How Will Super-Fast Online Impact Online Education & Studying In The Future

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Long ago education can only be accomplished by participating sessions in a classroom-setting. However, with internet and a cellular phone one can now enjoy the hassle-free online academic programs being provided by famous academic organizations and organizations. The impact of the world wide web has made person's life more comfortable and easier that acquiring knowledge is possible even for those individuals who are bus handling their business and for busy mothers at home.

The old saying that "there is nothing lasting here on earth but continuous change" is definitely real and even our method to train and interaction has regularly changed over the past years. Lengthy ago, our source of details was by means of characters, telegrams and word-of-mouth. But now we can access all sorts of details within just a matter of seconds. All it takes is a quick internet relationship and a cellular phone. The biggest modify that our nation has experienced with the use of internet is how education can be obtained. The conventional method of teaching- where teachers and learners can see each other experience to deal with to send and receive details is now changed with video clips and resources that can be easily utilized online.

However, despite the fact that online education is becoming popular in this creation there are still individuals who aren't familiar with the world wide web education factors. So, how does the speed of internet affect online education? How can learners take advantage of online learning? Some individuals claim that the quality to train of our nation is gradually minimizing and this has intensify now that we have the world wide web existing. Is it really real that on the world wide web is a trash?

Many questions continue to bother individuals as we go forward to the creation where internet is regularly changing but many individuals, especially those who have tried online education, can say that the details being provided by on the world wide web is as appropriate and brief as the ones being provided in conventional academic organizations.

In the future, I believe the a quick internet relationship will greatly benefit those who are investing into online education.

The Best Architectural Websites

That sounds pretty important doesn’t it? At the very least it sounds comprehensive … it suggests an extensive and exhaustive collection of the best architecturally themed websites in the world. I’m not sure if that is this list but it is my go-to list of websites. Compiling a list of the top architectural websites is far more difficult than it sounds, particularly if there isn’t any particular manner of evaluation employed other than these are the sites that I go to the most often.

I don’t have a blog roll on my site, something that I struggle with continually for excluding. That having been said – and at the request of enough people, I am finally putting together a list of my favorite websites. To make this list (and since I didn’t want to spend more than a day putting it together) I did have some rules that ended up eliminating some possibilities – most notably that you have to publish new content to your site regularly.

So let’s get to it – in no particular order, Don MIS750 Favorite Websites:

John Hill’s A Daily Dose of Architecture was the first architectural bog that I started reading. Full of critical evaluation and first-hand knowledge, this is a great site to visit for any fan of architecture.

What is there to say about the ArchDaily website? It’s only the most trafficked architectural website on the planet. They have been the leader in aggregate architectural sites from the beginning … and for good reason. If it’s out there, most likely it’s covered on this site.

The Architect’s Newspaper is an aggregate site for projects, news, competitions, job postings and much more.

Better Living through Design is a design and lifestyle website that has something for everyone. It’s easy to go to this site only to look at the clock and realize that you’ve been surfing their pages for a long, long time.

Energy Vanguard is the nerdiest website I go to – and I don’t ever regret going (I just keep it to myself or I’ll lose my “Architects are indifferent” card.) Posts here are written by Allison A. Bailes III – who happens to have a PhD. in Physics that he puts to good use teaching others about building science and energy performance. Normally I might steer clear from a site whose topics generally involve HVAC design protocols but with posts titled “Release the Kracken! – The Ductopus is Bad for Air Conditioning” how could you not take a look?.

Architechnophilia is an aggregate site and a really good one at that. There are a lot of architecturally themed aggregate sites out there but few are as current and as relevant as this one.

Simply put, Design Milk is a bad ass site. If it’s cool, it’s here: architecture, art, furnishings, interior design, style, technology and news … everything related to design. It was originally founded by Jaime Derringer but there is an army of talented and cool people assembling information for you. Based on their website, I bet they throw really good parties (that I will never get to attend.)

ArchiBlog is pretty much what is sounds like – a collection of architectural blogs. Not all architecture blogs are large enough for you to find, although that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth checking out. I go by this site often enough to find some new sites to read and explore … but don’t go looking for Life of an Architect on this site, for some reason they don’t see fit to include me. One day ….

