Social networking is woeful

Week 5 Lecture: Saw the rise of a new and entertaining character to lecture us, Jason. He was comic yet classic and definitely had some good talking points.

- He gave some in depth views on social networking sites and the way they continually rotate according to trends. (For instance Myspace was sold for billions and circulated at the top for 3 to 4 years. Facebook is now ranked number 1. And then this holy grail of disaster 'Twitter' has emerged. People will get bored with Twitter though and so the likes of its failure are promising.)

- He talked about the .com boom in 1997 and the .com crash in 1999

- He filled us in about the RSOE EDIS (Emergency Disaster Information Service) - A map of world dangers/hazards happening 'right now'.

- Then he talked about creating google maps and recording drawings on sketchcast which will be our tasks for the next tute.

- And finally we watched 'United Breaks Guitars' where Dave Carroll sings about United Airlines breaking his $3500 guitar.

Here is a link to the original clip - song 1, and here is the embedded video of the follow up - song 2, after United apologised. Good stuff!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UoERHaSQg

(All websites viewed on September 31, 2009)