Wednesday, January 30, 2008

japanese novel

A japanese woman named rin wrote a novel on how we depend on cellphones in our every day lives. last year’s 10 best-selling novels, five were originally cellphone novels, mostly love stories written in short sentences with text messaging but containing little of the plot or character development found in traditional novels. people think cellphone novels will take over the normal author's novels.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

internet heavyweights


Yahoo maybe in danger of going out of business with their new plan because of the other huge internet corporations, google, microsoft and facebook. The new CEO of yahoo, Mr. Yang, apologized for the fact that yahoo isnt advancing to everyones expectations. People want faster, better and easier acces to the web and with yahoos new plan it might put them out of business as they try to go up against these other internet heavyweights.


All these websites are trying to keep up with eachother and gearing up ahen new technology comes out because people love new technology. All the other websites like face book are still growing. Mark Zukerburg, creator of facebook, is still expanding the world of facebook. first it used to be only college kids who could use it, now its expanded to high schoolers and adults. These huge websites need to gear up if they want to stay in business and competing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/technology/19yahoo.html