...Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most frequent causes of dementia (weak-mindedness) at elderly and senile age. Dementia is characterized by the expressed decline of intellectual functions of the person with ability disorders of surrounding conditions and independent actions. The disease is called by the name of A. Alzheimer, who described this form of illness in 1906. In the absence of treatment the disease steadily progresses and leads to the destruction of all mental functions. The etiologies of Alzheimer’s disease are not finally found out. There is a lot of data, testifying to the hereditary nature of the disease. However, there are the cases not caused by the hereditary predisposition, especially at later onset of the disease. Alzheimer’s disease can begin after the age of 50, but more often arises after 70 and especially after 80. Alzheimer’s disease is the disease connected with the destruction of brain cells and leading to a heavy frustration of memory, intelligence, other cognitive functions, and also to serious problems in emotional and behavioral spheres. “Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. It now afflicts nearly 4 million Americans. These numbers are expected to increase dramatically as the U.S. population ages. By the year 2050 approximately 14.5 million people will suffer from Alzheimer’s disease” (Handy: 1998) Alzheimer’s disease is insidious and develops gradually. It affects not old and full of strength people. The first signs of disease...
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...Projects The best way to showcase how we work is through examples. Here are a few of the projects we’ve worked on in the last year. Search As you can read extensively in our previous blog post, we’ve made some significant improvements to our Search product and its infrastructure over the last year, executed by just a handful of engineers. This was only possible because, when we were faced with the challenge of improving search, we were able to address it with a holistic perspective starting from the changes we needed to make on how we collected the data, our indexing infrastructure, and integrating all that efficiently with our ranking algorithms and UI. Explore A year and a half or so ago, the Explore tab would show only popular photos from our community, regardless of your preferences or connections. This experience wasn’t the best and we saw a lot of potential to increase the value and the engagement in that surface. Once more, we looked at the problem from a high level and broke it down into a series of long-term improvements to the product, being careful to make sure each step had some immediate gains as well so we didn’t have an all-or-nothing type of big deliverable. We personalized the photos people see based on their connections, created a surface to show account recommendations, and recently introduced trending places and hashtags. Finally, now that we have all our content indexed in our search infrastructure, we can use it as the source for photos explore...
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...Bohol INSTAGRAM (Android Application) A term paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY by: Josie Marie Mosqueda Edralyn Tutor 2012 ABSTRACT Today the folks responsible for one of the most popular social photography apps in the world have brought that entertainment to Android– and here we’re going to review it! What you’ll find is that this app is extremely similar to the iOS version, it having the ability to snap photos, edit them in brief, and send them out to several social networks. This Android version is said to be superior to the iOS version in several ways by its developers. This app got extremely popular on iOS because it allowed (and still allows) you to do three different activities in one app – photography, sharing, and editing of photos. Here on Android you’ve got several of those abilities built in – the HTC One series in-particular has some pretty amazing photo editing, taking, and sharing abilities. INTRODUCTION An important application for the tech-savvy crowd, Instagrams are all about the beauty of capturing moments through man-made lenses and sharing it with your near and dear! As Will Smith says “ Life is not about number of breadths you take, it is about number of moments take your breath away”. Moments like that don’t happen everyday, but can be captured and cherished for the rest of your lives, thanks to the app called Instagram! Instagrams are solely...
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...Instagram requires no introduction. Since launching in 2010, it has grown so rapidly and acquired such a vast and loyal user base that it is one of the few social networks whose name has made it into everyday English (it’s even a verb, depending on who you talk to). And Instagram’s star has only continued to rise in the aftermath of its acquisition by Facebook – while once the private domain of iPhone users, it is now compatible with any Apple or Android device. Some users have expressed concern over plans to introduce native advertising, which the official Instagram blog has attempted to assuage by saying that the intention is to “focus on delivering a small number of beautiful, high-quality photos and videos from a handful of brands that are already great members of the Instagram community.” And according to Steve Olenski at Forbes, “there will be no shortage of brands chomping at the proverbial bit to be part of the ‘small number’… Instagram’s growth has been so substantial that it now rivals Google and Pinterest in terms of brand adoption.” Olenski based his assertion on a recent study by Simply Measured, which indicates that brand adoption on Instagram is up 40% on last year. Another salient point highlighted by the study is that automotive, media and luxury brands dominate in terms of engagement on Instagram – and these engagement levels are continuing their growth. Brand engagement has increased by 350% in the last year, due to more and more brands embracing the platform...
