Sunday, 31 October 2010
Friday, 22 October 2010
Civil Rights
Goods-
-Database is immesely useful and willl save great amounts of time and money
Bad-
-Allow personal information to be vulnerable
-Under constant surveillance
My Opinion
-The information isn't that valuable or dangerous really and would non the less be secure. Considering I could get loads of information about you from simply looking in your bins learning and to hack the government database and risk imprisonment for your blood type is paranoid
-Database is immesely useful and willl save great amounts of time and money
Bad-
-Allow personal information to be vulnerable
-Under constant surveillance
My Opinion
-The information isn't that valuable or dangerous really and would non the less be secure. Considering I could get loads of information about you from simply looking in your bins learning and to hack the government database and risk imprisonment for your blood type is paranoid
Crime and Prevention
It's bad
-Phishing scams Fool people into giving them bank details
-Cyber stalking-Gain great amount of intimate detail about people
-Fraud/Identity Theft-Pretend to be people/ abuse there name
-Hax0r1!!!-Break through security devices of big business and governments and scim money
-Plagarism-Steal other poeples work and not give them credit
-Paedophilia/animal cruelty-Illegal activites organised/posted on the internets
-Piracy-Widespread file sharing/ not paying for media and art
-Phishing scams Fool people into giving them bank details
-Cyber stalking-Gain great amount of intimate detail about people
-Fraud/Identity Theft-Pretend to be people/ abuse there name
-Hax0r1!!!-Break through security devices of big business and governments and scim money
-Plagarism-Steal other poeples work and not give them credit
-Paedophilia/animal cruelty-Illegal activites organised/posted on the internets
-Piracy-Widespread file sharing/ not paying for media and art
Notes and schtuff
Shopping Online
Benefits
Lower Prices because of reduced overheads
Conveniance
Choice - can easiy compare a number of shops
Drawbacks
Delivery problems
Hidden costs - postage, packing, insurance
Returns
Security - non receipt, not as described
Banking
Benefits
Conveniance
Saves time
Better control of finances
Privacy
More information
Save money
more services available
Drawbacks
Securite, fraud etc
Benefits
Lower Prices because of reduced overheads
Conveniance
Choice - can easiy compare a number of shops
Drawbacks
Delivery problems
Hidden costs - postage, packing, insurance
Returns
Security - non receipt, not as described
Banking
Benefits
Conveniance
Saves time
Better control of finances
Privacy
More information
Save money
more services available
Drawbacks
Securite, fraud etc
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Activity 9
Speadsheet
-Sort options allow users easily to look at main priorities
-Do multiple calculations much easierly
Simulation Software
-Show what effect actions will have
-Try before you buy
-Predict the future and adjust
-Look at phone in great detail without going to a store
Data Mining Tools
-Extract patterns and trends to predict future
Exception Reporting Tools
-Find anomlalies, if you want something a bit different
-Sort options allow users easily to look at main priorities
-Do multiple calculations much easierly
Simulation Software
-Show what effect actions will have
-Try before you buy
-Predict the future and adjust
-Look at phone in great detail without going to a store
Data Mining Tools
-Extract patterns and trends to predict future
Exception Reporting Tools
-Find anomlalies, if you want something a bit different
Sunday, 17 October 2010
Today's Big Thing
A subsidary of InterActiveCorp, Today's Big Thing catalogues funny or interesting media. Videos and images, hosted and created by third parties, are uploaded, categorised and presented on the website. The gimmick is only one of each category, "Entertainment", "Sports", "Technology", "Music", "Funny Video" "Cute Animals" and "Pictures" are presented daily, with a winner presented on the "Today's Big Thing" frontpage, redirected from the URL.
The videos are embedded, typically in a custom flash player, but sometimes in other formats depending on origin, such as YouTube or CollegeHumour's video player. The video takes centre place in the middle of the page. The video is accompanied by the author and a hyperlink to whatever page the content was taken from. A description is present, though typically this is normally just a joke. Along with this are a variety of sharing options are available, like a Digg link or the ability to share on facebook. Unlike many competitors no comments section is available. Though this often seen as a disadvantage, it removes the need for forum moderators, prevents "trolls" from making the content adult, losing younger or more conservative viewers and generally fits the minimalistic aesthetic. Below is a list of other day's videos and a search bar is present for older content.
The company make money through advertising, with banners above, below and to the right of the video. The one video/one page design and daily nature of the website means an individual can see many adverts in one sitting of the site. The high amount of integrated sharing capabilities are to attract more viewers, who generate revenue.
