Week 11

The nexus one is disconnected which i really don't care about because I feel like it was a weak phone in the first place. 4chan hacked the Times top 100 people and put himself number one. I think this is hilarious and shows what people can actually do when they know what they are doing. Getting a job making games for social media websites would be sweet. Those games are all really fun to play also. Half the time I go on Facebook I go on to play a game.

Week 10

The British Monarchy has joined Flickr and have been posting pictures. I think it is very funny that this old tradition family is using social media to spread pictures. I think the afgan war reports getting leaked on to wikipedia is kind of cool. The government always trys to hide these things to us and I think it would be a cool thing to read. The droid is putting out the first global web series which is probably a good advertising strategy. I may tune in and check it out.

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Mashable Week 8 Cont.

There was an article about Kayne's new found interest in Twitter. I read the article and realized how real Twitter is. You can really see what celebrities and other people are thinking at the time. I feel that Kayne is seriously sorry about the Talyor Swift incident. His tweets show that he is really sorry for coming off as an asshole lately and wants people to look at him differently.

I think that wiki finally making something that will make them money is a good idea. All that work they do should finally pay off more. Also craigslist now censoring adult services and now it just says censored makes sense. Everything get censored so I agree that they should do this. They also are making more of an effort to remove prostitutes from the website. People still will find a way to find these services if they know where to look. So overall it just makes it harder for people looking for prostitutes but they will find them.

Mashable Week 8

The first article is about a Facebook phone, which the Facebook people shot down right away. They said they are not in the phone business and they want to make the social website better and apps better. There are rumors about a third party working with them to make this phone but they won't say they are. I feel that they should. It would make them millions and why wouldn't they want to make more money. Becuase in the end isn't this what it's all about, making money, they wouldn't be doing it still if they weren't making money.

I like the pictures that this artist, Alejo Malia, made. They are neat because it feels like google is a real part of our everyday life and having these markers in real life wouldn't be out of this world. I think you should check this pictures out. http://mashable.com/2010/09/12/google-maps-art/

to be continued..

Mashable Week 7

The first article is "Who said it?" I think this website could be pretty funny because some peoples Facebook statuses could fit there profile picture and would be really funny. I think it would be pretty funny if they could do it with your friends and put up some from the past and have you guess. It would be funny to see old statuses that your friends put up but I guess some of the old statuses could not be funny but hurtful to some people. So I guess just keep your profile private if you don't want people seeing your status.

The second article is about John Mayer quitting Twitter. My opinion is who cares? He may have thousands of fans but if he wants to quit he can quit. Why do I care if he doesn't go on Twitter. It's like what if you quit Facebook? I don't care, your just missing out now.

The next article is about journalism is moving to the internet more and more. They also talk about how information can get shared so easily and people can post things instantly. I feel like in the future people will just need computers to get all of their information.

The last article is about how these burglars used facebook to find out when people weren't home and they robbed their house. They used facebook's new FB locations tool and they would know that people weren't home. I think that the location tool is pretty stupid because why do people need to know where you are at every minute. I think it is to much and that if you want other people to know where you are put it as your status. But I think that gets kind of stupid too. There hasn't been many burglaries that have been linked to Facebook but I would be careful on what you post.

Week 6 Mashable

The first article was the Twitter guide book. This helped me understand Twitter a lot better because I really had no idea what I was doing on it. Reading this made me understand what people do on Twitter and the features it has. It has made using Twitter much easier and now I understand what kind of things to post.

The second article was about Mafia Wars and their questionable way of advertising. I think it is an out of the box idea but I probably wouldn't have gone that way. They pretty much were littering the streets with advertisements and I agree that the city major would be mad about this. I think that it was a gutsy move that may have worked because of the publicity that it got.

The next article was about a girl throwing puppies into a river. I think she is a horrible person and she should get in trouble in some way. At least her picture should be posted everywhere so she is embarrassed about what she did.

The last article is about a kid from the UK that sent a threat via e-mail to Obama. Now the kid is banned from the US. I think they went over board with banning him from the US for life but I guess they are supper strict on things and he probably shouldn't have done something so stupid. This kid is probably harmless but I guess they will do whatever to keep the president alive.

Week 5 Mashable

So today I read some interesting articles on Mashable. The first article I read was a guide to Twitter. Twitter is a very interesting site that has been very trendy lately. Twitter is a social media site where you can go on and share information and discuss various subjects. It is a great tool to connect with people you know and people you have similar interests with. How you use it is by making tweets that hopefully stir up conversation with other people or you can tweet on things that you are doing. Also you can make comments on other peoples tweets or tweet at other users. Twitter is a very integrate site where you can connect and share information with people. Another article I read that was also about Twitter that concerned Justin Bieber. In the article it said that Bieber took up 3% of Twitters server infrastructure. This is a huge because Twitter has millions of users and for only one person to take up 3% of their servers is huge. Think how many tweets and retweets are going around concerning him if he takes up this much of the infrastructure. It is said that after he puts a tweet up there is 60 @replies per second. There are a few too many crazy 15 year old girls out there I guess.