Rounding out the triumvirate of magazine/ websites is the aptly named Architect. This is THE magazine of the American Institute of Architects so what does that tell you? It’s relevant, engaging and always full of interesting articles on all things related to the built environment. Recently I was lucky enough to make it onto the pages of this fine magazine – an experience neither of us will soon forget. The article can be found here [brace yourself -shudder]

Materialicious is a designers aggregate site – plenty here to explore, be prepared to lose track of time for a while … don’t be surprised to learn so much time has passed that you have to shave again.

Everyone knows that architecture students are always in the studio … Stuck in Studio is an architectural blog geared towards architecture students and the excitement, opportunities, and challenges unique to architecture students. There are plenty of architecture student blogs, I just think this one is the best. This is the one site that sort of breaks my rule since they haven’t posted in a while – my message to them? Get it going! [oh yeah, they are probably in stuck in the studio]

Not so much an architecture site but rather an art and interior design site. Most of the Interior Design websites that I traffic have so much product information that it all becomes noise … and in a just a very short time my brain becomes quite addled. What I like aboutMoCo Loco is the balance they strike between design and designers, art and artists. They have made the effort to bring me the story behind the products and as a result, I love their site.

Because she can say it better than I can – from Blueprint editor Vicky Richardson: ‘Blueprint aims to use the subject of design to reveal the workings of society. The magazine is about the important role that design and architecture can play in shaping the world.’ The online version is as good as the printed version – if you aren’t subscribing, you are missing out.

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The 2modern site is unique on this list for the simple reason that they sell the stuff they tend to talk about … but I don’t care. There is so much eye-candy on this site that I simply couldn’t leave it off this list. This was one of the first sites I added to my RSS feed and after two years when most sites than I can remember have been put on only to find themselves removed, 2modern is still there. Nice job folks, keep up the excellent work.

Metropolis Magazine is one of my favorite design magazines so it stands to reason that I would like the website as well (surprise!) Hard to really back this up with empirical data but I seem to find stuff on the Metropolis site that I don’t find anywhere else – and in this day and age where people seem to freely borrow from one another that’s really saying something. From their website, “Metropolis examines contemporary life through design—architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation.”

So there it is – my top 15 websites. I’m quite sure that you have some that you love that didn’t make this list … just put them in the comment section below!

Marvelous Things The Future Still Hasn't Delivered

Science fiction movies really fed us a line of baloney about the future. From fun popcorn flicks like Back to the Future: Part 2, to highbrow entertainment like 2001: A Space Odyssey, films portraying the future have shown us a whole host of cool stuff we could expect by now, from hovercrafts and flying skateboards to sentient robots. People are seriously embarking on asteroid mining missions, but we have yet to experience hovercraft use on a mass scale. There’s something wrong with that! Priorities, science. Priorities.

We still don’t see people zipping up to the moon for a quick weekend — and that’s a real shame. Here are some innovations we thought we’d have by now.

1. A Moon Base

Yeah, yeah, the Mars rover is cool. But we were expecting a full-fledged, settled, bustling, Starbucks-stocked moon base, with cities and suburbs and lines for brunch and lots of wacky moon high jinks. We wanted a Moon NFL team. Moon-cations. And while Lance Bass can semi-realistically aspire to go to space, the rest of us have no destination to lure us there.

A moon base would solve all of that. They could hire David Bowie to perform there, kind of how they get people in-house in Las Vegas. It’d be a huge draw, since every sane person ever would have a hard time passing up the opportunity to see Bowie perform “Major Tom” from the moon.

2. Hovercrafts Whizzing Through the Streets

This is a serious disappointment. Traffic is a massive problem, especially in China, where jams can last for absurdly long periods of time. There are aircraft in the works that can transition from car to plane, but they’re exceedingly expensive and just plain impractical, even if they do run on normal gasoline. We need to get hovercrafts — cars that can hover about 20 feet or so off the ground, max. Then we could just have two or three vertical lanes of traffic. You wouldn’t need a full-on pilot’s license, and there would be clear rules for where you could go so that the FAA wouldn’t have a heart attack.

Google managed to make driverless cars, yet still no hovercrafts. Technically, there are hovercrafts on the market, but at $190,000, they’re way too expensive for the average Joe.

