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.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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.
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