Symbian, iPhone & the New Mobile Reality

Interesting views on mobile platforms and similarities to previous wars in personal computing and operating systems...

"Nokia, already a stakeholder in mobile OS maker Symbian, has announced that it will buy the remainder of the company and throw all the assets into a new platform called the Symbian Foundation, which will unite all the flavors of Symbian into a single, common software platform that will go open source in two years. Major mobile players such as Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone have all signed on."

http://gigaom.com/2008/06/24/symbian-iphone-the-new-mobile-reality/

Android Developers Competition Winners

http://phandroid.com/2008/05/10/adc-round-1-winners/

Some great ideas here (although annoying, all those little ideas that you have building up in your head...some of them are on here)

cheers

Ten ways to change the world through social computing

Nice article on different tools and methods that use social tools that may become the next big thing:

http://sustainablog.org/2008/05/12/ten-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/

cheers

Youtube mashup

Pretty interesting concept for a mashup, nice because I can actually see it being semi-useful, especially when looking at technologies and the such.

http://www.dipity.com/mashups/timetube

cheers
dekker

Google Developer Day 2008 in Sydney

Google are planning a developer day in Sydney (June 18th) for those who want to "Learn how to best use Google developer products to build social applications, mobile applications, geo/maps applications, and AJAX/JavaScript applications."

Find out more at http://code.google.com/events/developerday/2008/home.html

Playing with Mashups

OK. Many of you are getting to the point where you need to start trying out your ideas. As I mentioned in class today, using a mashup approach can be a relatively quick and easy way to sketch out ideas that are interactive. I'll be putting up more resources on the course website over the next few days, but to get you going, here are is a link to some mashups from last year:

Note that the URL is for the COMP3505 external hosting, which you will probably need to use if you are going to try out mashups. The default available for each team is an ftp account which allows you to upload your code and try it out there, along with 500MB of storage. If you will need a MySQL database for your project, this is also available. If you want an account set up for your team, please send an email to comp3505@itee.uq.edu.au and we'll sort it out.

--Stephen.

How “Social” is “Social”, Really?

An uninformed university student reflects on his personal experiences using trendy online social applications, and wonders as to what extent we can truly be social without conventional human contact and interaction. Hilarity ensues.

“Humans are inherently social: they live together, work together, learn together, play together, interact and talk with each other, and socialize. It seems only natural, therefore to develop interactive systems that support and extend these different kinds of sociality.” - Preece, Rogers & Sharp, Interaction Design, 2002.

Indeed, social web applications are all the rage now. So much so that the University of Queensland created a course with a catchy name, produced an entire syllabus and even went as far as recruiting a knowledgeable and distinguished lecturer all the way from England to teach it :-). And thus my journey began.

The mission sounded simple enough: sign up to a few social websites and applications, observe and report. I chose to focus on the “social” aspect of the tools and applications I’d be exposed to, and attempted to immerse myself in 7 of the most popular social networking applications on the Internet today. Despite the fact that I’d been using a few of these applications for some time now, being forced to actually think about them in a particular context was a whole new experience altogether. It soon began to dawn on me that my old-fashioned notions of what it meant to be social simply didn’t apply on the Internet. I discovered that the word “social” has taken on a meaning almost as broad as the Web itself, now redefined to mean “anything with the potential for user input”. In today’s age of social bookmarking, social marketing, social commerce and social shopping, you can live under a rock and still be the most sociable person in the world.

THE TOOLS

Aiding me on my journey were the following:
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Last.fm
Last.fm touts itself as “the social music revolution”, and is a unique combination of online social music portal and ingenious software. By tracking your musical preferences and listening habits, Last.fm attempts to provide personalised recommendations, connect users who share similar tastes, provide custom radio streams and more.

Twitter
Twitter is perhaps one of the fastest growing social applications out there at the moment. It is a microblogging tool, facilitating the exchange of short textual messages between its users, all answering one simple question: “what are you doing?”

Google Calendar
Calendar is Google’s free online calendar service, allowing users to store, manage and share their schedules and contacts with other users.

Facebook
“Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you”. Wildly popular, Facebook aims to connect its users with their existing social networks, allowing them to keep up with friends and family, share photos and videos, reconnect with old classmates, discuss interests and hobbies and plan parties and other events.

del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool which allows users to store a collection of their favourite websites and URLs online. Users can also use del.icio.us to browse and search for links that other users have posted, all made easy with the website’s easy-to-use tagging system.

Blogger
Blogger is another of Google’s free tools, and one of the most popular and flexible blog creation and publishing services around. For those clueless individuals that have no idea what a blog is, it is essentially an online journal, composed of text, images and links to other web content. You are reading a blog now.

Flickr
Flickr is the web’s premium online photo management and sharing services. Flickr allows users to upload, organise and tag their digital photos, share them either privately or with the entire Flickr “community” and search for and comment on other users’ photos.

THE JOURNEY BEGINS

You’ll notice right away that although all of these tools are classified as social applications, they all differ greatly in purpose, function and utilisation. As my use of these applications grew, I realised that they also varied greatly in their effectiveness to me as facilitators of “traditional” social interaction. There were those that brought me closer to my friends and companions, and those that I had trouble seeing as anything but useful tools with little real value in a social context.

I’ll begin with what the cream of the crop - Facebook. If you ignore the plethora of useless applications for a moment (a virtual zombie vampire drink, anyone?) and look at Facebook at its most fundamental level, you might find that it’s actually quite brilliant. In all my experience using online social applications, Facebook emerged as the lone purveyor of the sanctity of traditional social relationships – a welcoming shelter in an infinite landscape where ‘social’ contact is largely shrouded in anonymity, hidden behind usernames and multiple identities. A place where your ‘profile’ and online social network is a reflection of, rather than an escape from or carefully selected slice of your real-world personal and social connections. With Facebook there are, at least for the meantime, no signs of the lack of accountability that seems to have plagued many other online social networking tools in the past, which essentially allow you to take on an online persona that may or may not represent who you really are. Unlike older social networking sites such as MySpace and Bebo, where the objective for many of its users seems to be to amass large, shallow “friend” networks with little or no value, with Facebook there is a strong emphasis on maintaining and rekindling current and past friendships and sharing the life events that connect us, facilitating real world interaction. This is what (I believe) makes it instantly appealing and accessible, especially to those that have shied away from online social networking tools in that past.