Another article I read was about Mark Zuckleburg (the creator of Facebook). It said that you can't block him on Facebook no matter what you do. Some people think this is weird and creepy but I could really care less so on to the next subject.

Angry bird is a popular game on Iphones and it is now available on other phones. My best friend was a huge fan of this game so I guess this article caught my attention but I really don't care unless I can get it on my phone. There's also the fact that I don't know if I would spend the money on it but I guess you never know.

The movie Social Network came out this week and was a big hit. I seen it and liked it a lot and would tell people to go see it. The last article I read was pretty much the story about how Facebook started and some facts about it and tells you about some uses of FB. I pretty much already knew most of this stuff so it didn't excite me to much but for people that don't know anything will find this interesting. Here's a link to the article if you feel up to reading it, Facebook.

Mashable as of 9/29

So once again Apple is making a big hit. This time it is in China where 100,ooo Iphone 4's were sold out in 4 days. These are great numbers for Apple but it doesn't come as a surprise because they were such a hit in the US and there were thousands of people that pre ordered the phone. This shows us once again that Apple is the king of mobile phones.

The iphone apps seem to be endless now a days. On mashable I was reading an article called, "10 Iphone apps for the Global Foodie". It was very interesting reading up on these various apps because they give you so much information about different types of foods. A lot them are specialty apps for different cuisines that give detailed information about what is in the different entrees and most have colored photos of each entree. The one I thought that was the best was the 365 World Recipes. It's cool because it gives you recipes from all over the world and if you follow the directions you too can look like a great cook.

Do you have any awkward family pictures? If so you should enter them into Virgin America most awkward family picture sweepstakes. The winner gets four round trip tickets to anywhere that Virgin America flies. This is a great way to advertise their company but what they really are trying to do is create a meme. They are doing this by having people upload pictures to Awkward Family Photos (AFP). They are picking them because they are a niche blog and it gives them a chance to affiliate their brand name with an online pop culture phenomena. This seems like a good idea and we'll see how it works.

On Mashable they are now posting jobs weekly. From the article I got that every week they post up jobs to give you a more direct way to find jobs from socially savvy companies. There are mostly jobs that work with social media or the web development area which will be very handy for me in the future. I think this is a great thing for them to do because it will help their readers immensely in looking for jobs. It is nice to be able to see a huge list of jobs from all over the US and it makes it easy to know who's looking to hire. In the future I will definitely check this job list when I am looking for a job.

3-D is coming to video games. Nintendo is coming out with a handheld gaming console that has 3D capabilities. It will first launch in Japan in February and it will come out in the US sometime in March. It will cost around $300. The unique quality about the 3D is that you do not need to wear the glasses to see it and taking a picture cannot capture it. The only way to appreciate it is to see it in real life. I feel that this will be a huge step for gaming and I feel as the future of gaming will move to 3D and this is just the first of many more 3D systems to come out.

My social media project is working with my Mom's Foam Number Math project. We started with around 50 likes when we started this class and we have posted a few things and got some activity going. The biggest improvement is that we went from 50 friends or likes to 172 as of today. I feel like this can be a great product because it is an elementary math program that gives kids interaction with the work instead of just being paper and pencil. I have done a lot of recruiting for it, made some posts and have been in conversation with my mom with starting a video series. I am kind of stuck of what else we can do on this besides get the videos going because I don't know what people would want to discuss about elementary math or what would stir up conversation. It needs a lot of work but it is a start and I hope we can make it better.

11 Endings

Everyone has been waiting for the popular series LOST to finally end. I watched the series for about two to three seasons but it started to get so complex. It got to the point that if you missed one episode you would be lost like the show. I gave up trying to watch that show and it seems like it has been years since I watched it and it has still been on prime time TV. Some guys that work at Team Tiger Awesome had some free time and came up with eleven different endings to the show because it is finally ending on May 23rd. Some of them are pretty funny so you should go check them out if you know anything about the show. Here is the link to the 11 endings.

Celebritweets Theater

Celebritweets theater is a animation show on the web that tells the stories behind the celebrities tweets that they make. It is a comedy because some celebs post some very odd things and this show makes fun of their tweets by making up the story behind the tweet and making it into animation. I think it is a very good idea because Twitter is so big now and celebrities are the people who drive it by putting up news worthy tweets. The most popular video they have made received around 300,000 views. It is a Valentines Day episode featuring Katy Perry and Russel Brand. I think that these can be very funny if they can keep up with all the crazy tweets and try to hit every celebrity at least once. It is a very good idea and I recommend you to go watch a couple and get a few laughs in. Here is the link to the article and a few of the videos.

