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Building Green
In today's What Next? story, we surprised Nathan with a visit to the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) remarkable building. Did you know it's also the world's greenest museum? Some really bright architects and engineers worked on the building, including Alasdair McGregor, who designed the building's living roof.
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Happy Spring!
It's the first day of spring! (Even though in New York, it kind of already feels like summer.)
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What's up with Wikipedia
So what IS up with Wikipedia?
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Share This Site
How do you find new things online? Maybe you have a few favorite websites (ChannelOne.com, of course) whose address you have bookmarked or memorized. In the early days of the web, that was actually the only way to get around, and 20 years later, it's still common. But more and more people are finding cool things to do and read through their friends.
See those buttons right above my hard-to-spell name and irreverent photo? That's a little feature we introduced this week: the ChannelOne.com Share Bar. If you hadn't noticed it already, that may be because it's an improvement on something we already had — the Facebook Like button, which we added to our website a while ago. You'll still see the Like button on blog posts and articles, but because Facebook isn't the only game in town anymore, we've added a Google+ button, too, and if you use Twitter, there's a button you can use to tweet our stuff.
But that's not all, not by a long shot. There are way more social sites on the Internet than you've ever heard of. Think we can't cover them all? Think again. See that orange Share button all the way at the right? When your mouse is over it, you'll see a whole lot of other options — almost 350 in all. Count them if you don't believe us. Maybe you're a fan of Packg. Or is Scoop.it more your thing? Yeah, we hadn't heard of them, either, but if that's where you want to share ChannelOne.com content you like, we've got you covered.
You can also easily email an article to someone else. How did we do it? As much as we'd like you to think we spent months scouring the Internet for every social service out there, that's just not practical for us — or anyone else, for that matter.
Luckily, there's AddThis, a really great service that does the heavy lifting for you. If you have your own website or blog, you can use it, too. We customized it a little, but if you have a little web know-how, it's really easy to install, and it's free, too. Tools like AddThis are a big part of why the web keeps getting better. If every website had to figure out how to get its content on 350 different sites, well, it would never happen.
So go ahead — like us, +1 us, tweet us. And while you're at it, Virb us, too. It's a big World Wide Web out there, and we want to be part of it.
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Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
I found out about Steve Jobs' death last night on an Android smartphone. And I'm writing this right now on a PC running Microsoft Windows. Jobs didn't invent either of them. But his company, Apple, launched the iPhone in 2007 — the first Android phone came out in 2008. Windows, meanwhile, was widely seen as a ripoff of Apple's Macintosh OS when it was released in 1985, a year after the first Mac.
Apple is the most valuable company in the world. But even if you're one of the shrinking number who hasn't bought something from them, if you ever use personal electronic devices, Steve Jobs has had an effect on your life.
Microsoft struggled for years to get people to buy tablet computers. Nobody seemed very interested. Then last year Jobs introduced the iPad, it flew off the shelves by the millions, and suddenly, every tablet had to look like an iPad. Apple is now suing Samsung because, its lawyers say, Samsung's Galaxy Tab copied a little too closely.
Jobs didn't just have that effect at Apple, either. In the early 1990s, people thought computer animation looked too awkward to sustain a full-length movie. Then in 1995 Pixar — which Jobs had bought from George Lucas in the mid-1980s — released Toy Story, which became a huge hit. Eventually nobody wanted to see the old-fashioned kind of animated movie. In 2004 Disney, which had been making animated films for more than 65 years and distributed Pixar's movies, announced it was getting out of the traditional-animation business to focus exclusively on CGI. (It's since come back — after it bought Pixar from Jobs, who got 7 percent of Disney in the deal. That's 6 percent more than Walt's nephew Roy.)
Even more than businesses and consumers, schools always wanted what Jobs was selling. In the '80s educators loved how friendly and easy to use the Apple II was and filled their computer labs with them. At one time, it was rare to find a computer in school that wasn't made by Apple. It helped that Jobs always felt it was important to give schools and students big discounts.
After starting Apple in his parents' garage when he was 21, Jobs was forced out of the company in 1985. But while he was gone, even his old company wanted to do what he was doing. Eleven years after he left, Apple bought his new company, NeXT, intending to use a version of its software as the new operating system for Macs. Jobs ended up back in charge, that software became Mac OS X and Macs became cool again.
