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My Mashup Map
I never knew you could create your own map on anything you wanted. This was my first introduction to Google My Map option. I am glad that we learned about it. It is always great learning new hidden gems within products we already use. There is thousands of technology companies located in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is known as technology start-up center for anyone who wants to do anything with technology. I decide to make my map on technology companies in Silicon Valley, but to narrow down the list of companies in Silicon Valley I choose to pick companies that made the Fortune 1000 list. During my research I found out that majority companies are located long 101 Bayshore Freeway. It was interesting learning about how this small area in northern California has highest medium income $141,000 in United States.
Neogeography has become such a new and big thing as technology continues to grow. Now that we have Web 2.0 which lets us now create and be interactive with the web has change completely in the last 6-7 years. Web 2.0 has made the world a lot smaller to connect with rest of the world. Social network like Facebook and Myspace has let us interact with others by posting messages, videos, and pictures with few click of a button. With all these open source programs and application being available on internet it’s never been easier to create your own media, blog, video, application without any intensive knowledge of web programming.
The pitfall of neogeography is the way information is stored and shared. Now we hear a lot about people cyber hacking into our bank account or stealing our Identity. Identity thief is a national concern. People say that we post and reveal too much about ourselves on web. This causes us to be greater risk to become a victim of identity thief. I think it is true that we post overly too much about ourselves. There are many debates about Wikipedia, which is open source encyclopedia that anyone can add or delete content. The argument of Wikipedia is that since anyone can edit it how much information is actually correct or reliable. Does someone actually patrol what been posted on Wikipedia? Can we trust site like Wikipedia or other open source sites?
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