3. Immortality

Even though making humans immortal would be a big problem for the planet, since overpopulation would happen in a devastating way in like five years, it would still be pretty much the best thing ever for everyone ever. Not dying would rule.

Science has successfully kept a line of human cells alive for decades. That line, called HeLa, may be immortal. Unfortunately, it’s cancerous. But if they can keep human cells alive long after their host human died, perhaps the key to keeping the whole enchilada alive and kicking indefinitely isn’t too far off.

4. Sentient Robots

OK, maybe this one’s better left uninvented. Sentient robots don’t usually lead to good things in sci-fi films and books. Although the idea of a Rosie the Robot maid is sorely tempting, “reaching self-awareness” in terms of robots and computers is generally code for “trying to kill all the humans.”

5. Teleportation

Teleportation offers a lot of advantages, although we imagine the people behind hovercrafts won’t be too happy if science figures out how to make a commercially viable hovercraft and then immediately proceeds to render them obsolete by figuring out teleportation. Of all the things on this list (besides possibly immortality), this is probably the least likely to happen.

6. Contact With an Alien Civilization

Alien image courtesy of Flickr, Markusram

Science can only do so much when it comes to making contact with aliens, since communication is a two-way street. And since most of the alien encounters portrayed in science fiction involve invasions and conflict (fromWar of the Worlds to Independence Day), we might be lucky to hear radio silence thus far.

Still, if the more optimistic alien encounter films are any indication, like Contact and Close Encounters of a Third Kind, we might be missing out. Scientists thought they may have discovered an alien mummy in Peru, but they probably just found a human mummy with a deformity. Even if they had, dead aliens aren’t very useful for contacting their living brethren, so it’s back to square one.

7. Cure for the Common Cold

This one’s not quite as exciting as alien meet-ups or eternal life, but it’d still be nice to say goodbye to pesky sniffles, sneezes and wheezes. We’ve managed to eradicate smallpox, but the less lethal cold virus is very much with us. People are even getting rhinoplasty to alleviate their symptoms, so colds are definitely still a major problem, albeit one with a low mortality rate.

8. Snazzy One-Piece Future Suits

Pop culture has made it very clear that future people favor monochromatic jumpsuits. Think of all the time and money we could save if we agreed as a society on one utilitarian outfit. Plus, we hear they’re very slimming.

9. Food in Tablet Form

Imagine: Instead of spending your days confronted with a myriad of food choices, you could just pop a pill to ingest total, optimal nutrition. If scientists found a way to mass-manufacture total food pills, a lot of good could come from it, including an end to world hunger. And this would really help solve the obesity epidemic, although it would cause some major damage to restaurants, grocery stores, the farming industry, the diet industry, and the way we mark and spend our days. Taking a food pill sounds boring, but it would definitely be futuristic.

Hopefully scientists can hurry up with all of these developments. We’ve left out time travel here because it’s confusing and we don’t want to get Looper‘d (that’s when your future self comes to kill your younger self and vice versa — sounds like no fun at all).

Apple iPhone 5 First Impressions: A Remarkable Achievement

Apple iPhone 5 isn’t the biggest or most powerful smartphone on the block. But that may not matter to iPhone purists, those who have fallen in love with the original iPhone 4 designs and were horrified at the thought that their precious device might develop a glandular condition and grow to near-tablet sized proportions.

I got to spend a little time with one of the many iPhone 5 phones Apple had lying around the demo room (and in the hands of demonstrators).

At first glance, I’d say Apple has achieved something remarkable: making the iPhone bigger, more powerful, and possibly even better, without changing the way it feels in your hand.

In case you haven’t seen, the new iPhone 5 looks a lot like the iPhone 4S. It’s got the same curves, the same half-inch-plus margins above and below the screen, the same single button on the face and the same volume and lock buttons on the side, but there are crucial differences, some more significant than others.

First of all, this phone is light. As soon I pick it up, I noted the lack of heft. The iPhone 4 and 4S both feel somewhat substantial in your hands. The iPhone 5 feels different (at 112 grams, it’s 20 percent lighter than the previous iPhone). It’s noticeably thinner (7.6 mm, or 18% thinner than the iPhone 4S). Apple did away with the glass back, which may have helped the phone shed an ounce or so.

