Website Update

The page in the website which consist of all the soc-tech groups with their pictures are being uploaded successfully.

Manager Meeting

From our meeting with the managers we have the following tasks to do for the website:

1. We need a group picture for the websites home page. (we also need to wait until a proper group photo is taken).
2. All presentation titles must be double check as one or two maybe slightly incorrect.
3. Another page must be made or changed to include the room number for the conference. (currently not known although it will be in the keyworth building).
4. Upload some pictures of the Social Technology students 
5. Upload URL of the website on the forum

Thanks

I am using this time to thanks my team for putting their effort on the website design this week.

LSBU Leafleat Design

LSBU Leaflet Front Page

LSBU Leaflet Back Page

All the photos are resized

I have resized all the photos which is needed for the website.

SocTech Leaflet

This is the brochure I did for the Week 7 tutorial

My Leaflet

Soc tech leaflet

LEAFLET

My leaflet has been created do we need to make a copy to the team blog?Am not sure.

My Leaflet

I have done and submit my leaflet but how can i let you guys see it, i would try using the Goggle docs to see how it works.

cheers

Wiki Entry

Definition of Iphone

The Iphone is a mobile communication device made by apple. It is the phone version of the popular Ipod music player. First realised on June 29, 2007 now in its fourth generation it has become one of the most popular Smartphones around. Setting president for screen size and shape which we can see giving influence to rival companies such as HTC, Nokia, Kin, etc.

Features

Iphones come with an abundance of features used in the form of apps, which either come with the phone or can be bought from the apps store. The apps store can be accessed through a computer or directly through the iphone. These basic apps include: video and still camera, visual voicemail, weather, SMS messaging, international time, calendar, web browsing, email, etc. Many more can also be bought with many different features or games mostly mad by third parties.

Input

Iphone uses a touch screen for all its main input. It has very little physical buttons as nearly all of its features can be used from the touch screen. The main physical button is known as the home button which takes you to the main home screen from any app. It also has a sleep button which can be used to make the screen black as well as turning the iphone on and off. The iphone can be forced to reset by holding both the sleep and home buttons simultaneously for a few seconds. On the side of the iphone is volume buttons with a switch to turn the iphone silent. Another input is to shake the iphone which has different uses depending on the app its used in an example of this is a shake can shuffle a song on ipod app when being used. Turning the iphone in portrait or landscape directions will change the screen in accordance.

Text can also be put in through a virtual keyboard that appears whenever needed the Iphone has spell check and auto correct for some words. You can also cut, paste and edit words from any text in accessible in the iphone.

There are also many sensors to change display brightness to save power when not fully in use.

Software

Apples mobile devices Iphone, Ipod and Ipad all use the iOS software. This is similar to the version used in Apples latest mac computers. Software is always changed and updated using the itunes software also made by Apple.

Further reading

http://www.apple.com/uk/

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_iphone/

Definition of the Software Freedom Law Center

The Software Freedom Law Center gives legal representation and services related to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). This began in 2005 with Eben Moglen as the Director-Counsel; the Center is now representing a lot of the most significant and deep-rooted free software and open source projects.

Services

· Licensing

· License Defense and Litigation Support

· Trademark Counseling

· Patent Defense

· Non-profit Organizational Assistance

· Public Education, Legal Consulting and Lawyer Training

Cases

Free Software Foundation vs Cisco

The only case ever filed by SFLC being a law firm for Free Software Foundation was against Cisco in decemeber of 2008.

Free software foundation claimed that Cisco broke terms of their licensing terms when selling products that included code produced by them that was not agreed to be used.

Further reading

www.linkedin.com/company/software-freedom-law-center

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Software-Freedom-Law-Center-calls-for-switch-to-GPLv3-741223.html

I have also uploaded this to the http://soctech.wikidot.com/iphone website and turnitin where I got a 11 percentage.

Time Change

Just to let everyone know I have updated the time on the blog to GMT for London. I did this after reading Xristine’s comments on the error in the blog time on the previous logos post.

Wiki Entries

Levelling up (role playing game term) Leveling up or to level up generally means to move up to be of the same stage as a project or a work, but in term of the role of games is the measurement and it’s been used to know how well a player or the user of the game has played or is playing in that particular game. I would take the Dungeons & Dragons as an example this is a type of a fantasy game with the old time settings and in this particular game leveling up implies that the user or player has had required experience or knowledge to proceed to the upper level which this would give the character in the game more power and the stage would be more harder that the lower one which he/she succeeded.

