Monday, 26 August 2013

Week 4 - Innovation and collective creativity

In this week lecture, I found Aeron Koblin's project with the drawing sheep board was really interesting to me. They was created a board that people just have to draw a random sheep and they get paid for $0.2. After that, Aeron Koblin's team go and collect these sheep to sell back into collection of 20 sheep to collector. Thus, they also analyst the way people drew the sheep. It was amazing to see how people interact with the idea that draw a sheep and their product. This project not just shown that Aeron was created a new way to gather human information and put into practical. Innovative is Creativity plus implementation. Creativity is about the knowledge, it is where new conditions is being made and implementation is carry out that idea into real. The processed finished with a product is a drawing sheep system work just like a information collector that means it been prepared and transformed into an outcome.  In term of produsage, crowdsourcing their was just an conceptual idea by an individual then shifted to large group of people come to contribute to the website. Another key characteristic is that producer became leaders as well as participant and users by created the site, collect the information by him self and tested it by himself then defined as users.



Week 3 - Interactivity

In order to increase the international awareness of The great Barrier Reef, Tourism Queensland had created a campaign name "The best job in the world". The idea here is that they are looking for a person that can handle a job which is taking care of an island. Your duties will be clean up and taking care of the facilities in the island, exploring it and write a blog to share your experiences. You will earn $55.000 salary and living in luxurious apartment that free of charger. This campaign quickly become famous not just in Australia but among the whole world. It archived global news coverage, ranked eighth in top 50 public relation stuns of all time , reached 3 billion audiences. The successful of this campaign based mostly based on interaction in social network as it required that every one have to make a video to demonstrate why they are the right candidate. By doing this, they did enable abilities to communicate within the applicants and the campaign, form up organizations around that contents.

In interactivity manner, As cited from McMilan's dimensions of interactivity "User-to-user Interaction - focuses on ways that individuals interact with each other" and "User-to-Documents Interactivity - focused how people interact with documents and the creator of those documents". Tourism Queensland has archived both of these theories in interactivity, where they let applicants making video that mean they can communicate and get feed back from the creator. Furthermore, that campaign had been shared in every social network site, covered by global news that mean they not just archived User-to-user Interactivity but also "User-to-System Interactivity".

Week 2 - Social Network online

As referred from last week, I will going to analyst some other deeper side of Facebook. Start with one of the major concern for users in a social network that is reputation. As we all know communities is all about relationship, networking and social network is a community. Therefore in the purpose of expand and control relationship people will join a social network, which later lead to reputation. Reputation is how other people look and see about you and that can be a scale to describe how good you are in your community, your network. Thus, Facebook did a great job in here, they was succeeded in built a reputation system that base on relationship. Because the larger and wider range of friend you have the better reputation you gain from the community. Either also indirectly say that you are a good person because many other people know you. When you got a good reputation, there will be more and more people want to become your friend so they can get a better reputation for them self. Facebook did a good job in this manner, where they created a tool that help people to speak and to build up their own reputation.


Reputation of members was a good point for Facebook. However, ownership of content is a minor point for them. In the term and condition, they stated that you have the right that you are the owner of your own content that had been upload into Facebook but Facebook can use these content for multiple purposes included commerce with out asking for your permission. In the matter of fact, this is again the right of ownership because that membership's content will be use for Facebook benefit without the acceptance from the owner. Briefly, Facebook can do what ever they want and gain almost total control over member's posted content. ("https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms")



Sunday, 25 August 2013

Week 1 - Social media!


I'm currently member of Facebook and I feel it is such an innovation in our social network site. As a Facebook user, you can share your information in a scale of global and that can be access in a second via internet. Also, you can upload not only text but either pictures, videos and music which means Facebook provide to you many options to sharing your news. Not stop from there, when your pictures or comments being uploaded, other people can comment on it straight away and thumbs up if they like it or thumbs down if not. 

Facebook also helps you to control your social graph easier, all of your friend will be sum up in one page with their information. You can find mutual friend by click on your friend and expand your network that something in common with you and when you found numbers of people that sharing the same interest, you will be able to form up a Facebook group so everybody in that group can sharing stories and stuffs relate to that. Especially, I can use Facebook to looking for old friend that I have lost my contact.

I also use Facebook in business that I can keep contact with my co-worker, searching for work that other people looking for. After work, Facebook become a playground with many games so you can enjoy and stress out. 
Facebook has become a portal for information of the world. It brings to us abilities to connect, to communicate among our society which are key points of social network. However, personal privacy still a big question for Facebook and with a fast speed of innovation in technology like today we won't be able to predict how we could protect our own personal information.

To conclude, Facebook with so many new functions that enhance our social life as well as our personal life from communicate with our friend, giving us abilities to sharing and update information to a place for us to enjoy games. I really enjoy it and I hope it will be improve much more in the future.







Monday, 19 August 2013

Week 6 - Sematic web


This is my social graph 

1: <rdf:RDF
2:       xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
3:       xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
4:       xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
5:       xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/">
6: <foaf:PersonalProfileDocument rdf:about="">
7:   <foaf:maker rdf:resource="#me"/>
8:   <foaf:primaryTopic rdf:resource="#me"/>
9:   <admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic"/>
10:   <admin:errorReportsTo rdf:resource="mailto:leigh@ldodds.com"/>
11: </foaf:PersonalProfileDocument>
12: <foaf:Person rdf:ID="me">
13: <foaf:name>Taka Medo</foaf:name>
14: <foaf:title>Mr</foaf:title>
15: <foaf:givenname>Taka</foaf:givenname>
16: <foaf:family_name>Medo</foaf:family_name>
17: <foaf:nick>Takama</foaf:nick>
18: <foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:kema@gmail.com"/>
19: <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="takama.com.au"/>
20: <foaf:phone rdf:resource="tel:042612354"/>
21: <foaf:workplaceHomepage rdf:resource="mamata.edu.au"/>
22: <foaf:workInfoHomepage rdf:resource="Teacher"/>
23: <foaf:schoolHomepage rdf:resource="www.holyground.com"/>
24: <foaf:knows>
25: <foaf:Person>
26: <foaf:name>bubu</foaf:name>
27: <foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:bubu@gmail.com"/></foaf:Person></foaf:knows>
28: <foaf:knows>
29: <foaf:Person>
30: <foaf:name>kaka</foaf:name>
31: <foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:kaka@gmail.com"/></foaf:Person></foaf:knows>
32: <foaf:knows>
33: <foaf:Person>
34: <foaf:name>totot</foaf:name>
35: <foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:totot@yahoo.com"/></foaf:Person></foaf:knows></foaf:Person>
36: </rdf:RDF>


Recent years, Social graph is becoming more familiar idea to many people that depicts personal relationship between internet users. It bring to us so many opportunities not only in the development of the internet in general but also specific in social media. Although the advantages of this new concept such as easy to share broad range of information, stay connect with other users and so much more. However, privacy and securities are visible weaknesses that I would like to discuss below.

Pros
1. This technology evolves the way information being used. As now information can be shared in a blink of eyes. Moreover, the information not just go faster but also can be transfer cross programs, website and OS. 
2. It also created a connection between each individual in an organized manner which used to be very confused and untidy in both real life and in the internet.
3. Born a new generation of social network.

Cons
1.Since the information was too easy to access that become harmful to personal identity as well as security. That means every one can go and translate your information and use it as well as steal it from you.
2. In order to secure these personal information become harder because the door into this source was to big and that cause much more efforts to secure it.