That back is now the same brushed aluminum as the edges (or brushed black aluminum, depending on your choice). It looks good and feels great. You won’t miss the glass back.

Apple also moved the audio jack to the bottom of the device; I like it there. It’s a lot more elegant than having that cable jutting out of the top and possibly draping over you screen. That same base also houses the new lightning jack. It’s positively tiny compared to the old 30-pin jack, and it doesn’t care which way you plug it in.

It’s simple, smart touches like this that appeal to me. I’m certain most customers will appreciate them as well.

A New Screen

The biggest and most obvious difference between the iPhone 4S and the new iPhone 5 is the screen. It’s still a super-brilliant, high-resolution Retina display, but this one is noticeably longer than any iPhone that’s come before it.

It’s a neat trick, because, while the screen is now bigger (1136 pixels deep), the phone feels exactly the same in your hands. You simply get more vertical real-estate. On the home-screen, this means another row of app icons.

For apps and content, the screen offers more room to deliver interaction and information. Put another way, the old iPhone had a 3:2 aspect ratio screen and the iPhone 5 has a 16:9 ratio screen.

This will be a better screen for HD movies and TV (for which it won’t have to show black bars on the top and bottom). Some movies aren’t shot in 16:9 (the Avengers is, and it looks great on the new screen), but pretty much all modern TV is.

Apple obviously packed a lot more power into the new iPhone, adding the new multi-core A6 CPU (no one seems to know if it’s dual core or quad core) for faster performance and richer onscreen graphics. The game demos during the unveiling looked impressive — especially Real Racing 3 with the real-time rear-view mirror view. Unfortunately, none of the iPhone 5s in the demo room were loaded with games.

Even so, I did notice that app loads and switching seemed a bit peppier. The new iOS 6 Apple maps looked sharp, especially the 3D flyover, which basically draws 3D-rendered buildings with real photography draped over them in real time.

On the other hand, I did a similar walkthrough on the new A5-based iPod touch 7th generation and it was almost exactly as good.

Big Picture

iOS 6 also brings a redesigned camera. Powered by the A6 chip, it’s supposed to deliver better low-light performance and noise reduction. I couldn’t really test that out in the demo area, but I was able to test-drive the new Panorama mode. The idea is not new: take a 180-degree arc, or even a 360-degree circle of pictures, and the camera stitches them together.

I’ve tried this already on Android tablets and my Sony NEX-5 camera. That said, the iPhone 5’s implementation is good. It offers just enough guidance as your shooting (“slow down,” “move lower”) that almost anyone can create interesting panoramic views.

Siri got a little work done, too. As promised, she can now tell you sports scores and launch apps. I asked her how the Mets did today, and she responded with information and a nice visual for the upcoming game. When I asked about the Giants, she gave me a score for the football team, but neglected to ask if I meant the football or baseball Giants. When I pointed out her mistake, she apologized, but didn’t rectify it.

Siri’s new-found ability to launch apps was pretty impressive. I asked her to launch Passbook and it appeared almost immediately. I got the same rapid respond with third-party apps such as CNN.

No NFC

Passbook looks just as good as it did when Apple unveiled it at WWDC earlier this year. But seems no nearer to becoming a true digital wallet app. Yes, you’ve got important things like plane tickets and coupons, but nothing for making mobile digital payments. Perhaps this is because Apple chose not to include NFC in the iPhone 5.

As with Passbook, many of the best things about the new iPhone 5 may come from iOS 6, which will launch along with the phone and is available as an upgrade for all iPhone owners going back to the iPhone 3GS.

On the other hand, not all of the phones made prior to the iPhone 4S will be able to take advantage of these new features (Siri is one obvious example). They should all see the new iTunes store, though, which happens to look at lot like the Apple TV interface.

I thought it was well organized and more navigable than any previous versions of iTunes on the iPhone.

The iPhone 5 is, finally, an LTE phone, but until I get it in the real-world it’s hard to assess how much of an impact that will have on day-to-day use. Likewise with the new 802.11N radio; I know it’s going to be faster, but I’d need a lot more real-world use to assess the quality of that connection.

