Monday, August 3, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Swissbliss and Berlin....
Marcaroons filled with delectable butter cream.... they only last 3 days in the fridge....mine ditn's longer than a few hours... <3>
只系冰山一角
Oh the sweetest welcome gifts.... Sprungli's marcaroons, the impeccable signature gift of Zurich
Seond day in Zurich..... Writting post cards above the Zurichsee to loved ones at home....
Seond day in Zurich..... Writting post cards above the Zurichsee to loved ones at home.... Wednesday, June 24, 2009
5th Day
Finally it's the fifth day of my diet. Wow I am became so weak..... even lifting my hands to wash my hair or writing with a pencil is uneasy, zero physical activity is desired. So I wonder what my blood sugar level was and had Cathy to do a blood glucose test for me this morning, Ouch! It's 62, normal range is 70-130.... Well, the end is not far, just 2 1/2 more days to go, my will power is actually getting stronger as I see the results gradually.
Besides crying for my upsetting-protesting body, great news is my Europe vacation is next week :-) Soooooo excited for Switzerland and France.
Besides crying for my upsetting-protesting body, great news is my Europe vacation is next week :-) Soooooo excited for Switzerland and France.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Dizzy and hunger
Going on a super diet plan for internal cleansing, everytime I stood up for the 3rd second, feels like I am falling on the ground...Zz....Zz..Zz..
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Sunbathing...
Lovely weather... just so perfect to have little meals outdoor.... Overlooking union square park while sipping pink lemonade... do nothing and stereotype the passerby... these 2 looks like bullies, those 3 are gossipers, he's a German... Oh that guy with the hat is sooo cute... not as cute as this little puppy here...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Comments
New media and Terrorism:
Quite a brief presentation, seems like not much bad things are going on, may be is a good thing. :-)
Folkxonomy:
It was very helpful to begin with the history of taxonomy, which is closely related to the main topic. The entire presentation was very clear, orientated and specific. Pros and Cons of both Tax and Folk made a objective view and let us decide what is good.
I would like to mention that besides categorizing, Folk is very good at filtering unwanted content. Also, linguistic issues can be a good thing too(ex: I call it blue and you call it aqua), I have too many personal experience that because of this error, I found many surprising/interesting things that I wasn't intend to look for, or I didn't know that I want. The best example is flickr, sometimes I use it as the "Thesaurus" for pictures, incredibly sufficient.
Risks of New Media:
Beautiful layouts, pictures and text size, all of them look so good together, personally beautiful pictures is a +, it usually makes a presentation much more interesting and memory enduring. This presentation includes many rare cases of mis-using the new media, brief coverage on variety of risks with a very objective conclusion. On a large scale, new media is definitely wonderful. The victims of these extreme cases are usually teenagers, I hope that adults would understand that kids DO NOT have the sufficient judgment and mentality to protect themself against these risks and will therefore spend time to explain ethics and how to handle situations in the virtual world.
Quite a brief presentation, seems like not much bad things are going on, may be is a good thing. :-)
Folkxonomy:
It was very helpful to begin with the history of taxonomy, which is closely related to the main topic. The entire presentation was very clear, orientated and specific. Pros and Cons of both Tax and Folk made a objective view and let us decide what is good.
I would like to mention that besides categorizing, Folk is very good at filtering unwanted content. Also, linguistic issues can be a good thing too(ex: I call it blue and you call it aqua), I have too many personal experience that because of this error, I found many surprising/interesting things that I wasn't intend to look for, or I didn't know that I want. The best example is flickr, sometimes I use it as the "Thesaurus" for pictures, incredibly sufficient.
Risks of New Media:
Beautiful layouts, pictures and text size, all of them look so good together, personally beautiful pictures is a +, it usually makes a presentation much more interesting and memory enduring. This presentation includes many rare cases of mis-using the new media, brief coverage on variety of risks with a very objective conclusion. On a large scale, new media is definitely wonderful. The victims of these extreme cases are usually teenagers, I hope that adults would understand that kids DO NOT have the sufficient judgment and mentality to protect themself against these risks and will therefore spend time to explain ethics and how to handle situations in the virtual world.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Comments...