Goon

One of the newest web series to hit the web that has gone to the dark side.  There's not much information about this new series and they have only let out one actor which is the main character.  The only known fact is that the main character, Brian, has killed someone and is waiting for someone to come at him in vengeance.  The creator Marc Hampson isn't concerned of making money when he was making this series.  It was all made by volunteer actors and volunteer filmmakers.  He was inspired by another web series called, We Need Girlfriends, and that is what turned him on to doing web series.  He just wants to make a mark on line and it is a finished product which he is happy about.  He said money isn't a problem and that he wants to just have a good finished product online that he says was his.  The only money spent when making this film was about $1000 on some lights.  I think that with only spending that much money they have created a pretty good web series that seems to be very intriguing.  If you want to check out the web series Goon click here.  

Old School mets New School

A new comedy web series called Me and My Old Man is starting to gain some popularity.  The show is set in LA where a guy around his twenty's has to move back in with his dad which he doesn't want to do.  They both don't want to really be in this situation so it makes for some comedy.  I have watched a few episodes and is actually pretty damn funny.  I would suggest this to people who like old school shows like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Three's Company or the Cosby Show.  That is where the old schools mets new school because it is like these shows but in a newer era.  They relate to a lot of new technologies which helps them to connect to the younger generation.  They make references to Twitter, Facebook or even ipods.  This new comedy web series was done very well and I think everyone should check it out.  Here is a link to the website of Me and My Old Man.

Web TV Courses

Most people that want to go into being a film maker for films or television have to go through some kind of film school. This can be very expensive and not everyone has that kind of opportunity. There is now a way people can learn some of these skills with out having to attend an university. Two new web TV courses launched this month to teach people skills on how to get original web series off the ground. The two programs are called, NewMedialocity and Web TV Workshop. They both are four week programs that cost around $200. They teach people skills on script development, production distribution and marketing. They also teach people skills with social media. The people that are running these classes are experienced in the field and have had success on the internet. They also bring in people who are professionals and that have had huge successes using these skills. They also said that it attracts all kinds of people. From the young students that are trying to learn more to the professionals trying to learn more about social media. I think these programs are great and if I lived in LA I would definitely check these out because this is something that I want to learn more about. Here is a link to the article.

Audi-The Next Big Thing

The marketers at Audi decided that they wanted to start a web mini series, called The Next Big Thing, to help promote the new Audi A-1 that rolls out around the same time this series airs. For this mini series they recruited the famous musician Justin Timberlake. The series is about Justin getting thrown into a crime underworld where out of now where gets thrown into a situation where people are chasing him while he and fellow star Dania Ramirez drive the Audi A-1. At times it seems like a car commercial because they are speeding through the city making the car look like it has excellent handling. This is not the first time car companies have used mini series to promote the new cars coming out. The first time it was done was in 2001 by BMW. This way of promotion seems to work pretty well. Numbers from past tries shows that sales do go up because of the numerous number of views they get. I think this is a great way to promote cars because it's something different then the normal car commercial that you see on a daily basis. Those commercials get boring and you get annoyed when they come on. This is different because you have to go out your way to watch them and if you willing to do that there is a good chance that it could sway you to like the car and possibly buy it. Here is a link to the trailer for the series, The Next Big Thing.

Premarital Six

Have you ever watched a show and was expecting to find it hilarious but to be sadly disappointed. This is what happened to many people who tuned in to the new web series, "Premarital Six". It is supposed to be a comedy about six friends who met up for a bachelor party. The party goes array and they all get separated but later they all somehow met up in a jail cell for various reasons. Each different episode is about how each one came to getting put in jail. The series, if done right, could of been laugh out loud funny but because the writers were kind of blah with it and at times the actors seemed like they were improving things, the episodes got boring and weren't worth watching. Sometimes people have good ideas at new series but they just don't put them together right.

Here is a link if you really feel like wasting your time watching Premarital Six.

From YouTube to MTV: The Buried Life

What once started out as some video's that some guys posted on YouTube turned out to be a hit show on the MTV network. The show is based on four guys that have a list of things that they want to do before they die (pretty much a bucket list). On the show they try to accomplish one of these things on each episode, but while they are trying to accomplish their goal they ask a stranger what they want to do before they die and they make it happen. This is a shock that this show was actually successful to many people because stations like VH1 thought that people only liked shows that pushed the line on what was accetable on TV and not people helping others. The show actually turned out being a hit. In the review they bring up the fact that is it really a bucket list if it was created when your still around 20 years old. They bring up the fact that it could just turn into extreme sports challenges or doing crazy things that people around our age would like to do. This seems like a great experience for these guys to get to do though. Who wouldn't want to try to sneak into the Playboy mansion or run EBay for a day. I sure would and even if they are younger still, they can still make a bucket list because everyone has things that they wanna accomplish before they die at any age. The Buried Life is actually a quailty show that is on TV of people helping others and having fun at the same time.

