Daily Media

http://www5.svsu.edu/~ychen2/DailyMedia.pdf

In our group, we are using quite the same media a day. Most of us use wake up by cell phone alarm clock and use cell phone to text message or communicate with friends or family. In addition, we rely on internet during our day, such as check email, facebook, news, gain information and so on. We browse the internet quite often and search information throughout internet.

Speak of compare the media in 60 years ago. It is quite different with now. 60 years ago, there was not an internet or cell phone generation. In that generation, people used hand writing more often and printing technology. For instance, people read newspaper in order to gain knowledge or people wrote postal mail to communicate with friends or family. Some of the people were wealthy, they may have TV, so that they could gain news on TV; otherwise, people only could listen the radio to gain news.

Take-home Midterm Exam

http://www.douban.com/

Douban

Douban started from a social networking site for book, movie and music lovers in 2005, when hype of web 2.0 just began. When people talked about web 2.0 in China, they will talk Douban. Defined by the contents of Douban, it has attracted users who intend to review books and movies and are more eager to discuss social issues.

For example, my friends form one band by themselves; they shared their performances and track files on Douban, also published their news and collect their fans’ comments. As a base of construction, Douban offers a community platform to band’s fans; these fans start to build a more and bigger fan group for the band.

http://www.douban.com/artist/themetaphor
This is the link of my friends’ band in Douban

Douban is a good place to read book, watch movie or listen music (some of them need third connection), you can seek out lots of comments or complains from different viewers, and easily to add or drop some fans groups.

Currently, Douban’s main revenue source is online advertising, some big brands are Douban’s advertisers already. For Douban Book, it also gains revenues from affiliation with Dangdang, Amazon Joyo and other book ecommerce sites.

www.cyworld.com

Cyworld

In its orbit, around South Korea, Cyworld is both a giant in the ever-widening galaxy of cyberspace and a community website.

In cyworld, members cultivate relationships by forming Ilchon (means: friend) with each other through their mini-homepage. Avatars and "mini-rooms", small, decorate-able, apartment-like spaces in an isometric projection, also feature. All of this can make for a Sims-like experience.

I can read some Korean, so I have some experience to use Cyworld. Cyworld is the most popular SNS tool in Korea, many renowned Korean socialites and celebrities possess its accounts in which details of their upcoming tours and works are posted. Base on high market share, large quantity news or scandals may be published from it. The searching engine of Cyworld can hunt for pictures, videos and diaries with keywords very easily, and everyone connect to Ilchon with others conveniently, in addition there are many hackers aim at it, so that it is hard to protect users’ personal privacy. Actually, there are many disputes about Cyworld privacy protection in Korea; however, well-established solution is not discovered until today.

Cyworld has a special tool for users to edit their photographs. Like adobe Photoshop, users can edit their pictures with graphics program to complete various inflections or different shapes, especially the output form of the photos include image and flash.

Revenue of Cyworld is generated through the sale of Dotori (means: acorns), which can then be used to purchase virtual goods, such as background music, pixilated furniture and virtual appliances.

http://www.flickr.com/

Flickr

This is a popular site let users share and embed personal photographs; the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.

Flickr asks photo submitters to organize images using tags, which enable searchers to find images related to particular topics, such as place names or subject matter. Flickr is also an early website to implement tag clouds, which provide access to images tagged with the most popular keywords.

Flickr provides both private and public image storage. A user uploading an image can set privacy controls that determine who can view the image. A photo can be flagged as either public or private.

I think Flickr is an image host store the image onto its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view that image. It is good tool help owners to manage their quantity of pictures, furthermore also protect their personal privacy don’t be leaked out.

Cecilia Yang 2010-10-25

Take-home midterm exam.

2. The site title: Sleakdeals

3. A description of the site: It’s a website which people can share good deal.

4. What makes the site unique: This website was founded in 1999. I think Slickdeals.net is unique because it is a free, user-driven deal sharing site with a mission to provide consumers a place to collaborate and share information in order to make the best shopping decisions. Users can communicate and find various shopping tools through this forum.

5. Summary of the degree of effectiveness: I think this website is effectiveness because the deals are rated and vetted all by users. After deals are posted, users can determine the deals by voting thumbs up or down. Also the website help user to check the deal if it is valid deal in case. When you visit the website, you can either see the top hot deal on the first page or search good deal by category or key words. This website provide an efficiently way to find good deal.

2. The site title:PPT

3. A description of the site: PTT Bulletin Board System (PTT, telnet://ptt.cc) is a terminal-based bulletin board system based in Taiwan. PTT provides a quick, instantaneous, free of charge, and open online forum community.

