Create a New Online Account

Please create a fictitious, creative, easy to remember name for the experiment--like sofie, spongebob, mr metrosexual or ms shopping. i'll wait for your self-introductions and discussions. Follow the protocol, introduce yourself, para me urbanidad. :)

Experiment on Digital Identities

There's going to be some change of plans. Instead of Orkut, we will be using digital_identities@yahoogroups.com (found under Games/role-playing games) for this experiment.

Objectives of the Game

This is an experimental group game intended to welcome virtual characters and players from the Soccomp class. The objective of the game is to decipher the identity of the person as to gender, club or organization affiliation or class block membership through asynchronus and synchronus discussions. Other objectives will build up as the activity moves on.

This is a Social Computing class experiment starting tonight, Oct. 26, 2007, 9:55pm, Manila time.

Mechanics:

1. The player should use an online/virtual identity (a short name easy to pronounce and easy to remember) and give a short introduction of her/himself--sharing her/his current interests, gender and age.
2. Language to be used in the communication maybe in English, Tagalog and the use of emoticons.
3. The first real-time discussion should start tonight using Yahoo Messenger. All players should initiate conversations with the moderator and the other players.
4. All players are required to create a thread with an interesting topic, and reply to at least 10 threads.

Let's start the ball rolling. Please wait for other updates in this experiment.

Hope you have an exciting online engagement! :)

Reporting Topics on WEB 2.0

Oct. 30
1. Wikis
2. Social bookmarking/tagging; syndication
+delicious
3. Blogging & online participation

Nov. 6

4. Content management; rating
+ digg.com
5. Torrents
+Bit torrent

Nov. 8
6. Google maps + API
7. Software as a service + platform as a service
+Salesforce.com

Please limit the reports to 15mins each. Answer the basic questions such as:
a. How does it work and what are the common applications?
b. Feature a site utilizing the web solution and discuss how it works.

Try your best to come up with a short and creative presentation.

Research Topics

Social Bookmarking
Wikis
Threads, Chat and Online Communities
RSS and Torrents
Content Management System
Google applications
Opensource applications