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| For my JOMC 50 class, Electronic Information Sources, we were required to research a topic that interested us. We had to use our research skills to locate web sources and non-Internet sources related to our topic. I chose to concentrate on Australian Aboriginal art. The mini essay at the bottom of this page on Yahoo! was also an assignment in which we had to use research skills to find sources to write an essay on some aspect of the Internet. |
| While studying abroad in Australia this past spring semester, I was exposed to the intricate art of the Australia Aboriginals. The images of Australian Aboriginal paintings are created by many small dots of paint. The subjects of the paintings come from the period "Dreamtime." Dreamtime is a term that refers to the time their ancestors lived in connection with the land during the beginning of the earth. Common nature scenes with kangaroos and red earth and the Aboriginal people of Australia are often depicted in these paintings. This style of painting began long ago but still exists today with modern aboriginal artists. Painting were painted for traditional cultural purposed but there are now paintings done specifically for public viewing. Original paintings are expensive and sold in tourist areas all over Australia. Prints of originals are popular tourist souvenirs. |
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| TITLE: YAHOO! and its Creators (TOPIC AREA: Net People and Places) |
| What humbly began as "Jerry
and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" has exploded into the
worldwide Internet hot directory known as Yahoo! (1) Jerry Yang and
David Filo were PhD students at the Stanford University when they
began to simply organize good web sites into a directory to help friends
find cool Web sites in 1994. Yahoo! started as an idea and hobby and
eventually turned into a full time job for the two.
The small directory they created grew bigger and blossomed into Yahoo!. Managing Yahoo! from Stanford put strains on the university's resources and Yang and Filo had to combine with Netscape to set up shop. Realizing they had a potential business on their hands, the two set out on their own and hired a team. From there, they purchased many other Internet companies like geocities, rocketmail.com for email, and broadcast.com for online broadcast radio and television. Over the years, Yahoo! has gone though major growth and now claims more than 20 world properties in its global network. (2) Because Yahoo! is now a portal from which visitors can access everything on the internet in one stop, Yahoo! is one of the most popular ways to search and access the Internet today. Yahoo! directory is successful because it provides users with high quality links with out redundancy due to their quality control method of using people instead of computer algorithms to check that sites are correctly listed. Currently Yahoo! is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company. Yang, PhD dropout and also known as "Chief Yahoo!," is listed by Forbes magazine as being worth $5.7 billion. (2)
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| Three websites |
| Title of Web page: The Story
of Yahoo Web address: http://www.akamarketing.com/yahoo-feature2.html Brief Description: Biographies and photos of Jerry Yang and David Filo. History of Yahoo. Source of Web site: AKA marketing.com |
| Title of Web page: Jerry Yang
and David Filo Web address: http://soe.stanford.edu/AR95-96/jerry.html Brief Description: Article about Yang and Filo. Quotations from Yang and Filo. Source of Web site: Stanford University School of Engineering |
| Title of Web page: Mark &
Marc Interviews... Chief Yahoos: David Filo and Jerry Yang Web address: http://www.sun.com/950523/yahoostory.html Brief Description: Question and answer interview with Yang and Filo Source of Web site: Sun Microsystems, Inc |
