What’s in it for the future?
Been real busy these days. Lot’s of school projects and internship work to juggle with… BUT, tomorrow will be the last day of school before everyone starts on their internships. Ping and Ms Nga played us a little ‘goodbye’ clip today. *sobs* Can’t believe three years have passed just like that. Compared to Primary and … Read more
Social Media Machines
Flo, Ying2, Madd and SinK’s group enlightened us on the topic last week. Here are some interesting tidbits that I would be sharing with you soon relating to that and other topics after this hectic week (hopefully): RSS Feeds Continuous Computing Continuous Partial Attention Social Bookmarking Check back in soon! Meanwhile, if you have anything … Read more
Google Today, Gone-r tomorrow?
Jov and I presented on ‘Search: Google today, Google tomorrow’ last Friday during our New Communication Technologies (NCT) lesson. Ping gave us some hints in our CA brief that we have to include in our presentation: Wolfram Alpha, Semantic Web and Bing. Initially, we were a little bewildered and lost on what we were supposed … Read more
TED sixth sense technology, Mobile Revolution
Ping showed this video to us last week and every single one of us were awed by it. From what I understand, they are currently working on this project. I can’t wait for this to turn up in the market. Love the photo-taking one at 3:18. Classic. In addition to that, technology has also resulted … Read more
An insight to gaining blog traffic
Was talking to Xian Feng (@uneasyxf) over MSN just now regarding Social Media (Twitter, blog traffic, SEO, etc) as a follow-up on our tweets. The interesting thing about it is that what he spoke about bore striking similarities to what we have learned so far in our New Communication Technologies (NCT) classes. Learned many new … Read more
Social Media lecture by @patlaw
Wednesday’s guest lecture was mad awesome. Ping invited Pat Law whom some of us had already met at Yahoo! office during the revelation of Yahoo! Youreka! treasure hunt cum website tweaks. Ping says that she is a really influential blogger in the blogosphere. Her hair’s real cool!! Anyways, Pat had us glued to the slides … Read more
Wisdom of Crowd
It’s all about why and how a group of people together is smarter than one or a few. Where do you usually sees it? – Wikipedia. The first person creates the wiki. Others might find that certain information is lacking/are wrong and will make changes. The final page may not be the same. However, this … Read more
Next Up…
Pat Law’s lecture on Social Media Wisdom of crowd Twitter links Note this space.
Facebook Page VS Facebook Group
Last week, we were enlightened by Sam and Dine on the differences between Facebook page and group during their presentation for New Communication Technologies (NCT). After they ‘lectured’ us on the differences, we were told to create a Facebook group or fan page, depending the group we were in. Ping showed us how we can … Read more
Minority Report
P let us watch a short clip of Minority Report (directed by Steven Spielberg) starring Tom Cruise last week during our New Communication Technologies (NCT) tutorial class. It has been a long while since id last caught the movies and this one definitely had me hooked. Throughout the show, i was constantly awed by the … Read more
Project MuttonC
What is Project MuttonC? One of the tasks that P assigned us for our New Communication Technologies (NCT) module is to set up a wordpress account. We have to treat it as a personal website for us to showcase our talents/achievements and so on. Project MuttonC is currently taking place and don’t be surprise if … Read more
New Communication Technologies
First week of school has officially finished. Five more weeks to go. =’( I will definitely miss all my friends, favourite lecturers, foodcourt 5 and 6, library, Poly school life, observee (wahaha!) and CASS toilet after graduation. Hope i didnt miss anything out. =’( For us year 3s, there are only 2 modules- Professional Preparation … Read more
