Tuesday, 4 November 2008

On the heels of NBC's hit movie, the iconic 1980s television classic comes roaring back to life as a reinvented, updated and super-charged action series showcasing the new KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand). Absolutely the coolest car ever created, KITT is equipped with an "AI" (artificial intelligence) that is capable of hacking almost any system. Its weapons systems match that of a jet fighter, and its body is capable of actually transforming into other vehicles and using sophisticated holographic imagery to elude villains.

007 Quantum Of Solace (2008)
Daniel Craig is back as James Bond in ‘Quantum of Solace’. Bond has made his latest mission personal after the love of his life, Vesper, betrayed him for a secret organisation that he and M now need to investigate. Bond’s investigation takes him to Austria, Italy and South America, where he discovers that an important player in the secret organisation is planning to give control of South America to associates within the CIA and the British Government.Secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply. ‘Quantum of Solace’ introduces the beautiful but feisty Camille, a woman with her own vendetta, who leads Bond straight to this organisation. ‘Quantum of Solace’ shows the dark side of Bond in his quest to find out more about this organisation and why the woman he loved betrayed him. ‘Quantum of Solace’ promises to provide action, adventure and cutting drama, taking the Bond genre to further heights.

Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Web 2.0

You’ve probably heard the phrase "Web 2.0". You may’ve even read some of the various definitions of it. And Web 2.0 does appear to mean different things to different people, so you would be forgiven for still feeling confused about the term. Here are some of the definitions of Web 2.0 floating about:
Web 2.0 = the web as platform
Web 2.0 = the underlying philosophy of relinquishing control
Web 2.0 = glocalization ("making global information available to local social contexts and giving people the flexibility to find, organize, share and create information in a locally meaningful fashion that is globally accessible")
Web 2.0 = an attitude not a technology
Web 2.0 = when data, interface and metadata no longer need to go hand in hand
Web 2.0 = action-at-a-distance interactions and ad hoc integration
Web 2.0 = power and control via APIs
Web 2.0 = giving up control and setting the data free
While at first glance some of those definitions may be contradictory, we can distill from them certain characteristics of Web 2.0.
Web 2.0 is social, it’s open (or at least it should be), it’s letting go of control over your data, it’s mixing the global with the local. Web 2.0 is about new interfaces - new ways of searching and accessing Web content. And last but not least, Web 2.0 is a platform - and not just for developers to create web applications like
Gmail and Flickr. The Web is a platform to build on for educators, media, politics, community, for virtually everyone in fact!

lnk for video about web 2.0 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE