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3D – Internet: The future of Social Media

Why talk about this?

The way we have conversation with our friends depends on our technolgy.

Why will the change occur? 2D to 3D

3D in games

immersive
gameplay
social connections

Closed vs Open Virtual Environment

Open Virtual Environment – new form of website, user generated content (They prefer to call it the “Immersive Web”.

Samsung Mobile [...]

Decentralized Learning: Wikis and My Experiment with Educating Gen Y

“The Starfish and The Spider”

- Starfish > Decentralised
- Spider > Centralised

The most important question.

Where in the learning process do we have what Clayton Christensen calls “non-consumption”.

Disrupting Class by Clayton Christensen.

Wikitexts: Addressing Nonconsumption Behind The Firewall

Students write their own textbook on the wiki
Peer editing and faculty feedback [...]

65bits – Lessons after 94 episodes

Background on Tech 65

A team of geeks passionate about technology – help people learn about technology through podcasts through blogs – sharing their knowledge.

65bits is one of the podcasts that Tech 65 has. Idea is a bunch of geeks coming together to discuss about tech stuff happening.

They’re going to do [...]

Landscape

Less trusting of corporate marketing

More community, web 2.0 tools available

Finds that people who are not normally blogging, podcasting are in Facebook. Low barrier of entry – killer app.

The irrelevant corporate website – an unbelievable collection of hyperbole etc.

Words of caution

set expectations right
don’t bet the house
prepare to get your hands dirty
marathon rather than a sprint
ain’t always [...]

At SMU now. We’re starting!

Melvin Yuan

Speeches no longer one sided – “welcome to the world of social media. It’s all about Conversations.”
social media only impacted Singapore in 2008
previously talking about “new media” early days
2007 – beginnings of discussion on social media
2008 – impact of social media
What’s ahead for 2009? Melvin’s take

80% web services going to [...]