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   From the journal entries, I have been learning and observing many different aspect of interactive media design from the readings, guest speaker, and class lectures. I really enjoy doing these assignments because they forced me to review what I learned from the class and then organize my thought each week. After writing the journal entries, I know more about interactive designs which exist aroun...

   “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald Norman points out the frustration of using product in our daily life, and the relationship between users and design. It also takes many examples to describe problems of designs and how to avoid them. Therefore, I really enjoy this reading because it reminds me of many problems I have faced. For example, when I come to a door, I always do not know which ...

 I like this article which tries to figure out how to turn personal lifestyle into a business and also takes a successful example, aNYthing designed by an ordinary person. I believe this report must inspire and lift up some unknown designers. However, when I was reading it, I have some suspicion about this design line. Why would people care and buy these products which were designed by nobody? Wha...

    I choose the case study, “Blockbuster Website Strategy and Design“, on the frog design firm’s website to comment and supplement its design process.

    In this case study, Blockbuster came to frog to create a new user-friendly website. Therefore, the design team did some research to find out the challenges Blockbuster website faced and then set up an objective, which is providing a space for ...

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    The MSN robot is an interactive application on MSN messenger that users can add a robot’s address to their messenger contact lists, and then they can have conversations with it for fun and ask it questions for answers like search engine. Every robot has different functions. For example, some robots will reply the dictionary definition or translated word back; some robots show the t...

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  The MSN robot is an interactive application on MSN messenger that users can add a robot’s address to their messenger contact lists, and then they can have conversations with it for fun and ask it questions like a search engine. Every robot has different functions. For example, some robots will reply the dictionary definition or translated word back; some robots...

   The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and it is also the first console to provide wireless controller support at launch. The integrated Xbox Live service allows players to compete online and download content such as arcade games, game demos, trailers, TV shows, and movies. According to Microsoft, 20 million units have been sold worldwide on July 17, 2008. (Luke, 20...

   Our team chose Virgin American Airline to analyze its website and some of its main competitors. I have taken this flight once and had a wonderful experience so I am glad to know more about it. 

                                                                                     Virgin America Airlines Homepage   

With our experience of using the website, we found its interface is uncluttered, ...

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   In the article of Song and Lee (2007), the computer game industry has become the fastest growing field of the entertainment industry. However, only a very small number of computer game products overcome the costs of production and generate earnings. Therefore, it is time to explore which information and key factors should be considered during the design process.

  Here are some principles for g...

    From the last week, 2008 Beijing Olympics has been getting a lot of attention around the world and I was looking forward to see the fantastic opening ceremony which should deserve live coverage. However, when I knew that NBC, which owns the exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics in the United States, decided to delay broadcasting the opening ceremonies by 14 hours, I turned to search other...

    Today, I am going to analyze the star of streaming media- Brightcove, and comparing its business model with other similar streaming media- Revver , Kyte and VideoJug.

    First of all, you may ask what Brightcove is? Brightcove is a video sharing and distribution site where every publisher who creates a Brightcove account is assigned a channel, their own page on Brightcove.tv. From independent...

    From reading the Quicktime chapter, I personally think that the author likes Quicktime more than other streaming media software because he seems to take Quicktime as a standard to compare with others. Therefore, I thought this week assignment would be easy to find a website utilizing Quicktime and I could easily find a special one to analyze. However, I was stuck over finding it. I have search...

    In terms of this week’s assignment, the first idea come to my mind is the website of the documentary I recently saw and felt impressed- Up the Yangtze. Once you click the link, you’ll see a video screen using Quicktime takes the most part of its homepage. I admire this design because it did communicate the message well- introduce the movie and attract audience to know more about it without wri...

    From the Travis’s presentation of last class, it reminds me of the Podcasting experience in the last quarter. During the podcasting in business class, I have been following and listening to many famous Podcasts like Ninja that Travis mentioned and Boing Boing TV is one of my favorite Podcasts.

    Boing Boing TV is the webTV of cultural curiosities and interesting technologies. Much like the ...

    When I started to find a website utilizing streaming media, the first one come to my mind is Tudou. Tudou is one of the largest video sharing websites in China, where users can upload/download, view, and share video clips. It served over 55 million videos and 2,000 new videos each day. Sounds like another Youtube? Actually, it clearly has difference from Youtube because the length of Tudou videos is usually much longer. Let’s say…I will surf on Tudou if I want to find movies/series to see, while go to Youtube if I want to watch MTV. 

    What I like about Tudou:

• 1. easy to use without downloading any software
• 2. Huge database and efficient search engine: No matter which language I key in, the result always gives me exactly what I want.
• 3. iTudou: Registered users can download videos into mobile phone, iPod and PSP by iTudou.
• 4. Interactive: users can leave comments, and give a grade and recommendation publicly.

   What I dislike about Tudou:

• 1. Bandwidth: The speed of downloading and watching online is too long.
• 2. Advertising: The background of video is advertising. It is annoying to see the advertising all the time behind the video I am watching.    

    When I choose the streaming media website for seeing videos to kill time, the most important element affects my decision is the speed of downloading. I believe that it is very important for users to see online videos smoothly. Therefore, I think that Tudou should give priority to improve its bandwidth. Moreover, it can consider to add some customized function. For example, users can modify the brightness and color of the video they are watching. Sometimes, the nuance will hit the sweet spot on the Internet.

 Supplement:Tudou’s wiki

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Category = Education

Short description about  “The wisdom of Chinese.” 

   As you may have known, there have been many wise proverbs in China during 5 thousands years in the past. Therefore, the host will tell an ancient story or a proverb for each episode to let audience learn something or be inspired by this story which included the wisdom of ancesto...

     Pluggd is a podcast directory, but what makes it special is its ‘HearHere’ technology, which makes it possible to search podcasts by concept, rather than keyword. I think that the technology involved is stunning because when listening to a podcast, you can select the search option and find the section which you’re interested in. I have heard complaints about subscribing Podcasts from one of m...

  After doing some research on the industry of Podcast every week in this quarter, I think that there are three ways or directions to enhance the development of Podcasts in the future:

    1. Organizations should apply Podcasts into their websites to provide users customized content. For example, Standford use Podcast to let its students listen and review their course content.

    2. Integrate the...

    Podlinez is a free service that lets users listen to podcasts on their phone. Enter the RSS feed URL for a podcast in its website to get a phone number people can call to hear it, or browse our directory for a number to try. If your favorite podcast isn’t already in its directory, you can add it immediately and it’ll be available to call within minutes. Moreover, use the * and # keys on your p...

    In this week, I think that the guest speaker, Jason Preston, mentioned the two important points about social media. The first one was a person’s inherent desire to be social and a great market to advertise in.

    Applying these two elements to Podcasts, I think a great Podcast should include:

•  Interesting content
•  Good quality of recording
•  Released periodically
•  Create a social platform to ...

    During this quarter, I have been reading the Mashable blog. Mashable, which was created by Pete Cashmore, is a social networking news blog. With allegedly over 5 million monthly pageviews, 166,000 per month revenue, it ranks 9^th among the largest blogs on the Internet. Mashable regularly writes about MySpace, YouTube, Bebo, Facebook, and Xanga, but it also reports on less high-profile social n...