New Media vs Education:
The highlighted key words are great, some screenshots/pictures are streched or fuzzy which are slightly distracting. Good touches on variety of side effects, but wuld lik to see more collaboration such as case studies, graphs or statistics.
Mobile New Media Tech:
Friendly beginning, relating to slef-expereinece makes the presentation more personal (he chose this topic because he recently got a smart phone).
Supportive statistics. Location based services are interesting, but would be better if accompanied with screenshots.
Social Networking in Business:
Like the public speaker-like vocie, nice clip art placements and useful information about LinkedIn, also like that she does more talking than reading.
Disagree on social netorking hould be kept separated from personal life,
The highlighted key words are great, some screenshots/pictures are streched or fuzzy which are slightly distracting. Good touches on variety of side effects, but wuld lik to see more collaboration such as case studies, graphs or statistics.
Mobile New Media Tech:
Friendly beginning, relating to slef-expereinece makes the presentation more personal (he chose this topic because he recently got a smart phone).
Supportive statistics. Location based services are interesting, but would be better if accompanied with screenshots.
Social Networking in Business:
Like the public speaker-like vocie, nice clip art placements and useful information about LinkedIn, also like that she does more talking than reading.
Disagree on social netorking hould be kept separated from personal life,
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Comments
For "New media and the distribution of music":
The presentation is overall clear and straightforward, many statistic statements but I think it would be more adequate and visual if presented along with supporting statistical graphs. The presentation didn't collaborate enough to the extent of new media, topics such as:
*Private Bay case*Illegal music download with Limewire, P2P file sharing.
*How iTunes tremendously changed the music industry (it's almost an revolution.)
*YouTuber's contribution and replication of music.
* Artist's intense participation on MySpace for self-promoting and monetizing.
For "New media: the purpose loss of privacy":
The presentation is almost like an (effective) WARNING sign, telling us to be aware of our personal information in a consumable speed. Presented with articulation, confidence, enthusiasm, direct eye contact; with smooth transitions between slides, personal experience and useful information.
For "Social networking: Better or worse than the real thing?"
Nice layout, interesting combination of sources (quotes and statics), thoughts provoking questions, very appropriate outline order.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
This kind of Mashup?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC4FAyg64OI&feature=featured
Mashup is not limited to technological but also physical, I am glad to see that YouTube is extending Mashup to real world meaningful interaction. Such a beautiful project.
Must mention: Susan Boyle, the greatest YouTube sensation ever. The statistics of it's raising of popularity in such a short time is mind blowingly fascinating.
Mashup is not limited to technological but also physical, I am glad to see that YouTube is extending Mashup to real world meaningful interaction. Such a beautiful project.
Must mention: Susan Boyle, the greatest YouTube sensation ever. The statistics of it's raising of popularity in such a short time is mind blowingly fascinating.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
OMG Twitter when driving? Seriously?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/27/omg-onstar-may-soon-let-you-twitter-from-your-car/
Are you kidding me? I mean....What in the world can you twit when you are driving?
"Driving on West side highway."
"Making a right turn."
"Stuck in traffic"
"On the middle lane"
"That bitxx just cut me off! Grrr.."
"Get out of my way!"
My only conclusion is: Twitter is not pointless enough.....Someone please tell me this is an April Fool joke.
Are you kidding me? I mean....What in the world can you twit when you are driving?
"Driving on West side highway."
"Making a right turn."
"Stuck in traffic"
"On the middle lane"
"That bitxx just cut me off! Grrr.."
"Get out of my way!"
My only conclusion is: Twitter is not pointless enough.....Someone please tell me this is an April Fool joke.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
HOMEWORK: The Next New Thing
Identify location of people; ads/promotions alert via text/picture message of the nearby business/organizations/events, users can see street view, walking directions, other users review and rating. People can customize preferences based on days of the week, time, within X mile, price rage, type….Basically Zagat that is location sensitive.
Locate empty parking space and parking lot with cell phone, this could be incredibly nice especially in Manhattan. Also indicate the traffic area, rules, limitations and meter-feed reminder of the parking space.
Benefits:
No one forget about where they have parked.