It is also evident that Facebook’s founders and developers have gone to some lengths to preserve this sanctity, both with subtle inklings such as the signup form that prompts you to enter your “Full Name” and instantly rejects usernames, bogus names and aliases, and the less-subtle policy of actively cancelling and removing the profiles of users that mange to weasel their way through the automatic filters (it is in fact a violation of Facebook’s Terms of Service to provide false personal details). My personal favourite though is the “How Do You Know this Person?” box that formerly appeared with each new friend request, and would not allow you to confirm a person as a friend if you selected “I don’t know this person”.

THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

Next up on the socialness ladder is what I like to call the ‘Tools that Have the Potential to Complement and Improve an Individual’s Day-to-day Social Interactions’ category. Google Calendar is an excellent example – an online tool that allows friends, relatives and co-workers to synchronise and organise their lives... together. As with most Google products, the concept has been executed quite well, and although the layout and navigation took me a little getting used to, its value as a social accompaniment is unquestionable.

This is in contrast to the other social application I’ve placed in this category – Twitter. Put simply, Twitter confuses me. When I first signed up for and began using the “revolutionary” microblogging app, I saw it as something cool and innovative, but with no real purpose as anything other than a timewaster. Its sheer simplicity and openness threw me off slightly (you can pretty much “follow” anyone you want), and I was genuinely freaked out when after less than a week of sporadic use, I was informed that I was now being followed by a fat white dude with a spine-chillingly intense profile picture. Was this the purpose of Twitter? To find and follow people you’ve never met just for the heck of it? I can’t for the life of me imagine why the aforementioned Twitterer decided to follow me, but from what I’ve seen so far it’s quite a common occurrence. Scott Karp, in his ‘Why I Stopped Using Twitter’ blog post, wonders “whether it will ever catch on beyond geeks who thrive on spending massive quantities of their lives on the web,” and in its current incarnation, I’d have to agree wholeheartedly with that sentiment.

During my painful research phase I stumbled upon twitterholic.com, a website that tracks Twitter usage and lists the top 100 Twitterers based on followers. Of the 6 none- news, tech or political Twitter feeds on the top 10, I found a total of 6 (that’s 100% if you can’t do the math) to be mind-numbingly banal – filled with updates ranging from the mundane (“just got off plane. Flight was OK” /“going to dinner with family at Italian restaurant”) to the scattered and disjointed white noise of incoherent half-conversations. Sorry leolaporte and JasonCalacanis; you may be huge internet celebrities with thousands of “Followers” and your own Wikipedia pages, but your dull 140-character ramblings mean nothing to me.

Call me old fashioned, but I find it extremely difficult to “socialize” with someone unless I’ve met them IN PERSON and subsequently built some kind of rapport. In fact, of all the Twitter feeds and blogs I encountered on my path of enlightenment , the only ones that captured my attention and brought about a feeling of ‘connectedness’ were those that weren’t personal in nature – the breaking news, tech and political campaign Twitter feeds and blogs. I believe that technologies like Twitter (and Blogger) derive the most value and are truly in their element when they are utilised as publicity networking rather than a social networking tools – that is, in group and team-based situations, as a means of quickly broadcasting updates to all relevant parties. Allen Stern's CentreNetworks article sums up the difference between the two rather nicely: "A social networking tool becomes a publicity tool when 'I speak, you speak, I reply, you reply' becomes 'I speak, you listen'."

THE JOURNEY NEARS ITS END

Had it not been for these dynamics, Twitter could have easily found a place in my final category – the category I’ve dubbed the ‘Sharing Does Not Automatically Make You Social’ category. Here I’ve placed sites and services like Last.fm, del.icio.us and (to a lesser extent) Flickr. Now don’t get me wrong, I found each one of these applications to be brilliant pieces of technology, useful in their own special ways, but it irks me that they all follow the philosophy that by simply sharing something you are automatically being “social”. Bloggers like Stephan Spencer see it differently, describing Flickr as “a visual conversation… countless stories intertwined… a community”. I disagree. Sure, there are certainly hundreds of thousands of people around the world that share common musical tastes, browsing habits and/or visual ideas, but without the personal bonds and individual accountability that are implicit in social applications like Facebook, it’s hard for me to imagine “meeting new people” or strengthening my current social ties through them. To me, the more time you spend in these online “communities”, the further you drift from your real-world social ties.

And so the journey ends. A journey of reflection and enlightenment. To what extent we can truly be social without conventional human contact and interaction? My personal experiences using online social applications gave me mixed results. I found that there were those that bring (or have the potential to bring) us closer to the people we meet, and those that move us further away. The bottom line: on the World Wide Web, “social” isn’t always social.

Sources

Deragon, J; Which Community Do You Live In? – Social Media Today (http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/29702)

Facebook; Statistics (http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics)

Goodin, Dan; MySpace users snowed in by new blizzard of spam (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/14/myspace_spam_blizzard/)

Karp, Scott; Why I Stopped Using Twitter – Publishing 2.0 (http://publishing2.com/2007/12/11/why-i-stopped-using-twitter/)

Odden, Lee; Twitter Marketing Guide – Tips on using Twitter (http://www.toprankblog.com/2007/11/twitter-guide/)

Preece, Rogers & Sharp 2002; Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction; John Wiley & Sons; ISBN 0 471 49278 7

Scoble, Robert; Scobleizer – The you-don’t-need-more-friends lobby (http://scobleizer.com/2007/10/14/the-you-dont-need-more-friends-lobby/)

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Stern, Allen; CentreNetworks – When Does a Social Network Become a "Publicity Network"? (http://www.centernetworks.com/social-network-to-publicity-network)

Twitterholics (http://www.twitterholics.com)

User Created Content with Social and Mobile Computing Tools

Introduction:

The emergence of social networking applications has allowed groups and individuals to interact socially to new and unprecedented levels, and all while online ^[1]. The increasing popularity of such applications and the revenue they generate has necessitated the need to determine at least in part the driving forces behind social applications^[1]. While investigating several applications, one aspect intrigued me greatly, that of user created content (UCC).

