Communication and Culture

Without communication, culture would be dead and would not exist as it does and as you know it. 

It is because of the communication of ideas that they become real and sensible to others and it is by communication that others know about them and by their agreement they become customs, and beliefs, and stories come forth, and legends come to view, and history happens and is told, and religion becomes alive and thoughts about the universe happens and how this and that came about and so forth. 

The are dynamic systems which interact with one another, and if there was only one culture; one general culture which existed on this earth, there would still exist this dynamic quality about it because I don't think, theoretically and practically, that there has to be so many cultures for cultures to survive at all.

If you look at it from a purely biological point of view, you would see that cultures which survive the most are those which are the most in communication with one another; and those who have within their system an influence which antagonistic or against the direction in which the culture is moving, there is a discord and to that degree, that culture does not survive as well as it could. And all of this because of the lack of communication at the point in the system, for whatever reason there is that lack there, there is still a lack of communication there.  

There would be no cultures if there was no agreement about the beliefs about them and there would be no culture if there was not communication about these realities to one every member of the culture.

Cultures exist because they are communicated among the people where they come from and it express the active life of that people and peoples. For many, culture is the driving force behind their life and it is a source of thrust for them to be from and part of a definite culture. 

It is so amazing to see the variation of cultures that exist at different settings of the world and the topic at once extends beyond the antropological study of it, to a philosophical study and is there where questions and answers are found concerning it. 

This world would be so bland without culture and there would be no life moving these cultures if it were not for communication between and amongst the entities which constitute these cultures, whether legal, political, ethnic or otherwise.

Storytelling, Branding and Communication

This is a good example of a unique communication and unique story being told to the customers of this restaurant. 

The story is told after you have eaten those tasty fries with your burger and drink. 

What a great ending! 

Mark Zuckerberg on Communication

Emojis, GIFs and Expresing Ourselves Online

Emojis and GIFs express so much about the emotion we are feeling without having to use many words and without having to really be there in person to show that emotion to others.

How people express themselves online can often take the form of emojis, GIFS and other similar symbol or motion picture than words can do.

Words like LOL, LMAO, and other similar acronyms talks more about how we feel than actually feeling that from a person because since you cannot be there physically and in proximity to the person for those feelings to be felt in the "normal" sense, there is the use of codes and symbols that transmit these feelings to the receiving end.

This has to be done because since the various communities and persons which contact each other on the web have to express themselves, than of course there has to be symbols to transmit the feeling to the other being.

They are a communication code of a kind which has been developed in order to communicate our emotions through the use of symbols online. And it is really effective.

I remember watching the roast of Justin Bieber on Comedy Central and a lot of the jokes being said had to do with Emojis and at that moment I did realize the popularity of Emojis and even right now I'm using an upper case E when spelling Emoji, if that doesn't tell you something abou the importance of Emojis, oh man.

A lot of times people will say LOL as the code of "that make me laugh" and it doesn't necessarily have to mean "laughing out loud" the code can be defined in as many ways as can be interepreted. When I talk to a friend, sometimes I get send the Emoji which could be said to stand for the LOL acronym, which is a face with two tear drops coming out of the sides, and that of course communicates to me that the person is "laughing out loud." And that is just one emoji.

On an iPhone and iPad, there are categories of emojis which are: PEOPLE, NATURE, FOOD & DRINK, CELEBRATION, ACTIVITY, TRAVEL & PLACES, OBJECTS & SYMBOLS. Do people really generally talk about these things that they would merit an emoji for them? I guess so. You find under the PEOPLE category emotions for the various which would you expect a person in real life to have.

On Facebook Messenger, emojis have categories for HAPPY, LOVE, SAD, EATING, CELEBRATING, ACTIVE, WORKING, SLEEPY, ANGRY and CONFUSED and there are other emojis in the form of animations or cartoon-like characters which also express emotions.

GIFs have become an increasignly popular way of expressing emotions by using moving pictures to express an emotion instead of a static symbol. I personally love using GIFs because they are so funny sometimes and they communicate just the right feeling that I want to get across.

You have really to think about how much effort is put into making a communication of emotion playful and creative on these messaging systems and platforms and the amount of effort placed in being able to express emotions through symbols on the web.

It all comes down making a communication happen and making communication which will be understood by the receiver. A receiver who is a real person and real feelings and who responds to a communication filled with life.

