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Friday, April 30, 2010

GooodRomance World Tour

Hey baby!

This week we had no lecture, however there're some good stuff s going on still. Firstly the new Project B assignment is so interesting. In the tutorial we had a look at these website that show the awesome examples of data visualizations. They are really good stuffs honestly, however I HAD no idea how to do one man geez. Anyway thx god the second choice of our project is google map stuffs. At first i read it i was like what's this man why sounds so easy, then my tutor showed us how it exactly is and what do we need to do then i realised thats heaps of work to do. Basically we have to make up a story and use google map as a narrator, also we have to link the place together and put some nice pictures and videos. Thats so much fun for me so I prefer to do that as my assignment. Im thinking to do GooodRomance World tour. Basically its gonna be about how i go pick up different chicks all around the world and i will put some photos and videos on it haha this is gonna be fun!!!
I started to do my assignment straight away after I decided what I want to do. First thing I started to think about the story. It's very hard because I must be really creative thinking about the plot. Since it's like a book and there will be alot of texts and pictures I don't want to make something that too informative and will make the audiences feel boring. So I prefered the story to be about something interesting and fun rather than just telling boring story.
I could'n't really think of anything in my tutorial because there was too much distraction. Well I just went on google map sections and watched the videos about how do we create our own maps. It seemed pretty easy and looked fun. I also signed up for gmail since I need it when I log in to make my map. So when I arrive home I would have everything ready to go without struggling looking where to start :)
Thats pretty much what I did for this week baby, I will update you more next week!!!
xox

Thursday, April 22, 2010

It's time to change

Hey baby

I was sick on tuesday so i didnt go to the lecture, I heard it's awesome and everyone was clapping at the end. Thanks Michael Honey I will miss u so much <3

In my tutorial we had to do some research about data visualization. Its something like a whole bunch of information of anything. Instead of showing to audience in all full boring text, how it represent itself is much more interesting. I went to some good websites that show the example of some good data visaulizations. They are pretty interesting and very easy to undestand. I also looked up in the list of 50 great data visualizations . It gave me some ideas about what I should do for my Project B assignment.

At the end of the class, each person had to talk about what they found infront of the class. I came up with this ARC. Basically its a data visualization that stocks the information in Digg.com. (Digg.com is like where people post all the stuffs that their like on the site and share to the world.) Its kinda boring just go in there reading column and there are heaps of text. So some smart guys invented this awesome stuffs to make reading and finding aritcle much easier and more interesting.

After the tutorial i had a little chat with my mates and we realised that we should go through each post of each week in out blogs and add some more information. Its a good idea since i've been writting abt hot asian chicks. Well anyway i will start doing that after i finish my essay..sigh

thats all for tonight see u baby ;)
xox

Friday, April 16, 2010

Pimp ma City!

Sup baby,
I had a really intense week. Studying, working, problems with girls etc. You know...same old stuffs. Cant help it, Im the man here, just like how Uncle Ben is Spider Man said "With great power comes great responsibility" :P
Anyway, back in business. Due to in the lecture we learnt stuffs about multiplicity, how people create ideas that use multiplicity and collective intelligence. So in the tutorial we had to team up and talk about it. My group came up with this "Pimp My city" idea. Basically its all about this website will accept the construction plan which designed by people. When they are submitted in to the database then people can vote for the best ones. Those good ones will make in to the finalists where the architects can come and have a look. Also it will be transformed into 3D version. The benefits of this ideas are people can share the ideas with others and give away the chances to be creative. Also it's easy and useful for people who want to find some great designs of buildings. The problem was it would cost so much money to do it. $$$
Back in to the lecture and I must say. We saw this Ted.com stuff and it was awesome. This guy was presenting this new technology about keeping newspaper/ magazine in one database. With that quality of definetion and number of information, Damn baby he made me amazed!!!
PEACE xox

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Put my name and love in google trend and you'll see a big difference.

Holidays over. Now im back to where I belonged, "University Of Canberra". The only uni in Canberra where ppl who know 'how to get ladies' go to. I had so much fun in Sydney. Clubbing in Oxford & Kingscross, and picked up some hot Chinese chicks in China town...
Screw my love life now Im back in business. I spent most of the time on Tuesday studying for Chinese which im going to have test real soon. In the lecture today Michael Honey talked about web2.0. It's the new generation of websites these days. It makes very nice and cooler pattern, something that cute shiny and slidy :P then we learnt about Metcalfes laws which is:
Cost:N
Value:N squared
It's preety much like more people using the service, then it will become more and more popular.
Then we moved to Twistori, where u can see some funny status update out of Twitter. I laughed at all those status update which keeps coming up. Later on he moved to Google Trends. This is the most interesting thing I've ever seen in my life. I could have spent the whole day just to compare things haha. Also we laern about this google filter, it is how when you search something in google and the whole list of the websites come up. The most important and useful website will come up first, this is called page rank.
After that I had this 10 pages of Chinese test in the evening. It's pretty easy or maybe its just me who's pro :P Now all of you can see what's the benefits of getting chinese chicks.
xox