No one forget about feeding the meter.
Lessen the chance of misreading the parking signs.
Generally the whole society is more efficient.
Just that the government might lose this source of income significantly.
Locate empty parking space and parking lot with cell phone, this could be incredibly nice especially in Manhattan. Also indicate the traffic area, rules, limitations and meter-feed reminder of the parking space.
Benefits:
No one forget about where they have parked.
No one forget about feeding the meter.
Lessen the chance of misreading the parking signs.
Generally the whole society is more efficient.
Just that the government might lose this source of income significantly.
HOMEWORK: Advice for Baruch
I suggest to college to use Amazon’s kindle to replace text books, the device itself cost $300 but the benefits are mind blowingly awesome, students will always remember bring the material to class, bec ause it only weight 10oz and holds a lot of content, no more shoulder pain caused by text books; we save money, no more rip off from bookstores, all kindle version books are cheaper, paperless books are very “green”.
Create a share platform for students to share their notes, strategies, tricks, tips, experiences of any academic-related topics, students can rate for the most helpful document.
Force all students to rate their professors, students who don’t participate will not be able to log on to their student account unless they accomplished the survey.
Add features articles and video about educational developments and new discoveries to the college homepage; make it more interesting so the students would log on more often.
Most important of all, keep everything in 1 place, we do not like to remember zillions of users names and have 10 opened tabs.
Create a share platform for students to share their notes, strategies, tricks, tips, experiences of any academic-related topics, students can rate for the most helpful document.
Force all students to rate their professors, students who don’t participate will not be able to log on to their student account unless they accomplished the survey.
Add features articles and video about educational developments and new discoveries to the college homepage; make it more interesting so the students would log on more often.
Most important of all, keep everything in 1 place, we do not like to remember zillions of users names and have 10 opened tabs.
HOMEWORK: New vs. Old
New media is always in digital form, for example: twitter and YouTube, users are much more likely to interact and response to each other because the internet makes it very easy to do so, virtual communities and creaitivity are the unique products of the new media, it is very flexible and it relies heavily on the internet. Old media i much more manipulative, consumers/users are usually much diversified and have much less power; they rarely interact with each other and don’t have much contribution to the delivered content. Users of the new media are the subjects, aggresive; and users of the old media are the objects, the passive ones.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
HOMEWORK: Modeling reality with virtual worlds.
Virtual worlds have many kinds:
2nd life is the time killer, it is rediculously similar to real life in a sense, you can find Latino Museum, Taj Mahal in black and white versions, fashion desingers and trends like Harajuku and retro funky, 2nd life colleges, global conference, government agencies, business conference, real estate firms, models, news publishers, Puma store, clinic, bar........ People (avatars) can own virtual properties (which cost real life money), meet other residents and participate in many social events. Personally I think this is a real time killer which has very limited extension to real life, there are only 2 reasons that I would visit: 1. To see how nice the graphics are, how real it is. 2. For educational purposes such as training sessions.
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2nd life is the time killer, it is rediculously similar to real life in a sense, you can find Latino Museum, Taj Mahal in black and white versions, fashion desingers and trends like Harajuku and retro funky, 2nd life colleges, global conference, government agencies, business conference, real estate firms, models, news publishers, Puma store, clinic, bar........ People (avatars) can own virtual properties (which cost real life money), meet other residents and participate in many social events. Personally I think this is a real time killer which has very limited extension to real life, there are only 2 reasons that I would visit: 1. To see how nice the graphics are, how real it is. 2. For educational purposes such as training sessions.
This one is much more pratical and beneficial:
Virtual College Fair
It's a virtual arena for parents and students to shop for collge, a 2day real time event. Real coellge admission officers, gudiance counselors, finanial aid experts will be sitting in front of their computeres and help students with any college-related problems. Its looks like a convention center, booths are populated with their logos on the banners, you can "walk" around the lobby, stop by, download boscheres, apply for scholarships, interactive features: real time chat with advisors and current students, go to the main conference room(looks like a lecture hall) and watch the videos, prfessional interviews and onsultants presentations. This is a VERY NICE idea, because it safe parents and students time and traveling cost, they can reach more better choices easier and cheaper. How awesome!
