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The real-time web is one of the most interesting scenarios that can be followed today. Exactly one month, search services in real time disappeared from Google results pages, and page google realtime on which were displayed separately moved to redirect the browser’s home page.

The explanation was clear: on July 2 had completed the term of the agreement, announced on October 21, 2009, allowed Google to use the data published by feeding your search Twitter in real time. Google’s move at that time reflected the same day that Microsoft had announced, turning to Twitter at the time in a profitable thanks to payments that both companies began to do.

For me, the owner of the time was “real-time comes the Web,” because I felt that the movement was no longer going back, and that search engines and began to cover something that users demand, but the sacred measure of incoming links could not cover, due to its slowness. In effect, using inbound links to measure relevance was the revelation that made Larry and Sergey dejasen his Ph.D. at Google to melt and largely turned the company into what it is today, but this mechanism does not respond to the question “what is happening now,” simply because the links take time to build. To provide results in real time, in 2009, there was practically nothing more than Twitter, and was at the door which had to be called – or at best a Facebook already announced their signing exclusively with Microsoft that allowed introducing Bing Likes the criteria of the social network, but that seems to put much more personal information circular to discuss what happens in the world.

With the launch of Google Buzz, my interpretation was clear: Twitter did not have to worry about Buzz was to “make the competition” as a tool for users to respond to the question “What’s happening?” “What’s happening?” . At best, had to worry about what to do when these annual revenues disappear from Google because Google no longer need to pay to access that information. And so it was stopped Google renew their agreement and payment to Twitter, and now announces that it will base its real-time search on a combination of Google and Google Buzz +1, collected and integrated properly, of course, with Google +. It reveals clearly the strategy that we commented at the time: a Google, rebuilding the social environment that is becoming relevant out there (streams Twitter, Facebook Likes) within its own network. That Buzz great contempt was, in fact, a “collector” of social activity was sufficient power with a social network that still reaches only twenty-five million users, to inject relevance and finish give it meaning. Throw in the system of +1 and progressively increasing adoption in web pages, and details of more restricted use but very interesting, such as Google Reader shared, and you have a real-time ecosystem of websites that may have very little to envy, if you have something that came with tools such as Facebook or Twitter.

Google makes a lot of money, while Bing is a huge source of loss. But Microsoft can not drop because Bing is the key to its strategy as a competitor in the network, although this is, overall, a machine to lose money. The stakes are clear: two markedly different strategies, with the same end. Between the two relevant search engines on the international market (minus locally important competitors such as Baidu, Yandex, Naver, Daum and some other), who are already only Bing and Google, the first bet for real-time search for the incorporation the results of third-party tools such as Facebook and Twitter, while the second one trusts to develop their own tools. Any one strategy session. And of course, in real time.

The development of the capacity to use information technologies (ICTs) is explicitly referred to as one of the fundamental objectives of the curriculum framework Transverse. This requires that the domain and use of these technologies in an integrated manner to promote work within the areas of learning. To this should ensure that the work of students, including the use of ICT to:

- Search, access and collect information on websites or other sources, and selecting this information critically examining their relevance and quality.

- Process and organize data using spreadsheet templates, and manipulating systematized in them to identify trends, regularities and patterns related to the phenomena studied in the sector.

- Develop and present information through the use of word processing, presentation templates (PowerPoint), as well as tools and applications of image, audio and video.

- Exchange information through the Internet offering tools such as email, chat, interactive spaces on websites, or virtual communities.

- Respect and take ethical considerations in the use of ICT, such as personal care and respect for others to use these tools, noted the sources from which information is obtained, and respect the rules of safety and use of space virtual.

Grounds:

Using the technology may involve more use for various purposes, without a clear purpose of supporting a learning content. By contrast, the curricular integration of information technology involves the use of these technologies to achieve a purpose in learning a concept, process, content, specific curriculum in a discipline.

This is to assess the educational possibilities of ICT in relation to educational aims and objectives. By integrating ICT curriculum we emphasize learning and how ICT can support that, without losing sight of the center is to learn and not ICT.

Curricular integration of ICT involves:

- Use technology transparently.

- Use technology to plan strategies to facilitate the construction of learning.

- Use technology in the classroom.

- Using technology to support the classes.

- Use technology as part of the curriculum.

- Using technology to learn content of a discipline.

That is why I decided to use this support manual handling of ICT, to enter into the digital era facilitator of knowledge in which we live.

Following the progress of the wiki, after having inserted and posted the links for the items, the next step was to develop the subject itself with those links. For this we have divided into small groups and each group has been responsible for a specific topic.