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...McCullagh, D., & Tam, D. (2012). Instagram Apologizes to Users: We Won't Sell Your Photos. Retrieved from http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57559890-93/instagram-apologizes- to-users-we-wont-sell-your-photos/ This article focused on the issue that Instagram faced when the company decided to change some terms and conditions. The authors started with explaining the essential problem which was the language from its legal terms that would let users’ photos to be used or sold for other companies (McCullagh & Tam, 2012). Furthermore, the article stated and analyzed the company’s CE respond along with the user’s disagreements to the new terms. The authors explained the language Instagram wanted to use, and compared these terms of using personal pictures with Google+ and Yahoo. Also, the way the new terms policy would be viewed has been mentioned which was about using public pictures on ads if users decided to delete their accounts. This article has many interesting points that related to the language of terms and conditions. What if users did not complain about a specific language and make this condition vague? As long as developers write a lot of terms and conditions’ pages, they should explain more rather than make some points vague. Users should be aware of using their own personal pictures especially with Instagram since this application is blowing up these days. Not only this application, but with any other application or website that deals with sharing and dealing with personal...
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...The Analysis of Instagram Usage by Small Investments in Tanzania in Promoting their businesses: A case study of Ayman's Investment MS STELLAH W. KANYARI A research proposal intended for submission in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication of Tumaini University - Dar es Salaam College DECEMBER 2017 CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction This chapter presents the background of the study, statement of the problem, research objectives, research questions, significance the study and limitation of the study. 1.1 Background of the study Small businesses raise customer’s awareness and interest about their products or services through promoting them. The process of promotion...
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...LENS CRAFTER Instagram founder Kevin Systrom, photographed at Ocean Beach, in San Francisco. There’s no picture of the moment when everything changed for Kevin Systrom. But if there were, it would look something like this: A lanky, very tall, dark-haired man in his late 20s sits on a bench at the Caltrain commuter station in Palo Alto, California. A sepia tone and weathered patina might underscore the mood of weighty contemplation. It was early April of last year, and Systrom was waiting for his business partner, Mike Krieger, to arrive from San Francisco. Systrom had just left Mark Zuckerberg’s nearby house and was still digesting the offer that the Facebook founder and C.E.O. had made him: to buy Instagram, the photo-sharing app that Systrom and Krieger had launched just 18 months before. The price Zuckerberg offered was $1 billion—$300 million in cash and the rest in Facebook stock, an especially generous-seeming deal, on the eve of his company’s much-anticipated initial public offering. The offer was even more impressive given Instagram’s size and age. At the time, it had just 13 employees, operating out of a cramped space in the South Park section of San Francisco. Still, the small crew had managed to attract 30 million iPhone users in just a year and a half by offering a service that allowed a person to quickly upload, prettify through the use of filters, and publish images to the Web for friends to see. A version for Google’s Android mobile operating system had launched...