The point is that all of this is done in order to communicate feelings through symbols and codes on devices and computers to real human beings since they are the medium through which communication is happening to a person to person or interpersonal or public relationships.

That is how important communication and communication of feelings is on these platforms. That is how important the human element is to these web applications and communication platforms.For it were not for this human element, these networks would be useless and would be lifeless.

Communication and Velocity

A component of communication is velocity or speed of communication.

Depending on how fast the speed of the communication is and how fast it reaches its intended place, determines a lot about that communication and it tells you a lot about that communication which was transferred and the form of communication which was used.

Faster communication and fast response to a communication is way more desirable than a lagging, sluggish or what is worse: communication that never originates and never reaches its intended target or a communication which is never responded to and a communication which is answered to long after it arrived.

This applies to any area of a company, internal and/or external (think of the last time you had to wait and listen for several minutes to a computer automated voice when calling a corporation like this.)

It applies to interpersonal relationships and public relationships (think of the last time you did not get an answer to your question. How did that make you feel?)

It applies to computers and computing machines (think of the last time you used a very slow internet connection. How did you feel?)

It applies to all areas of life really.

Next time you talk to someone, send someone a message or a text or are having a conversation with that person or when you call a company or corporation to ask about a product or for customer support, take a notice of how fast is their response time and how fast they are to answer your questions and that will tell you a lot about them.

Blogging and Communication

Writing a blog is about communicating an original thought and original thinking to someone else.

Blogging is essentially communicating an idea to an intended recipient. That is all it really is.

Communicating an original thought and idea is being able to set on a digital paper words you will find no where else written in the same way that you have written them because no one else is like YOU.

One of the reasons of writing a blog is to set yourself apart from others in terms of knowledge. Not everyone knows what you know and others will find it valuable that you are sharing your knowledge with them even though they may despise you for doing so, they will respect you for doing it.

As with any communication, it has a starting point and a reaching point

Communication happens to you or you make the communication happen.

As any real communication does, the communication reaches the intended recipient and produces the intended effect in that person or group. That is a real and true communication.

As it applies to blogging (and any writing really), what is being communicated has to have value to the other person or group to whom the communication is being done to because that is when a real communication has taken place.

A real and genuine communication and valuable communication has happened when what you have said has really changed something about the person or group reading it and they have taken from it something more than just what they thought they would be reading and they know that the time taken to read your blog has been time well spent because they have finished reading the blog satisfied that they made the right decision in reading your thoughts and they are interested in reading more about you have to say and they have decided in their minds that you are a valuable source of information.

Sharing on the Web

One of the most amazing features of the online experience today is being enabled and being able to share so much online from platform to platform, website to website or any other combination of this.

Anyone can be watching a video at Youtube and can, in seconds, share it to their Twitter or their Google + or Blog.

If you want to share a book you have written you can upload it so easily unto the net and make it available to millions and millions of people or if their is a book you think people should know about, you can scan that book and upload it to a site like archive.org and you have made that book available to millions and millions of people.

Websites such as archive.org, gutenberg.org and Google with their Google Books make so many books available and accesible to so many millions of people for intellectual consumption and most of those books are so valuable to so many people and what is more, a lot of these books are given freely to the public for their enjoyment and intellectual and educational development in whatever subject the books are about. Talk about a humane service to humanity. Making these books accessible like that to so many people is just an indication of lots of goodwill for humanity. Just think of the amount of time and work which had to be put in to make these books available online in digital format. Microsoft has given so much money to these projects, for the purpose of sharing knowledge to humanity.

At that time when it first started, Napster was just the place to be to network about music and by doing that you got to know other people who were sharing their music online so you woudn't have to go and buy it (or steal it lol) at the store or mall. I remember using that program so much and although at the time I did not really understand peer-to-peer file sharing, I would download so much music from Napster that I would sometimes leave the computer on all night so that I could get that album because having that music was really needed by me at that time. I actually remember using AOL disks to get online because I wanted so bad to be online.

Another way of sharing now has come into existence and that is sharing money via peer-to-peer networks. The money is known as bitcoin and although bitcoin is not the only digital money which has existed and exists, bitcoin is the current agreed upon digital currency which can be exchanged for the fiat of countries as well as other digital currencies. And the technology behind it is totally about communication for it were not so, the technology would not work because it is based on an Internet and Web which is totally dependent on the communication of computers and networks for it to work at all.