I’ve taken care of two paragraphs of item 6, along with Ana Garcia and Lydia Calvino. We have formed a good team from the beginning and worked quickly and efficiently, as I expected.

Each of us has got their work in their share of the wiki, for once it all, unify and shape thus constituting the entire subject in a coherent and consistent. This is already done for some days, not like the other fellow will but I can say that my group has already ended. The points which I was responsible I have been as follows (under item 6)

3. What is social software?
Throughout our history, communication patterns that underlie the basic processes of our societies have been moving almost “parallel” to the technological development of the same, from one-way models and overcrowded (editorial) information exchange, through models of mass distribution of information (mass media), up to more personalized exchange patterns in which the person ceases to be a mere spectator of the construction of knowledge, to become a principal actor and star of the same (always tailored to your wishes and possibilities).

With all the advances that have been reached with the New Technologies of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Web 2.0, etc. Has emerged one of the most defining characteristics of this process of technological evolution.

We meet the Social Software, this refers to a number of applications seeking to extend the possibilities of communication and connection between people and enable e-mail or instant messaging systems. The first social software was the mailing lists that allow connecting to many people simultaneously and MUDs, which enabled many Internet users, participate in the same game. What has changed from these early applications is that social software is now available to anyone, whether or not a specialist.

Encompasses a set of communication tools that facilitate interaction and collaboration through social conventions. These tools encompass email, listserv, Usenet newsgroups, IRC, instant messaging, web logs, wikis, social aggregators, social bookmarking, folksonomy, and any other type of virtual community network. This is software that connects to a number of people in order to facilitate the flow of information (calendars, files, messages) and the realization of joint projects between them.

“Social Software” is a metaphor that refers to methods of organization that promote the integration of people, information, labor and technology (PITT) in a constructive, in order to provide top quality service, regardless the scope. With Web 2.0 and Social Media, the latest developments in the field are impressive and decisive.

The dynamics of the information broadcast using the technology will bring managers to propose new policies, orders and laws regarding the regulation of actions which can affect individuals and measure the parameters that the information should have. It should design a set of ethical corporate policies for each of the moral dimensions. This was done to help individuals make the right decisions, the policy areas are:

A. – Property Rights: intellectual property, intellectual property is considered an intangible property created by individuals or corporations that are subject to protections under the law.
Secret: Any work or intellectual product developed for business purposes, provided that is not based on public domain information. The limitation of protection of trade secrets is that while virtually all software programs which use complex containing unique elements of some kind, it is difficult to prevent the ideas of the work falling into the public domain when the software is distributed widely.

Copyright: Concession granted by law to protect creators of intellectual property against copying by others for any purpose, for a period of 28 years.
Patent: A legal document that gives the holder for 17 years, an exclusive monopoly on the ideas on which an invention. It is designed to ensure that inventors of machines or new methods are rewarded for their work, while their product is widely used.
B. – Quality systems: data quality and system errors can be held responsible individuals and organizations for avoidable and foreseeable consequences if their obligation is to see and correct.

C. – formal responsibility, legal responsibility and control: The new information technologies are challenging existing laws regarding liability and social practices, to force individuals and institutions accountable for their actions.
D. Quality of life, equity, access, boundaries. The negative social costs of introducing information technologies and systems are growing along with the power of technology. Computers and information technologies can destroy valuable elements of culture and society, while providing benefits.
E. – Information Rights: Privacy and Freedom in an information society, technology and information systems threaten the privacy of individuals. For this you have to take into account ethical, social and political.

There are five key dimensions, moral issues related ethical, social and political in an information society.

1. Information Rights and Obligations: Refers to the right of individuals and organizations with respect to information concerning them. What rights to information are individuals and organizations with respect to information about themselves? What can be protected? What are the obligations of individuals and organizations with regard to this information?

2. Property Rights: This related to all the rights that protect intellectual property in a digital society as well as specific guidelines for relations with third parties. How do you protect the traditional rights of intellectual property in a digital society where it is difficult to track and account for property, and is very easy to ignore those rights?

3. Formal Responsibility and Control: This refers to the person responsible for managing information systems. Who can be held accountable and take responsibility for damage to the property rights to information and individual and collective?

4. Quality System: Refers to the overall levels of data quality and system errors that can be tolerated, leaving the detailed specifications for specific projects. What data quality standards and systems should be required to protect individual rights and security of society?

5. Quality of life: Refers to the satisfaction they must feel the customers and employees by high levels of quality through proper coordination, design of tasks and workflows, and human resource development. What values should be preserved in a society based on information and knowledge? What institutions should be protected against infringement? What cultural values and practices support the new information technology?