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...The Development of Instagram as a Social Media Tool Introduction More than twenty years after its commercial launch, the internet is now an important distribution channel, as well as an essential basis for consumer information and empowerment. The rise of the social and digital media has revolutionized the online environment tremendously. Novel applications for social correspondence are replacing the traditional mass print media. The social media landscape is an ephemeral place. New networks emerge every time, and it is almost impossible to keep track of what works and what does not work. With the many social media applications, the rise of online visual content sharing has brought about further changes in the social media landscape across various industries (Christiansen, B., Yildiz, S., & Yildiz, E. 2014, 213). The rapid growth of visual content sites such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Vine, and Twitter demonstrates how visual content has become widespread in social media, particularly in industries such as beauty and fashion, which rely heavily on visual representations and aesthetics. In the current social media landscape, brands are trying out the power of visual content in encouraging consumer engagement. Concurrent to this trend, Instagram is now growing faster than any other social networking site (SNS). According to Pew Research, while Facebook continues to be the most popular social networking site, Instagram appears to the fastest growing (Southern, M. 2014...
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...Are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram worth it to get? | EN1420 Composition II | Are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram worth it to get? Most people, seeing that millions actively use them, would say yes. I on the other hand, say no! I used to take part with each of these social media sites and as a user did not find them useful and actually found them to hinder my life. Many issues happen with work and home life; not to mention so many people are “addicted” and say too much or look at them way too often. Since the rise of social media sites in 2004 when Facebook went public to all, the American culture has become a very open, nosy, tell all population. Throughout my research I focused on the user perspectives and the negative sides of the sites; along with the Terms and conditions or behind the scenes aspects of the three sites. Focusing on just the user point of view at this point most people that use Facebook to begin with have features of their locations or tell the world of Facebook their day to day story including where they are going and what they are doing. This allows for people to stalk each other and know people’s daily routines giving the bad people of the world easy access to do what they would like. From personal experience Facebook can cause issues at work and within a household or relationship. You can send and receive messages and hide many wrong doings on Facebook. People can have secret relationships through Facebook with messaging or the IM feature...
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...Colegio de San Juan de LetranCollege of Liberal Arts and SciencesIntramuros, Manila 1002, PHILIPPINES | Date Completed: March 16, 2013Signature of the Proponent:_________________________________ | Capsule Research Proposal | | BalcosSioting | CziannicaVhieJennyvyl | PolintanMaglantay | | Last Name | First Name | Middle Name | Field of Specialization | Communication | Research Attributes | Research Approach | Mixed Method | | Research Method/Design | Descriptive | | Corpus of Data | FocusInterview/ Questionnaire Survey | | Research Domains | Social Network and Technology Use | | ResearchFoci/Parameters | Instagram, Technology Acceptance, Uses and Motives of Social Media Users | | | | Project Title: | Instawhat? Defining the Technological and Personal Uses of Instagram | Research Journals /Articles/BooksReviewed | Ancu, M.(2012). Older Adults on Facebook: A Survey Examination of Motivesand Use of Social Networking by People 50 and older. The FloridaCommunication JournalAyyad, K.(2011). Internet usage vs traditional media usage among universitystudents in the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research,4 (1), 41-61Ballard, C. L. (2011). “What’s Happening” @Twitter: A Uses andGratifications Approach.University of Kentucky Master ThesesBerkers, P. (2011). Gendered scrobbling: Listening behaviour of young adults in Last.fm. Interaction: Studies in Communication & Culture, 279-296Boyd, D.M. & Ellison, N.B...
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...Beatrice Iheuwa College Writing II Social Media – Rough Draft Fall 2009 Instagram is an online mobile photo sharing application through social networking, this enables users to share videos and pictures and connect them with other social networking platforms like Facebook and twitter. In October 2010 Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger as a free mobile application and then it rapidly gained attention and grew in popularity with over 100 million active users in April 2012 and over 300 million as of December 2014. Instagram was then acquired by Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg for about $1 Billion dollars and Facebook got all rights to user’s photos and to sell user’s photos to a third party without notification or compensation. The person I chose to interview is my best friend Susan, I have known Susan for about 10 years now and one thing I know about her is that she loves attention and loves taking pictures. I believe Instagram was made for her. Susan first learned about Instagram sometime in 2011 being that Instagram started on October 6th 2010 so she wasn’t too late in signing up like the rest of us. She said the first time she signed up she wasn’t too savvy about the application she just loved the fact that she could take pictures and then filter them however she likes then upload them into the app for the whole world to see. Susan’s first post was a picture of her face which we now call a selfie, she said whenever she did her makeup and hair...
