Internet Activity #3

Hello readers from the net, this is the Guardian of Fate and this is a post in respect to the Computer and Information Science course at Trent (COIS 1010). Some of you might be wondering where #s 1 and 2 may be, sadly viewers, this blogger has unfortunately failed to keep up and is now trying to make ends meat for marks. So here goes.

The topic for the Internet Activity # 3 is this: "tagging" and "mashups" - tagging is quite self-explanatory, and is used for most blogging and forum systems as a way to manipulate or change text, photos and video that is therein contained. For example, when I create something simple like blue text, the actual tagging is expressed in the HTML code like this: < style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">< style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, < /span >< /span >, . The information found within the brackets are the tags, and they allow information to be changed enough for a user to visually notice it, such as blue text, or a different text size. Images can also be edited using tags, making them larger, or smaller. Tagging is as old as programming itself, and is extremely useful when it comes to blogging and forum posting when someone wants to change to make an aesthetic impact or emotional.

Mashing now is something entirely different. Mashups are essentially when a user takes media or information from a field of different things, such as different venues, locales, etc. and "mashes" them into one place. A good example is Google Maps, which utilizes various information, such as information found on maps, and also street information. Some active monitoring is used to locate certain areas. Another mashup is Flickr, which is the most common photographic imaging site on the internet. Each photo is attached to a basic description and title, and a keyword search will reveal to the user any and all photos with the attributed information.

As far as cutting edge technology goes, both tagging and mashups are nothing inventive, but they score big time of innovativeness, as the technology in both was created for completely different applications but yet is still perfect for both tagging and mashups. The technology is still new, but this blogger thinks that it will be a booming and integral piece of the internet as the technology improves.