Sabtu, 31 Agustus 2013

How to Use Google+ Chat


In this illustrated tutorial, users will learn how to:
·         Sign-in to Chat
·         Use the Most Popular Chat Functions
·         Search for Friends on Chat
·         Enable Circles for Chat, and
·         Set Your Availability

10 Most Popular Chat Apps

Mobile device users sent an average of 36.6 billion messages per day throughout 2012. Not all of them were text messages, however. In fact, fewer than half were routed through traditional, carrier-based SMS services. Analyst house Informa says that 19 billion messages were sent each day from mobile chat apps, while 17.6 billion were sent via Short Message Service.
In its report, published by GigaOm, Informa predicts that the scale will be even more imbalanced next year, when mobile chat app users will send 50 billion messages per day compared to 21 billion text messages per day. This is a seismic shift for the industry, as SMS has been a solid revenue source for years.

Using On-Line Chat in Language Teaching

As the Internet grows, there are more and more opportunities to students to study English using a wide variety of types of Internet resources. Especially for English language students in countries where English is a foreign language -- that is, where English is not used in everyday life -- these resources are important, because they greatly increase the opportunities for using English.
One potentially useful Internet activity for language students is "chatting," that is, communicating in real time by typing a message into a computer, so that it can immediately be read on other computer screens, even computer screens in another part of the world. Some sites on the Internet are specifically intended for non-native English speakers, and they provide opportunities for non- native English speakers to communicate in English.