Friday, 26 September 2008

Internet Entertainment

BBC iPlayer

  • Allows you to watch any programme you want to
  • Almost records it from where you last watched something
  • It's free so you don't have to pay for it
  • You can select channels
  • Parents can have control over what their children watch
  • It has categories e.g comedy, music etc.

XBOX360

  • You can go on the internet and play your friends on the same game
  • You can have an account so that you can go online
  • You can wear headsets so you can talk to people
  • You can download games and demo games
  • You can download pictures, characters etc.
  • 97% of teenagers in America play video games
  • They are important in peoples lives as they are a type of social netwroking
  • 3/4 of teens play games with other people
  • You can play in online groups
  • There are many devices where you can play online, including portable ones like the nintendo d.s
  • In online games people can meet up and fall in love, or they can love eachother over the internet but when they meet up they can hate each other.
  • Some people get married over the game
  • Social netwroking always attracts good and bad people, such as people trying to steal your identity etc

Mozy.com

  • It is an online backing system, so you can save files to and other documents
  • If you lose your files you can just download them again
  • It's free for 2gb memory
  • Someone can download all of your important files
  • If it suddenly gets popular then the whole service will get slowed down and become unuseable
  • You don't need to use extra harddrive devices
  • If someone downloads your file they need your code to be able to use it

Social Networking-Linked In

  • Very professional, so people in business use it
  • You can look for jobs by asking questions to experts

Loopt

  • Sends a map to your friends of where you are at that moment
  • Some problems are that there could be stalkers, paedophiles etc
  • Certain phones have a special programme that tells people where you are
  • You canshare photos and comments

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