Over the coming weeks, many will compare the iPhone 5 to a variety of Android devices, including the large and powerful Samsung Galaxy SIII. I’m not sure how the iPhone 5 will hold up. It does not raise the bar much further than competing devices. Its screen is still smaller, its CPU may not be as fast and it lacks NFC.

And yet, I wonder if iPhone customers will care. The iPhone 5 offers myriad differences that will improve their day-to-day smartphone experience, while still delivering one of the most aesthetically pleasing handhelds on the market.

For many, I bet that will be enough. Of course, I won’t have my final say until we get a review unit and pound the heck out of it. I can’t wait.

Facebook - Are Your Kids Ready ??

Are your children ready for Social Media? While there are a ton of networks out there today, in all likelihood they would start with Facebook. That is still the cool place. So right from the Facebook, you must be 13 in order to sign up. Is that too young? Is that acceptable? As with most decisions as a parent, this should be specific to your own child. 

Some areas to think about and discuss with your child…

Privacy: You can leave it at the door. The moment your child signs up to any Social Network they are exposed. They’ve entered a new arena. Don’t ask Facebook or any network to be their keeper. Don’t be surprised if there information shows up elsewhere on the net. It’s just the nature of the beast no matter what your security setting. For most there will never be an issue, but if you’re highly sensitive to privacy, Social Media probably isn’t the best place for your kids.

46% of kids have given out personal information to someone they’ve met online
34% of kids have friends online they’ve never met in person

Cyberbullying: Bullying has reached new levels since I was kid. We’ve all heard of the tragedies over the last few years. One reminder is the story of Phoebe Prince. While this is an extreme case, cyberbullying is very real. It’s another potential pitfall of being online.

32% of all teens on the Internet say they have been a victim of cyberbullying

Social Media Positives: Undoubtedly you’ve heard or will hear, “but Mom and Dad all my friends are on it.” Social Media should be a fun and enjoyable experience. For most teenagers it has become another important form of communication. Some recent research uncovered some other positives.

Young adults who spend more time on Facebook are better at showing “virtual empathy” to their online friends.

Online social networking can help introverted adolescents learn how to socialize behind the safety of various screens, ranging from a two-inch smartphone to a 17-inch laptop.

Social networking can provide tools for teaching in compelling ways that engage young students.

As with most topics with our children communication is paramount. Keep this in the forefront, and your kids experience should be safe.

Percentage Source: Family Online Safety Institute

Research Source : American Psychological Association

Cloud Computing Datacentres in Cyberjaya

Cyberjaya

Cyberjaya is a town with a science park as the core that forms a key part of the Multimedia Super Corridor in Malaysia. It is located in the district of Sepang, Selangor and is situated about 50 km south of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. This town aspires to be known as the Silicon Valley of Malaysia.

The official opening ceremony for Cyberjaya was held in May 1997 by then Prime Minister, Mahathir bin Mohamad.

Cyberjaya is planned as an intelligent city with ICT and multimedia industries, R&D centers, a Multimedia University and operational headquarters for multinationals wishing to direct their worldwide manufacturing and trading activities using multimedia technology.

Toward this end, leading edge technologies were used, some with mixed results. In addition to the successful implementation of the above-mentioned Cyberjaya Dedicated Transportation System, the Cyberjaya blog is another example of the technology-based features that have been put in place

Several data centres operate in Cyberjaya. Notable are those operated by Shell, Basis Bay, NTT MSC, BMW and DHL. A small scale Data Centre ideal for Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is located at SME Technopreneur Center Cyberjaya SME Data Centre that provides Rack Location Unit (RLU) space rental and server co-location. There is also the largest carrier neutral, high-end purpose built data centre facilities, CX1 and CX2, in Cyberjaya, that is managed by CSF Advisers, a member of CSF Group plc CSF Group.

The proven cost savings and high return on investment from virtualisation and cloud computing in the datacentre have captured the imagination of many CFOs and CEOs.

In most cases, organisations can reduce datacentre costs by moving more applications onto fewer servers and can reduce software licensing fees and administrative resources by migrating to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.

When they add in faster deployment times for new applications and services while ensuring 24×7 reliability, organisations have a compelling business case for virtualisation and cloud computing in the datacentre.