Background:

This article will focus on investigating three social networking applications: Facebook, LiveJournal and LastFm to establish how they incorporate UCC to enhance social networking. The synergy between UCC and its commercial applications will also be discussed, in addition to both the positive and negative aspects of using each application. To begin with, the focus of this reflective article will be presented, followed by a reflection which will lead into the conclusion of the report.

Focus:

One common tenant of these social applications is that they allow a user to personalize and customize to some degree various aspects of the medium in question in such a way that it reflects upon the author. This in part is why these programs are so successful, as by human nature people are curious about not only about their fellow peers but also by complete strangers at times. While investigating several profiles of my friends on FaceBook I noticed that the situations in which the individual had created unique content proved to be far more interesting. By the nature of their existence live journal and LastFM revolve around user created content, and this is perhaps why I found these to be far more fascinating than FaceBook.

One of the core purposes of social networking sites is to promote social interaction, and this of course is helped if human interest is generated; it helps strengthen or continues existing relationships and makes forming new ones considerably easier at times. Therefore for this reason it is important to discuss how UCC can be integrated well with social and mobile computing tools and why it works. Additionally, upon searching several live journal blogs it became apparent that generating unique content can be very profitable; this second question of why this is so is of much importance. This is because being able to generate revenue while using such tools adds a certain notion of sustainability that promotes and potentially evolves the market.

Reflection:

Facebook:

Facebook more so than the other two tools discussed later tends to promote customization and personalization as opposed to the creation and distribution of user created content. While not necessarily a bad thing, it does show where its focus lies and where it can be improved; it’s nice to know that another user appreciates the same taste in television shows as you do, but once you realize that the most popular shows are liked by everyone it soon becomes far less unique. After the tenth or so profile to praise the television show ‘Lost’ ^[2] which also had the same beer drinking application (and coincidentally almost all the same applications) it dawned upon me that personalization alone is not enough. Despite the fact that no two people in the world are identical, the nature of popular media and culture suggests that many people are going to end up having many similar preferences and opinions.

That’s not to say that customization is a bad thing; it’s just that it’s not enough on its own and pales in comparison to the rarer occurrences where Facebook profiles offer unique user create content. Take for example the Graffiti and Video applications. The former allows you to create, receive and send images that the user personally creates ^[3] to and from other Facebook profiles. Not only can it be vastly entertaining (and hence why it’s one of the most popular Facebook applications) it makes it my opinion a lot more entertaining. Likewise, the video application allows users to create and share videos and music that they have created themselves, even if it can be used to virally send existing videos.

The most common ways to make money on Facebook revolves around advertising and sponsorship given to Facebook application designer ^[4]. While designing falls out of the reach of many Facebook users, it once again highlights how facilitating the creation of unique content is the way to go. By rewarding those with the initiative or creative drive to create their own applications, you lay to foundation building blocks for a prosperous and interesting community.

LiveJournal:

Live journal by its nature fosters creative content from its users. While it’s true that it can be used privately or for completely uncreative reasons, it is commonly used as a blogging service to share thoughts and opinions. Blogs whether or not they are non-fictional or fictional (one can always blog about stories they have written) tend to be written with the aim to entertain or interest. Live journal provides this opportunity to people, allowing them to share their thoughts or a snapshot of their daily lives with their friends, a loyal reader base or complete strangers.

Naturally as a result, it can be quite entertaining and interesting to read the various blogs on offer; this in turns help fosters desire within potential bloggers to begin their own, continuing the cycle. Many bloggers have a loyal reader base ^[5] which helps support once again the notion that user created content will and does play an integral role within these social networking tools. This is reflected in some of the core features of LiveJournal, that allow users to ‘friend’ other blogs they are interested in. People are also encouraged and allowed to leave messages on other blogs, once again promoting the social aspect of the site ^[6].

LiveJournal is different from several other tools in that it allows you to sell merchandise much in the same manner of an online retailer ^[7]. In this example, a live journal blogger has built up a loyal fan base through user created content, and has used this as an opportunity to sell clothing that they design. By creating an interesting blog they are able to influence readers into potentially buying their products, and hence have generated a source of income through a social networking tool.

Negative experiences from attempting to generate a LiveJournal of my own however stemmed from a lack of applications and ease of design. While not overly difficult, some beginners or users not familiar with the internet could have difficulty in getting started. Some elements also require knowledge of html which once again may deter potential bloggers and or users.

LastFM:

Positive: LastFM is a social networking tool aimed at music listeners. It works on the principle of collecting data from its users to not only improve the experience for them, but other users both potential and current ^[8]. Data collected from users is used to match songs with personal preferences based on genre, artist and a wide variety of other qualities. This information is then often used to recommend music to new listeners with similar tastes in addition to creating radio stations based on the listeners preference. Interesting statistics such as the most played artist of the week are also provided on the site to curious listeners.

LastFM is different from the prior mentioned social networking tools in the sense that it does not require any registration or sign-up. Listeners can simply listen to songs free of charge without putting in any effort. The value of the site however really comes from participating by submitting song preferences, and interacting with the rest of the community. By creating a profile you not only allow others to see your musical taste, you can choose to see what your friends or others are listening to. In this sense it helps foster a strong social networking community using user generated content. The difference in this scenario however as compared to LiveJournal is that the user content is automatically generated (radio stations, playlists) with little interaction from them.

This is also unique in the sense that the content is not only valuable to the listener, but to LastFM commercially as well. Furthermore, the site encourages unsigned artists and bans to create and share their music in the promise of promoting their music, and secondly giving users a fresh selection of new songs. Given these conditions, it’s of no surprise that LastFM is enjoying a loyal and growing customer base in addition to great success ^[8]. In addition, the ability to automatically generate unique user content provides an interesting insight into the potential of social and mobile networking tools.

Conclusion:

As mentioned earlier, the social and mobile networking scene is becoming increasingly important for commercial businesses and users of social software. In the likelihood of more providers entering the scene, it’s integral to develop and foster the notion of user created content with regards to two key ideas; that user created content is far more interesting and thus helps promote and develop the tool and community, but also for its commercial application.

