Twitter keep our contact!

   Twitter has a feature called find friends and it is a feature for android or iphone app. It is a feature that allow you to search for friends in your contact and add them into twitter. They have been complained that twitter store your ip address, browser type, page visited, etc from your phone to their storage. Twitter spokesman does claim that they do do that but they will change it with the new update now instead of it saying scan friends it will be upload contact, import contact, etc.
   I think this is a big announcement because it just show that you don't really have much of a privacy anymore using it. Also I think it is good to know that they did that and they admit that they do do it. Keeping other people's privacy stuff is always wrong but they did admit that they did it. I also think that twitter is different from any other social networking site and that it should be better with the new update.

Citation:15, February. "Twitter: Yes, We Keep Your IPhone Contacts Too." Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide. 16 Feb. 2012. Web. 19 Feb. 2012. <http://mashable.com/2012/02/15/twitter-stores-contacts/?utm_source=TweetMeme>.

Linsanity On Fire

  Now in the whole Sport world there is a guy who is on fire right now and his name is Jeremy Lin. He is an Taiwanese American NBA player who play for the New York Knicks. Right now he is currently in a starting point guard position, and he is the real NBA Cinderella story player. He work really hard just to get to the top, and he graduated from Harvard University. He is one of the best educated person in the NBA. He make Harvard into their best record ever in the history of that school in basketball. He was rejected from his dream school Stanford and join Harvard while he graduated he join the NBA draft and was no drafted. So the Dallas Mavericks take him into the D-league and let him play for them there. He work so hard and finally got into the NBA and join the Golden State Warriors. While there he was only on the bench for a long time and hardly get to play. He was then drafted to the Houston Rockets and never get to play so he was draft again to the New York Knick. All those happen in 18 days, so it hit him really hard and think about quitting the NBA. But his will allow him to continue and stay in the NBA. He need to stay in New York but he have no place to stay so he need to stay at his partner's couch. The day after he stay at his friend's couch he score his best career high 28 points. After that he went on a 7 game win streak which allow the whole NBA to be crazy for Jeremy Lin. He also beat Kobe Bryant and out score him with 38 point in his career high. He went on fire and was really famous in the sport world!
   I think that this is a great thing because it prove that Asian people can play ball and can be good at it. It breaks the stereotype of the world against Asian people on playing sports. It also show the world that if you work hard you will get what you wanted and if you work really hard your dreams will come true. Jeremy Lin is alot of people's idol because he prove alot of people wrong and he lighten himself up, and he is a pride to everyone!

Japanese Honor and Culture

  This week in social studies we learn about Japanese honor and their culture, in Japanese culture suicide is a honorable thing. I don't mean like suiciding for no reason, I meant when for example in a war and you are losing its either you suicide or surrender. If you suicide its a honorable in that situation. Also for a Japanese samurai suiciding for his master because he did something wrong is also a honorable thing.

   I think this is very interesting to hear because it is a different culture from any other culture and how suicide is an honorable thing to do if your in situations. I also think that it is kind of weird to do so because if it's me I would surrender instead of killing myself because of my culture and also because I'm scared to do so. So this lesson I learn something pretty interesting in different culture.

Making a Restaurant Menu

   In this past week in ICT i learn to make a menu for my virtual restaurant. We uses indesign, photoshop, and illustrator to do this. We use Indesign to do most of the work, by that I meant the whole design and the look of it. We use photoshop to learn how to make symbols and then we copy and paste it into illustrator to adjust the design we like. After that we just put it into our indesign menu and we make a new menu.
   By learning this I think it is very important because after learning this we could use it later in life if we pick this route of creating posters,menu,etc. This is also quite a interesting and fun thing to do to make our own menu and see how cool it look. It allow us to use our imaginary brain to make all these things and to see how creative we are by doing so. So I think this week's learning is very useful.

Derrick Rose named NBA All-Star Starter for the second time!

Derrick Rose is voted once again the second time now as a NBA eastern All-Start Starter. He got the third highest vote among the eastern conference trailing behind Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard. Derrick Rose receive 1,514,723 votes to get into the starting line-up. Accompanying him are Dwayne Wade, Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Dwight Howard. This is for the eastern conference and the western conference are Chris Paul, Kevin Durant, Andrew Bynum, Kobe Bryant, and Blake Griffin. I think this years NBA All-Star will be amazing with some new player first time starting like Andrew Bynum.

Citation:"Rose Named NBA All-Star Starter for Second Straight Year | THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE CHICAGO BULLS." NBA.com. Web. 07 Feb. 2012. <http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/rose-named-nba-all-star-starter-second-straight-year.html>.

 

 

New Jeremy Lin

So there is this NBA star who is Taiwanese-American, he is 24 years old right now(I think) and he was traded to the New York Knick from Golden State Warriors. By the new Jeremy Lin I meant he have score 25+ point straight in two games. The first game he had 25 point,7 assist and in the second game he had 28 point and 8 assist. He is on fire right now and since he is Taiwanese it makes it even better. He will be the starting point guard for the New York Knicks one day. Right now I think he is great and have a high potential in getting higher in the NBA.

Citation: "Jazz vs. Knicks | NBA.com." NBA.com. 07 Feb. 2012. Web. 07 Feb. 2012. <http://www.nba.com/video/games/knicks/2012/02/06/0021100361_uta_nyk_recap.nba/?ls=iref:nbahpt1>.

Shotloc

In this passage about this new basketball tool is called Shotloc as its name said it is to improve your shooting skills. Shotloc pretty much lock your hand into a comfortable position and it spreads your finger out to make it easier for you to shoot. They said that people now don't have the fundamental shooting form and so they create this tool to allow the people to use it and improve their shooting skills. This was tested by NBA stars for example JJ Redick and he said that it is useful to teach kids and people how to shoot properly. This will force you to shoot with your finger and not your palm and it will also improve your follow through which is really important in shooting a ball. It says that it helped alot of people who uses this but for now I'm not sure if it really works or not.

Citation: "Shotloc - The Problem." Shotloc - Home. Web. 07 Feb. 2012. <http://shotloc.com/thescience/theproblem.html>.