Book Review: Web 2.0 neue Perspektiven für Marketing und Medien

Sehr gelungenes Buch, der Autor Gianfranco Walsh beleuchtet sehr intensiv die Technik Web 2.0. Dies tut er in dem Umfang und in der Qualität, das sogar ein Leie verstehen kann um was es sich handelt. Der Autor wechselt zwischen eher Theorie lastigen Kapiteln und praktischen Beispielen. Meiner Meinung nach ein sehr gelungenes Buch sowohl für interessierte Laien wie auch Personen die sich schon mit der Materie beschäftigt haben oder in ihr tätig sind.

Social Engineering

Video: Interview Sharon Conheady über Social Engineering (10:41)

I watched this video it was really interesting. It shows me some new forms of Social Engineering instead of Phishing.

It's very dangerous this time to surf the internet or be a part of it without no knowledge of these risks.

There is some more information about it on wikipedia: click me :).

Don't be an idiot, surf safe.

All from me now happy surfing

m4xx

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a function former performed by an employee and outsourcing it to an undefined person, generally large group of people using information technology.

Crowdsourcing relies on a combination of distributed networks, inexpensive digital tools for production and people who create content, rate other people's work or solve problems in their spare time.

There are a lot of services for providing Crowdsourcing tools like:

http://www.designcrowd.com/crowdsourcing/

http://www.smartsheet.com/crowdsourcing

http://www.clickworker.com/en/

If you have a lot of spare time try it!

m4xx

Podcasts

A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio or video files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device. The word is a neologism derived from "broadcast" and "pod" from the success of the iPod, as podcasts are often listened to on portable media players. 

Variants:

Video podcast: The same as a normal podcast, but it includes video.

Podcast novels: A podcast novel is a mix of the traditional podcast and a format called audiobook. It’s like a traditional novel but it’s delivered via RSS. The recording process is made continuously. Every time an episode is done it will be released online. Podcast novels are distributed over the Internet, commonly on a weblog. 

Enhanced podcast: Enhanced podcast is also an expansion of the traditional podcast format. It includes some extra information like images displayed simultaneously. Links are also allowed to provide extra information and content.

Platform: The most used platform is called iTunes. iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, saving, and organizing digital music content and video files on personal computers. It can also manage contents on iDevices. Other software not that popular is also available for different platforms.

A list can be viewed on: http://www.buzzmaven.com/podcast-software-list.html#Macintosh_Podcast_Software. 

Most popular Podcasts in Germany: 

The most popular podcast(audio) on iTunes is actual because of the european championship, Jogis Jungs provided by SWR 3, a bavarian radio station. 

2nd is Quarks and Co(video podcast) a scientific TV format explaining the world from the eyes of a scientist. 

3rd is Wissen macht Ah! the same format like the previous one from Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

Science 2.0

Science 2.0 focuses on the human-designed world in which the dynamics of trust, privacy, responsibility, and empathy are determinants of success.

Advancing Science 2.0 will require a shift in priorities to promote intense collaboration, integrative thinking, teamwork-based education/training, and case study ethnographic research methods. 

Ben Shneiderman lays out an ambitious vision that will impact research funding, educational practices, and democratic principles.

Write something what you think about it.

m4xx

Clay Shirky: How social media can make history

Another Ted talk:





At the beginning Cly Shirky is talking about the development of media in the 20th century. This time media was static.
Now in the 21th century the internet reached the technologie level, that everyone can easily share it's own opinion pictures and videos. Since the rising of the smartphone every owner gets the capabilities to record videos and take pictures.

He explained that situation by describing the information flood at the earthquake in China.
People instantly reported the situation to their social networks. Also BBC got the first info about the earthquake from twitter.

Just watch this short talk to get involved in.

m4xx

Cyber War

Hi again!

Today i'll tell you something about Cyber War. Cyber War is a form of warfare, but it's limited to the level of the Cyberspace.

The most importent methots of Cyberwar are:

Spying: Infiltrating alien computer environments to get information.

Defacement: Hijacking a website to change the content of it, often used for displaying propaganda.

Denial of Service attacks (DoS) : Here people try to create a request overflow to tie the target site or service.

Today every government has a department to prevent Cyberwar some of them are secret some not.


In Germany its called: "Abteilung Informations- und Computernetzwerkoperationen, Cyber-Einheit der Bundeswehr".


In the States: "United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)"


Here we can see that its really importent to have this type of department to prevent these kinds of attacks.


Greetings

m4xx

Dell Hell

I just searched for dell hell on different search engines here are the results:

Google:  About 30,900,000 results (0.21 seconds)

Bing:      112.000.000 Ergebnissen

Blekko:  36M results

In June of 2005 Jeff Jarvis posted a rant on his blog Buzz Machine titled "Dell lies. dell sucks"

That post sparked a customer revolt. Dell's market cap has deteriorated ever since. Certainly the customer discontent from 2005 is not the only reason for Dell's difficulty. But I'm sure it was a factor. Dell today takes Social Business seriously, with one of the most sophisticated social listening command centers on the planet.

I think its really interesting which power the webcommunity has. Jeff Jarvis reduced the market cap of dell for about 50%. This is really amazing. 

Reacting to this Post Dell startet a website called ideastorm.com for letting the customers help to design better product and give their own opinions.

