Facebook inbox

Facebook is slowly making their messages and inbox into more of an email type interface. In 2009, Facebook added the "report as spam" and "mark as read" options". Now at the end of 2010 Facebook is adding another email feature to their inbox. Facebook, with the help of investor Mircrosoft, integrated an "attachment" feature into its message system. Now Facebook users can email documents Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.) through the Facebook message system. When you receive an attachment you get to option to view the document contents. The first option is you can download and save it onto your system. This option requires you to have some form of Microsoft Office on your computer. However the second option to view the document is to open the document up in a web app on Microsoft's office live site. This allows the user to view the document in a new browser window without the need of having Microsoft office applications on your computer. This is a strategic alliance between Facebook and Microsoft going against Google (gmail). They are eliminating the need for computer users to check their Facebook and their email when they can just check their Facebook. I have not personally tried the attachment feature on Facebook, but I hear good things about it.

Exam #3

I thought exam 3 was a fairly easy test, which I hope shows in my grade. I thought I did well, considering how overwhelmed I felt when studying for this exam. I thought it was a lot of informations to learn, but maybe I somehow managed to learn most of it. A questions on the test that I was expecting was list 3 reasons that the e-business systems fail, but I think I managed to give reasonable answers.

Forgot

Since I was unprepared for class on Thursday and didn't have a tech news report ready, I decided to do a tech news report for this weeks post. I read on dailymail.com, that Finland is testing a new type of speeding camera that checks more than if your speed or if your running a red light. This new speeding camera, called Asset (Advanced Safety and Driver Support for Essential Road Transport), has a license plate recognition camera to make sure your taxes and insurance are up to date. Asset also has an infrared camera to check road conditions and a 3D camera to detect speeders up to 50 miles away ,if the driver is wearing their seat belt, and if your tailgating the car in front of you. The photos taken by the cameras are then sent to police headquarters and disciplinary actions are taken. The use of Assets will be deployed across Europe by 2013 and if it is a success, I'm sure it is just a matter of time until we see them in the U.S.