With the existence of bitcoin, money can be shared across computer networks and social media platforms with an ease that actually scares people.It doesn't scare me. I'm really impressed by the speed of communication of bitcoin and it is what I really like about it and I really like that it is all done via computers and devices. That is really so cool to me. I'm a person who uses a device almost all day and knowing that with a few clicks I can send and receive money without having to use a bank is so wonderful to me and not only that, the idea that money is in the hands of a social network which is governed by people and not just in the hands of a few authoritative persons or institutions is such good news to hear. There is so much freedom there. The way I look at it, there has been a shift from the US dollar being the currency used to base the value of other currencies to the US dollar being the currency used as the base of the value of the bitcoin and bitcoin is governed by the people not by institutions which have been established for more than a hundred years. So there has definitely been a change there.

If you think about it, you can now send real money electronically by use of a currency that totally exists on computer networks and that, so far as recorded history is concerned, has not existed ever. Money has evolved.

Sharing online is becoming very fast and the future of sharing online is very interesting indeed and I"m looking forward to its developments.

The Internet and the World Wide Web of Communication

To begin, I will state the definition of Internet as defined by the Federal Networking Council:

"Internet" refers to the global information system that -- (i) is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet Protocol (IP) or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons; (ii) is able to support communications using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons, and/or other IP-compatible protocols; and (iii) provides, uses or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure.

That doesn't sound like the Internet you know, because the Internet you know is filled with pictures,videos, sounds and software and all kinds of other stuff that you know is on the Internet or has something to do with it.

The Internet you know is about being able to go to Facebook to connect with people you know or to log on to Twitter and Tweet some famous person as you would with a text message.

The Internet you know is that thing which allows you to listen to music on Spotify or to watch movies on Netflix.

The Internet you know is that thing which allows you to access so much information which you otherwise would not have had and it is that thing which allows you to be in contact with so many people.

They are just millions of people who daily communicate via the Internet. What they say ranges from the most criminal content to the most sanest content.

The Internet is like a virtual universe where you can have one identiy or more than one and all of them are as real as you want them to be and from that basis, you can say whatever it is that you want to say. You almost find more liberty online than you do outside of it to a certain degree because you can be more online and say more online than you probably are able to or feel when you are offline.

And it's not just people who are communicating on the web. Computers do it too.

As a matter of fact, the internet started with the purpose of enabling computers to exchange information to and fro but the the man who really foresaw what could be done with this was J.C.R Licklider of MIT who described how he foresaw it at as a "Galactic Network." He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site.

Doesn't that sound a lot like what happens today?

The reason for computer networks, advertising online, marketing online, newspapers online, books online, social interaction online and the internet itself is the need and the urge to be in communication.

We are living in a world where communication is the base of everything that happens in it and even computers who don't think on their own unless programmed to, do it also and if it were not for the existence of computers, the internet would not exist and the web would not exist and all the social networks and other media which exists online would not exist either.

Marketing and Communication

Life is about communicating. To the degree that you communicate, that is how alive you are.

Think of the last time you were around someone who did not say anything to you and you had to be around that person because of your job or school. How did that make you feel?

As it relates to what is known as marketing, communication is key.

When was the last time you ate a Carl's Jr burger? And how was that determined by you looking at a promotion that came along with the local newspaper?

Or when was the last time you went to see a movie at the theater and how was that determined by a promotion you saw at a fast food restaurant or from a website you happened to be on?

Marketing happens everyday around us and for many of us it happens under our noses and you do not think of it twice when you see it because you don't think of it as marketing. You don't think of that magazine that is on the table as you wait for your doctors or dentists appointment as marketing and you don't think of looking at a website as marketing and the contents of the website as marketing and you don't think that the piece of paper that you saw in the mail promoting a new hamburger was marketing but that is what it is.

I guess it scares some to think they could be "falling for" the marketing or that they are actually being convinced by it to buy the products being sold there. But that is what is happening.

It happens because value is being communicated to them and that value can take the shape of a book, a t-shirt, a watch, a computer, a car a hamburger or anything else which is valuable to a human being.

These things are communicating something valuable to the intended recipient and that is why people will subscribe to a magazine or will they will subscribe to an email list or a magazine or journal which will arrive at their home or the reason why someone will continue to comeback to a website or will continue opening up the same magazine when they go to a bookstore or the one they have at home.

It all comes down to that: communicating value.

Social Media Advertising and Communication

The one thing I know is true of all social media platforms and apps is that they at once place a person into communication with others and fast.