Thank you for reading my reflective blog,

Adrian Phillipps, 40563695

References:

[1] OECD, 2007, Participative Web and User-Created Content: Web 2.0, Wikis and Social Networking,

http://www.oecd.org/document/40/0,3343,fr_2649_201185_39428648_1_1_1_1,00.html

[2] Lost, ABC, http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index

[3] Best Facebook applications, http://www.bestfacebookapplications.com/2007/06/19/graffiti-facebook-application/

[4] How to make money with facebook, http://www.virtualmarketingblog.com/index.php/20071003/make-money-with-facebook/

[5] Blogmaestro.net, Professional tips for how to increase blog subscribers, http://www.blogmaestro.net/blog/professional-tips-for-how-to-increase-blog-subscribers/

[6] LiveJournal, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livejournal

[7] Belluspera's Livejournal blog and online retail store, http://users.livejournal.com/_belluspuera/

[8] LastFM, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastfm

The world just keeps getting smaller, eh?

It all started with a simple desire to let the world know your views and thoughts, and gradually grew into a socially-connected network of family, long lost friends and acquaintances.

I got introduced into the simplest form of social applications during my teens, by creating an online diary where all my rants and ravings will go on, and those who've stumbled onto that little blog of mine will leave comments. Interesting to say, having some anonymous interaction does encourage more entries, and thus I entered the world of social networking.

Time passed, and as the Internet grew, interesting applications started appearing which "enhanced communication and bridged gaps" between. When IRC was first introduced to us, it opened up a whole new world of instant messaging, file sharing and conversation opportunities. Many of us were hooked (Who could forget the constant nagging from our parents to get off the internet chat rooms?) Suddenly, the little shy boy could muster up his courage and actually hold a conversation with the school belle, albeit behind the monitor. Many relationships were formed, many were broken. IRC introduced a whole new playing field to us hormonal teenagers, where everyone is fair game behind the monitor screen.

Fast forward a couple of years ahead, and this little nifty application, Friendster appeared. Text-based networking was forced into the backseat. Friends, friends and more friends! From long-lost primary school friends to mere acquaintances, or even that cute chick you saw in school but never knew her name; now you can add her into your private network and actually see what's she's all about. Uploading of photos, testimonials from friends, and your life seems more interesting more of a sudden. Friendster took social networking and threw it a step further. You have friends bugging you for testimonials to show how much of a friend you are to them. You have friends posting photos and adding comments to show how much they enjoyed a particular activity. Everyday conversations in class had people gossiping about the new relationship the school belle is in. Surprisingly, those gifted in the looks department even had "friends" they don't even know of. The world definitely seemed so much smaller.

Instant messaging didn't make such an impact on me till 2005, when Windows Live Messenger started gaining ground. The early years of IRC and Friendster were enough for me to handle (or so i thought) and I did not see a need to install Live Messenger just to create another contact list with friends I'm already chatting with on IRC. Slowly, all my friends abandoned IRC and jumped onto the Messenger bandwagon, and so I went along. The impact did not hit me till my first overseas trip, where I grabbed every opportunity to log on and converse with my family and friends. Live Messenger was present in many internet terminals due to its ease of use and added functionality. Till today, I can't see a day passing by without logging on to drop a quick hello to my loved ones back home.

When Facebook came into the picture, many of us were reluctant to switch over too. Having to start creating your own personal network all over again suddenly seemed such a daunting task, with the carefully-managed network of probably a few hundred friends in Friendster, how was one to port over such a massive number of contacts? But still....

"Hey, I've just sent you a SuperPoke!" my buddy screamed over the phone. Huh? What's a SuperPoke? And I definitely didn't feel poking of any kind, much less the "Super" ones. Yup, I'd created a Facebook account just for curiosity's sake, and sad to say curiosity did kill the cat. Friendster was chucked aside, and Facebook was the "in" thing once again. Having the ability to add applications, increased interaction with your contacts just makes boredom so much easier to cope with. Irritating your friends during lunch breaks? Just poke them! Wanting to know how your friend is doing back home? Take a look at the pictures they posted up. Leave comments, tag them. The possibilities seemed endless. Everyday conversations and interaction can now be done in the comfort of your own room, coupled with the chance to check out cute chicks ala Friendster, what's there to miss about actually going out for once?

Music plays a big part in my life (who doesn't?). Checking out new bands, songs, hunting down that elusive soundtrack you heard during the movie advertisements, sharing songs with your friends, trying to impress that gal with your collection of indie material... When I just got started on the Internet, music sharing just seems like an individualistic activity. Downloading and uploading songs, that's it. No interaction or whatsoever with peers who share the same interests in the genres you are into. No discussions, no collective appreciation of music. Come LastFM. Sharing songs that you're currently listening to, having new songs which are similar, new bands to be discovered, and being able to find peers interested in the same genres, now that's networking! You are able to discover alot more music, bands through others, and others through you too. With music being the social glue that holds people together (in my opinion), you're no longer tied to aimless surfing to search for new (free) music.

Being in Australia only for less than a month, surprisingly I did not feel the familiar pangs of homesickness that usually accompanies me when I'm overseas. Constant interaction with my family through Live Messenger, being able to post up my whereabouts and doings on Facebook and being able to get connected with all my mates back home does help to stave off being homesick.

Yup, the world's definitely getting smaller.

ONG Chin Zhun
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Reflection coming soon... (Twitter is Pointless).

Reflection coming soon. Forgive me, o all-seeing all-knowing course coordinators; I've been sick (dying, almost). And fellow classmates, please feel free to give me any and all of the "diggs" you have remaining (if there is indeed a limit). Watch this space!

Communication without limits - A Reflection

A personal reflection of how the internet affects a student’s life.

I could say that in my case, that I am truly reliant on the internet, at least for now. I am currently in Melbourne and I had problems getting an internet connection here, but finally, here I am posting up this reflection post.

Now on with the reflection =D.

The internet is something many of us take for granted because we access it every day and spends countless hours on our computers, most of the time we don’t notice the abnormal amount of time we spend typing and clicking away at the keyboard. The internet is something I cannot live without and I think it applies to most people reading this post.

