Exercise 19: Web 2.0 Awards

I chose to look at igoogle [www.igoggle.com]. This looked like a pretty tame homepage. It had in the left channel Google News, center a local weather (definable by zipcode), and the right channel which tells us the date and time (interestingly an analog clock is on the page.) At the bottom of the page (maybe there should have been a pg 13 warning) was the hot tip of the day. The igooglers are well socialized or soon will be. The topic of the day on Friday July 20th was “How to Hint for a Kiss from a Guy.” This potentially useful site was located at Wikihow, “The how to manual that you can edit.” We also had 2 plus pages on “How to Air Kiss.” There were additional instructions for other “Kisses.” Probably this is a very desirable text-based educational experience for 12 to 14 year olds.