Link to the Review and Videos

Two Girls One Cop

Produced by Atom.com they started a small series called OnSluts. The first episode was reviewed on TubeFilter and they had many things to say. They tried to take a spin off of the two girls one cup but instead it involves two girls and one cop. It is a short film of two girls getting pulled over by a cop and they use a playoff of OnStar and its called OnSlut. What it is is two girls are on video talking to the other two in the car because they just got pulled over. The OnSlut girls are coaching the other ones on how they can get outta a ticket. They have a refrence to two girls one cup because in one part they have a brownie that they smear all over eachother once they had stripped down to their underwear while trying to get out of the ticket. Overall this video seems pretty corny but they 230K views since March 2nd when it aired so I guess there is just a lot of perverts out there that are looking to see girls strip down to their underwear. At the end they hint to what the next video of OnSluts was going to be about so I guess anytime there's hot women getting close to naked there will always be thousands of needy men trying to watch it.

Link to the Video

The White Rabbit

For our 100 hour challenge we created The White Rabbit. What it is is a tool to use to cook hotdogs over a camp fire. It has a still cage that is used to hold the hotdogs close to the fire and it has a fan that blows smoke away so it doesn't get in your eyes or the hotdogs. At first we had no idea what to do as a group. The first session was just a brainstorming process where we came up with many ideas but none really jumped out at us. After the first session we had a bunch of ideas and not a set decision on what we were going to do. I missed the next session because I had a funeral to attend but the next day a few of us worked on improving the steel cage that holds the hotdogs. It took a while but we came up with a cage but then to find out other members already took pictures of our project to put on the website so that idea was scratched. Overall this was a fun project that made people use there imaginations. In the beginning we had a bunch of junk and at the end we had a hotdog cooker. I had a good time meeting some new people and working together to finish the project. The link to our page is at http://students.uww.edu/campbelled17/wr/index.html

Storm Vancouver Olympics

Samsung launched the Mobile Explores Contest for the winter Olympics going on right now. What they did was, they told people to make a video of them and another person telling them why they would make a good Mobile Explorer. They were going to pick five teams and send them to the Winter Olympics. There task once they got there was they had to bring the Olympic experience to the web using videos, blog posts and mobile updates while they were also promoting Samsung and Hannah Teter charity which is she is sponsoring a community in Africa. She is also donating money to the recorvery efforts in Haiti and for every dollor donated to this charity Sumsung is matching it dollar for dollar. The five teams are also competing against one another. Fans will vote for their favorite Explorers on the Samsung Facebook page and the winning team gets a Samsung product and a cash price package. They will also get a blogging gig on Samsung.com. Samsung is using social media to help promote their products and to help a good cause with Hannah Teter.


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Ray Kurzweil

This video of Ray Kurzweil was very interesting and educational. There were many points that he made that I thought were shocking. He talked about how if we converted only .03% of the sunlight to energy then we would be set on our energy usage till 2030. It would also help decenerlized things because the need for nuclear plants will decrease and it would be enviornmently friendly. Also he made the point many times that the acceleration of technology is exponetially and that it may take a long time to get to one point but once it's their the development of technology explodes. An example is it took 15 years to sequence the DNA structure of HIV but only 31 days to figure out Sars. Another point that had me thinking of what the future could hold is that computers back in the day when he was in school took up a whole room. Now more powerful computers can be found in your cell phones. They are now working on 3-D chips so they can contain more information and be more effective. In the 80's one transistor would cost $1 but in 2002 you could get 10 million for $1. This is because they have been getting smaller and faster. So it takes less money to produce each and because of the smallness of them the electrons have way less of space that they have to travel. The most intreging part of the video was the part about the fat insular recepter gene. It is a gene that holds on to calories because in the future it may be harder to get food but now days we don't need this. They did a test on mice and turned this gene off. It allowed the mice to eat all day and they would stay slim. But more importantly, it made their life span 20% longer and they didnt get any forms of diabites or heart diesase. I think this would be a great thing to implement for humans. The other part that had me thinking was the robotic red blood cells that they are creating. It can help to cure diabites but the effect that I was most impressed with was the improvement to human capibilites. If they replaced 10% of your red blood cells with these robotic ones you would be able to do an Olympis sprint for 15 minutes without having to breath. Also it would allow you to stay under water for up to 4 hours. These advancments could make the ultimate human. I think this video was very educational and eye opening on what the future could hold.