The internet helps me breach the distance between my family and close friends and I am going to give a few examples of what I mean later on. For now, let’s start off with what has the internet done for communication? The internet has eliminated many factors that used to hinder communication over long distances and this can clearly be shown in many ways such as instant messaging and emails. This is my first year in Brisbane and I am pretty much homesick half the time, and I can honestly say I would have gone crazy if not for the ability to communicate with my friends and family through the wonders of Windows Live Messenger

Windows Live Messenger is truly something that has made studying away from home something easier but it is not the only program that I use to breach the great divide of distance. There are 2 more programs that I would like to introduce and they are Skype and CheapVoip. Sometimes I feel that just typing away at the keyboard isn’t sufficient enough for me. Yes many will say that Windows Live Messenger provides the same services as Skype but for some reason the quality is different and I’d rather spend an hour talking on smoothly and clearly with Skype rather than spending half the time guessing what my friend is saying.

Chatting and talking online maybe something that has become a necessity for me but sometimes I just can’t resist the temptation to call back to Malaysia or even to Melbourne where all my friends are. With CheapVoip, I have literally found my holy grail where I can make cheap phone calls back to Malaysia or any landline in the world for a very affordable price of 1.5 aud per minute. This is a good example of communication breaching the different mediums and it’s something that I think is pretty useful for people on the go like me.

Besides real time communication such as instant messaging and online phone calls, there are many other ways for us to communicate with our friends and love ones. Here’s my example of how I use certain applications on the internet to breach the distance between my friends and family. When I came to Brisbane, I was literally alone because all my friends are either in UK or in Melbourne. The first few days in Brisbane was very hard for me, but I survived by using communicating with my friends over certain mediums such as Facebook and Flickr. A communication medium does not need to be real time communication, and I believe that through the internet, communication has evolved.

For instance, I am currently here in Melbourne for Holiday, and I upload the photos of what I do in Melbourne onto Facebook and Flickr so that my mom who is in Malaysia can access it and have a look at what I have been doing over the Easter break. My friends who are in UK and some who are in Malaysia can view the photos and through my experience here, relive the sights and places I have gone while I was in Melbourne.

Now the question of what is the difference between Facebook and Flickr comes to mind because I am literally comparing the uploading photo function for both of them. In my case, I feel that it does not matter which method of uploading photos you use, but the important thing is that you are able to communicate with your friends and family and share the message which in this case is “my experience in Melbourne, for the world to see.”

Raising the question of communicating through Facebook and etc, we cannot look at communication in the old fashion way where it is merely used for sending simple messages or conversations across. Like I said, communication is evolving and it is bringing more and more ways for people to communicate or project their thoughts and feelings out on to the internet for their peers and family to see.

Communication is something that has always been around but over the years, methods of communication have changed. Just like how communication over the telephone created by Alexander Graham Bell has evolved into mobiles which we can carry everywhere. Our era of communication is based on the internet and its definitely changing for the better.

Blogger is a very good example of a method that people use to project their thoughts and feelings through the internet. Take me for instance, I have a personal blog and have been using it to share my experiences in Brisbane with my friends (for personal reasons, I shall not be sharing the link on this website). Another example of blogger would be our class blog which I am posting on now, I am in Melbourne, sitting outside in the cold air in a little suburb called Devon Hill, posting this up. I have had problems with the internet at a few of my friends’ places and I finally found a house with a working internet connection. By utilizing blogger, I can post up blogs, my experiences and even my assignments from anywhere in the world as long as I one thing present, and that is an internet connection.

After such a long blog post, I finally come to my conclusion. I have been saying over and over throughout the post that the internet is evolving. I believe to be very true because we may not notice it but our ways of communicating have changed from just simple instant messaging to a whole lot more. I for one, sometimes take the internet for granted mainly because it is something that has always been there but think to yourself, has there been any times when you had internet problems and you were unable to get on the internet. Did anyone feel stranded? Did anyone feel like something is missing? Like you were cut off from the world? I have tendencies like that when my internet connection at home, in Brisbane goes haywire. I know some people may say I am addicted to the internet, but look at it this way.

The internet is my mobile phone to the world. Most of us can’t live without our mobile phones and we feel like one of our hands is missing when we leave our hand phones at home. I am using this analogy and linking it with the internet because in my case it is true. I am sure some if not most of us think the same. Internet is something in our lives that we may something take for granted till its missing. The internet in its self is a great communication tool and I hope that I have brought certain new ways for some of you to communicate with people around the world.

A reflection,
Chin Mun, YEE

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My Reflection

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Introduction


As we know, this course social and mobile computing is base on using ‘Social networking Site’, for example, Facebook, Yahoo Pipes, Flickr, Blogger, Hi5 and so on. Most of them have attracted millions of users, and many of whom have integrated these sites into their daily practices. Why these web sites are very popular? In my opinion, because of these sites are really doing people’s needs. Basically, social networking site is not only a kind of interactions between users and computers, but also with other users. In these web sites, they can share their photos, videos or files, and communicate with others. In this situation, computers and network have become a media platform.

Therefore, by using these web sites, it is good opportunity to communicate with others online, and express your ideas, experience and comments.


Background


The first social networking website is ‘163 Photos’ which is same as Fleckr in China. I felt it is very convenient to share my photo with my family and friends online. Furthermore, there are some other social networking sites I use currently.

Facebook

It is one of the most popular website in the world, which has almost 98 million users in worldwide. Basically, it can send/receive E-mails, chat with friends, share your photos, design your own website, and so on. However, the most important is it used social networks, which means put every user into different networks and relate them together.

Blogger

Blogger is a website which you can post your diary, photos on your home page to let other people to view it. In addition, they can post their comments to your website, and discuss something with you.

Yahoo Pipes

This is an interesting website, which relates to connect different web pages together, and shows its update in time. The most special part in this website is its setting interface that using visible way to connect different web pages together.

Flickr

It is a professional photo sharing website, and very easy to create your own album to share with your friend.



Reflection

After I used these social network websites, I think the most important reason of why these websites are very popular in the world is they are all base on people’s need. As we know, social network websites relate on interactions between people, computer and people. The example of it is Facebook, which provide a network communication platform. It has many interesting features, such as:

The Wall

The Wall is a kind of message board on users’ homepage. If anyone who has the purview, they can view your Wall and leave a message to you. Otherwise, people also can send messages to your friend for private conversations.

The Gift

This is an interesting function, which is you can send fictitious present to your friend, and it will be displayed on their homepage, however, senders’ name are optional. Facebook also provide the fictitious present shop to users select.

Marketplace

Same as ebay online, Facebook also has its own market trade platform; users can post their trade information on it.

