jirachi the wishmaker

Pratical 7 reflection

By evaluating 3 more resources, i also get to understand the other 3 websites more better. From the 3, I can compare the similarities and differences among them. I also get to explore those web in great details.

pratical 6ab reflection

By evaluating this resources i get to understand the website more as i go explore the web in details. It let me know that this site is still not perfect yet and i hope it will improve on it as soon as posible.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Pikachu Balloon Pictures!

It's a rainy day at New York City, but that won't stop the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Due to weather conditions, the balloons were flying lower than usual, but the balloons did fly. That includes the new Pikachu Balloon (as seen in the pictures above). The new balloon features Pikachu chasing after a Poke Ball, and Pikachu's cheeks also light up. The new Pikachu balloon is 53.5 feet high, 36.9 feet wide, 40.8 feet long, and filled with 15,000 cubic feet of helium. This is the sixth year that the Pikachu balloon has been part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

NBC Commentary During Pikachu Balloon
Matt Lauer: In celebration of it's 10th anniversary, Pokemon USA introduces the brand new balloon, Pikachu. The most recognized character of more than 380 in the Pokemon universe.

Meredith Vieira: Pikachu is an electric type Pokemon that can store electricity in it's cheeks. Today Pikachu's cheeks light up flying as this year's only high voltage big balloon.

Al Roker: Pikachu flies through the air just behind a Poke Ball. Most Pokemon live inside one, but Pikachu prefers life on the outside. Where he can lend a helping hand to his loyal companion, Ash, when the going gets tough.

Matt Lauer: You know only one foot four on TV, today Pikachu's electrifying. Cruising the skies at twice the height of a tyrannosaurus rex.

Diamond and Pearl TCG Card

This is the lastest tcg cards in japan, hope that i can get more of these picture. I really wanted to see those EX monsters and holofoil cards :)

Pratical 4&5

-Type of Search facility
-Keywords used
-URL and Purpose
-Comments

Example used :

www.google.com

Pokemon news games information

www.serebii.net

News and information
- this website provide the lastest news and information about pokemon

Very good

-www.yahoo.com

-Pokemon ag download

-www.pokeplus.net

-Multimedia-contain old and new episode of pokemon, music and games to download

-Very good

-www.google.com

-pokepark

-www.pokepark.tw/top.html

-Information
- Official site of POKéPARK, a limited-time theme park based on the world of Pokemon

-Very good

Meta Search Engine

Example used :

-www.metacrawler.com

-Pokemon music download

-www.geocities.com/linda_pokemon_land/

Multimedia
- Pokemon, pokemon pictures, pokemon
movies + musc, pokemon games, pokemon downloads, pokemon text & voice chat, pokemon stories, pokemon code & cheats

-Average

Subject Directory

Example used :

-www.galaxy.com

-Pokemon tcg cards

-http://www.angelfire.com/wi/pokemontcg/

Games - Crushing strategies, detailed articles, top-level deck designs, and a host of other assorted bits of information about the Pokemon Trading Card Game

-good

Reflections on Comparison and Evaluation on search effectiveness

You must then evaluate and compare the effectiveness of each search facility. You may use criteria such as the differences and similarities in terms of search capabilities, result ranking, size of hits, etc. You are encouraged to use your own initiative to suggest other areas of discussion and comparison.

Compare the search results. Identify 2 characteristics that make all 3 search facilities similar or different from one another.

All contain the keywords “Pokemon” as that is my topic, but it was wide so I break down into searching it. I search them by breaking them into few parts as shown above in the table. Some websites are quite similar to one another although I did not put in the same keywords. Some websites are different as the keywords used are not the same.

Do you find any strength/weakness of each of them, in terms of search capability?

The strength I found out that is I need to be specific when finding the topic that I wanted. The weakness is that I get a lot of useless website when the thing that I wanted to find is rare.

Overall, which search facility best meet your searching needs? Why?

The best facility for me is google. It organized the search well and easy for me to find the things that I wanted there. Others website seem hard for me.

Comment whether your research topic has any co-relation to the purposes of the resources retrieved.