You're going to hear a lot about how Steve Jobs was a genius, a visionary, a pioneer. It's all true, of course, but it doesn't mean he was perfect. The coolest kid can use his power for good or for evil, and Jobs made his share of enemies over his long career. But like him or not, if you're reading this, he changed the way you live — maybe a little, maybe a lot.
Margie Phelps of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church — famous for picketing the funerals of soldiers — announced on Twitter yesterday that her group would be protesting at Jobs' funeral. He "gave God no glory," she posted, and "taught sin."
She tweeted it, the webpage said, "via Twitter for iPhone."
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The Social Network
How many times has this happened to you? You check out Facebook for the 30th time that day only to find that everything's different now. Maybe the font size is smaller, maybe your friends are all in a row down the side of the page, maybe it's hot pink instead of blue (OK, that one hasn't happened yet). Whether the changes are large or small, if you're like a lot of Facebook users, you're probably not happy. It happened again Wednesday, and this time it's serious. Facebook rolled out a load of new features — and they're not done yet — but the highest-profile change is that instead of the latest updates at the top of your news feed, now you'll see the updates Facebook thinks are the most important.
But, you're thinking, I liked it the way it was before. So why does this keep happening?
Facebook is a big deal. It's a very big deal. Lots of websites want to do the same kind of thing Facebook does. Facebook is far ahead of all of them, even the ones with a lot of money to throw around, like Google. Still, Facebook knows that no matter how successful they are, they're never really safe. You may think you'll never abandon Facebook — all your friends are there! It's so much fun! But that's exactly what people used to say about MySpace, which was once the No. 1 site in the U.S. Six years ago News Corporation — the owners of Fox — bought MySpace for almost $600 million. They just sold it for $35 million. To Justin Timberlake.
MySpace failed because another website came along that did a lot of the same things it did, just a lot better. That website was Facebook. You can bet that Facebook hasn't forgotten that. They know that if they don't try something new, someone else will.
Mark Zuckerberg, the guy who created Facebook while he was a sophomore at Harvard, says he knows what you want better than you do. In 2009 he told his employees that the best companies "don't listen to their customers," and that companies that do listen are "stupid."
So Facebook will continue to make changes, and people will continue to complain. But until people start leaving, it's not going to stop. Facebook now has 800 million users. That's more than 1 in 10 people in the entire world. Like it or not, they're doing something right.
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Channel One News to Go
Odds are you will soon. More and more, smartphones aren't just for geeks and people who don't know what to do with all their money.
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Jessica Kumari
Clearwater Beach, Florida native Jessica Kumari cultivated a passion for news at her campus TV station at Georgetown University. She then moved to New York City and joined the prestigious NBC Page Program before serving as a production assistant for Brian Williams.
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Shelby Holliday
Shelby Holliday is passionate about all things Millennial. From politics to prom, her favorite assignments involve talking to students and discussing issues that affect young people.
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Scott Evans
Scott Evans has been working in entertainment and media since the third grade. After studying communications and theatre at Purdue University, he worked as a NBA On-Court Host for the Indiana Pacers and Indiana Fever. He most recently worked as the West Coast Correspondent at the millennial news organization, One Minute News.
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Jason Witmer
Producer Jason Witmer has worked in just about every type of journalistic medium including writing for magazines and producing pieces for NPR. He fell in love with video as a medium at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism before spending three years at the Houston Chronicle. He is happy to be at Channel One now, a show he grew up watching.
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Kristen Brody
Kristen Brody is a graduate of the University of Missouri's journalism school and a Production Associate at Channel One.
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Gary Hamilton
Gary knows something about that famous Texas pride, he was born and raised in Houston (where he grew up watching Channel One in Middle and High School) and then he graduated from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas and studied abroad at Oxford University in the U.K.
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Jessica Rojas
Jessica Rojas is a born and bred New Yorker whose love of all types of music, dance and entertainment took her to Los Angeles where she studied at the University of Southern California. Her love of music is what brought Jessica back to New York to share that passion with you at Channel One.
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Sarah Mirza
Producer Sarah Mirza is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Master's journalism program at Boston University. She loves to write and lives for those adrenaline-fueled breaking news situations.
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Kristin Sachau
Producer Kristin grew up in San Diego, California and graduated from San Diego State University. When she got involved with documentary filmmaking, she realized she had a passion for storytelling and she's been doing it every since.
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Evan Groll
Associate Producer Evan Groll started at Channel One as an intern. He enjoys covering international news, human interest pieces and stories centered around social injustices (or even better, a combination of the three).
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