Pokes

Pokes is a special way to say ‘hey’ on Facebook, however users give them more and more means. In Facebook’s FAQ section on the Poke Feature said

“A poke is way to interact with your friends on Facebook. When we created the poke, we thought it would be cool to have a feature without any specific purpose. People interpret the poke in many different ways, and we encourage you to come up with your own meanings. ”

Status

To tell your friends where you now or what are are you doing in real life.

Networks





I think this is the most significant part of Facebook, in the diagram of Facebook domain, it shows every account should in a Network, such as SchoolNetwork, WorkNetwork, RegionalNetwork, and so on. Thus, that means if people in a same Network them would have some relationships, for instance, have same friends, classmate or teammate. It helps people to communicate with others and meet different friends who relate to your real life.

Furthermore, as Facebook in China, they proposed a new idea called identification system, which means everyone who wants to sign up; they have to use their real names. Then, if the system confirms your name, you will have more purviews in Facebook. However, the internet society of China has clarified that so far the Ministry of information Industry has not officially made any related policies. Therefore, this system is still in experiment. In my opinion, I think it depends on peoples’ request. It can be optional but not has to be.

On the other hand, Facebook increased my feeling of connection to our peers, the world just become much closer, and I met many old friends on it.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Social Network Website is the largest part in Web 2.0. However, it also has to improve, such as, to protect people’s privacy and real name identification system. In addition, the Social Network Websites are not suitable for every people, depends on our needs and interests can improve more advantages to our daily life.




References:

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

Chinadaily, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_tips/2006-10/23/content_714363.htm

My reflection

The Internet in its initial stages was a military network which later was rolled out to the public.
Even though the technology existed, Web 2.0 has only existed since 2004.
Making social networking sites possible only from the last few years.
Social Networking for me has been an opportunity to connect with long lost friends, keep some form of contact to people who normally I don’t see and a general time wasting activity.
It has also allowed me to broaden my horizon and connect with likeminded individuals who live in different countries around the world.
Showing me their cultural differences, world views and universal values.

Apart from the nice side of Social Networking it has also become a place full of static noise.
Meaningless blogs about what someone ate or did today, sites such as Facebook with profiles that have a friends list filled with over 200 random people for no real reason, bulletin notices in Myspace that get filled full of meaningless quizzes and answers and Facebook applications that have pointless roles.

Facebook
I found Facebook to be a potential security threat based on what information can be entered in their system.
For example under account you can enter your Credit Cards' details. I don’t see how this would relate to the usage of Facebook.
I don’t like the idea that you are forced to reveal your full name.
I found application requests to be annoying and useless as I don’t actually actively use applications such as those vampire ones.
Facebook does have a invaluable “News Feed” feature which shows up to date actions done by your friends. This has been recently adopted by Myspace. I don’t see much value of Facebook since I don’t actively use it with my friends, the main reason for this is because Facebook lacks the blogging feature. The blogging feature is a central part of why I use Myspace.

Last FM
I found Last fm to be an interesting concept and it had allowed me to find music I previously never heard of. The scrobbling feature was nice it allowed to build a radio station that is available to play from any computer. I must admit I didn’t use the social features of last fm and found the neighbours list of users didn’t change from the first week I started using it.

Twitter
Never seen the real point of this and still don’t. I don’t want to text what I’m currently doing wasting my credit or knowing what other people are doing at this current time. If I’d like to know I can use other mediums to just contact them.

Delicious
I found it to be a nice way of keeping bookmarks that were available from any computer.
It allowed me to looking up others bookmarks when bored which led me to find interesting new internet sites I wouldn’t have known about. Now I’m not all into using bookmarks, the main sites I use I’ve always tried to memorise them or just learn to use Google to find them.

Flickr
I didn’t see much use of this in my situation, I’m not much of a photo up loader on the internet.
It does have its use when looking at photos taken by other people and alternatively it can be used to store images for backgrounds like in Myspace.

Google Calendar
Google Calendar is a good idea for people who have schedules that need to be shared but in the instance of myself, it was useless. Firstly the effort of inputting the data and then no one actually needs to read my university timetable. If they did they’d get a copy anyway.

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What I thought...

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Introduction

At first I thought it was funny when it was explained to me that we would be signing up to all these social networking programs and that our grade would depend on us using them to some extent. I had been consciously avoiding signing up to these things because many of them I saw to be overly self centred and I felt that often people gave a false image of themselves. For an example of self admitted pretentious behavior on a social network please redirect yourselves here http://www.myspace.com/brisantic . So you can understand where I’m coming from when I say that I didn’t want to be a part of that. Upon signing up I was told by several “purists” that I had sold out, I thought that was funny. My own experience with the programs was actually positive and I found many of them useful and fun.

Background

For this report I signed up to the following social networking programs:

• Flickr
• Facebook
• LastFM
• Twitter
• Google Calendar
• Delicious

I also used “pipes” to make a collaborated feed of the different feeds for each program, I called this my “ultimate stalking link”.

Flickr is used to share photos with friends and groups established on the site. Photos uploaded by me can be seen by my friends and others in my groups. This can be used to see what others are up to if they are the kind of person that takes many photos, or alternatively it can be used to upload work that can be then reviewed by peers in your group, a process currently used by tutors and students in MMDS2200.

Facebook is used as a network to connect friends from all over the world. Each user creates their own “profile” where others can look at your photos, leaves comments, send private emails, and leave public messages. The user can leave a note indicating their status and peers can share quizzes and mini games and other kinds of extras.

LastFm like Facebook involves creating a profile viewable by others, but this one is less customizable and the majority of the information is automatically generated. It lists what music you have been listening to on any device where you have installed the appropriate plug-in. Then over time creates charts of your favorite songs based on what you listen to the most. The idea is that other users will see music that you listen to all the time and will try it out. If you network yourself with many other users with similar tastes in music you can find far more music through them than you could have by yourself.

Twitter is used to keep the people who are interested updated on what you are doing. Yes it’s that simple. This update can be accessed through the website or it can be sent directly to your mobile phone via a sms message.

Google Calendar simply lets you make plans on a calendar and then gives you the option of sharing some of that information with others. The idea here being that you can keep certain people up-to-date on your schedule with out having to tell them personally, this can make organizing events and meetings simpler as you wouldn’t need to ask them about their availability.

