Kilian Walker

Web 2.0?,Marketing Term

• Encourage community and collaboration
• Encourages shared content, creation
• Focuses on a single task
• Clean, clear interface (Simple, User Centric)
• Supports tagging and social bookmarking
• Moves data and apps from desktop & web(cloud computing)

 

Key Concepts

• The Tag – a key word, hierarchal established from the top down.
• Example: Information about Mobile Service for Second Life – tag examples: Cellphone, SecondLife, SL.
• Social Relationships formed under stress, being human socially mimic based on observation and positive reactions.
• Everything is Misc. (Book)
• Social Bookmarking
• Delicious (del.icio.us)
• Moves Personal bookmarks to public space
• Makes use of tagging
• Creates a collective intelligence and collective editing
• Makes use of RSS feeds.
• Moves desktop to the ‘cloud’
• Sharing with other people to do better searches, common good.
• RSS Feeds
• Really Simple Syndication
• Inbox for your Web
• Google Reader
• Embed Code
• Enables people with little programming knowledge the ability to build interactive content.
• http://www.mogulus.com

Outcomes:

• Collaborative Content
• Community around the content
• Conversation
• Author/Audience Union

 

What’s Social Media? Media that encourages conversation, community, collaborative content creation.

Facebook.com

Ning?, to build your own facebook

YouTube

Jaikus – Social Life Feed (superglue?)

Twitter

Supersaturated Solution, putting it somewhere it will seen, move the brand to where the social networks are.

 

Social Rules Apply

            Awareness Education Involvement

 

You don’t use a social network, you participate, and you become part of it. You are creating a common good; you can only take if you give.

 

Contribution is participation. Raise participation before raising money.

Social Media is Local First, if important enough it expands.

Social Media is Viral.

Social Media is Granular. Fractal.

Example: Twitter Vision

Social Media is a conversation. Not a Broadcast.

Social Media is an ecosystem, not a monoculture.

Social Media is Mobile

            iPhone

(SDK, Flash Android, Sprout[sproutbuilder.com])

 

Social Media wants to be free, the Social Mesh (easy to be a social media slut w/o thinking)

 

 

Utterz quip.com

 

Twhirl (Air Application for Twitter) (Hellotxt, ooVoo)

http://www.eberhardt.ca/
Amused that you could text him questions :p

Not a designer, intent to get us excited about mobile technology.

Non-Mobile: Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse
Mobile: 5 way navigation, vertical screen, T9 keypad, 2 softkeys, external speaker, GPRS Network Connection.
MP3: no network connection
PDA: Touch Screen, Handwriting Recognition, On Screen Keyebord, WiFi, Network
PSP 4 way nav, joystick, extra buttons, WiFi

Thousands of Mobile Devices, iPhone

SMS -> Short Message Service, Txt Msging, Text Only.
Person-to-Person, Computer-to-Person, Person-to-Computer

Flash Lite Application: Creating a Portal for Texting WeatherNetwork.com

Multimedia Message Service - Camera Phone
Flickr Uploader on Nokia95 - Taking a Picture with camera phone, and then uploading it on Flickr

now.sms software for SMS/MMS Servers.

GPS - Flash Lite cant access :(
-Possible for triggering different things for where they are.
-Sports Tracker - Track the route and time, etc.

2D Barcodes - Glorified UPC symbol - shotcode.com, data-matrix, QR Codes

QR Codes, non-enforced patent, largest worldwide usage, can contain the most info, many readers available.
Phone takes picture/reads it, and it opens a browser - Train Schedules, Advertisements, Wine Bottles,  semapedia.org

Prototyping Phone Content.
Adobe Flash CS2/CS3 Professional, Adobe Device Central, a Suitable device for testing.
Doesn't Support Action Script 3.0 (AS2)

Processing Mobile, Java Based, (Don't need to know Java) wide range of phones, easy scripting language, Not an IDE(no drag&drop), Creates JAR file instead of SWF
mobile.processing.org

1MB = $20 approx. o,@
GPRS/3G outside of data plan, very expensive, available on most phones, Wide coverage, Cell phone carrier is provider

WiFi
Cheaper, Not Available for all phones, Limited coverage, Any service provider

"On Deck" means that you are operating with the co-operation of the carier, Ring-Tones, Games, You Tube on Rogers, SMS messages to a short code, Downloading a watchin a video clip. Allows for billing of a small amount onto the end users' bill.

So can be very expensive for end user, unless it's on deck, or unless it's using WiFi

Flash Lite can't be On Deck

I did enjoy having this speaker if for nothing but the accent :D

But it was nice to have someone more interested in talking to us and showing us cool things than just advertising himself and trying to sell himself to us.

Overall I don't have strong opinions, I really enjoy this person ( Zack Booth Simpson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6u5v0OKq-Q&feature=related
I like the idea of turning interactive design into art.

A little late on this post I know, but just didn't have the time after we first went there to post anything.

So on Friday, October 12, 2007 we went to Gesture Tek

The day started off well enough safely finding our way to a parking spot nearby, but then we started walking down the street in the wrong direction, luckily the group of us five (Heather, Jeff, Brook, Karen and Me[Kilian]) ran into a very nice man who pointed us in the write direction.
Nice Man: "You look lost"
Us: "We are!"
(See Jeff's Post for an artist's representation)

So even though we arrived a little late we made it for most of the Vincent's Presentation. I was very amused by the gesture tek's video game system. I think it's a great idea for getting gamer boys and girls more active while still being able to enjoy video games.


The "touch screen" Gesture Panel was in my eyes a great learning tool, being able to touch the glass to leaf through different things so intuitively makes it easy for people to look through and learn content without realizing it.

The table fascinated me, sure it was a simple game of pong, but being able to manipulate the pictures and the way everyone seemed to be drawn to it showed how attractive interactivity is to people.


While amusing the floor advertisements are a great way to subliminally advertise. I didn't really get a chance to look at all the games it had, but I liked the things that just moved or changed depending on where you stepped.

Today we visited Sheridan Visualization Design Intitute and saw a few things, different aspects of interactive multimedia.

Some of the first things we saw were some eTools, which I found interesting as I like the idea of interactive and possibly fun ways to teach.

Another thing that caught my interest were some "games" or "simulations" done using the OGRE game engine. Happy to hear it is free, I may download it if my computer can handle it.

The next things we were shown involved face recognition a form of pattern recognition that can be used in many things, such as animation something Sheridan is known for, and to perhaps replicate our faces into games like World of Warcraft, or other MMOG (massive multiplayer online games).

After a short wander (3 flights of stairs) we headed up to the Immersion Studio, from the now closed down I-mmersion for comfy office chairs and a show. The idea of polling the audience using tablets was compelling, and for the time it was made the graphics were almost creepy they were so well simulated. Personally I prefer things like this for audience interaction on the big screen.

Over all it was interesting, some fields I would be interesting getting into myself specifically the eTools though I know that is more interactive 101 as Dan said, I till am a teacher at heart.
On the other side though ways to making gaming more interactive and connected with the gamer spoils the inner kid and gamer girl within me.

It was a good experience