Virtual College Fair
It's a virtual arena for parents and students to shop for collge, a 2day real time event. Real coellge admission officers, gudiance counselors, finanial aid experts will be sitting in front of their computeres and help students with any college-related problems. Its looks like a convention center, booths are populated with their logos on the banners, you can "walk" around the lobby, stop by, download boscheres, apply for scholarships, interactive features: real time chat with advisors and current students, go to the main conference room(looks like a lecture hall) and watch the videos, prfessional interviews and onsultants presentations. This is a VERY NICE idea, because it safe parents and students time and traveling cost, they can reach more better choices easier and cheaper. How awesome!
!Thursday, March 19, 2009
HOMEWORK: Social Networking
Socail Networking is all about communities and has various forms, including:
Q&A: The best example is Yahoo Answers, users can post any, literally any questions and award points to the best rated answer, of course people can rate and answer any open questions and read solved questions. Sometimes you get a very sophisticated answer in great detail and sometimes little wonderful tricks.
Social bookmarking: Save and categorize favorite/ interesting websites(blog, reviews, articles, recipes, online store...) and share with others, people can rate the bookmarks and get access to their own with any computer. Benefits: You can learn by any form of participation: ask, answer or simply just browse, and the best thing is it's FREE. You can ask embarrassed, stupid sensitive or personal questions which you might not ask in real life and get Practical-human experiences answers.
Social shopping: It's like a personal shopper, share your wish/shopping list and products review, drag others favorite items to be your own, and mix and match outfits before buying, it's easy to navigate specified products such is import grocery or wedding dress, the site allows users to search by keywords tags or by favorite seller. Benefits: Consumers have much more buyer power, we don't just get product info from ads and word of mouth anymore; we can reach more consumers and share our thoughts of specific products which are real, authentic, sincere and much more reliable. On the other hand, consumers can also reach small vendors (those that sell awesome product and don't spend on ads) all around the world, the raise of buyer power also raise the quality of product.
For the 2 examples of social networking above, I see no dark sides, both are all-around beneficial. My forecast of these new media technologies is that soon they will try to merge user names in various sites into 1, so people only have 1 uswe name for facebook, myspace, delicious, youtube and wiki. I think this is a good idea because it is a step closer to the reality, we have only 1 name and it's the same pereson anywhere you search, people tend to be more responsible to what they say when they know that people are aware of who they are. Also I think that mobile technolgy will grow very fast to suit people's desire of getting connected at anytime, not just for checking emails and web browser, phones that can not twitter or facebook will soon be gone as all generations are getting involve much more often.
Q&A: The best example is Yahoo Answers, users can post any, literally any questions and award points to the best rated answer, of course people can rate and answer any open questions and read solved questions. Sometimes you get a very sophisticated answer in great detail and sometimes little wonderful tricks.
Social bookmarking: Save and categorize favorite/ interesting websites(blog, reviews, articles, recipes, online store...) and share with others, people can rate the bookmarks and get access to their own with any computer. Benefits: You can learn by any form of participation: ask, answer or simply just browse, and the best thing is it's FREE. You can ask embarrassed, stupid sensitive or personal questions which you might not ask in real life and get Practical-human experiences answers.
Social shopping: It's like a personal shopper, share your wish/shopping list and products review, drag others favorite items to be your own, and mix and match outfits before buying, it's easy to navigate specified products such is import grocery or wedding dress, the site allows users to search by keywords tags or by favorite seller. Benefits: Consumers have much more buyer power, we don't just get product info from ads and word of mouth anymore; we can reach more consumers and share our thoughts of specific products which are real, authentic, sincere and much more reliable. On the other hand, consumers can also reach small vendors (those that sell awesome product and don't spend on ads) all around the world, the raise of buyer power also raise the quality of product.