Dilicious is a program that allows you to share websites with others who are interested. If you come across an interesting website you can tag it so that it appears on delicious and others who can see that tag and access that site. It’s like recommending sites to others.

Focus

Since signing up for these programs some have had a greater impact than others (twitter) and some I have practically neglected (google calendar) and so in my reflection I will be focusing on Facebook, LastFm and Twitter. I feel I should say that I used these the most because I liked them the most, or I felt that they were the most useful to me at the time. I could see google calendar being wonderfully useful if I was in some kind of serious career… but I’m not, so I don’t find it useful.

Reflection

I’m going to start off with Twitter because honestly I want to get it out of the way. Initially I loved the idea of twitter and thought that being constantly updated on what others were doing would be really fun. Almost instantly however there were far too many messages coming in and I found the program to be a burden. I didn’t want to turn off the updates though because I still wanted to know what was happening. Over the few weeks, I found that I got an idea of the personalities of some of these people I was following and throwing in a few comments here and there I started to feel a sense of belonging to the group. I then had a love hate relationship with twitter as I both appreciated the information and hated the occasional overload. The problem doesn’t lie with the program but like many of these programs the solution will come naturally as the users find and develop etiquette of acceptable use and choose more manageable numbers of people to follow.

I can see twitter being infinitely useful in other situations like a group collaborating on a project or keeping in touch in with friends at a large function. I’m at this point trying to get my friends signed up to twitter but have run into problems with the program’s search (on a side note I just checked my phone and had 15 unread messages, it’s killing me) function, when I type in someone’s exact user name and the network fails to find them. This isn’t a huge program as those same contacts can be found through linking other contacts. The main problem I have is convincing others to sign up to something so public and personal, this shows that it’s really not for everyone and some people like their privacy.

My experience with Facebook was much more positive, almost immediately upon signing up I had people who I assumed were dead (they must have been because I hadn’t seen them in years) adding me as a friend and asking me what I had been up to all this time. I after the initial excitement of catching up with long lost friends and friends from overseas that I never see (obviously) I found that facebook is much more passive. From day to day there aren’t many updates or comments going around but the connection is constant. It’s impossible to loose contact with a friend who maintains his/her profile, although you might not talk to them often but you will have some idea (based on how much they use the program) of what they are doing with themselves and where they are headed in life. I know from my parents that there were many friends that were lost because of a change of address and with digital (unchanging) addresses I can see this being a thing of the past, we will accumulate friends and information our entire lives. Keeping that in mind I can’t see this technology as a phase or something that will go away, these programs will continue in some shape or form simply because people want to keep in contact.

Anther point my use of facebook was more passive and more focused on keeping loosely connected with old friends as apposed to constantly communicating with everyone. I was invited to take part in all kinds of mini games and quizzes that seemed to serve no function other than to waste my time. Something that I don’t want this to become is a pastime or some kind of addiction. There are many people that use it for that and I don’t have a problem with that but I already have more time consuming hobbies than I can deal with so I’m not likely to have more than a passive presence on facebook.

The program that I was the most interested in and entertained by was and is LastFm. Of all the programs this is the one I had actually planned on joining before we were asked to participate in this experiment. Music is something I am extremely interested in and for years and years the radio has failed to provide me with new bands that I like. Finding new music that satisfied my tastes has always been a process of social networking based on recommendations from friends. When I heard that there was a website that did all of that for you, one where you could see what people actually listened to (not just talked about) I decided that this was something I wanted to be a part of. I feel that last point is significant in that in the music world many people think too much about what other people think of them and as a result talk about bands that aren’t really their favorite and they don’t really listen to much at all. With LastFm’s weekly charts I was able to see what new bands my friends had found and better still I was able to listen to clips of them and gain my own first impressions.

Alternatively upon networking up with some others in the course I was able to quickly identify if I had much in common with them musically. Unfortunately more often than not neither party would recognize a single band in each others charts, leading to a less than useful result. Like facebook LastFM is useful as a passive tool to keep in touch with gradually changing information. Over time I can see LastFM becoming more and more useful as I find more people with similar tastes and get glimpses of the new music they are listening to. This program could go as far as you wanted to and could become the sole resource for both finding new music and talking about music with others.

Conclusion

In conclusion I found that all the different programs certainly had their uses but the use to the individual varies from person to person and also the extent to which they are used varies and the way in which they are used. Personally I find LastFM the most useful but I have my plans for Twitter and I will keep Facebook updated. In the future I can see google calendars being useful also Delicous can have the same rewards as LastFm. So despite my initial reservations about social networking programs I can now say that I value them. I can see that there will be a need for a simplification in the process and with pipes we are seeing the beginning of that, so that all these different tools can be combined in one.

‘Social networking Site’ and how I use them

Introduction

When I knew that I will be required to sign up for several social networking sites for Social and Mobile Computing Course, I was really excited. Mainly because I used to like social networking sites, or I should say, addicted to them. It was friendster that introduces me to the social networking hype. I even joined others social networking sites shortly after that. Then as my university assignments, work and other real life activities started to increased, my activities on them decreased. In addition, those sites being a lot less interesting to me, to the point that I see them only as a waste of time and actually feel guilty if I spent my free time for them because it does not serve the my initial purpose of using them anymore.

Therefore I though, this is a good opportunity to start using them again, at least I have enough reason and less guilt to start wasting my time on social networking sites again. I also would like to know what improvements and changes offered by current sites have to offer. This article will outline my experience with the several social networking sites and as the title said how I use them.

Background

This section contains brief descriptions for social networking websites that I have joined in the beginning of the Social and Mobile Computing course.
Del.icio.us, a social bookmarking site, is generally a place to share the links to the websites that you interested in with other people. Those links can be described using tags. You can also view other people bookmarked sites and browse it using the tags.
Flickr, a photo sharing site. It is a site for people to upload and share their photo collections. Users can categorised their photo as well as give them tag to describe them, in addition they can also marked the location where the photo was taken [1]. Other users can browse their photos using the mentioned descriptor.
Google Calendar is a solid online calendar application. Users can add events into their calendar by using the site as well as importing the events from other calendar application, on the social aspect users can create public events, invite people and get comments from them. In addition it offers personalisation to the users, enabling them to change the look and feel of the calendar [2].
Facebook, is a social networking website with a lot of promising features. You can send messages to your friend using wall or messages them, share your picture albums and also videos with them, status and news feed to keep your friends updated with your activities and other functions such as pokes and gifts [3]. It also has the application framework, which allows developers to create custom application for facebook to be used by the users.
Last.FM is a music-based social networking website. Last.fm profile allows the users to share the song that they have been listening to with other users. Last.fm then gives the users recommendations based to logged song list, other users can also give recommendations. Other functions such as forming a group based on their interest as well as events which allows users to get notified if events matched their music taste are coming, they can also marked themselves as attendance of the event [4].