The levels are more complicated when the users going to the upper stage because the character would be battling enemies with dangerous enemies and he/she would need bigger and more effective weapons. The levels are related with the class character which is the class as mentioned earlier which has to do with the higher the level the harder the game.

The term leveling is being referred to in situation whereby a character which is been used the player or user is increased in class level and earned more skills points and bonus points and as well as new skills or abilities to do more tactics.

The leveling up or to level up in the game term is whereby users or characters boost their accounts, their guide of strategy, and the currency which would help in boosting up their gaming skills. There are some various websites on the internet which provides services as giving users of games like World of War craft, Diablo, Lord of the Rings, Ever Quest and much more to get gold, platinum account that would enable them to get more amour and weapons.

Open Office

Definition

Open office is an application program which is mainly use for presentation, spreadsheets, graphics and word processing. it was developed the comapany named Oracle Corporation and some others in collaboration. This application is an open-source which allow users to utilize it with different platforms. its most known to users as OOo and its free for the users which they don't have to purchase and as well its licensed-free so any individual can distribute the application at no cost.

About

Open office supports the most available operating system which includes: Mac OS X, Unix, Microsoft Windows and Linux. The application supports over 110 languages which its more than enough for the users. It was Startdivision which implemented it as a software application to legally own which is how the german company created it to suite an Oracle program which is used for creating PDF and Flash formats.

Features

Styles and Formatting: Open office has it showcases the style and format window which allows the users to uses various styles and format, because its an open source application, the usercan use equation tools, spelling and language modules and very good feature like word complete, just like our mobile phone when we are texting.

Custom Shapes: The open office supports custom shapes, these allows the users to shapes like arrows cross-sectional shapes and also users can change how the shape looks.

Slide Transition and Animation Effects: The application has enables users to apply effect to their presentation giving it a more of a professional view.

Mail Merge: This is an outstanding feature which allows the users to send a document which was create in the application or an email to hundreds of receipients.

WIKI'S

My task for this week was to do a research on Cooperative gaming and computed stimulated and upload the originality of my work to wikidot
In order to have a clear understanding of both topics I explained their definition and the benefits involves.
Cooperative gaming is a multiplayer gaming that involves two or more people in which all the players toil their effort jointly to accomplish a quantity of target. It put emphasis on contribution, tackle, and fun rather than overcome somebody. It might entail competition but the outcome of the competition is not down and sitting out the rest of the game. It is as an alternative, it may involve switching teams so that everyone ends up on the winning team.
Features of cooperative gaming
One of the advantage of this gamming is that is more fun because people that played it are real. Cooperation is in a straight line connected to communication, dependence, and the improvement of helpful social-interaction skills. Through co-operative mission, players learn to contribute to, have compassion with others, to and to work and acquire better. The players in the game must assist one another by functioning together as a entity each player being a essential part of that entity, with a contribution to make and leaving no one out of the act to sit down around waiting for a opportunity to play.
A computer simulated is a computer program that is purposely to serve the model of an intended machine. Computer stimulation is one of the important tools that can be used for modelling which mostly used in scientific environment such as in chemistry, biology, physics .It can also be used to investigate and to promote a profit a new invented technology, and to value the performance of systems that is too complex for analysing result.

The benefit of computer stimulation

It keeps away from risk and failure of life.
The outcome of simulation can be deliberate under various environments.
It is cost efficient (It does not cost much as the actual experimentation).
The simulation can function more rapidly than the real system (actual experimentation).
If the authentic experimentation (actual life) is too speedy or too sluggish you can slow down and or make it function more promptly to learn its performance

Google Buzz and Friending

I have found this week task quite interesting and different from the usual Blog Post.  I have been required to make a research on two topics (“Google Buzz” and “Friending”), and to post my findings on a wiki tool called wikidot.  Wikidot enables us to create a site to publish and share contents. This is nothing new, but what I liked about it is that I could have the experience of posting my own definitions on a wiki tool. I specially loved to go throughout the formatting part. I have spent more time on formatting rather than on the content itself. I felt like I was posting at Wikipedia. The disappointment part was that I could not retrieve my post just making a search on the site. Wherever search made, the result was a post regarding ‘Open Office’. I guess this is just a bug on the system.

