Week3: Tappestry, Hey Guys! Don't miss this cool society !!!

Hello guys,
I strongly suggest you experience this cool learning society.
Tappestry, a simple social network specifically for learning topic.
Take a look at the overview video, it takes 3 minutes.

I download Tappestry on my iPhone and iPad, then try to do something.
That's so funny. But I can see there are few people using Tappestry.

This screenshot is the overview page of Tappestry.
There are simple messages. It's easy to read.
I touched the Nearby button, but nobody is nearby here !!!!

And one thing I love is this interface design. Can you see?
It looks like a kind of famous quote !!!
That's so funny!!

Week3 Tech1: Google+

I knew Google+, but rarely used it.

The first impression of Google+ was that it is almost like Facebook.
Yes, Google+ has a lot of similar features what FB has.

But, one thing that little bit different from FB is Communities.
Google+ communities are more activated than FB's community.
I found 'iOS Developers', which is 138 membered big community.

In addition, the most distinctive feature of Google+ is a kind of link system with Blogger.com, Youtube.com, etc.
Yes those websites are associated into Google+ together. It's really impressive.

Another feature I love is Google Hangout.
I never knew this wonderful technology.
Google Hangout combines many functions, such as chat, sharing screens, etc.
I've been using Webex when I need to share my screen with others.
But I realized that I can use Google Hangout instead of Webex.
Gorgeous. Wonderful.

But I realize that relatively few people use Google+ compared to Facebook.
But, I expect that Google+ is next thing prevelent after Facebook.

Week2 Prompt

Week 2

How might the concept of produsage be applied in your life (personal and/or professional) as it stands today? Are you already a produser? If yes, what do you do? If no, why not?

The term Produsage refers to Produce + Usage in collaborative knowledge context.
Well, it is not easy to say that I am a kind of producer in a certain area.
Although I am a heavy user in social media, I am just a consumer, I think.

But,
In my retrospect, I was a kind of producer in two area.
First, when I was a middle school kid, I made a personal website about an online game.
Yes, I was an online game user as well as a game fan page master.

The screenshot shows an online game 'Legend of Darkness' I played.
My fan page was enrolled in Yahoo search, so a lot of gamers visited my fan page.
I remember that the total visitors in my fan page was approximately 100,000.
At that time, I used Dreamweaver to develop my webpage.
My fan page had various contents including discussion boards.

Second,I wanted to be an amateur Hiphop musician.
So I signed up Millim.com (Now its service is not available)
But I found its old screenshot.

Millim.com was a kind of user-led music creation & sharing website.
I used my nickname 'Lyricist'. and I uploaded my self-made music to Millim.com
Millim users can listen to my music, and I can listen to other's music.
Some famous Millim users became real major musician in Korean Hiphop now.
(Yes! I am a big fan of Korean Hiphop for 16years!)

Unfortunately, those two things mentioned above are now unavailable.
Currently, I am definitely a consumer in all Internet areas.
Why? I think that I am currently passive.

Actually I want to be a producer in my personal as well as professional areas.
However, I have no energy to be a producer.. now I am satisfied being a consumer.
How can I be a producer? 
The answer will be making a personal learning network, and then collecting, sharing, re-generating something..

Exploring Edmodo.com

Today, I've been exploring Edmodo.com
Edmodo is a kind of Learning Management System website.
The first screenshot is a home feed page in which users can see posts overall.
It looks like a Facebook group page.
One feature I would like to point out is 'Planner' from the second screenshot.
Students can create events and tasks.

Edmodo is very intuitive, helpful, and easy.
But Edmodo is a light tool.
It means that its functions are very limited compared to other LMS such as Blackboard.

Web 2.0 sites in Korea: Why they are failed in Korea

Today, I'd like to talk about Web 2.0 sites in Korea.

I found a lot of news article about this issue: Why Web2.0 sites are failed in Korea.
The articles are mainly published in 2006-2008.
This means that Web2.0 was a hottest topic in 2006, and many Web2.0 technologies were trying to expand their service to Korea. But they were failed.

Why?
The answer is a monopolization of a certain website: Naver.com

 According to Wikipedia, "Naver (Hangul: 네이버) is a popular search portal in South Korea, which holds a market share of over 70% at least since 2011,^[1] continuing to 2013."

In other word, everything users want exists in Naver.com.
Users don't need to get any other Web2.0 sites.
Also Naver provides a blog service for its users.
For Korean, other blog services, such as Blogger, Wordpress, etc., are unnecessary, because they have Naver blog

Yahoo.com stopped its service in Korea in 2013. As a result, Flickr stopped, too.

Do you know another story about Youtube.com in Korea?
Korea Internet policy required users to enter their social ID numbers when they sign up any websites.
Because of this reason, Youtube.com prohibited Korean until 2012.
In 2012, Korea Internet policy changed, and never require any social numbers.

Why was Korean Internet policy changed in 2012?
In 2011, another popular search portal, Nate.com, was hacked by Chinese hackers.
35,000,000 users information including social numbers, address, cellphone numbers, etc., were stolen.
In other word, 70% of all Korea population information was stolen by Chinese hackers.
Yes, my social information is being used by others probably.


Anyway, in conclusion,

Web2.0 is losing their power in Korea due to a domestic site, Naver.com.

Week2's Tech2: Flickr!! Do you like photographs? Join in Flickr !!

Today (Tuesday) is Flickr day!

I signed up Flickr.
One thing I was surprised is that Flickr is served by Yahoo.com.
Now I rarely use Yahoo.com. I totally forgot the portal site that was prevalent a decade ago.

I bought my first DSLR camera in 2007, Canon EOS 350D.
Yes, I was really addicted in photographs, so I joined in a photograph hobby group.
My hobby 'was' photographs.
I still have some wonderful pictures I took in 2007-2009 when I tripped in Australia and Europe.



Flickr provides users with some good functions such as Gallery, Community, etc.
The screenshot above is a community page when I searched 'Florida State University'.
This community page can be a good resource for one of our assignments 'Community observation paper'.
However, most of communities I have found are not active. 
I think that most Flickr users do Flickr as a personal use.

I was trying to search some Korean communities in Flickr, but there are few.
I found a news article about Flickr in Korea.
Flickr began to service in Korea in 2006. That's surprising. pretty early.
However, Flickr stopped its service in Korea in January 2013.
That is the reason why there are few Korean users in Flickr.

Week2's Tech1: Getting familiar with Youtube.com !!

We probably think of Youtube.com as only a site to see some videos.
Yes, I am not a video uploader.
I am definitely a consumer in Youtube.com world.
Youtube.com provides me with a good management system to track a tendency of my playlist.
Also Youtube.com is associated with Google.com,
so it is very easy to manage your personal activity log with your google account in Youtube.com

Previously, I posted about a subscription function of Youtube.com
The function enables me to keep some important videos in a certain space in which I can see again later.

The best feature of Youtube.com I think is the 'Watch History' page.
The history page keeps previous videos I have watched.
Currently, I have been watching many videos regarding iOS development in Youtube.com.
Fortunately, this page saves my video playlist.
Yes, some videos need to be kept to see later again.
You don't need to search again unnecessarily.