Focus

This article will focus on my opinion of the function of the social networking sites mentioned above and how I interact with them. That includes what functionalities that I use and whether I use the social context from the websites and also whether it serves the purpose that I seek from them or my initial thought towards them. Some of the good functions and the drawbacks will be included in order to delivers the main focus of this article.

Reflection

After using the social networking sites for quite some time, I divided them into two categories based on how I use them. First is the ‘good functionality’ websites, they are the ones that offer steady and useful function but I do not really use the social aspect out of it. Del.icio.us, Flickr and Google Calendar fall into this category. Second is the ‘social networking’ websites, they are the ones that I use because of the social context that they offer, such as facebook and last.fm.

Del.icio.us offers quite an interesting and useful service, but I am not really keen to share my bookmark with many people, I do not really want people to know what sites that I am interested in. It is good that I can mark my bookmark to a private, so rather than sharing my bookmark I mainly use it to store my favourite websites then use it a portable bookmark. I have more than one computer and I spend large amount of my time either in the office or campus as well, so it is good to have my bookmarked sites in Del.icio.us. So despite It is a social bookmarking service, I am not using the social part of it to the fullest. Except browsing other people bookmark using the tags that they are given, which is really useful.

I use Flickr to upload pictures to be used on another sites, for example blog, facebook or posting pictures in forum. It is relatively easy to upload pictures into flickr, they have flickr uploader and I can also use it to upload my pictures from iphoto. Because there is nothing artistic with the pictures that I have taken, I do not feel the need to show them off into the world. I used to like drawing pictures and I would love to share my drawings with other people with the same hobby and hear their opinion about my works. So If only I am into photography, Flickr is a really nice social networking site.

Google Calendar despite having a good functionally the social aspect does not appeal to me. The reason being people that are interested in my schedule or the ones that I need to inform of my schedule does not use Google Calendar nor spend the time mostly in front of the computer. Just like Del.icio.us I ended up using it for personal use. I always use ICal as my calendar application, and google calendar offer most, or even more, of the functionality from ICal that I use. I see it as portable ICal. I can export my schedule from ICal to Google Calendar not the other way around. Therefore I do not see it as a replacement for ICal, because I need to synchronise ICal with other calendar in my other gadgets as well.

Facebook offers good and promising social functions for me to use. I signed up because some of my friends that study overseas like myself use it quite often. I was not really interested on it because I was already using friendster, that at that time already not as enjoyable to me as it did and became slowly neglected. I saw Facebook as friendster alternative with better layout and less unappealing users. When I started to really using it in oppose of having an idle account only, and I have to admit it was fun. I found my high school friends and even my elementary school friends there.

Getting touch with old friends, sending messages and know how they are doing and what they up to are the main purpose for me to use facebook. I used to send wall and messages quite often, that was when my friends still use it as the main interaction on Facebook. But my enjoyment in using the facebook start to went downhill after the start of the application era. At first I get hundreds of request for using the application, less that half of them interest me, but those request is not that annoying because I can just reject or ignore it. The fact that rather than using facebook as a communication tools, for most people at my friends list, facebook transforms into online games to fill up their free time to the point that If I do not add the application into my profile I have less interaction with them. Even the wall that was a place to exchange messages, transformed into publicly viewable forward emails, those email you got in your inbox which is a forward from someone then the receiver send it to other group of people and it continues, with all the useless messages and images posted. Therefore I find facebook slowly become less appealing to me as the users do not really use it as social networking websites anymore.

Last.fm is other social networking sites that I truly use the social side of it. I was always interested to sign up on Last.fm but have not got the chance to explore it. The concept of music-based community is really interesting to me. I imagine I can finally find people with similar taste of music then get recommendation of other music that I probably interested in as well. It was not really enjoyable the first time I joined, that is before the songs on my play list scrobbled. As I leave my computer on for couple days just for letting last.fm to get my taste of music from the scrobbled songs, things start to get interesting. The recommendation function which makes me interested in the website truly delivers what I wanted to get. I do not listen to radio that often anymore because I do not like half of the song get played anyway, so it is a nice way to know what other music I might like and listen to them. I can also find the videos from the artist that I like on last.fm, I usually search for them through youtube which sometimes showing the fan made videos instead, although marked as official by the uploader. Besides that, there is also neighbours users, you can see their profile and find out what other artist that people who listed to the same music taste with you.

For me, last.fm have a ‘show off’ factor into it, which in this case is not a bad thing. If you want to show off your music taste, the concerts that you have been going into or if you want to be the one that most listened to the songs for particular artist, last.fm is a nice website to get it. You can also show your taste of music with application for other websites [5]. The good thing about Last.fm is that it offers fewer holes for the users to abused them and transform it into personalisation nightmare. Although, you cannot avoid raging fan defending their favourite artist or the ones that feel the need to say a bad things about certain artist just to make the fan upset. Last.fm offers different thing from the social networking sites that I have joined such as facebook, friendster or my space, mainly because there is a thing that keep me interested in using it, which is music.

Conclusion

The enjoyment of using Social Networking Sites will be different for all people. It is based on their personality, preferences as well as security concern. For myself, I want to use Social Networking Sites to communicate with old friends or find people with the same interest as myself. There are things that I would like to maintain for myself thus make the social context from some sites unappealing to me. In addition to that, how people interact with these sites are varies as well which for some add into negative sides. The disappointing acts from other users in the social networking sites is one of the main reason for me to dislike a social networking site.

Reference

[1] http://www.flickr.com/tour/
[2] http://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/googlecalendar/tour.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_features
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last.fm
[5] http://build.last.fm/

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