Parmeet's Podcasts

Before an individual sets his/her sights on creating something new, they often have to be inspired by something or someone. YouTube was only officially launched in Pakistan this decade, and since then the Pakistani YouTube community has grown at an exponential pace. Over the past few years, there has been an increase of vloggers globally that post their videos on YouTube. Due to the internet, teenagers and young adults in Pakistan were able to take inspiration from western vloggers and design a vlogs that they believed would thrive in the Pakistani market. Even though the videos these vloggers churn out every week aren't 100% down to their own creativity, new media platforms allowed them to take an idea and play around with it to tailor it to their audience and their target market. This still requires an individual to be creative and come up with ideas to make their product distinct from that of someone with millions of subscribers on YouTube. Sasha Frere-Jones' article in ...

People tend to think of technology's biggest benefit being the exponential increase of convenience in our daily lives. However, technology has allowed for the creation of virtual worlds where humans can go through experiences that they haven't done in real life or don't want to experience in real life. Virtual reality or virtual worlds have already been used in the gaming industry and military training. Diane Mehta's article in Forbes  "After Second Life, Can Virtual Worlds Get a Reboot?" mentions, "But Minecraft is a virtual world. It’s digital LEGOs if you will, but it’s a space for kids to exercise their imagination and to connect with others to also want to build and create things. And it’s the biggest phenomenon today." This technology has also been used to test self-driving cars and other autonomous vehicles. However, the biggest problem with the virtual world is that it is expensive, challenging and time consuming to create. Also, it is impo...

When comparing discussions on Twitter and Blackboard, it is important to realize that there is a 280 character limit on Twitter. Discussions on Blackboard can involve a thread of a few posts that might be more descriptive and more detailed as there isn't a character limit. People can expand upon their points and provide multiple sources of evidence to support an argument in one post, which might not be possible on Twitter. The good thing about Twitter is that a discussion can be viewed by people who don't follow you through the use of hashtags. If someone retweets or likes your tweet, your tweet will appear on the timeline of that person's followers, thus increasing your reach. There are also some similarities between the two, however. Both discussion boards follow the format of a thread, where contributors can reply to any post in the thread. The discussion boards also allow for the inclusion of links, pictures and videos. Even though you can change settings to receive n...

The four social networking sites that I will discuss in this post are: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Firstly, talking about the site that I've used the most over the past year, Twitter comes across as a platform where anyone can engage in an intellectual conversation, go on a rant about a social issue, or try to learn more about a topic. Twitter also seems to have the most accounts with people choosing usernames that aren't their legal first or last names. Of the four, Twitter is the most diverse and broad platform in my opinion. LinkedIn, on the other hand, is a place where you have to tread extremely carefully as whatever you post/share is influencing everyone else's impression of you as a professional. Of the four, LinkedIn is the most formal platform. Facebook started as a platform where individuals would add their friends and family, post pictures, update friends about any key life events (graduation, marriage, new employment, etc.) and share any funny...

Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and LinkedIn are some platforms that we tend to think of when talking about social networking. Each of them serves a slightly different purpose and has its own standout feature, but they all provide a platform for people to connect. For example, I use Twitter to keep track of global politics and news related to soccer, but some other users utilize the platform to learn about investing strategies by following finance professionals. LinkedIn is another platform that I've benefited from, albeit in a different way, as I've used it to make connections in the corporate world. Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting, published in npr by Frank Langfitt, mentions, "But what really makes Linkedin helpful is that it allows users to share their online Rolodexes. Shally Steckerl used to hunt talent for Microsoft and is a leader in online recruiting. With Linkedin, he can find people faster using a vastly increased network of contact...