I need £18m.

Hey there Bloggers!

There are a few different ways to make £18 million.

1. Wish upon a star.
2. Win the lottery.
3. Become a Gold Digger.
4. Find tons of actual gold.
5. Go on tons of game shows. Is the price right?
6. Have an awesome business venture.
7. Become an app developer or website designer.

A 17-year-old London boy, Nick D'Aloisio, created Summly. It's an app that provides bite-sized summaries of content from news and other sites. Nick just sold the app to Yahoo and collected £18 million. It is rumoured that 90% of that 18 million is in cash, the rest are in Yahoo stocks.

Nick is not the only youngin' who has made it big in the tech world. I'm sure we are all aware of Mark Zuckerberg who, at the age of 19, created a website that exploded into Facebook. OR even Alex Tew who, at the age of 21, created a website http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ . He sold pixels as ad space, priced at $1 each pixel. At minimum you would need to buy 100 pixels. He sold out of pixels in one year when they were auctioned off on ebay.

I wish that at the age of 17 I would have gotten off Roller Coaster Tycoon and actually done something with my life. In saying that, I did learn a lot from that game; Have lots of bathrooms and janitors if your going to have roller coasters with an intensity level over 8! But for real, the game did teach me about money and customer satisfaction. It also gave me a little background into coding when you had to punch in some cheats.

I'm sure that in the next few years there will be a lot more young tech kid stories. But even if you're not a tech kid, just find that passion in something that you love and maybe someday you too could make £18 million.

I'll keep wishing on a star.

You guys seen that movie "Blank Check"?

therealjenc

Who are you?

Well. I Probably should have introduced myself before going on rants about technology! Hiiii! I'm Jen. I like cats, vacations, vegan cookies and tech junk. I am a student at Canadore College and I am currently enrolled in the Mobile Application Development program. I have already graduated from the Advertising program at the same school.

I currently am looking for a job in the summer camp field because I don't want to grow up yet. If you know of anywhere, please, leave a comment or tweet me at therealjenc. I would appreciate it :)

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#1 Google Glass

Good Morning Bloggers!

Is anyone else super intrigued by Google Glass? I watch YouTube videos, read Blogs, talk to random strangers, to try to figure out if wearing technology on your face will become popular or not.

Other Companies are creating their own version of Google Glass. According to FinacialPost.com, South by South West Interactive, former Tonchidot CEO unveiled a prototype for his new wearable computing device, Telepathy One. It has a sleeker design and looks pretty nice. It can connect wirelessly to other devices, such as smart phones or tablets. It also has an ear bud so you can listen to music. Google Glass uses bone vibrators instead in order to create sound. 

Heads Up Display (HUD) seems to be the way of the future!

Here are some Pros and Cons to Google Glass and similar products. 

Pro:

1. You will always know where you are with the HUD.
2. It's hard to lose it because it's on your face. 
3. You can easily take pictures and videos without using your hands.
4. You look like a Sci-Fi Robot.
5. You wont have to use your brain as much.
6. It looks cooler than Blue Tooth Ear Buds.
7. You will look like you have lots of money so you may pick up a hot date. 

Con:

1. Your talking to yourself a lot.
2. You wont have to use your brain as much.
3. You look like a real nerd.
4. Lots more bruises from walking into stuff because your focus will be on the HUD.
5. Easily mugged. 
6. Unknown Health Risks (Vision, Cancers)
7. Eventually you will be like those people that still use Pagers, Blue Tooth, Fanny Pack etc. 

All in all I think its great technology and it's neat to see the tech world progressing but at the moment I don't know if it's socially acceptable yet. It's definitely up to the user if they want to use the product. Ill just point and laugh for a little bit longer (while on the inside totally green with jealousy!)




therealjenc