Lecture 5 now...

We have today:

*Storify
-Mash up new stories (new media tool)
-Drag and drop different resources (tweet, YouTube...)
-Grey Area (Intellectual Property)

*NICO NICO DOUGA
-Japanese,English, Chinese
-Live broadcast
-Live comments on screen

*Prezi
-IMPRESSIVE! XD
-I will surely use it instead of PowerPoint from now on..
 (until I find its limitation)

*WiZIQ
-Virtual Classroom (Intuitive tool)
-Instant Chat room (Real time request and response)
-Lectures can be downloaded/replayed
-Geographical spatial
-India Based
-Teacher take control

*280 Slides
-Online Presentation tool
-Over 280 actually
-Share through blog, Slideshare
-Text Box
-Less customisation
-No Spell Check (but it's very important for me@@)
-No chart/ animation
-Only English alphabet
-Free!

*Weibo
-Micro-blogging tool
-Block of twitter in China
-Joining groups
-Celebrities Validation
-Commenting and forwarding
-Immediacy and Intimacy
-Followers! Hyper- forwarding problem
-Strict word limit
-Formatting doesn't matter
-Twitter VS Weibo

>For both entertainment and news
  but central government control over weibo is an problem
>Still a wider platform for Chinese

*Voki
-Expanding personality in virtual world
-Default computer voice/ recording /audio file
-Different Languages/ Accents
-Link to different social media
-Official Forum
-Not fully support browsers like Firefox and Safari
-60 secs only

*Draw a stickman
-Input, getting comments, new input
-Animation/ game
-Linear only
-Screen capture function

*500PX
-Photo sharing website
-Upgrade to awesome means?
-Convenient platform to learn from photographer
-Different from flickr: show according to popularity
-Encourage one to upload the best photo only
-Dislike Button
-Create own E-portfolio
-Seek for approval, motivation
-Lack suggestions
-Uploading limit: 20 photos per week
-Dominated by foreign nature photos

*HubPages
-Learning Centre
-Publish easily
-Earn revenue through ads
-Not a blog, but a magazine-style article covering specific subject
-Monthly Contests
-Hub Trails Programme
-Weekly Hub Mob
-Hub Nuggets
-Keyword approach
-Interaction between hub writers and readers, e.g. Poll
-Low earnings?
-No apparent quality control of articles<- same feeling!


I couldn't believe there are so many different new media tools and all of us introduce different ones! I think I will definitely try some of them as they're really worth playing.