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Social Networking Sites

Facebook is a place there you stay in touch with friends. You can share photos, videos, docs and chat with friends, know what they are doing, and where they are. Facebook Page is also a channel to promote a person, group, organization, or company.

Twitter is place for fast info. The 140 characters text only Tweet is a little limited function comparing with other social media, but it is the point of differentiation. So, in the fast paced world twitter is a better place for exchanging concises info.

My Space is more for music and gaming, Right now it is kind of outdated, however when it reached the peak in 2005 and 2006, Facebook was not popular yet. It's a very good place to share your music with friends and fans, as you can see front its front page.

Instagram is one of the fastest grow social media featuring mobile photo. Unlike the other three social site, Instagram relies heavily on mobile device that you carry with you and take picture everywhere. It has different effect to make your picture prettier and you can post it right to Facebook, who acquired  Instagram recently. 

Social Net'g

It is surprised to know that "Social networking technology is absolutely the best thing to happen to recruiting — ever." according to "Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting" written by Frank Langfitt. Recruiters must be very happy that it's easy to find talent people nowadays. Besides using LinkedIn, recruiters also use other channel which provides information about a company's expanding, merger and acquisition deals, so they can predict the hiring of that company.  

Another area that social site technology is very useful for me is the customer reviewers. Whenever I want to buy something, anything, I always look at the reviews of the product online and compare it with similar product. I feel it's easy to tell if a review is true or not, especially when there are a lot of reviews. I understand that Kristina Grifantini says in "Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom" that "if you have two or three people voting 500 times" that the result won't be very accurate. However, I feel that there's only a small portion of people doing that. And with technology, it's easier to limit the number of times a user can vote.

Wiki VS Blog

In my opinion, the biggest difference between Wiki and Blog is that Wiki is about Community while Blog is about individualism. We contribute collaboratively to wiki, whose content is usually subjective. Each of us has the ability to contribute, and edit, senior member has the ability to delete content on Wiki. This makes wiki a very good channel to sharing knowledge, group related work, therefore avoid the nightmare situation Ezra Goodnoe descries in How to use Wikis for business. "E-mails follow divergent paths. Spreadsheets and Word documents get passed around, and nobody's quite sure who has the most recent version."  

On contrast, Blog is for individual opinion. It's content and accessibility is controlled by on the owner. And because of "the velocity and volume of the web are so great", if the blog is not used correctly, it may "Shredding somebody’s character before the entire world and not being held accountable", as Maureen Dowd writes in Stung by the Perfect Sting. 

So, cyberspace needs rules to keep it in order. That's why there's experience editor at Wiki and each bloggers need to sign off some sort of agreement before building the blog. There's no freedom without boundaries.   

New Media and the Music Industry -- Intro

Technology and internet have facilitated the development and boosted the productivity for many industry in the 21st century. However, the Music industry has been almost "destroyed" by the invention of MP3 and its easy, no cost internet transmission. People's purchasing and listening behavior also changed from physical disc and players to digital content and online. In order for Music Industry to adapt to the new media and technology is crucial to its success, or even simply survive, in the future.