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Metapost - My Final Post

Tech-Respect was created in response to a school assignment. To be able to use and understand social media.  I used core concepts displayed in unit lectures such as using external social media connections with facebook and twitter as well as customising my Tumblr blog with HTML & CSS.

Customising the Tumblr blog was definitely the most difficult thing to do. Not because of the coding, but I believe the customise feature in Tumblr needs more compatibility and bug fixing. I had many errors like things not loading properly, reverting to default settings and layout issues. Fortunately I got around these and managed to create the blog as intended.

Adding extra widgets was definitely going to be done as 'sharing' in social media is the most important. So I managed to find a great site called AddThis which provides widgets to share to all types of other social media. I also added some HTML to the side bar which displays the 5 most recent posts I have liked, keeping in mind that the stuff I liked was related to my blog. Furthermore, I added a few images from external sites which display statistics related to technology. If these were just plain images then they wouldn't be there. But the sites update these images frequently hence keeping my content updated.

Statistics:

These statistics were the most significant and combined with Google Analytics, I managed to find out how many views, visitors etc... my blog got. So it got very specific and it helped me in finding out what people like most about what I posted.

Tumblr                                        Google Analytics                - Posts:       200                                   - Visits:                600                - Followers: 65                                    - Unique Visitors: 500                - My Likes:  1200                                 - Page Views:       2500                - Following: 25                - Reblogs:    46

My blog was viewed from 45 countries around the world in 9 different browsers and operating systems, including Opera, RockMelt and Playstation 3. Visit percentage is around 67% referral, 25% direct and 8% organic with 8 visits from mobile phones.

Now to display my top 3 most popular posts.

1- An image of a video game replica.   2- An image of a video game replica made from lego. 3- A gif image of Jellyfish lamps

And these posts prove that Tumblr is all about images and unique and creative content. I also noticed that to get the most views to your posts, you find the days of the week people use social media the most. So.......Friday and the weekend. Because on Tumblr, most people don't have time to scroll tags for hours until they find what you posted 2 days ago. You want to update when it matters, keeping in mind that what you post needs to be unique.

Overall, I'm happy with the result and surprised to see how quickly my blog spread around the world in such a small amount of time.

It just proves how fast and far, shared Internet content goes. Especially in social media.

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The Retro Duo Portable NES/SNES Game System.

Play on the go or connect it to your TV for some larger than life retro gaming. It also comes with two extension controllers enabling two-player gaming.

It’s time to dig out those old NES and SNES cartridges.

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#Dell widescreen #Crystal display. Looks good.

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Felt IPhone cases, #playstation #xbox #famicom

"Prices for the cases range from $28 to $38 (USD), and the mini controllers sell for $13 bucks each. You can find them all over at rabbitrampage’s Etsy shop."

- technabob

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Internet World Stats Q1 results.

Internet World Stats has released it’s data for the first three months of 2012, showing China with a huge lead in the number of individual users.

The United Kingdom has the highest percentage of population of internet users, at 84.1%. That’s followed closely by Korea and Germany (both 82.7%), Japan (80%), with the US next at 78.3%.

The top 20 countries make up 75% of the world’s internet users.

Interesting to see Nigeria at 11th place overall, maybe because of all their internet scammers?!

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speechless

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12-millimetre ultra-thin design 150 grams gold chassis clear sapphire crystal screen covering button panel embedded with precious gems

$50,000

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Mass Effect 3 IPhone case. From ThinkGeek

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When they look back at this era, Internet historians will mark Facebook’s Instagram acquisition as the symbolic moment when the Great Shift was confirmed. Significantly, it also came soon after Steve Jobs’ death. The device that Jobs created had, within the space of five years, allowed a 551-day-old company with 14 employees to become worth $1 billion. On April 9, 2012, Web 2.0 lost its mantle as the most important Internet paradigm. We are now starting the Age of Mobile.

Web 2.0 Is Over, All Hail the Age of Mobile  (via courtenaybird)

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Silverstone TJ11 Diablo III Edition

nhenhophach created this custom Diablo 3 pc. One of the best I've seen. See entire progress here.

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I've seen a few replicas of #Fallout 3 but this has to top them all.

"It consists of an HTC Desire HD as the screen and processor, and an Arduino Uno with a USB host shield running microbridge to act as an ADB host for the phone. The Arduino then sends button presses to the phone via TCP over USB."

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Nexon makes a bid for Electronic Arts

"Electronic Arts shares are trading higher Thursday morning on a report that apparently originated with a South Korean newspaper that said the South Korean online game company Nexon has made a bid for EA."

- forbes

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That's the Atari 2600 console. Compare that to the PS3 below....

How times have changed...

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That's good. It'd be disappointing if it's not.

AnTuTu pegs Galaxy S III as most powerful Android device

from Engadget http://engt.co/JCi51E

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Still thinking that the art and design in #Bioshock is one of the best.

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#LEGO Scale Replica Of Halo Sniper Rifle.

Nick Jensen put together a full-size sniper rifle from Halo Reach.

He's even made other Halo weapons as well.

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Zelda Triforce Brass Bracelet Created by FusedElegance