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Yahoo Turns Down BILLIONS!!

plugmein — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:19:01 +0000

During reading through pageflakes, on my BBC rss news I had read that Microsoft was going to buy the search engine Yahoo for 44.6 BILLION dollars! Ian aude, from Enders Analysis But Yahoo has turned down the big billions! Yahoo turned it down Because they think it isn’t enough money, I think that it is too much money even though Microsoft is rich. Microsoft’s offer was worth 31$ a share.

Microsoft and Yahoo combined would be a bigger company than Google. I think that if Yahoo held the bid even longer then they would get more money. Ian Maud from Enders Analysis Thought the same thing:
“This is so important from Microsoft’s perspective there’s a very good chance there will be more money on the table”.
So what do you think, should Yahoo taken the bid or do you think that Yahoo is fine the way it is right now?

Signed,
-The Joker

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Hear that talking? It’s a Voicethread

plugmein — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:33:37 +0000

Have you ever heard of a voicethread? If not then if you sign up and log in, you can hear yourself through a microphone. Voicethread is a commenting tool. You can use it for commenting on anything. There is also a teaching voicethread website called ed voicethread.

You can do a lot of things with a voicethread like comment with any of the following: a phone, a microphone, a webcam(if you use a webcam then for internet safety disguise yourself), or plain old boring typing. You can also make a picture of yourself when to go with a comment(you shouldn't use a picture of yourself or anyone you know for internet saftey reasons), if you have an internet name than I would consider using pic.s from a website for your identity(picture). There is also a bunch of other stuff you can do in a comment.

When you sign up you can also make a voicethread by clicking create in the top left corner of the voicethread homepage. When you make a voicethread you can use almost every file you could save a picture as(jpeg, gif, ~~art, bitmap~~). When and if you want make a voicethread public you have to think about one main thing: is this a topic lots of people would comment on? Because I was scrolling through some public voicethreads and most of them had 10 to 11 comments tops. So if you want people to comment on your voicethread a lot then try to make it an interesting topic.

This is most of the things you will be seeing on voicethread.

Signed,
-The Joker

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Vote 08

plugmein — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:59:52 +0000

Do you live in America and kept with the Presidential Elections? If you haven’t then watch the Animoto to keep track of the remaining 5 candidates. They 5 are Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul. These are the people that will be in Super Tuesday. Out of every candidate (if I were old enough to vote) I would vote for Barrack Obama, I think that he would make a good president is because Another senator Endorsed Barrack Obama(click for a youtube video)Also Barrack Obama could be the first black president. Here is an animoto that I made about the presidential candidates:

Signed,
-The Joker

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The Blurb

plugmein — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:43:38 +0000

The blurb is a website that also has Bam Bam as chief editor. The blurb is for showing current events(from europe leave a comment if you don’t know what current event is) and also some tech stuff like animotos and vokis. Right now there is a animoto about The Blurb that I have made. this animoto shows some of The Blurb posts that were behind it. If you click on the link “animoto about The Blurb” it will take you to the post with the animoto. Here it is:

-The Joker

Technology in School?

plugmein — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:51:45 +0000

No offense teachers, but a lot of the time I’m totally bored at school! I’m tired of:

Copying notes on paper
Worksheets
Lectures
Homework on paper
Textbooks (All of them.)
Reading article handouts
Running laps on the track
Annotation
Being bored in school

Now, here’s how you could improve these problems:

Rent each student a PDA, on which they can store homework worksheets, write notes, annotate, and do their homework on.
Have textbooks on the internet or store on the abovementioned PDAs
In gym, buy a Dance Dance Revolution game, which is great exercise once you get good at it. (I burn 16 calories each song.)
Use technology other than computers in class.
Make the whole school out of holograms, give the students jetpacks, and build robots to replace the teachers. (My favorite idea.)
Find some educational video game, and let the students play them. (There must be millions for math class.)

So those are some things to think about. Especially number five.

Sincerely,

Zdrok and Lman

cyber-bullying is deadly

plugmein — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:16:35 +0000

A local girl was drived to suicide when she couldn't take anymore bad e-mails and text messages from a made up "Jhon Evans" a neighbor who lived down the street from Megan Meier (the one who committed suicide). The name of the name of the person who caused Megan to do what she did is Lori Drew. Lori Drew had done this by creating a MySpace profile. The profile was for finding out what Megan was saying online about Lori's teenage daughter.

Watch the video to see what Megans parents are saying about this.

Signed,
The Joker

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Daredevil to the EXTREME!-line rider 2

plugmein — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:17:16 +0000

This little guy is Line Rider, an adventurous cartoon person who shreds down lines and jumps over various heights. We found this game in our last club meet. The website it was found on is http://entertainmentfans.com/. I think that this is one of my favorite games to play on because you get to somewhat create and edit it. I hope you have as much fun on it as I did (and am)!

Signed,
The Joker

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PageFlakes Additions

plugmein — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:07:30 +0000

In a recent comment we have had someone talks about some additions at PageFlakes. Some of them are: message board, grade tracker, & class schedule I have rated all these a 5*, and you can rate them too by clicking on those links. Also there is many new backgrounds (themes) too, like: Hanukkah , Christmas lights, Valintines Day, comaids awarness, New Years, & Ukwintertime. To preview these backgrounds (themes). I’ve already gotten the Christmas lights decoration. I hope that you want any of these additions to use as your own.

Signd,
The Joker

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Do My Parents KNOW Me?

plugmein — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:07:25 +0000

5. I’d rate my parents a 9/10 on a scale of how well they know me because I am honest and I tell my parents everywhere I go on the internet. They check my web history and see where I’ve been, too.

Here are some tips for parents

• Check your child’s web history

Page Flakes review

plugmein — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:42:39 +0000

This is pageflakes another tool that Bam Bam had showed us. Pageflakes is kind of like your online life on a website. In pageflakes you can create a page with all your favorite websites if they have an RSS or XML on the page. XML and RSS is websites or web pages that get updated and can post the edited content’s link that they have on to your page flake or other things.

Pageflakes are good for using because they can have the links to your favorite websites. Also they are great for a group of people to use. In pageflakes their can be a large # of people in a flake page group. In pageflakes if you have a website bookmarked then you can put a flake in pageflakes for all you bookmarks. This is a very useful since almost any website can be put on your flake page. If you want to put news articles into your pageflake then you should visit the flake often.

the smiling crazy clown,

The Joker

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