For the 2 examples of social networking above, I see no dark sides, both are all-around beneficial. My forecast of these new media technologies is that soon they will try to merge user names in various sites into 1, so people only have 1 uswe name for facebook, myspace, delicious, youtube and wiki. I think this is a good idea because it is a step closer to the reality, we have only 1 name and it's the same pereson anywhere you search, people tend to be more responsible to what they say when they know that people are aware of who they are. Also I think that mobile technolgy will grow very fast to suit people's desire of getting connected at anytime, not just for checking emails and web browser, phones that can not twitter or facebook will soon be gone as all generations are getting involve much more often.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
HOMEWORK: My New Media Class So Far
Many kinds of technology are part of the new media, the most important ones are Web 2.0, mashups, teleconferencing, P2P filesharing, VOIP, mobile 2.0, avatar, mircoblog, Amazon's kindle, 3G, synchronize, wiki, podcast, social networks...etc
New media would not exist if the Internet doesn't exist, all kinds of new media are web based and totally depending on the Internet.
The new media is replacing and enhancing the old media because the Internet allows the gethering and convergence of everything, everyone, anytime and anywhere, as of the Super Grand Central Station that all kinds of vechile and people stop by(bus, jetski, plane, rocket, cab, helicopter, advertisers, 4 year old, bloomers, disabled, TV producers, artists, singers, professors, journalists, loney boy, street begger, millionair, weirdo, geek, nerd, top model, President Obama....
"social networking, with its tremendous communication capabilities and aggressive database development help him beat the overwhelming odds facing him. "
Quote from: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Everything that you can possibly think of come in handy with the Internet, with all these advantages, old media is imcomparable.
New media would not exist if the Internet doesn't exist, all kinds of new media are web based and totally depending on the Internet.
The new media is replacing and enhancing the old media because the Internet allows the gethering and convergence of everything, everyone, anytime and anywhere, as of the Super Grand Central Station that all kinds of vechile and people stop by(bus, jetski, plane, rocket, cab, helicopter, advertisers, 4 year old, bloomers, disabled, TV producers, artists, singers, professors, journalists, loney boy, street begger, millionair, weirdo, geek, nerd, top model, President Obama....
"social networking, with its tremendous communication capabilities and aggressive database development help him beat the overwhelming odds facing him. "
Quote from: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Everything that you can possibly think of come in handy with the Internet, with all these advantages, old media is imcomparable.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Homework: Wiki vs Blog
Wiki is a community where users can create, share, collaborate and edit about any topic, if it’s existing, people can change it, to a new version or go back to any version before the current one; if it is not, people can create it. Wiki is a continuous on-going process, the content is always changing. The discussion page allow users to collaborate the topic, because wiki is not only written by a single person, the information is more objective compare to blogs, it is also more reliable because every topic in wiki has a list of notes, references and sources which allow readers to trace back. All users are created equal in wiki, since everybody can do anything in wiki, sometimes it can be too much information and the content becomes out of focus, some other good things about wiki: in many languages and ad free.
Blog has more authority and promoting capacity compare to wiki: the topic, message, ability to comment and presentation are chosen by the author, the blogger has full control of what s/he want to see seen/ heard in order to spread the message out; users can only read the post and if possible, comment on it. Blog is also on-going but not over the same topic, but the blogger’s posts. Blog is all about personal experience and opinion, therefore, unlike wiki, references are not necessary, the ultimate sources of the topic it the blogger him/herself. If the blogger doesn’t like any content in the blog, s/he can delete it and users can find no trace of it even with archives.
Importance of convergence in today’s networked world.
The perfect line is the lecture title: The driving force behind the new media, just like the “invisible hand” in the free market. How can it be more different? I can totally just replace a few words of the explanation of “invisible hand” in order to explain the importance of convergence to new media. Watch this…
Convergence (invisible hand) is the driving force behind the new media (free market), convergence (invisible hand) is the self-regulating nature of the new media (marketplace). In the networked world (free market), an individual pursuing his own self-interest tends to also promote the good of his community as a whole through a principle that we call “convergence” (invisible hand), each individual makes maximum contribution to his interest area(revenue) for himself maximizes the total contribution(revenue) of new media (society) as a whole. Individual intends only his own interest, and by directing the content (industry) in such a manner as its produce may be the greatest original production (value). By creating the content of (pursuing) his own interest he frequently promotes that of the new media (society) more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. It’s a form of empowerment.
