The Stupendous World of Smitty: Last One

It is a sad day, my last blog entry for school will be this one that you are reading now...well whatever, lets get on with it. This weeks task was to look at some different components of what is called "Web 2.0", these included mashing, tagging, and interactivity. I thought the experience with the picture surfing website was fun. There were so many pictures on the website that almost anything you searched for, there were pictures about it. I think the best application for this type of website would be for getting pictures for a presentaion, or for the most part, just having fun looking at all kinds of pictures. Anyway, here are some of the pictures that I thought were cool and interesting. http://www.flickr.com/photos/urban_jungle/3416637012/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/radiospike/2552915028/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kishmish/187175829/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/d0pe07/2223797722/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hustlerofculture/3247121848/

The mashing websites for the most part I thought were quite useless, but I thought two of them were fun. The one where you draw something in the box and the site try's to guess what you were drawing by showing you pictures, and the one where you play a picture form of sudoku with someone elses pictures, I thought were a great ideas; and here is the sudoku one: http://www.beckysweb.co.uk/sudoku/flickrsudoku.asp Of course, websites such as google maps are not useless, they use many other sources to create what in many cases is very important information, such as directions to one place or another.

Last but not least, the interactivity, I thought was a great time, and very easy to use. I really like bighugelabs.com for this reason. It was a really fun time making many different pictures, and playing around. I think the best application for this type of thing is also presentations, such as slide shows. It can keep the audience entertained and their focus on you, which is what you need to do today with everyone having such a short attention span. Here are three of my favortie pictures from this activity: