Welcome to The Anthropocene

'Welcome to the Anthropocene' Earth Animation from Globaïa on Vimeo.

Welcome to The Anthropocene, commissioned by the London Planet Under Pressure conference, provides a data visualization of the state of the planet. It opens at the early of the Industrial Revolution. Viewers watch the planetary impact of humanity, cities, roads, railways, cables and shipping lanes. The film is produced as part of the world’s first educational portal on the Anthropocene. The visualization of Welcome to The Anthropocene indirectly shows the impact of the technology to the earth.

Source:  International Geogsphere-Biosphere Programme, http://www.igbp.net/ , https://vimeo.com/40940686

PIXAJOY ONLINE PHOTO BOOK SERVICES

“Joy to you!, Yes, you, reading this. Welcome to Pixajoy! Your joyful online photo book service! Where we celebrate your special and unique life.”     

WOW!! This greeting phrase and the contents of the website has attracted me to try this online photo book services.   What next? where is the Sign Up button? Humm..Yeaah..

1) Sign Up...  and Sign In

2) Download the Pixajoy Editor software

.... next ?

3) Create new project.  Arrange and design my photo book. click, click, click add background, click frame, click add text.. , add scrapbook & etc.... So easy..

Work up until finish

4) Done....  Click Order and completed the order process...

5) Uploads the project file 


6) Finish , wait for the photo book delivery....  The order will received within 14 days 

I also can view the photo book through online and share it with others.

Enjoy the moments.. ;)....

Other services offered by Pixajoy are: 

Ohh the website address is : http://www.pixajoy.com.my/home

TABUNG HAJI'S INTERACTIVE ONLINE SERVICES

The fifth pillar of Islam is to make a pilgrim (Hajj) to Mecca, Saudi Arabia at least once in one’s lifetime. This pillar is obligatory for every Muslim, male or female, provided that he/she is physically and financially able to do so.  Lembaga Tabung Haji, is an organization that has 52 years of experience in Deposits, Service & Operations Haji and Investment. Malaysia as the country's largest Islamic fund managers with funds of more than RM55 billion, TH seeks to strengthen the economy of Muslims in Malaysia by leveraging existing funds and resources.TH has moved ahead in bringing convenient services to their customers through interactive online service namely e-THiJARI.  The depositors can access this service without limits, at anytime and anywhere.

Tabung Haji Online Services for existing Tabung Haji Account Depositor.

1.    Go to any Tabung Haji Branch, Ask the Tabung Haji officer for Online access. You will be given an Access No. and asked to key in your preferred PIN.

2.    Go to www.e-thijari.com.my  

3.    Go to registration for new user and fill up necessary information needed as follow:

The services offered are:

Pilgrim to Mecca

• Registration of hajj
• Print the Haji registration
• Review and print flight schedule

Deposit:

• Update profile
• Transfer savings
• Account balance enquiry
• Statement of account

Sources: www.e-thijari.com.my 

AMAZON ECHO

More than just a speaker, the Amazon Echo is part voice assistant, part home automation hub, you can talk to and it’s fun to use. It controls other things in your house and lets you search the Web (using Bing) for daily information.

The Echo is controlled by voice commands beginning with the trigger words "Alexa" or "Amazon." A ring of lights at the top of the black cylinder turns blue, orange, or red as it listens, processes, responds, or sits idle. It talks back in crystal clear sound using natural language.

You can also instruct it to turn other electronics on and off if they're connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Currently, only about a dozen products are compatible with the Echo. Mainly plugs and light bulbs. It can recognize your voice from far across the room, even while it's in the middle of telling you about traffic conditions, or playing music or audiobooks.

If you connect your Google calendar, you can command the Echo to give you a summary of your week, set alarms, timers, and compose task lists. And, because the device is linked to your Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) account, you can tell the Echo to add things you've previously purchased to your shopping cart. You can access a list of all the commands you've given it through a dedicated mobile app. The more you use it, the smarter it get.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/TECH

THE FACEBOOK DATA CENTRES

With more than 1.32 billion users and counting, Facebook is arguably at the forefront of flourish social media in the world. Facebook has initiates advance facilities to store all the Facebook user's data. They has launched several data centres for that. Data centre is refers to facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunication and storage system. It generally includes redundant or backup power supply, redundant data communications connections, various security devices and environmental controls such as air conditioning and fire suppression. Large data centres are industrial scale operations using as much electricity as a small town. Below are lists of Facebook Data Centres;

• Facebook has leased space in a state-of-the-art data center in Ashburn, Virginia to power the huge growth of its social networking service. The leased was signed on 15 October 2007.

• In January 23rd October 2010, Facebook has launched its first data center by invested $180-215 million dollar building project at Forest City, North Carolina, United States.

• Facebook leases space in about six different data centers in Silicon Valley, located in Santa Clara and San Jose, and at least one in San Francisco. 

• The social network has since announced plans for data centre at Lulea Sweden in October, 2011.

• Facebook opened its first energy efficient data centre in Prineville, Oregon, USA in April 2011.

 Source: Facebook and http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/the-facebook-data-center-faq/

THE REVOLUTION OF ONLINE SHOPPING

Online shopping nowadays become popular to shopaholics. Shopaholics can find their favorite mascara, home accessories and even that perfect gifts for the impossible to shop for person in their life. It’s the heaven for shopaholics as they can enjoy to shop at 11 p.m. before going to sleep. And the best is they can ordering an amazing designer dress online today and receiving it the next day.

The buying practices through online started 36 years ago when an English entrepreneur Michael Aldrich invented online shopping which the system connected a modified domestic TV to a real-time transaction processing computer via a domestic telephone line called videotex. He believed that videotex, was a 'new, universally applicable, participative communication medium since the invention of the telephone.' This enabled 'closed' corporate information systems to be opened to 'outside' correspondents not just for transaction processing but also for e-messaging and information retrieval and dissemination, later known as e-business. His definition of the new mass communications medium as 'participative' interactive, many-to-many was fundamentally different from the traditional definitions of mass communication and mass media and a precursor to the social networking on the Internet 25 years later.

In March 1980 he went on to launch Redifon's Office Revolution, which allowed consumers, customers, agents, distributors, suppliers and service companies to be connected on-line to the corporate systems and allow business transactions to be completed electronically in real-time.

During the 1980s^, he designed, manufactured, sold, installed, maintained and supported many online shopping systems, using videotex technology. These systems which also provided voice response and handprint processing pre-date the Internet and the World Wide Web, the IBM PC, and Microsoft MS-DOS, and were installed mainly in the UK by large corporations.

The first World Wide Web server and browser, created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, opened for commercial use in 1991.Afterwards, subsequent technological innovations emerged in 1994: online banking, the opening of an online pizza shop by Pizza Hut, Netscape's SSL v2 encryption standard for secure data transfer, and Intershop's first online shopping system. The first secure retail transaction over the Web was either by NetMarket or Internet Shopping Network in 1994. Immediately after, Amazon.com launched its online shopping site in 1995 and eBay was also introduced in 1995. Alibaba's sites Taobao and Tmall were launched in 2003 and 2008, respectively.

Source: Wikipedia and the next e commerce revolution