Definition of invisible hand from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand
How can blog be used for collaboration:
In blogsphere, collaboration can happened through user generated commentary, links to other blogs, and on Technorati, where someone blog about your post(see screen shots below), and chat box with the blog for conversations, or simply ask a question, raise an issue, make a statement in your blog.
Blog has more authority and promoting capacity compare to wiki: the topic, message, ability to comment and presentation are chosen by the author, the blogger has full control of what s/he want to see seen/ heard in order to spread the message out; users can only read the post and if possible, comment on it. Blog is also on-going but not over the same topic, but the blogger’s posts. Blog is all about personal experience and opinion, therefore, unlike wiki, references are not necessary, the ultimate sources of the topic it the blogger him/herself. If the blogger doesn’t like any content in the blog, s/he can delete it and users can find no trace of it even with archives.
Importance of convergence in today’s networked world.
The perfect line is the lecture title: The driving force behind the new media, just like the “invisible hand” in the free market. How can it be more different? I can totally just replace a few words of the explanation of “invisible hand” in order to explain the importance of convergence to new media. Watch this…
Convergence (invisible hand) is the driving force behind the new media (free market), convergence (invisible hand) is the self-regulating nature of the new media (marketplace). In the networked world (free market), an individual pursuing his own self-interest tends to also promote the good of his community as a whole through a principle that we call “convergence” (invisible hand), each individual makes maximum contribution to his interest area(revenue) for himself maximizes the total contribution(revenue) of new media (society) as a whole. Individual intends only his own interest, and by directing the content (industry) in such a manner as its produce may be the greatest original production (value). By creating the content of (pursuing) his own interest he frequently promotes that of the new media (society) more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. It’s a form of empowerment.
Definition of invisible hand from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand
How can blog be used for collaboration:
In blogsphere, collaboration can happened through user generated commentary, links to other blogs, and on Technorati, where someone blog about your post(see screen shots below), and chat box with the blog for conversations, or simply ask a question, raise an issue, make a statement in your blog.
New use for wiki:
I think tagging would be a good idea, just like tags of pictures on flickr/ facebook, on YouTube videos, labels in Gmail or sites on delicious, so users can filter content by keywords and makse easy to find relevant materials.
I think tagging would be a good idea, just like tags of pictures on flickr/ facebook, on YouTube videos, labels in Gmail or sites on delicious, so users can filter content by keywords and makse easy to find relevant materials.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Book review Outline:
Katz, James Everett -- Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction Primary Author: Katz, James Everett
Introduction: Ways people can participate socially with the Internet.
Body: Statistics and behaviors
How much time people spend on Internet.
Which group of people do what on the net.
The most popular sites among different geographic areas.
Digital derive.
Virtual social interaction.
How "real" can the virtual reality be?
Awareness of users
Conclusion
Introduction: Ways people can participate socially with the Internet.
Body: Statistics and behaviors
How much time people spend on Internet.
Which group of people do what on the net.
The most popular sites among different geographic areas.
Digital derive.
Virtual social interaction.
How "real" can the virtual reality be?
Awareness of users
Conclusion
Thursday, February 19, 2009
:-)
So I am going to try something New as often as I can, as much as I can afford.... of course in a subjectively reasonable way, not going to take a private jet to Paris just for the afternoon tea.... Inspired by "Yes Man?" Not really. Trying, means taking chances, assuming risks, gaining experiences, refining judgement and therefore extracted wisdom... Sounds quite serious but not so if you have already peek my picture below ;-) .... let's start from the very root of my being.... Just to take a nice bath....
HOMEWORK: Checking out some social networking sites
Facebook's vantage point is the strong link of social communities connection, users can have more privacy if the users choose to; but the one size fit all "uniform" is simply boring, everybody looks the same. It has many pointless and tedious applications such as sending around virtual drinks, hugs, kicks, gifts, pokes and the endlessly annoying invitations which are totally meaningless and time consuming just to decline them. The most usable features are the wall, pictures, news feed and friends linking function. However, I am very disappointed at their attempt of owning/manipulating users information forever .