In such a fast time you can be in communication with anyone who has the same interests as you do, who likes the sames things you do or you can find people who have had similar experiences to yours and you can join a community of real people who are also on the web using social media platforms to connect with others.

This is really the one quality of all of these social media sites which in turn makes other corporations and companies which have been in business for years and years and years want to be there also because the people that use their products or services or the people who know about them are online so of course they have to be there too.

They have to be where their public is and they have to be there talking to them.

Because of this, a social network like Facebook makes almost 10 billion dollars a year through sales of their advertising services.

Mcdonald's has more than 50 million page likes and more than 19 million people have cheked in there using Facebook.

Nike is known to advertise on Facebook with video before they advertise those same advertisements on television.

Disney uses Facebook's online gaming for it's over 40 million fans which are found on Facebook.

Walmart, in addition to it's own Facebook page, over 4,000 of its stores have their own Facebook pages.

Samsung was the first company to buy the log out page of Facebook to advertise its Galaxy S III phone.

Electronic Arts spent 2.75 million dollars on just one of its games, Battlefield 3, and the company saw a 440% return on its investment in sales.

Just think about those statistics for a bit.

Some of the biggest corporations who advertise on Facebook are:

Ford. Ford advertises on Facebook because they believe that people who like the Facebook page will advocate the brand to others.

HSBC. This bank doesn't even advertise as much to the USA as they do to Asia and Europe but they are using a Facebook to do it.

Dell. Dell has made more than 10 million dollars in advertising by using social media.

Google. Advertises its Chrome browser, which has a set of Facebook extensions downloaded 34,000 times a week.

Why do they have to spend so much time and money advertising on a social media network like Facebook?

Because they have to communicate there that is why! They have to communicate their products and services to others and make it known to them on all these other social networks.

They just have to do this if they want to continue to be known and seen by others or else they would be almost not existent to the eyes and minds of many potential customers and people.

I used Facebook as an example because it seems more advertising is made there due to the 1 billion and more people who use Facebook and you can find similar statistics for every popular social network.

How Communications from Media Effects Our Daily Lives

A lot of people do or don’t realize the importance and effect communication has on our lives, our interests, our thoughts and our emotions and how we feel about ourselves, others and the world in general.

When we get into a car and flip on the radio, to find a station that we like, to putting on a CD into the disk player, when we turn on Pandora to find a station or when you open up the Spotify app on your iPhone or Mac in order to listen to that favorite song you’ve been liking, and when you reach out your hand to raise the volume because you want to hear that as loud as you can or when you put on some head phones so that you can listen to it personally or when you share a song to your facebook page so that everyone can listen to what you are listening to, this attempt to communicate makes our lives more interesting and makes our lives that much more fuller.

Whether that song is a rap song from the bay area or a song by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers or a song by The Beatles or a new release by an EDM artist, or a Classical instrumental by a 17th century French composer, or a tabla instrumental, this communication by these artists makes our lives that much meaningful and can make our lives more productive.

Can you imagine the effect what the track “The Message,” by GRANDMASTER FLASH had on the people around them when it was first released and what kind of an effect it had on the culture as whole of America? Think of the effect the music itself had on the minds of people and then think of the lyrics which were being communicated. This was released in 1982. Think of or do some research of what was going on in that year and why they were talking about what they were talking about. Today, in the year 2015, that song still relates to so many people.

Now think of the song or listen to the song “Five Minutes of Funk” by WHODINI. Compare that to the song I just talked about. You can also compare it to “Rappers Delight,” by Sugar HIll Gang.

Now compare that song to a Taylor Swift song. And just look at the variety of music that exists and the variety of channels where you can listen to or look at music videos and how that effects how you think about the world and think of the amount of fans Madonna has and how much anything Madonna would say can influence their thinking. Bono of U2 is a good example of this. I don’t even like U2 that much but that doens’t change how much they can have an effect on people just by something they would say.

Music itself is an outpouring of communication from an artists heart because it is something that they love.

This is the subject of music.

Let’s talk about the subject of news.

I don’t know how many people like to listen to the news on the TV or in the form of paper but news is all over the place.

I was looking at a newspaper recently which had news about someone being murdered, a car crashing into a pizzeria, ten people being assasinated, a person being found guilty of murder, and there was only news article about how to get an education. This is on the first page of that newspaper. The name of that newspaper is actually LIFE. So what are they communicating to you?



