Pune, India script.

The following podcast is presented by the friends of Guadalupe River Park & gardens and the San Jose State University Journalism & Mass Communication department:

San Jose and Pune established a sister city relationship in 1989 and the city has a history of a Maratha Empire that began in the late 1500s. Pune is very well known for its rich agricultural regions, universities and high level institutions.

Pune, India has become one of the largest growing information and technology regions in India. The seating area in the Pune sister city features a Shivaji Maharaj statue that was donated from Pune, India. Shivaji founded Pune in 1640 and was a modern warrior who fought foreign invaders and even established a Maratha kingdom that lasted for 200 years, with the capital being Pune.

The Pune, India Sister City is at location 38 on the Guadalupe River Park map.

The Ekaterinburg, Russia Sister City is located nearby. It is currently awaiting greater community involvement. For more information, please visit grpg.org

Be anywhere at anytime.

I wish I could sit on top of a pyramid. This wasn’t possible to imagine 50 years ago. I’d never be able to see myself sitting on top of a pyramid.

But now… it is very possible.

I can easily use Photoshop to crop together a picture of me, sitting in a chair, on top of one of the Great Pyramids in Egypt.

When I was in high school one of my friends, who was excellent with Photoshop, editing a picture of another friend to make it look like he was riding a camel in the desert.

The world of media keeps making it more fun, and more dangerous, for our ordinary lives.

In fact, for young people… these things have become ordinary.

Google It

Google has Google. Google has Flickr. Google has YouTube. Google has Android. Google has Orkut.

Google has used all these services to invade our lives. Google uses all of these services to connect us to the world and to each other. Using all this new media, one could get overwhelmed.

We have the ability to search for anything on the internet with Google.

We have the ability to upload and share pictures in a community with Flickr.

We have the ability to upload and share videos with YouTube.

We have the ability to use our cell phones to contact the world on the mobile OS of Android.

We have the ability to connect to each other in all these ways with Google’s social networking site Orkut.

Heck, we even have Blogger from Google. A way to share our lives with others through words.

Social networking with the Palm Pre

Sprint and Palm are going to be taking cell phones to a whole new level.

We all think, and thought, that the iPhone was revolutionary. The new Palm Pre seems to go above that. Now, cell phones will be our social networking devices. Although you could argue they already are… they’re about to take it to another level.

The Palm Pre and it’s webOS will be connecting you to all your social networks at all times. It’s going to keep you in the loop all the time and keep your friends in the loop.

I think I’ll call it the Twitterphone.

Tweet Tweet

Facebook recently overhauled their user interface to put an emphasis on their news feed and status updates.

It basically looks, and feels, a little like Twitter.

Social networks are growing and becoming more innovative every single day… and I think this new Twitter phenomenon is going to become a big part of that.

The ability to see what your friends and contacts are doing or thinking at any given moment and then the ability to comment on and have a discussion about those things is something amazing.

People are aiming to stay connected to each other at all times, it seems like.