4. What makes the site unique: PTT is the largest BBS in the world with more than 1.5 million registered users. During peak hours, there are over 150,000 users online. It has over 200,000 boards with a huge number of topics, and more than 40,000 articles and 1 million comments are posted every day.

PTT apply an article commendation and criticism scheme as its article rating and commenting system. PTT is the first Chinese-language BBS to use such a system. Under this system, users can evaluate an article by giving it a “push”, adding a point, or a “boo”, subtracting a point. Users can give comments as well. The forums are subdivided into boards and named by a string of alphanumeric characters. These boards can be searched by popularity. They can also be added to a user's list of favorite boards.

5. Summary of the degree of effectiveness: Technically, the idea of PTT is not belong to web 2.0; however, it has the same purpose of web 2.0. PTT gives a very good idea of being a forum. For example, there is a board called “gossip” which users post news or issues and give comments. Due to PTT has huge numbers of members, sometimes some users have experiences of that news or issue, they will share their experience with others. By using users’ curious of gossip might be the reason why this board has top rating on the PTT. I think PTT can be determined as high degree effectiveness by checking the high commendations. The higher commendation the more reliability the post is.

2. The site title: Picasa

3. A description of the site: Picasa is a program of image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website.

4. What makes the site unique: Like all other web albums, users can share photos by uploading photos. It often compares to Flickr and similar sites. You can also give comments on it or tags. The unique trait of Picasa is it has its program. When users upload photos from memory card to computer, they can edit photo by using program then upload photo to Picasa web album through Picasa program. It also integrates with other Google functions. You can share photos by using blogger or find the place in photo on Google map such as geotagging. All you need to do is apply an account and take the benefit from Google services.

5. Summary of the degree of effectiveness: Picasa is very effective because it is not only a photo sharing website, it comes with multiple purposes. After I post photos on it, I can read comments from others and use RSS tracking the feedback. Generally, Picasa can be the typical web album of web 2.0.

2010 Midterm

Midterm Exam
Zheng Guan


Title: deviantART

Link: http://www.deviantart.com/

Set description: DeviantArt.com is a community website offers a stage for any artist who wants to exhibit or to discuss his art works. Their works is organized in different category,for instant, Digital Art, Photography, Traditional Art and Designs & Interface, etc.

What make the site unique: They charge for nothing. Anybody can register a home page or a gallery to show their works. Grabbing ideas, learning new drawing skills or making art deal are easy, convenient and possible.

Summary:DeviantArt.com is the most popular art community website consisted of over 14.5 million members, received over 1.5 million comments from users daily and attracted at least 3,6 million visitors annually. As possible, people who are in the each side of the world can share their art knowledge and art concept. However, currently some people claimed they got virus attack when they through it. They are so afraid to go back again.

Title: myxer

Link: http://www.myxer.com/

Set description: Myxer.com makes more mobile experience fun, and most of Mp3, i Phone ring-tone, ring-tones, wallpapers and videos are free to download. Also people can transform a music they already have in their computer to a ring-tone for their cell phone.

What make the site unique: The unique of this web is the combination of having one of the world’s largest libraries of mobile entertainment content provided a place to share resources; furthermore they can use the website to personalize their particular stuff.

Summary:The myxer.com allowed people through technology and simplified the process delivering high quality entertainment resources is becoming a successful mobile entertainment website. They claimed that we always have something for you. It has been making 1 million download this year, possibly, myxer will gain a position of the peak of the marketplace in the future.

Title:lulu

Link: http://www.lulu.com/

Set description:Lulu.com lets you to make, self publish, print and sell print books, photo books and calendars with free book publishing.

What make the site unique:Basically lulu is a world known website, there are 500,000 visitors from over 80 countries visitor here every week. Lulu.com can bring your idea to life and is free at all. No matter what you want to crate, to sell or to purchase, lulu makes it convenient and simple. Also you can get help from smart people with a welcome atmosphere around here. .

Summary: Lulu allowed people to create their own particular books, calendars or photograph albums by uploading their digital files is an online self publishing firm. In addition, lulu provides a chance to get an ISBN that lets people sell their books in retail stone. As of April 2008, social networking tools offered by lulu had attracted more than 700 groups focus on it.

2010 Oct Midterm

Midterm exam
Rachel Ju
Date: 2010. Oct. 20

Site Name: Sogi

Link: http://www.sogi.com.tw/


Site description: Sogi is one of the biggest website for cell phone information in Taiwan. It is a website that provides information about any type of cell phone. It introduces cell phones’ standers and prices. It includes the latest cell phone or wisdom handset.