Newspapers can fill the world lots of fear and create a feeling of a chaotic environment or they can fill it with valuable information.

A newspaper like the THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, brings us news of the business world, news from all over the world, news about politics, economy, tech, market news, the art world, and even real estate and this brought to millions of people daily and for the people who read this journal daily, it is an important part of their morning while their having their morning coffee or while they are on their lunch break.

Broadcasting stations such ABC, NBC CNBC and others, daily and continually communication to you news which probably don’t want to hear from others parts around the world and things which are happening in the USA. I generally don’t like to listen to the news because it doesn’t really interest me to hear what is on there. There are other sources to get that information.

And then there is the continual advertising you see on television in between movies and tv shows and the news, there is just continual advertising there and you see this on billboards (depending where you are) and also on the radio, there is just a massive amount of advertising and people have to do this advertising. Think about how these communications from these different companies affect how you know about them and how they affect what you think about and how you think about their product or service and the world around you.

Radio stations have a lot to do with this by the kind of music they play on the radio including the massive advertising that is done there.

The film industry makes hundreds of movies a year. Genres range from Horror, Action, Comedy and Drama. Millions of people go to the theater to watch that movie they have been wanting to see because they are expecting that this communication from this movie is going to satisfy something about themselves or their life and they in turn communicate their opinions about it to others. People love to communicate!

Most movies carry a message or theme that is being communicated via the images and action which you are seeing on the screen. For example, the movie GRAN TURINO by Clint Eastwood carried the message that a person can change who they are and care about others and that whn you do this your life can change forever.

That is just one example of so many movies and the writers and directors who made it which understand what communication is about. They understand that by showing this scene for this long or by using this light here or by placing the camera and then moving it really fast over here will create the effect they want to create and actors who are very well respected know about this instinctively.

And not with live streaming Apps like Meerkat, so many people spend so much time either broadcasting themselves or watching other peoples streams and they spend hours on there just trying to communicate with anybody and with anyone.

Media and it’s communications effect our lives so much, that we hardly take a few minutes to think about it. If it were not for communication, there is a good chance you would be dead.

The Power of Communication Today

Today, the means of communication has multiplied since the days of the telegram.

The means of communicating is more, the quality of communication is better every day, and the amount of communication is more every day.

There is a billion users on Google, Facebook and Youtube. That is 1/7 of the world's population on this earth.

People upload almost 350 million photos to Facebook everyday.

There is over 1 billion messages sent on Facebook messenger every day.

300 hours of video are uploaded to Youtube every minute and every day people watch hundreds of millions of hours on YouTube and generate billions of views.

By 3 pm anywhere, there is over 150 billion emails sent already.

Google processes over 1 trillion searches a year.

Over 2 million blogs are written every day. That is enough to fill Time Magazines for over 700 years.

There is over 9,000 tweets per second.

In a span of 4 minutes, there will be over 400,000 skype calls being made.

Over 2,000 instagram photos are uploaded every second. In 6 minutes, there will be over 800,000 new photos on Instagram.

There is close to 30,000 GB of internet traffic every second.

These are just some statistics and you can find more of them.

You have at your reach and access means of communicating so fast which the world has not known for a very long time. Make the comparison of a Greek messenger boy having to sprint miles to deliver a message to composing a tweet or a imessage or text and sending it to the intended recipient in less than 2 seconds and you will see what I mean.

Literally almost everywhere in the world you can pick up a phone, open up an email, open a messenging app, open up a picture app or open up a social network and in a matter of seconds, perhaps not even a second, you can send a message to someone on the other side of the world.

This is a world where people everywhere are furiously wanting to and having to be in communication with so many things and people and by the use of so many media channels.

People love being in communication. They would rather be in communication with something deadly, than not be in communication at all with anything.

That is the power of communication.

Microsoft Windows 10

Even though I have read reports that Microsoft is giving away Windows 10 and then will "count on app sales to drive revenue," I think also there is a humanitarian reasoning behind this.

We are living in a time where computers, computing devices and related software are so wide spread almost everywhere you go and corporations such as Microsoft don't really need give away upgrades and new versions of their operating systems so I think the effort to do good towards mankind is a part of it.

I haven't heard of Apple doing this for any of their services or products and they have more than $700 billion dollars. They could easily give away Apple watches to whoever wanted one and still have tons of billions of dollars.

