Voice to text technology for bloggers

guardian article here - "SpinVox to let bloggers send posts from street to screen"

Also on recent reports that Yahoo! have offered $1 billion for Bebo. They were rejected; as they were when they tried to buy facebook for a reported $1.6 billion. Why do you think Yahoo! is so keen to get its teeth into the social networking sites?

Web 2.0 - a counter argument

Interesting article about Web 2.0 and 'digital narcissism' - essential reading for the exam. So, what are you waiting for, read it!

Is Andrew Keen, author of 'The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy', actually on to something? Your comments...

Japanese Marketers Target Gamer Girls, Moms

Article from Wired here about Nintendo trying to expand it's female audience.
An untapped market? Is Sony missing out on the female gamers market? Is the DS more accesible than the PSP? Any female gamers out there? Got a DS? Miss Berry swears by her DS! Anyones' parents playing the brain game?

Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life

A great piece of net satire....angry little pirates!

Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life

Should Google censor?

Are google hypocrites? Their informal corporate motto is "Don't Be Evil". Does this run against what they are doing in certain countries where governments are attempting to censor the internet? Article here about how money for shareholders wins all the moral arguments...
What do you think? Google helping repressive regimes or just making an honest buck?

Internet TV - A sign of things to come?

From the people who brought you Skype - Joost is a advertising-supported Internet TV service. Read about the extra £22.6 million worth of new venture capital money they've just secured from Viacom and CBS.

Anyone currently watching telly over the internet? Anyone using Channel 4's 4OD service - what's it like? Content, quality etc...

If South Park have parodied it must be important...

Opening scenes from the 'Make love, not Warcraft' episode of South Park.

As the market leader of the MMORPG's World of Warcraft could make an excellent case study for your NMT unit.

Virtual Me

So EA and Endemol have teamed up to create Virtual Me - so what? Is this the face of TV to come? Click here to read more....
The idea is to produce a new 'game' which allows a player to create an avatar to take part in a reality show.

A 'reality' show in a 'virtual' world - how very post-modern...

How many of those snazzy NMT key terms can you link to 'Virtual Me'? - Convergence? Personalisation? Interactivity? Democratisation?



How will your avatar look when playing 'deal or no deal'??



Do you want to put your avatar in the diary room??

Do you spend more time online than watching the goggle box?

Comments on any or all of the above......c'mon people, have an opinion!!

PS3 - Is it the console to beat?

Read this article for a detailed analysis of why the PS3 may be in the best position to dominate the lucrative games market in the years to come. Remember, it's not just the games but the new format wars of Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD. Who is winning the battle? Which format would you rather have and why? Your comments...

Second Life - what is all the fuss about?

Second Life. Heard of it? Want to know what it's all about. Follow this link to the main website - there are lots of links to the many fansites of this rapidly expanding global virtual community too. Currently 3.9 million users and counting. The issues and debates sourrounding Second Life are numerous; particularly socially and economically. Anyone currently in Second Life?

Still confused? Check out this Introductory video about Second Life


Comments please...

The iPhone - hands up who wants one?

Follow this link to see a demo of the much anticipated foray by apple into the lucrative mobile phone market. Sure to set mac-o-philes drooling the world over. Are you one of them? Post your comments.

OMG MySpace is going mobile! Do you care?

Article from the mediaGuardian pages on the latest deal MySpace has struck with Virgin Mobile to offer customers the option to manage their MySpace accounts on the move. Is this something you would do? Do you have a MySpace account? How often do you use it? What do you like about it? Comments please...

Digital Planet

Keep up to date with the latest developments in digital media from around the world by subscribing to this bbc podcast called Digital Planet. Great for increasing your knowledge in the NMT unit and to get you thinking about some of the issues that are raised. You can either download the mp3 file, subscribe to the podcast or use the BBC's 'listen again' online playback feature. So, no excuses for not being up to date! Post a comment with your ideas/opinions on any of the content of Digital Planet.

YouTube going commercial

Click here to read the BBC article about the latest moves to place ads on YouTube with the idea being to share some of the revenue to those who post the most popular videos.
Since google bought YouTube back in October 2006 many predicted this move to placing ads on the most popular video posting site on the net. Why else would google spend 1.65 billion dollars buying something that makes no money?
What do you think about this? Have YouTube sold out? Or will this make you even more keen to post your content in that you might make some money out of it? Your comments please...or are you too busy creating that goofy video that could net you thousands of pounds??

Welcome

Welcome to the TCC Media Studies New Media Technology blog. Here you will find links and information relating to the OCR 2732 Audiences and Institutions paper which is examined in the summer. Feel free to comment on any of the posts.