Creativity and New Media

Well, I took this video that I had put up on YouTube last year from the snow blizzard. I was walking to the E train  and it was crazy outside 7 buses was shutdown. I use the editing software that YouTube provide to set up an audio-swap, never did it before hope it turns out good. New media with YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xijUFO-u4Z0. I really don't know if the audio was updated, it said to give it a few minutes.

Creativity

As the world expands, and the culture change, more and more companies are out seeking new ways to meet the need of their diverse customers.Claire Miller explains in her article that leaders in the past developed new products and release it into to the market to see the feedback it will get. This was a win/lose situation not good for business.  However, recently companies like twitter and flicker have been watching what their customers want and making the changes base on customer demand to better serve them. This is a win\win situation for a company, because they are creating a better environment that customer are looking forward to see.
              On the other hand, companies like “Open-source software companies leave innovation up to users, and companies like Bug Labs let people build their own hardware” (Twitter Serves up Ideas from Its Followers, Claire Miller). This equips consumers with the power to get exactly what the want. All these company does is put the tool on the table and the customers put it together, what a easy way to get paid?

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

Virtual world are used in many ways from just chilling online to learning. One of the main uses for the virtual world is gaming. In this setting players use their avatars to get through a role playing or story line episode.  On the other hand some people like David Savill, who suffers from autism which is a “brain disorders that can cause difficulties in social interaction, communication and behavior “(Nicole Saidi CNN.com/autism), is able to use his Second Life avatar Dave Sparrow, to socializes and acquire information on autism from all over the world. Additional second life allows and encourages people that are unable to do regular every day activity like dancing, running, swimming, playing and so on, to do in their virtual form. Another way is education, education on the virtual level, consist of 3D recreations of museum and gallery spaces, computer programming tutorials, virtual libraries. Everyday more and more uses are created, so the list is limitless.

If we look at it everything as a good and bad side and this includes virtual worlds. Tells start with the pros people get to interact with each other, people gets to do what they could never do in real life. Furthermore, people are given the ability to be creative and bring new things to the table.  But on the other hand, some people might take it to another level and forget about the real world, they would become addictive to the game or second life and totally forget about their real life. These people could be overweight and glued to the computer. This can become unhealthy and dangerous to their body.

                Virtual worlds foster creativity by giving innovators the ability to come up with solutions for our everyday problems.  According to Mark Tutton from CNN article, Companies like IBM are going to the virtual world to save money on travel expense in the recession. Recently, IBM had a conference for 72 hours with about 350 people to come up with new technologies. This is very smart because the cost of a conference of 350 people could cost a fortune. Think about it the flights, rooms, the area for the conference and the food. Hard times are helping companies to see innovative ways to keep them on top.

When it comes to the virtual world the possibilities are endless. Moreover as we progress to the future, and technology become more advance, we will start to unlock the true capability of the virtual world. At this point of time we have to look at the computer and type and move around with the mouse, in the future we would have to ability to feel, smell and taste everything within the virtual world. We will be able to talk, think and move around the second life world with our minds.

Blog about Twitter

             A twitter discussion is short statements, nothing too long because you are limited. With twitter a person can hide their identity. So people can’t know who they are, they can be unprofessional.  With blackboard you can say everything you would like to say because you have the space. Unlike twitter students has to be professional at all times because it’s a class. In a class discussion it’s more face to face, so it’s a different connection.  The atmosphere is more formal, everyone has to take turns because only one person can say something at a time. On the other hand on the computer everyone can input at the sometime. At the end of the day it’s the results, everyone say what they think about a topic, but its different ways of rules that guides us.

Social Networking Sites

Facebook was social networking site that was built for an older crowd, college students and older. Over the years Facebook has acquire younger users.  Facebook has a polite tone, people put up status that’s about life and motivation. It is also a place where people share items that others might find interesting to keep the conversation going. But it’s mainly used to keep in connection with friends and family. Now, when you look at the profiles they all look the same, no way to personalized it.

MySpace is a more relax website, where people can be themselves.  No need to worry about your boss looking at your profile, it okay. When you look at MySpace, you can see how easy it is to use. MySpace is very colorful. It also gives you the ability to customize your profile unlike Facebook.  Users try to stay relevant and up to date with the times. It seems like the main thing is to network with other users and trying to become popular. Who have the most friends’ wins. In addition, its feels like it all about music, a lot of promotion about artist.

Twitter is a very simple site but complex. They give you the ability to customized your profile and twitter page with different colors and pictures. They limit the amount that you can say to a 140 characters, so you say less but everything you need to say and if people want to know more they reply, this start a conversation flow. You are also able to see what people are thinking, doing, are saying about you. It’s like a smaller version of a blog.

Plenty of fish is also a social network but with a dating spin. The layout of both the home page and profile is very simplistic. The site has an option of looking at different faces of males or females to find users that are attractive to you. And then you send a message to them. Plenty of fishes don’t looks like it’s has any rules or tones to follow.  It really seems like something anyone can put together.