A person from Apple who is giving a lot of his money away is Tim Cook, who has said he will pay for his nephew's education and then donate the rest of his money to charities, according Fortune Magazine.

And think of Steve Jobs only having a $1 salary. That is someone who does not care about money and only cares about being productive and helping others (although of course he did have billions of dollars.)

Other people have said they would do the same or similar. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet started a campaign in order to pursuade other billionaires to give at least half of their money to charities, and so far people like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have signed on.

When I hear about this I know a lot of these people don't need that money. Of course they need some of it, but they obviously care about others.

How the Internet, the Web, and Social Media Connects Us to Others

One of the earliest social networking sites which I used was actually not Myspace or Facebook.

It was a social networking platform for artists called Artmesh.

It was started by a group of German entrepreneurs-artists who wanted to create a place where artists could meet up and show their art and to network. It was a very succesful networking site and I met some very interesting people including a future girlfriend of mine and I still have contact with people who I met there. .

Another site which I would use (at this time I was already using Myspace) was a placed called ArtReview who also have their own magazine. I met many people here who were not only interested in meeting others i.e artists like themselves but also "entrepreneurs" who wanted to help others artists succeed.

And this is in fact not the first time I started "networking" with others.

The first time I actually started to "network" was when I would download music from Napster. I remember just wanting to download all the music I could and the way to do that on Napster was download music which was being shared by others on the same network.

Another way I would network others and I which I attempted to use as a means to make myself known as a professional gamer was when I would play FIFA 07 and 08 on Playstation 2. I would network on there because I wanted to meet others who were as interested as I was in playing this great realistic video game because I wanted to be known as a great soccer mind online at that time.

Myspace started as a place for musicians especially to show their music and then it came to be known as the place to be so I as I heard about this, I went there and began using at a place to network with others and to show my music and art but more importantly, it was a place to say what I wanted and felt and to share what I wanted to share and also it was a place to become part of a community.

Myspace provided a means of communication to others where otherwise you would not have been able to communicate to people that you can find on there.I remember hearing about Facebook and not liking at first so just remained with Myspace and somehow or another I started using Facebook and eventually I stopped using Myspace and used Facebook as my main tool of expression.

I used Facebook as a way to network but more importantly, it was a means to say what I wanted to say to others and to make myself known all over that place for the purpose of getting into art shows and exhibits and I just wanted to be known and known everyone I possibly and Facebook afforded that to me.

.Facebook and similar sites have shortended the gap of distance and communication and it effectively makes you more social and it connects you to others in a way which is not possible for many to do if they did not have access to the internet and the world wide web, it just wouldn't happen if these networks didn't exist.

Sites such as Instagram, Snapchat, Vine, Twitter and Pinterest provide you with the means to communicate even more about what you do and what you like as well providing the service of being able to communicate to others whom you would not have access to otherwise.

Sites like this bring people together and connect them in a virtual space where we can connect with one another as we would if we were actually there with them and what is more than that, the internet and the world wide web, and sites such as these provide a valuable service to others.

Sites such as Instagram, Snapchat, Vine, Twitter. Vimeo, ,Google +, Youtube, Pinterest and others provide you with the means to communicate even more about what you do and what you like as well as providing the service of being able to communicate to others whom you would not have access to otherwise and giving you the means to be a social person and to be what you want to be without a lot of limitations. So it makes your more free somewhat and that is why so many people like it.

And now, applications like Meerkat and Periscope have applied another layer of communication possibility by giving you the means to broadcast yourself in such an easy to understand way. With the simplicity of pushing a few buttons, you are online and being seen potentially by hundreds and hundreds of people

The service these networking sites provide is fast communication and a place to make friends and connections and a chance to a part of a community. This is the valuable service supplied to you.

The acquisition of a tool and means of communication and the connection which is afforded to you to so many people is what makes these tools so valuable and so loved and cherished.

7 Interesting and Useful Ways of Using Google Search

Here are some very interesting and very useful ways of using Google Search. If you are a Google Search user and lover like I am, this will save you lots of time.

1. Speech Recognition

In my opinion, Google's speech recognition software found in Google Chrome and in other operating systems and devices is the most useful speech recognition software when it comes to finding stuff online.

On which ever operating system you are using it, all you gotta to is to open the application and say "ok Google" and say what you are looking for and Google Search goes and gets it and brings up to you what you are looking for. It would be great if you tell Google Search "thank you" after it did this.

