into several aspects of our lives. This evolution could be among the foremost exciting ones of our times wherever the individual and collective power of individuals to contribute and share content, experiences, ideas etc. may be even more enhanced than it is today. The improvement is also formed through a higher understanding of user needs and behavior and it's going to be enabled through the seamless convergence of multi-modal technologies, new applications, new domains, data processing and higher steering and search capabilities.

           A number of these changes also will permeate into the work and alter the manner we tend to work. Despite the very fact that we are already seeing the use of the social network in interaction, it is clear that the social aspect of media generation and consumption on the web will grow. The key push for this development is the needs of humans to share experiences during a globalised and mobile world. Communications in social software often seems like an afterthought, when indeed it is the core of the user experience to connect with, share, meet, and interact with each other. Thus in 10 years from now there will be a big change in the way people interact

EXPERIENCE THE NEXT GENERATION OF MAPPING

The recently introduced Google MapsGL  by Google  have taken us to the next generation of mapping. With the Google MapsGL one can

• Take 3D photo tours of landmarks 
• View 3D buildings
• Fly over 45-degree aerial view imagery
• 'Swoop' quickly into Street View, without a plugin 

The transition between 2D and 3D is very smooth (adding with a disclaimer that you need a decent internet bandwidth). The zoom in and out is again very smooth.
You can view your location in various angles, by just changing the compass on the top-left corner.
If anyone is interested in a more scenic and engaging mapping experience, you can get it on this.
^{Nice and cool – you should try this.}

PLAGIARISM

According to Wikipedia, plagiarism is the act of taking another person's writing, conversation, song, or even idea and passing it off as your own. This includes information from web pages, books, songs, television shows, email messages, interviews, articles, artworks or any other medium. It occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source. Plagiarism is a big deal, and it’s not something you want to find out about the hard way. It is a serious moral offence, and cases of plagiarism can constitute copyright infringement.

IT 2012 TRENDS

Publishing lists of 2012 information technology trends is so cliché that it's almost cliché to write about how cliché it is.

But we can't get enough of them. Why? Because it's far more fun to dream about the year ahead, than look back on 2011. Because while the past 12 months were most likely full of transition, budget restraints and other challenges, 2012 is the "future" - a bright beacon of hope promising to finally bring us the flying cars and robot maids we dreamed of as kids.

Well, we're halfway through month one of 2012 and here's what I see: more transition, more budget restraints, and more challenges ahead as a result. Don't mistake my realism for negativity. I don't doubt that we'll be talking a lot about cloud, virtualization, context-aware computing, big data management and mobility in 2012 - but how many of us are moving toward execution on any of these?