At some point in the future, this type of highly virtualised, services-on-demand delivery model enabled through cloud computing will be the IT gold standard.

Cloud Computing

In terms of the physical network infrastructure, virtualisation and cloud computing complement each other in the following ways:

1. Cloud computing services can reside on top of virtual datacentres. Virtualisation can support cloud architectures;

2. Cloud computing software can orchestrate virtual server deployments. Cloud management software can control virtualisation services;

3. Cloud computing adds another virtualisation layer between end users and the entire IT environment, which enables a pay-per-use model; and

4. Both virtualisation and cloud computing require robust physical network infrastructures. They rely heavily on the network and require new ways of thinking about network architecture and design.

Before this transition occurs, however, the underlying network architecture must provide greater availability, performance, and security while simplifying datacentre operations.

A complete revolution in the datacentre, with its associated costs, disruptions, and time requirements, is unnecessary in almost every case. Instead, the transition to a highly virtualised datacentre can be smooth, non-disruptive, and full of business advantages.

As organisations add Virtual Machines (VMs) and shift to a cloud-based operations model, the network must be hardened against failures that disrupt traffic yet adaptable and flexible enough to support new business requirements.

The key to achieve "failure proof" datacentre is to move toward a target design along a well-planned path and to use incremental steps to control risk.

Therefore,Cyberjaya planning guidelines strongly required all datacentres to have two electricity connections from two separate substations. Diesel generators up to full load (except air conditioning load) were specified to be installed in all commercial buildings.

The electricity grid connection was also organized to enable “power islanding” and supported by the Serdang Power Station. The electricity service standard is set at 99.99% availability with maximum of 10 seconds interruption for office and commercial areas and maximum 15 minutes interruption for residential areas.

These measures were dreamed up to provide Cyberjaya with a comparative advantage against other areas outside the Multimedia Super Corridor.

Smart Motoring vs GPS ^0^

ON a traffic-jammed Jalan Kuching in Kuala Lumpur, the newly-installed navigation app on my HTC chimed and a message warned: “Police hidden. Jalan Kuching. 545 metres away.”

It was noon and I was driving to a lunch tweet-up in Mont Kiara.

Half a kilometre later, indeed there were cops hiding behind some bushes.

Wow! What a clever navigation app, I thought.

Cleverer than my domineering 70-something mother who drives me crazy with her incessant turn-by-turn instructions when seated next to me while I’m driving.

New Waze ; Outsmarting Traffic



Introducing Waze, the amazing social networking navigation app with the tagline “Outsmarting Traffic, Together”.

How does it work? First download the free app to your iPhone or android smartphone, sign up, set your destination and drive.

The app will provide turn-by-turn directions, with an automated woman’s voice telling you where to go.

“By simply driving with the app open on your phone, you passively contribute traffic and other road data that helps the Waze system to provide other Waze drivers with the optimal route to their destination, including live traffic information,” according to Waze in waze.com.

Waze is about “crowdsourcing”.

Here’s how it works: say you are driving 60kph on Jalan Kuching, that information will be sent to Waze via the Internet.

It will analyse that data together with other data sent by Wazers, and it will know the traffic situation on Jalan Kuching.

The fun part about Waze is that you can submit reports on accidents, traffic jams and “hidden” policemen.

There have been times when I wished there had been an accident so that I could report that there was an accident.

A few weeks ago, I was a Waze baby with a cute avatar – a pink quote bubble on wheels sucking a baby pacifier.

After 100 miles (about 160km), I graduated to Waze Grown-Up (I lost the baby pacifier).

The next rank is Waze Warrior, when I reach the top 10% of scorers in my region.

Waze has the inside knowledge of a taxi driver. It will suggest unconventional routes so that you can avoid a traffic jam.

With crowdsourcing, when there is an accident on the road, Waze will warn you not to take that route.

At first I did not believe that Waze was that smart.

Instead of taking a toll road which it suggested, I took the NKVE Highway which on the Waze map was congested because of an accident.

Big mistake. I was stuck in a 30-minute crawl because drivers were slowing down to jot down the licence plate of the cars involved in the three-car pile-up in the other lane.

