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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Reflection 6.

For Yesterdays class, we completed lecture 7 and briefly went through lectures 8,9 and 10. With what we have learnt in lecture 7, we were required to evaluate a website. That is where Portfolio 2 comes in. For portfolio 2, we were required to evaluate a website, print out the discussion forum that we did last week, print out our blog reflections and Wiki group , complete the biblliography and do a presentation on our portfolio.

So basically, we were required to complete the first part of portfolio 2 - evaluating websites using the evaluation criterias. Along the way, while i was completing my report, I've gained much knowledge about the mentioned topic i am working on. While searching for the information needed to complete my report, i've found out a thing or two about the impact of alcoholism on youths. And these information reconfirms my stand on the negative effects of underage drinking.
Like portfolio 1, I was given a sample for reference. With the help of the reference, I had an idea of the rough outline of what i was suppose to do, and thus i started my work.

Later on in the day, we did the YouTube case study. The class were splitted into groups of four. We were suppose to discuss the factors that leads to the extreme popularity of Youtube, the downsights of Youtube( and the solution to it as we are supposedly the CEO of Youtube), and the future direction that youtube is heading towards.

Personally I feel that Youtube is a great website for sharing videos. A factor that leads to the extreme popularity of youtube has got to be it's free access to the many videos available in youtube. If Youtube were to charge a registration fee or membership fee, I am pretty sure that they will lose most of their users over midnight.

Another factor that might lead to the extreme popularity of youtube could be due to the variety of the videos that are available. From Movies to lectures, youtube is able to target people of all age group! Being able to do that, it will be weird if it is not popular among the people. I believe that anyone reading this blog would have viewed videos from youtube at least once.

As for the downsight of youtube, i believe that it would be the limit of the size of the video that can be uploaded. Competitors such as VEOH is catching up as their file size limit is relatively bigger than youtube. Like youtube, VEOH has a wide range of videos ranging from soap operas to music videos. With such strong competitors, Youtube has got to constantly come up with new ideas to attract its user.

The future directions for youtube? I believe that youtube might include social networking services in the future. With facebook up and rising, youtube and veoh will lack if they do not do something about this.

The next activity that we were suppose to do is to evaluate another website with regards to My Dream Holiday( which i have posted up in the blog already). If I am rich enough, I would explore the whole Japan. The virtual tour to Japan in the website stated had really brought me to many places with a click of button and a stretch of imagination. This activity had put a hold to my hunger of travelling to Japan. But the main purpose of this activity is to evaluate the website... so i had to include the evaluation criterias in my post.

That's about it. Sorry if im not making any sense... It is 1.40AM now, and im dead tired.

Goodnights.

# posted by Daphne | 7:07 AM

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