Are you facebook-addicted? Check this out.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1443652/42_funny_ways_to_know_if_you_have_a.html
If you are, here is help
http://www.allfacebook.com/2007/10/how-to-stop-that-facebook-addiction/
Myspace's social connection can be much less personal since everyone can see your profile as long as they have Internet access, many critics says it attracts sexual predictors, but the good thing is it showcase every individuals personality, every one's page is unique, the "customizable" layouts and music play list are what flourished myspace.
Friendster is the super star in Asian countries, including Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. I never like friendster because of of my friends either don't use it or for those who do, frequently encounter software glitches and slow access. I have tried Friendster and did not like the advertisments, it took the entire left pannel which makes it seems like my profile is being squeezed to the side (See the screen shot below.) However I cannot truly judge since none of my friends are on Friendster.
Facebook is very much about connectivity and focus on college crowd, Myspace is about personality and music. Friendster is more for adults. For me, selecting social networking sites is ultimately about peer pressure.
One social networking site that I love is yelp.com, it is VERY practical and has full coverage of consumer reviews and local business and organization search, visitors can search base on neighborhood, category, price range, feature and includes google map, rating and comments to help users to make the best possible selection.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Translating...
This is one of my favorite picture book written (in Chinese) and illustrated by Jimmy, it's beautifully, graphically and evocatively done. To challenge myself I am trying to translate the entire book into pure english and capture every drop of sentiment.
The Cover:
Some pages inside....so wish that you guys can understand the words.
The Cover:
Some pages inside....so wish that you guys can understand the words.
HOMEWORK: New Media
This documentry is amazingly interesting and informative about you tube and the new media, it is a 55 minutes presentation but not a single second was boring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
My understanding of new media:
Channels which conveys messages in a computerized and degial way, there are many technolgies are catergorized as new media, such as: social neworking, blogs(photo, music, travel, mobile, political, etc), VOIP, social bookmarking, instant message, mashup, social shopping, RSS, P2P and much more. New Media is mass media, massive amount of people communicate in massive ways, it is chaotic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
My understanding of new media:
Channels which conveys messages in a computerized and degial way, there are many technolgies are catergorized as new media, such as: social neworking, blogs(photo, music, travel, mobile, political, etc), VOIP, social bookmarking, instant message, mashup, social shopping, RSS, P2P and much more. New Media is mass media, massive amount of people communicate in massive ways, it is chaotic
Sinfully Sweet Stuff
My post-Valentine’s day chocolatiers review:100% personal experience, reliable and reachable (in NYC)
Who can really resist chocolate?
1.If you like champagne truffle, this is the best of the best, big thing in Switzerland, always freshly imported from Swiss. They also have different coca density chocolate bars, and some refreshing mix, like, mint, orange and lemon with chocolate. But champagne is totally the impeccable killer.
http://www.teuscherfifthavenue.com/
2. This is the most expensive one that I have visited, has 200+ years of royal history, high end French chocolate, every piece is exquisite.
http://www.debauveandgallais.com/main/intro.asp
3. This is an amazing cute little chocolate boutique to go for rich think sensational hot chocolate in any given time during winter; it’s a cute cafe at the back and chocolate store in the front. If you go, try Aztec Hot Chocolate, and you will must love this place, simply cute.
http://www.mariebelle.com/
4. This one has the most weird/unique/shocking ingredients in chocolate, wasabi, bacon, chili, curry, ginger...its hard to imagine but somehow it taste good and exotic. If you want to try all, you can buy the little bars which packed like a book-shelf, it’s about $25.
http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/
5. This is the perfect representative of the French conservative classic, they will probably offer you a sample to try, and my experience was sensational! ♥
http://www.lamaisonduchocolat.com/fr/index.php
6. This is Belgian chocolate, people say that they have very good truffle and dark chocolate, honestly I brought something but haven’t try yet, yet still I am pretty confident about this choice.
http://www.leonidas-chocolate.com/
7.Finally one from New York here, if you go to the store, you can really see chocolates are being produced, the aroma of chocolate is super strong and sweet, they make great cookies too! They have sofas and bar chairs inside, you and Daniel can hang out there. The truffles look so cute and prices are cheaper then others above. Features many different kinds of chocolate bar with variety of nuts and coca density.