Waze Makes Driving Exciting

Waze also makes driving exciting. Instead of your habitual route, it would suggest a route that you did not consider for your favourite neighbourhood shopping mall.

It thinks of routes that you’ll never think about. Wonder if there is a Waze app for sexual positions?

As predicted by Waze, I arrived at KLCC at around 12.35pm.

I raved about Waze to my Twitter friends. And I was not the only one raving.

If you have passion for maps, you can edit and update the Waze map.

My Travelogue ; Expo 2010 Shanghai, China

Don in Shanghai

Expo 2010 Shanghai China was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in the city of Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo in the tradition of international fairs and expositions, the first since 

By the end of the expo, over 73 million people had visited – a record attendance – and 250 countries and international organizations had participated.On 16 October 2010, the expo set a single-day record of having over 1.03 million visitors enter the exhibition that day.

Malaysia Pavilion:Pearl of Southeast Asia

Unique Features of Malaysia Pavilion

The inspiration of the pavilion design comes from the traditional Malaysian hut in the expression of a unique style and national spirit of union. The building will comprise two streamlined high slopes with a cross on top, the symbol of Malaysian architecture. The facade of the pavilion will be made from a combination of recyclable materials of palm oil and plastic.

Visitors will encounter world heritages of Penang and Malacca and get access to characteristic Malaysian artworks and their production process. Electronics, rubber and timber products will also be exhibited in the pavilion

Visitors will encounter world heritages of Penang and Malacca and get access to characteristic Malaysian artworks and their production process. Electronics, rubber and timber products will also be exhibited in the pavilion.

The corridor and entrance at the ground floor will be based on Mosque design with elevated roof on columns to resemble the traditional long house in Malaysia. The exterior wall will imitate Malaysian textile printing with patterns of butterfly, bloom, flying birds and geometrical drawings.

Along with palm oil, rubber and other economical plants, the pavilion will also exhibit tourist attractions of beach and golf court, as well as ordinary family lives in Malaysia. Visitors will be able to pitch and putt at an indoor golf area. The sightseeing elevator between two stories will be designed to simulate the famous Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur.

During the Expo, the central stage in the pavilion will host two local dance performances every day to showcase all 47 ethnic groups from the country.

The pavilion will hold lucky draws on key days during the Expo, such as Malaysia’s national day, and the anniversary of China-Malaysia Diplomatic Relationship.

Visitors will see characteristic Malaysian artworks and their production process in the pavilion and will have the chance to taste delicious Malaysian foods such as bak kut teh, etc. 

Germany Pavilion ; Theme Balancity

Germany Pavilion Features

It is the epitome of a city, boasting the creation of a "harbor image" and a "dynamic tunnel" with urban scenes from Germany. This is the "Balancity," a magnificent crystallization of Germanic originality and technology. The structure is wrapped in silver membrane. A terraced landscape stretches from the ground level up to the third floor of the pavilion. Four exhibition structures appear to hover, creating a perfect roof for visitors.

Japan Pavilion ; Theme Harmony of the Hearts , Harmony of the Skills

Japan Pavilion Features

The Japan Pavilion is a semi-circular structure, covered by a purple membrane material. Several antennae and caves make the pavilion a "breathing organism," which will express the harmony between the human heart and technology. The pavilion has been dubbed "Purple Silkworm Island" by Chinese people.

China Pavilion ; Theme Chinese Wisdom in Urban Development

China Pavilion Features

The main structure of the China Pavilion, "The Crown of the East," has a distinctive roof, made of traditional dougong or brackets, which date back more than 2,000 years. The dougong style features wooden brackets fixed layer upon layer between the top of a column and a crossbeam. This unique structural component of interlocking wooden brackets is one of the most important elements in traditional Chinese architecture. Dougong was widely used in the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC-467 BC).

Italy Pavilion ; Theme City of Man

Italy Pavilion Features

The design of the Italy Pavilion is inspired by the children's game "pick-up sticks," which is known as "Shanghai" in Italy. The rectangular pavilion has been laced with intersecting lines - representing pick-up sticks. It comprises 20 functional modules of different shapes, bounded by the "sticks." They represent Italy's 20 regions. The modules can be assembled into smaller structures.

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