Details Missing from Ashton’s Stint as Editor
Categories: Technology
Despite Ashton Kutcher’s seemingly good intentions, he has a tendency to get himself into trouble. Check out his latest dappling in the publishing industry.
Skype & Facebook Embark on Video Chat Venture
Categories: Technology
If you are a tech fiend, or just anyone on top of the news, you know Facebook announced a Skype-powered video chat service that immediately went live.
Social Technology: Are We Looking at the Wrong Price Tag?
Categories: Technology
While we love the idea of speaking three words to video-chat Grandma, is this type of technology making life easier, or just lazier?
How To Survive a Long Distance Relationship
Categories: TNGG Weekly Columns
What if our heart lies somewhere else besides the state where our body is? Just because our generation is in a state of flux, doesn’t mean that we have to be loveless.
ABC’s ‘My Generation’ Coming Soon
Categories: Lifestyle
Our generation has just lived through and grown up in the decade that quite literally changed the world forever. “My Generation,” the first drama filmed in the mockumentary format, is about a group of graduates from the class of 2000 that were followed by a documentary crew as they finished high school. Now, where are they, ten years later? Prepare yourselves. This is a show about us.
Text messages don’t say ‘I love you’
Categories: Lifestyle
Millennials are the first generation to devote so much time to studying and working abroad in cities other than the ones their significant others reside in. Technology has come a long way to help out those in long-distance relationships, but traditional relationship rules like long letters and phone calls are still necessary.
Communicating on Skype
Categories: Technology
I’m a big fan of Skype. It was first introduced to me as a cheap way to call home during my semester abroad, but I’ve many more uses for it. I think we’ll continue to see more uses for this tool as home phone numbers grow obsolete and when Skype introduces multi-user video calling next week. [...]
Coming to America
Categories: Education Week
“It’s not going to be as easy as you think,” said my father. I nodded in agreement. We were sitting in our living room, on the other side of the world, in New Delhi, India. My visa application papers rested on the table, pompous in the knowledge that they were the centre of the conversation. [...]
Social Media: A Virtual College Party
Categories: Technology
Here’s something that’s completely obvious: social media has totally changed the way we interact with others. But now, here’s something that might not be so obvious: social media has changed our friendships – how we start them, how we maintain them, and even what we consider a friendship. When you’re in pre-school and kindergarten, you [...]