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...surprise to learn that Facebook had interest in acquiring Instagram, In April of 2012, Facebook acquired Instagram for one billion dollars, for their photo sharing mobile app. Instagram is a social network site that is an online photo and video sharing and network service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, put on digital filter to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, like Facebook. The merge between Facebook and Instagram is considered one of the largest merging tech deals to date. Some would say it was a good move for Facebook to merge with the up and coming social networking sites, because it would increase users along as keeping their loyal users, by providing new features that Instagram offers. Others observing may say Facebook acquiring Instagram was clearly a defensive move, made in order for Facebook to keep its leading spot in social media network sites, and would probably say the merge is a bad business move because of its hastiness of spending one billion dollars for a startup company with no revenue at the time. However, the two companies merging was a historical moment in business history. One reason I feel Facebook decided to acquire Instagram, is because they saw an opportunity to expand on their own business and improve their photo apps, which is the services that Instagram currently provide to its users. By the merge, Facebook users can now access their Instagram photos or vice versa. According the article in VenturBeat...
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...a result of this campaign, we are expecting increase in reservation of the meeting rooms and also an increase in booking rooms for businesses that are looking to set meetings and to have a 100% pleasant stay for their visitors. Also we would expect an increase in restaurant and lounge visitors as there is one of Kuwait’s favorite Chinese cuisine called the Peacock. MEDIA: * Facebook * Instagram * Twitter Activity Date Date | Post | 22/10/2013 | Twitter post #1 | 22/10/2013 | Instagram post #1 | 23/10/2013 | Twitter post #2 | 23/10/2013 | Instagram post #2 | 23/10/2013 | Facebook post #1 | 24/10/2013 | Instagram post #3 | 24/10/2013 | Twitter post #3 | 24/10/2013 | Twitter Post #4 (Arabic) | 25/10/2013 | Twitter post #5 | 25/10/2013 | Facebook post #2 | 26/10/2013 | Facebook post #3 | 26/10/2013 | Twitter #6 afternoon | 26/10/2013 | Twitter #7 Game night (Barcelona.vs.Madrid) | 26/10/2013 | Instagram #4 | 27/10/2013 | Facebook #4 morning | 27/10/2013 | Facebook #5 Night | 27/10/2013 | Twitter #7 morning | 27/10/2013 | Instagram #5 | 28/10/2013 | Facebook #6 | 28/10/2013 |...
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...certain which one everybody else will choose but my two favored are Facebook and Instagram but I prefer Instagram over Facebook. They have different security features, altered creativeness, and ways to may everything simple. Beforehand, we chat about how Facebook and Instagram are not the same, let’s indicate the exciting connection between the two. Facebook owns Instagram, and that will help find then connect with Facebook friends on Instagram. This will also allow the user to link their Instagram posts to Facebook. Also, Facebook has friends and Instagram has followers. Nonetheless the key connection amongst the two stops here, so we can get down to business and point out some of the main differences now. Facebook and Instagram are similar but also very different in their own ways. Facebook is the big brother in this family and their active users are extremely high. While they both have great security features I think Instagram is safer to post and share pictures than Facebook. With Facebook someone can block a person but the timeline gives more information about them to other people. For example, the TV show Catfish expose people on the internet, "catfish" is an individual who makes a fake profile on social media sites using someone else's photos and false biographical evidence to make-believe to be someone they are not. All the time, if not most of it the fake profile comes from Facebook. With Instagram people can also block entirely by making the page private which can be safer...
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...it on ourselves. This is why I want to discuss the impact of social media, Instagram mainly, where we view our body as sexual objects which they aren’t. Being objectified over and over by our society makes females become an object, thinking we are worth the same as what our body is. We are forced to make ourselves look prefect, pretty and sexy to please the viewer for more likes...
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