This is to be worked through by the end of week 6

Creative and Social uses of the net.
Recent history of the net:
Dot Com Boom: the wayback machine:
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Dot Com Crash:
Dog Food is expensive to ship.
Rise of Monopolies
Web 2.0
Forever Change:
Glut of Social Networking sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
Even in 2007 they were starting to divide the social networking world into smaller and smaller sub groups:
http://mashable.com/2007/10/23/social-networking-god/
a recent ranking of social networking sites:
http://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/facebook-myspace-twitter-social-network/
The dark side to social networking:
The fastest way to become average and dull.
Personal becomes public! Imagine you’re your future boss watching you at a Bucks Night party.
For all things social networking:
http://mashable.com/
And then there is this:
Vampire Rave
http://www.vampirerave.com/levels2.php
For all things useful on the net:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/design/

Creative spaces on the web:
Polyvore: when the commercial becomes creative
http://www.polyvore.com/
One time playthings. Viral creations for simple ideas.
http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/
Special interests meet powerful cartography.
http://mashable.com/2008/05/14/17-google-maps-mashups-to-waste-away-your-day/
Art portals:
http://turbulence.org
http://rhizome.org
disaster maps:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php
visualization of net traffic speeds
http://www.speedtest.net/index.php?nojs=1


For the class:
Create your own google maps.
http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=68480
http://www.sketchcast.com/
start with this:
http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html

Week 5/6

The task for your blog this week is to find three internet delivered short films (max 10min) and imbed or upload into a new post. Just providing the link will not suffice.

Drawing on the previous lectures, you will also need to provided a discussion as to why you have chosen these particular films.

This item will be assessed in the second round blog submission.