One of my research topics was about Google Buzz. You can have a look at my wiki on the link provided. Basically Buzz is just an attempt by Google to catch up in the social networking technology, by merging your Google account with some selected social network sites. The good side is whatever tool a follower of you have used, the message would go straight into your inbox account, so you wouldn’t need  to login into multiple accounts to check for messages. After this research, I got curious to know statistic about how many users have been using the service, but I couldn’t find anything recent regarding it. The only relevant information I could retrieve was from a blog entry made by Ben Parr, back dated to February 2010, reporting that Google Buzz had surpassed 9 million post comments in just few days of service. I found quite impressive, but apparently Google do not want to share Buzz user statistics.

My second topic was regarding Friending. I have to say that I found quite disappointing to research on this topic. I just couldn’t find enough sources. To be honest, I still don’t fully understand the concepts of Friending, but from what I could retrieve, Friending is all about making new meaningful connections on the social world, no matter if those connections are with a friend or with an organisation. Some of the concepts related to business I took from a great book, that I read few months ago, called Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way we Live and Do Business. This book explains the Social Media phenomenon. It gives insight on how social media is revolutionizing, causing a “power shift “. Now the consumer has the same voice as a brand, so messages are no longer controllable by the institutions. A good example of this power shift happening now in some Arabic countries. The people are talking to each other throughout social networks. They are organising themselves to make a change; a revolution!!! Most of London student protests were also organised in Social Medias. Anyway, Socialnomics is a recommended reading, especially if you are interested to know the impact of Social Media in our society.

My both topics had been checked using TurnitIn, which had return 13% on the originality.

Website logo

I was informed that our group would have to develop a logo for the website. So I have spent some precious hours on grabbing ideas and asking people to review my draft. But for my disappointment, I will no longer need to create the logo.

Anyway, I would like to share the ideas I had, as this might be useful for someone.

The first attempt was a bit creepy. The idea was to use LSBU faradays' wing wall, and to have the main social technologies logos "graphite" on the wall. I am not a savvy Photoshop user, so I could not make it impressive.

On the second attempt I was trying to generate a "word cloud", with the most used terms in Social Technologies. People liked the idea, but I feel like I would still have to change some of the colours and words positions.

To create this word cloud I have used a service called “Wordle”. From this website you can generate your own word clouds from the text you provide. Here is what I came up as an attempt into building the logo:

This word cloud was the one I really liked.

Virtual Lives

In recent times these had been the issues which teenagers are not aware about or some of them knows and tend to leave it that way, virtual existences had been around since the internet evolution but the dangers and effect its having on teenagers are quiet serious. From the article i read on daily mail which mention about the kid which uses her mother debit card to purchase accessories in order for more convience in playing the video game, this is a result of been addicted to the virtual world because he enjoys it more than physical existence.
Peter Bradley who is a psychotherapist is concern about the situation as well because many children have seperate themselves from reality by creating a different identity whenever they are online.
Even referring to people in my age bracket or to myself we tend to spend more time on social networking websites suchs as twitter or facebook, personally i spend upto six hours a day on facebook to check what my family and friends are up to. I noticed that children behave the same way like adults do but thiers are more extreme.

Virtual communities

Children are happier with their Virtual existences because to them nobody knows who they are and also they can be who they want to be by hiding their identity. Also the attitude of children today to the internet includes revealing insights into how they feel when they are on the web.
And to my own point of view the tolling of video games and the Internet are taking on our civilization especially from young people from age 11- 15 and I can say that the project done by adults on the virtual realities upon youth is misplaced and if there were a real world for children to inhabit and inherit, there would be no video games. Furthermore the ultimate virtual realities of drugs and pornography into which video game generation is graduating would lose much of appeal if our culture possessed a coherent set of moral values which, manifest in a sensible, sustainable lifestyle, provided a real adulthood for youth to embrace.
Having a facebook is a good way of communicating with your online friends, but spending more hours on facebook like 5 hours is a time wasted for me because I found it too boring when I spend such hours.
My advice for parent is that you should be careful the way will use information like credit cards in the presence of our children because that might prompt them to use it to buy unnecessary things that will might get blame for in the future.