2. Images

You can upload a picture from your computer or device and Google Search will search this image and present to you everything that looks similar to that image or you can past an URL where an image found and Google Search will find web pages which include these images and will also show you images which are visually similar.

2. Quotes ""

This is something which I learned for the first time when I was a teenager and I remember being at a library in Oxnard, California being told that I can put words into quotes when I search on Google and Google would only search that word. So that is what it does, you place a word in quotes and Google Search will search for the word or words in the quotes as one word or phrase. So for example, if you want to search "the dog which went away" Google Search will search for that exact phrase.

The following ones I just found out about and they are as interesting and useful as the others.

3. Hyphen -

You can use a hyphen to to make a search more exact. For example,if you type in the word Nike, Google Search for everything Nike but if you type in Nike - Jordans, Google Search will find only Nike Jordan related images or web pages.

4. Colon :

You can search a website for specific material by using a colon. For example, if you wanted to find Kiss related material on rollingstone.com you would type in Kiss:rollingstone.com and Google Search will present to you websites, images, videos, news and books related to Kiss on the website rollingstone.com

5. Finding Files

This is a very useful and one which I will start to use more often now that I know of it.

If you are looking for a specific subject or topic in a specific file format, what you do is this. *Searchtopichere*filetype:pdf So as you see, what you are looking for goes in between the asterisks, then you say what file type you would want that in.

6. Search for Multiple Words or Phrases at the Same Time

When wanting to search for more than one item at the same time, you can tell Google Search to do just that. Same for example you want to search places to eat pizza in Venice and places to eat pizza in Santa Monica, you do this: "places to eat pizza in Venice" OR "places to eat pizza in Santa Monica.

Notice how the quotes were used again in this example.

7. Finding Websites Similar to Another Website

This is very useful to anyone who really loves a particular website and would love to find more like it.

To tell Google Search to do this, this is what you write: related: techcruch.com

Google Search will find similar websites to techcrunch.com along with other related searches.

Meerkat Community Pick

My stream was chosen by Meerkat as a community pick. I just wanted to let you know that.

You can find me on Twitter and Meerkat @CosmicHQComm

The Evolution of the Web Browser

I want to talk about not about how the browser has evolved since it appeared; I want to talk about how it is evolving today.

To start off with, I saw this very interesting new update for Google Chrome on iOS where you can exit, refresh or open a new tab by pulling down and choosing the option. That was very interesting to me.

Being able to share and traverse data across platforms is so amazing and it is something I love to be able to do.

Changetip has made it possible to send digital currency across so many platforms. You can traverse digital currency directly from Chagetip website or you can be at the website or platform and send the digital currency. Platforms such as Twitter, Meerkat, Youtube, Disqus, Google +, Reddit, Soundcloud, Slack, and Tumblr accept payment or tips direct at their side.

Buffer can take any image of the net and you can save it for later or schedule it to be published later on Twitter or Facebook or where ever else you might to want to do that.

Pinterest as well is showing on sites and you share video or image to your Pinterest.

The browser is becoming more "alive" and the capability to share is more alive than ever today.

Google

I just want to say that I really love Google I love mostly all the products I love their phone to, I used to own a Google Nexus phone and that was a really really cool phone

It really was a cool phone. I don't know what happened to it but I had one, I remember it for its design, it's easiness to use in the way it felt in the hands and of the way it felt  on the thumbs and all that

The user interface was really smooth to have you like how it was the design I like the fact that I only had the three buttons you find at the bottom of the phone and it really was just a cool looking phone

Also Google Drive Google Drive is amazing amazing amazin. There's so much you can do with Google Drive. 

Also there is something called Google Camera which you can get on the android and that is really cool too 

Good morning

It's the morning in California and it's very interesting morning 

I have to get a lot done today I hope to meet a lot of new people I hope to meet a lot of the same people and I hope to build my relationship with them a lot better and I hope that everything is well 

I hope you have a very good morning also and you reach the goals you have planned for today and tomorrow and the next days and that you do very well

I wish you a happy day

Meerkat

I've been here chatting for days i've been doing that for weeks actually what seems like weeks and I really like it there's a lot to do there there is a lot of very interesting people,  people that you probably would not have met if it wasn't for them using the Meerkat app 

I've also been streaming as much as I can and I will be streaming more

Just want more people to meet and I'll have more streaming to do

MEERKAT ARTICLE

I wrote an article about meerkat shari my thoughts about it. Find it on my LinkedIn page.