The page design is reminiscent of the single serving sites of the 90's in very little unnecessary data is available. However the primary colour scheme and replicated house style across "categories" maintains a professional look and feel and the little touches, such as each category having an individual take on the colour scheme and this being replicated when the cursor hover over them in the nav bar reinforce this image.
Finding a practically limitless audience of internet users from confused new adopters to old pros, TBT provides a service by surfing through the mass of the internet for the gems and making them easily available to anyone.
The videos are embedded, typically in a custom flash player, but sometimes in other formats depending on origin, such as YouTube or CollegeHumour's video player. The video takes centre place in the middle of the page. The video is accompanied by the author and a hyperlink to whatever page the content was taken from. A description is present, though typically this is normally just a joke. Along with this are a variety of sharing options are available, like a Digg link or the ability to share on facebook. Unlike many competitors no comments section is available. Though this often seen as a disadvantage, it removes the need for forum moderators, prevents "trolls" from making the content adult, losing younger or more conservative viewers and generally fits the minimalistic aesthetic. Below is a list of other day's videos and a search bar is present for older content.
The company make money through advertising, with banners above, below and to the right of the video. The one video/one page design and daily nature of the website means an individual can see many adverts in one sitting of the site. The high amount of integrated sharing capabilities are to attract more viewers, who generate revenue.
The page design is reminiscent of the single serving sites of the 90's in very little unnecessary data is available. However the primary colour scheme and replicated house style across "categories" maintains a professional look and feel and the little touches, such as each category having an individual take on the colour scheme and this being replicated when the cursor hover over them in the nav bar reinforce this image.
Finding a practically limitless audience of internet users from confused new adopters to old pros, TBT provides a service by surfing through the mass of the internet for the gems and making them easily available to anyone.
Friday, 15 October 2010
YouTube
YouTube is a website which users can upload, share, and view videos. It also has integrated forums ability beneath each video. It was set-up by three former paypal employees in February 2005.
An account isn’t required to view videos, though to upload, rate, and comment or watch videos only available to older audiences an account must be made. Prior to YouTube internet users had very limited methods of uploading. With it’s simple interface YouTube opened up this ability, and likewise the universal hub for watching videos attracted many, meaning uploaded videos could potentially be watched by anyone elsewhere on the Earth.
It’s social status today is very high and YouTube can be seen as the most popular part of internet culture, with “viral” videos or memes gaining millions of views and having influences all across the internet.
The user created nature has led to many internet success’ and homebrew gems, though YouTube has encountered criticism because users can upload copyrighted material without permission. The site has a strong and strictly enforced user agreement and holds the right to remove videos or users at will, although the simplicity to recreate an account and reupload the video makes tackling this problem nigh on impossible.
Occasionally some of the content is inappropriate with pornography, animal cruelty and other illegal content contained. Though hard work is done to keep the site clean this is still a major problem.
Tackling copyright and illegal content YouTube higher a 24/7 team that review content.
Corporate presence is ever growing and in attempt to replicate the success of some of the videos forced publicity stunts often show up. Furthermore, adverts, clips and videos are released in conjunction with other products in order to frenzy interest, for example music videos to a new album or trailers and behind-the-scenes footage of an upcoming movie.
The site makes revenue through advertising that appears in side boxes or at the bottom of the playing video. While this removes fees they can be very annoying and intrusive.
Previously the videos could be rated on a scale of 1-5 stars but today this has been changed to a “like” or “dislike” button, gauging the general reception.
In addition, other info like when and how many views the content has had is included below. The user can attach a “description” outlining the video or providing back-story to its creation if they wish.
Furthermore, alternative audio tracks and annotations can be added, allowing users to cater for different languages. The annotations can be used creatively such as to add lyrics or hyperlink to other videos.
The videos can be in almost any quality and the ability to upload in high definition is now available, though the processing process typically damages the picture and notably the audio quality. This is often cited as YouTube’s primary downfall and where it’s competitors capitalise, with a large amount of professional quality content being attached to competitor blip.tv’s service instead.
The comments section has become a major feature and an internet standard for most other sites today, but YouTube was one of the first to implement it and so fully. Videos, channels and users have comment boards and while watching the video visitors can discuss it and read others people comments. The major innovation was loading the comments and allowing them to be uploaded without refreshing the page and restarting the video, meaning conversation and watching the video can be done simultaneously. Typically these are quotes from the video people have found amusing, discussions such as issues raised or comparisons to other works, though alot of these comments can be negative and spiteful, with many videos being overrun by “trolls”, people who serve to annoy the target audience or to upset uploaders. Because of the high viewing figures some people or “bots” acting on their behalf post adverts without paying. Though this will result in an immediate ban when found, but the delay between being discovered and how many people see the video makes this non-the-less profitable.
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