What make the site unique: Sogi offers handset price ratio, handset news, telecommunication news, software teaching and a discussion about the cell phone. It also provides rings, games, photos and themes that people can free upload or download. In addition, the most unique function for this website is Sogi provides the price of each cell phone. Customers can get the information they need and also get feedback. Sogi can quote the approximate price for the latest cell phones that are not on the market for the customers’ reference.


Summary: Sogi is a really good website to discuss cell phones. Since every cell phone has its own discussion area, the customers know the cell phones’ advantages and disadvantages. Most of the points are objective opinions and reliable. The cell phone price on Sogi is based on Telecommunication Company; for this reason, the cell phone price on Sogi won’t affect the market.






Site Name: Yahoo knowledge


Link: http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/

Site description: Yahoo knowledge is a new manner for network information exchange service. It is divided into three parts: questioning, answer and search. Yahoo knowledge provides many kinds of categories, such as daily life, study and professional. It is a free community driven question-and-answer (Q&A) site. It allows users to submit and answer questions. In English, it is named Yahoo Answer.

What make the site unique: It is unique because this site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage people to participate in Yahoo knowledge. It is a different form of “Wiki”; Yahoo knowledge is a “question-and-answer” way. Every question will vote the best answer, in order to earn the points.


Summary: Yahoo knowledge is a useful website for us to get knowledge. However, many of the questions are similar. Some of the answers are answered by people who are not professionals in the subject area. Therefore, the answer might not be accurate.







Site Name: BBKZ

Link: http://www.bbkz.com/forum/

Site description: BBKZ offers Bulletin Board System (BBS), forum, survey, and net blog for budget travelers. This website solves many problems for travelers regarding their trip, for instance, living, transportation or famous spots information. It’s an information website for domestic and international travel.

What make the site unique: For this website, it is unique because BBKZ provides the prices of many hotels in order for the traveler to choose the hotel that is in their budget. The traveler can search and compare the price on BBKZ, no matter if it’s a domestic or international vacation. BBKZ has many travel information for budget travelers.

Summary: It is a good website for travelers to find more information about the location where they are traveling. This website is especially helpful for travelers on a budget because BBKZ can compare the prices of many hotels. Since the travelers know the price of the hotel before they go on vacation, they know how much money is needed for the vacation.

Think about others!

The image illustrate a smile face looked really happy is appeared in the middle part of this image, however, others be around him are not happy. the only thing I want to do on this picture is that add a cigarette in the smile face's mouth and remake this image as a public service advertising remanding people who is smoking in a public area should think about others' feeling. Basically, I named this image "Think about others."

Reproduced images project

Christian Lemmerz @ Faurschou Beijing, 798 Art Zone

In a grid from the ceiling hang hundreds of skulls in front of which the viewer can stand – one viewer to each skull. The skulls revolve and function as a fixation for the eye, while a hypnosis-inducing voice speaks slowly and penetratingly into the space and urges us to think about our lives – and about the inevitability of death, about death as a release. The question is of course whether the viewer dares to remain standing throughout the countdown from ten to zero.

Conceptually Christian Lemmerz takes his point of departure in the schism between mass and individual, between free will and oppression – whether one stands by one's own modes of thinking and moral concepts or subjects oneself to those of others. And indeed the whole installation evokes associations with a military camp and mass hypnosis. Another underlying theme is the religious/philosophical schism between the physical body and the emancipated spirit, between the grounding of life in the physical world and the spiritual release in Nirvana that is known from Buddhism and Taoism, but which can also be found in western thinking and in the Christian idea of Paradise.

From: http://en.artron.net/news/news.php?newid=108145

I want to change the photo from spatial into planar, I’d like to switch all skulls’ direction from my spontaneity , maybe it is human nature, cause  I focus the point of his design which is hang upside down all skulls. I hope I can keep his main of point, just want to use another way to present. Intuitively show viewers like enter a military camp, try to realize dead bodies combine with emancipated spirit render on one plane.

Reproduced images project

l My goal is to change a logo into another logo with ironic meaning.

l The reason why I choose this image is because I want to change an image which we see often to show in different way.

l I changed original logo eBay to eBuy with homonym. We all know the eBay is a shopping platform and provide a place for bargain. They also encourage user the demand of shopping.

Reproduced images project

My goal was trying to show that the Miracle Whip looks healthier on top of the asparagus than the French fries.

My idea came from the Miracle Whip advertisement. The advertisement shows French fries with Miracle Whip. This is ironic since the advertisement is trying to show the readers that Miracle Whip is healthy, yet they have it in the same picture as French fries. Since the Miracle Whip is in the picture with French fries, the Miracle Whip looks fatty even though it is “only 4.9% fat”. Therefore, I replaced French fries with asparagus. I want to convey that asparagus is lighter and healthier than fries.