Yes it does as the topic I am doing contain all kinds of news and information about Pokemon

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl episode 9: let's play with mimiroru

This is the episode where hikari finally caught mimimoru.

Thanks to serebii.net for posting the anime picture of that episode.

Click on the website to view. http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/shinou/477.shtml

Click here to download the anime

http://rapidshare.com/files/3907230/pokeplus_DP009_rmvb.zip

Pokemon Battle Revolution: Four New Videos!

The official Japanese Pokemon website released four new videos of Pokemon Battle Revolution. You can view the videos here: http://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/wii/pbr_sp

Some other pages on the official Japanese Pokemon website was also updated. Here's the links:

Poketopia, there will be 10 different colosseums, three are revealed so far:

http://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/wii/pbr_sp/colosseum.html

One of the colosseum leaders:

http://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/wii/pbr_sp/leader.html

Battle Pass, which contains vital information of your trainer and Pokemon team:

http://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/wii/pbr_sp/pass.html

Customize your own trainer:

http://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/wii/pbr_sp/coordinate.html

Buy clothes and hats at the shop:

http://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/wii/pbr_sp/shop.html

Pokemon Battle Revolution for the Nintendo Wii will be released in Japan on December 14, 2006. There is currently no official US release date yet. I still hope it will release soon.

Pokemon Battle Revolution: Box Art and Pokemon Art!

Yahoo Japan's Pokemon page has been updated with the box art for Pokemon Battle Revolution (as seen above). Some other new pages were also added that included many new Ken Sugimori artworks of the new Pokemon, you view the links to those pages here:

- http://pokemon.kids.yahoo.co.jp/dp/news/system/system009/system009.html?page=8
- http://pokemon.kids.yahoo.co.jp/dp/news/pokemon/pokemon019/pokemon019.html?page=18
- http://pokemon.kids.yahoo.co.jp/dp/news/pokemon/pokemon018/pokemon018.html?page=17
- http://pokemon.kids.yahoo.co.jp/dp/news/story/story017/story017.html?page=16
- http://pokemon.kids.yahoo.co.jp/dp/news/story/story016/story016.html?page=15

Pokemon Battle Revolution for the Nintendo Wii will be released in Japan on December 14, 2006. There is currently no official US release date yet. I hope it will be release next year in Singapore :)

Pokemon Diamond/Pearl: 3 Million Units Sold in 46 Days!

According to gaming site IGN, Pokemon Diamond/Pearl is now the new record holder for the fastest selling Nintendo DS game to reach 3 million units sold in Japan. New Super Mario Bros was the previous record holder. It took Pokemon Diamond/Pearl just 46 days to reach the 3 million mark. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl joins New Super Mario Bros and Animal Crossing: Wild World as the only DS games to reach the 3 million units sold mark in Japan.

You can read the full article here: http://ds.ign.com/articles/746/746251p1.html

SUBJECT: Pratical 3

Resource 1: http://www.pokemon.com

Purpose of resource : Information

Reasons : That website gives information on pokemon news that are happening around in the US. This website help me keep track of pokemon news so I know when the games or animation will be released.

Cite: Pokemon Website “The Official Pokemon Website .” Retrieved Nov 7, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://www.pokemon.com

Resource 2: http://www.youtube.com

Purpose of resource : Entertainment

Reasons : In that website I can search for videos regarding pokemon which I never seen in my country before. It is a good website that update me new videos daily.

Cite: Youtube organization “Broadcast Yourself” Retrieved from World Wide Web: http://www.youtube.com

Resource 3: http://www.serebii.net

Purpose of resource : Personal/Information

Reasons : This website give me everything I want to know about pokemon. In there it has latest news, games, cards and many more about pokemon. It provide japan and US news only.

Cite: Serebii.net “Where Legend come to Life.” Retrieved Nov 7, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://www.serebii.net/

Resource 4: http://www.serebii.net

Purpose of resource : news

Reasons : This is a fast website for uploading news onto it. It is updated daily and very detailed.

Cite: Serebii.net “Where Legend come to Life.” Retrieved Nov 7, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://www.serebii.net/

SUBJECT: BANDAI CANDY NOVEMBER PRODUCT

These products is in japan currently, i hope they will come to singapore soon.