Thats all for now

Peace m4xx  

Kickstarter.com

Hi, today i'm going to tell you something about the crowd funding plattform Kickstarter.com. On this site its possible for everyone to start a projekt or funding to projects from other people. Every projekt has a money target and if its reached the project is successfully funded.

I already knew kickstarter.com before this Social Web Class because of a project called Double Fine Adventure. Tim Schafer (Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango) is one of the programmers here. The project is one of the most successful ones on kickstarter it Pledged about 3.3 Million Dollar of a goal of 400 thousand. That means about 800 percent more as suspected.

Another interesting projekt was the Printbot LC. It's a Full LASERCUT Printrbot Kit. Everything you need in one box to assemble a Printrbot Lasercut (“LC”). It funded about 800,000 Dollars, about 3000 percent more than suspected. Amazing!

ScanBox for iPhone is also such a cool project it's an easy to use, affordable and unbelievably portable scanning box that uses your smartphone's camera to take amazing high quality scans. It's easy to set up and packs down flat to easily fit into your bag or brief case. This project hast 25 Day's to go and has already reached ten times the Goal.

Thanks for reading

Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern

Today I like to tell you a little bit about the Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern. You can register here if you are a college or university student in Bavaria to take online courses and get credit for it.

I did it already and take part of the Webdesign course.

I like it really much because of the reason I'll get credits for it.

Go out and try it yourself!

http://www.vhb.org/

What makes Games successful?

Jesse Schell: When games invade real life

DS Games - E3 2012 - Guitar Hero 5

Another Ted Talk: Jesse Schell talks about the payment models of Facebook games. These models are different to retail games. For an retail game you pay about 50 Dollars, for this you'll receive all the content  of the game. It's not necessary to pay for additional content, if you want the full experience of the game.
The Facebook game model is really different, the game at all is free to play but if you buy ingame content you can power up your skills. The most common model is that people not paying for stuff can't reach the skill of the paying ones.
He although talks about the invasion of the achievements in the real life and the problem coming with it.

I think these models are very dangerous for kids and their uniformed parents.

What do you think about it?  

Social Network Games

Today I like to talk about a social network game I played. It's called Zuma Blitz. You can describe it as an  addictive ball matching game. In both long and short doses of playing it's a lot of fun. But enough talking look at the Screenshot and try it.

Play here: http://www.facebook.com/zumablitz

Web 2.0 vs Social Media

Hi there, today i want to show you the difference between social media and web 2.0 in google trends.
Here we can see that the interest in Social Media rises over in the interest in web 2.0  in the middle of 2009. Thus Social web is now more important then the technology to implement it.

joindiaspora.com

I tried another social network called dispora. It has a key feature:  

"You own your pictures, and you shouldn’t have to give that up just to share them. You maintain ownership of everything you share on Diaspora, giving you full control over how it's distributed."

Quote from Dispora

if you are interested in go to : https://joindiaspora.com/

Peace

m4xx

Forming – Storming – Norming – Performing

Today i'll tell you something about Group development. I have read the wikipedia article
Tuckman's stages of group development.
There are four Phases of group development.

1st Forming:

In this phase every group member takes his place and gets his tasks.

2nd Storming:

Here the people fight in their Roles, fight against there partners, so theres a lot of storm out there.

3rd Norming:

After the storming phase the people now should be satisfied with their Role.

4th Perform:

At the end of this model the group now is in the state of being productive.
In my opinion the model meets exact that how it really was.


See you soon

m4xx



  

Entertainment Time !

Today I tell you something about my favorite Podcasts and I hope you like these too.

Firtst:

ARD - Radio Tatort - Audio Podcast online hören oder MP3 herunterladen - Audiopodcast 13063 mit kostenlosen Downloads

It's a german crime thriller where the Police is hunting murders. Some of you also know the TV-serie?


Second:

http://www.engadget.com/podcast/

The engadget podcast informs me in a funny way about new technologies.


Check it out.

Peace m4xx

Rethinking Education

Yesterday I watched this cool video it tells us something about the upcoming educational revolution.

It gives us impulses of new methods for new ways of efficient education.

I suggest you to watch this amazing peace of moving pictures.

-- m4xx --

From now on in english!

Hi there from now in i'll blog in english because i want to reach more people.

So far, following posts are in english.

Peace m4xx

Web 2.0 vs. Social Web

Hi !

Heute werde ich euch den Unterschied zwischen Web 2.0 und Social Web versuchen etwas näher zu bringen. Web 2.0 kann man als die Technologie verstehen die heute im Web verwendet wird. Während dessen Social Web die interagierenden Menschen beschreibt.

Hier mal ein Paar Seiten die eher in die Web 2.0 Kategorie gehören.

maps.google.com

amazon.com

engadget.com

und eher Social web Pages.

Facebook.com

plus.google.com

dispora.com

twitter.com

So glaub die reichen damit ihr euch mal einen Eindruck davon verschaffen könnt.

Peace   

Überblick über die Top Blogs

Hier mal die wichtigsten Blogging Plattformen im Überblick bei Google Trends.

Mein erster Blog !

Hi Leute! 

Hier ist mein erster Versuch mich aktiv als Blogger im Internet zu beteiligen.

Ich werde hier so oft es mir möglich ist Sachen über meinen Tag, interesante Stories aus dem Netz und natürlich über meine Social web class Bloggen.

Ausserdem hoffe ich das euch meine Geschichten den oft doch so tristen Alltag etwas versüßen und ihr Freude und Spaß dabei habt sie zu Lesen.

Peace