http://www.mrchocolate.com/
8. This one's has variety of truffles, also look beautiful like jewels.
http://www.marcolinichocolatier.com/
Seriously they are all exquisitely delicious, you will probably think kitkat, Max brenner and Hershey are incomparable when taste side-by-side , don't worry you will not eat so much since they are luxurious and fattening, but definitely worth trying with zero regret. Personally I love French and Swiss chocolate, so teuscher and La Madison are the Must, Debauve and Gallais too but really too expensive, 1 little piece (size of a quarter) is like $4 - $5!! If you want to visit more chocolatiers I have more to recommend, let me know. ;-)
http://www.teuscherfifthavenue.com/
2. This is the most expensive one that I have visited, has 200+ years of royal history, high end French chocolate, every piece is exquisite.
http://www.debauveandgallais.com/main/intro.asp
3. This is an amazing cute little chocolate boutique to go for rich think sensational hot chocolate in any given time during winter; it’s a cute cafe at the back and chocolate store in the front. If you go, try Aztec Hot Chocolate, and you will must love this place, simply cute.
http://www.mariebelle.com/
4. This one has the most weird/unique/shocking ingredients in chocolate, wasabi, bacon, chili, curry, ginger...its hard to imagine but somehow it taste good and exotic. If you want to try all, you can buy the little bars which packed like a book-shelf, it’s about $25.
http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/
5. This is the perfect representative of the French conservative classic, they will probably offer you a sample to try, and my experience was sensational! ♥
http://www.lamaisonduchocolat.com/fr/index.php
6. This is Belgian chocolate, people say that they have very good truffle and dark chocolate, honestly I brought something but haven’t try yet, yet still I am pretty confident about this choice.
http://www.leonidas-chocolate.com/
7.Finally one from New York here, if you go to the store, you can really see chocolates are being produced, the aroma of chocolate is super strong and sweet, they make great cookies too! They have sofas and bar chairs inside, you and Daniel can hang out there. The truffles look so cute and prices are cheaper then others above. Features many different kinds of chocolate bar with variety of nuts and coca density.
http://www.mrchocolate.com/
8. This one's has variety of truffles, also look beautiful like jewels.
http://www.marcolinichocolatier.com/
Seriously they are all exquisitely delicious, you will probably think kitkat, Max brenner and Hershey are incomparable when taste side-by-side , don't worry you will not eat so much since they are luxurious and fattening, but definitely worth trying with zero regret. Personally I love French and Swiss chocolate, so teuscher and La Madison are the Must, Debauve and Gallais too but really too expensive, 1 little piece (size of a quarter) is like $4 - $5!! If you want to visit more chocolatiers I have more to recommend, let me know. ;-)
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
HOMEWORK: Term Projet
I will talk about the few things left that people cannot do with the internet, some new utilities and trends of the new media spectrum, how people behave differently and what we are not but should be aware of.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
HOMEWORK: CIS
This blog is initially created for my CIS class, I included "initially" because I know eventually it will be more than homework requirements.
It's good to have a frequently updated blog because:
1. Your writing can get better.
2. One very sufficient way to learn about yourself is to observe your own behavior at any given time, sure you will recall and think about yourself (in any aspects) tremendously when you write(and I assume that nobody is not interested about themselves.)
3. Human is highly social animal, and blog is the channel that allows us to publish, create, express, collaborate, comment, observe, advertise, reach, connect, love.....and whatsoever... Besides, it is free! So why not??
I wish every one of you enjoy blogging as much as sex (entitled as the activity that most of the people enjoy for most of the time? Objection anyone?) ;-)
It's good to have a frequently updated blog because:
1. Your writing can get better.
2. One very sufficient way to learn about yourself is to observe your own behavior at any given time, sure you will recall and think about yourself (in any aspects) tremendously when you write(and I assume that nobody is not interested about themselves.)
3. Human is highly social animal, and blog is the channel that allows us to publish, create, express, collaborate, comment, observe, advertise, reach, connect, love.....and whatsoever... Besides, it is free! So why not??
I wish every one of you enjoy blogging as much as sex (entitled as the activity that most of the people enjoy for most of the time? Objection anyone?) ;-)
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