SUBJECT: Pokemon Diamond and Pearl episode 8

Thanks to serebii.net for posting the anime picture of that episode.

Click on the website to view. http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/shinou/476.shtml

Click here to download the anime

http://up-file.com/download/90e98778730/dp008jp-476- Nazo-no-Gym-no-Greggul!.avi.html

SUBJECT: 2006 Pokemon TCG World Championships Decks: Released!

The 2006 Pokemon World Championship Decks are now released (the decks were released yesterday on October 31st, 2006). Each deck includes 60 cards (a card-for-card replica of the top decks of the 2006 Pokemon World Championships), and a 2006 World Championship booklet.

2006 Pokemon World Championship - Deck List
Jason Klaczynski's Mewtrick Deck - World Champion of the 15 and over age group.
Jimmy Ballard's Eeveelutions Deck - Second-place finisher of the 15 and over age group.
Miska Saari's Suns & Moons Deck - World Champion of the 11 to 14 age group.
Hiroki Yano's B-L-S Deck - World Champion of the 10 and under age group.

In-Depth Look at the Decks
The official Pokemon TCG website has articles that take an in-depth look of each of these decks. Here are the links:
Strategy Article: Jason Klaczynski's Mewtrick Deck
Strategy Article: Jimmy Ballard's Eeveelutions Deck
Strategy Article: Miska Saari's Suns & Moons Deck
Strategy Article: Hiroki Yano's B-L-S Deck

SUBJECT: New Video: Pokemon Battle Revolution!

Here's a new video of Pokemon Battle Revolution which shows several of the new Pokemon battling (including Lucario). You can view the video here: http://gamevideos.com/video/id/7327

Pokemon Battle Revolution for the Nintendo Wii will be released in Japan on December 14, 2006. There is currently no official US release date yet.

Related Links Pokemon Battle Revolution

SUBJECT: My reflection on the searching activity

I used google to search for the information that i wanted. It is a very good website for me as i can find the things that i wanted there. So i searched my topics in google and managed to find the websites. I used keywords like "pokemon", "forums", "news", "picture", "download" to search for the topics. I managed to get the relevant information that i wanted by using those keywords. The major difference about the five websites is that all contain different contents. Some contain informations, news, descriptions. Some contain music for downloads. Some contain video to download and some are forums for people to write commments.

SUBJECT: PRATICAL 1&2

i am doing the topic about Pokemon as i have great interest in that since 10 years ago.

Topic : Pokemon

these are the 5 website and its descriptions

type of website

1) ORGANIZATION

URL: www.pokemon.com

Descriptions:

News about upcoming pokemon stuff and fun activities to play there

2) Subject based

URL: www.serebii.net

Descriptions:

Pokemon news, games reviews and walkthrough, episode guide and many more

3)Personal and subject based

URL: www.pokeplus.net

Descriptions:

News on pokemon, episode downloads, music download, games download

4) Personal

URL: http://pokemonrepository.no-ip.com/albums

Descriptions:

Pokemon albums download

5) forums

URL: http://www.serebiiforums.com/

Descriptions:

See the posting of pokemon issues around the world

1) Pokemon Website “The Official Pokemon Website .” Retrieved Nov 7, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://www.pokemon.com/
2) Serebii.net “Where Legend come to Life.” Retrieved Nov 7, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://www.serebii.net/
3) Pokeplus.net. Pokemon news and articles Retrieved Nov 7, 2006, from http://www.pokeplus.net
4) Pokemon Website “Pokemon Albums .” Retrieved Nov 7, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://pokemonrepository.no-ip.com/albums
5) The Magic Pixel (2006, Nov 7). Pokemon forum the place for everyone. Formal discussion initiation. Message posted to http://www.serebiiforums.com/

SUBJECT: INTRODUCTION

My name is Terence Ong. Welcome to my blog. This is my first time doing it and still noob at it. I will try to understand this and improve on it. My favorite website is http://www.serebii.net/. In there I can find news update on pokemon. Another website that i like is http://www.17happy,cn/. In there i can download any anime that i wanted.