From last time, prep —
look at 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know and Facebook - Profile privacy settings - Sophos recommends. Have you checked your own privacy settings and do you understand the choices you're making? Read Facebook safety: are you following the advice Facebook gives? Now read danah boyd's article, controlling your public appearance. On your blog, write about what you think you've learned from these last two lessons about social software, in general, and Facebook in particular. Discussion will also take in what's happened over half-term with Facebook's Terms of Service (ToS): see Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.". From Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter: With today’s outrage over Facebook’s newly altered Terms of Service at its peak, I figured I’d do a quick comparison of their terms of service as regards user-uploaded content to the terms specified by other social networking sites, just to see if said outrage is fully justified. It looks as though the finger-pointing at the Bush robots.txt file wasn’t justified, for instance, and I was guilty of spreading that story. Conclusion? Go ahead and be outraged. Facebook’s claims to your content are extraordinarily grabby and arrogant. Within 48 hours, Mark Zuckerberg announced a change of direction, Update on Terms | Facebook. The Guardian offers this overview, Maybe Facebook should just offer a loyalty card instead | Guardian. In this lesson we'll explore ways of using video- and photo-sharing sites to greater effect other than casual viewing, look at the use of social tagging and see how social sites can develop into large scale, socially generated resources. 1) YouTube … has a history — we'll watch The Rise and Rise of YouTube (2008). Next, create a free account and use it (from now on) to keep your favourites to hand — as well as a place where you can upload and share videos. This is an example of a Favorites page:
Once you have an account, you can also subscribe (within YouTube) to a channel. For example, if you wanted to follow UK politics there's British Politicians on YouTube and Downing Street. (The Queen's on YouTube, The Royal Family, the Vatican, Vatican's Channel ...) There are many universities, too: eg, University of Berkeley, California. Our intranet has a list of good video sites, including Facebook channels. YouTube is experimenting now with official download options — YouTube Goes Offline: Many video creators on YouTube want their work to be seen far and wide. They don't mind sharing their work, provided that they get the proper credit. Using Creative Commons licenses, we're giving our partners and community more choices to make that happen. Creative Commons licenses permit people to reuse downloaded content under certain conditions. We're also testing an option that gives video owners the ability to permit downloading of their videos from YouTube. Partners could choose to offer their video downloads for free or for a small fee paid through Google Checkout. Partners can set prices and decide which license they want to attach to the downloaded video files (for more info on the types of licenses, take a look here) We'll have more to say about Creative Commons soon. You can search on the site by usernames, video titles, descriptions, tags. Tags on YouTube are provided by the uploader of the video and you can subscribe to tags. In fact, YouTube is becoming a chosen means of search for many younger users, At First, Funny Videos. Now, a Reference Tool. - NYT: YouTube, conceived as a video hosting and sharing site, has become a bona fide search tool. ... Tyler’s father, Mr. Kennedy, who is a product manager at Nokia, said he has watched Tyler and his friends going from the Wii to the computer and back to the Wii enough times to understand how much the use of online video is changing. “All of us who are a certain age think of video as a medium associated with television, and not as a reference,” Mr. Kennedy said. “It’s another method of search that we don’t fully appreciate.” Video search now represents 26% of Google’s total search volume and "Search is evolving, affinity and real-time are changing the game, more teens now search first via YouTube, and many will move to Twitter this year" (link). Finally, if you want to play with YouTube feeds, try this. And there's an excellent mobile YouTube site — at some point, you should navigate to this on a mobile device, BUT use a WiFi connection to do so (it's data intensive and could prove very expensive).
2) Google Video Google may own YouTube, but it's also got Google Video. Although it announced this year that uploading to the site will soon stop, you shouldn't overlook the site: its content isn't going away any time soon. Examples:
It is less social than YouTube, but look:
You can leave comments (as on YouTube)and you can find other videos from an uploader whose material you like. YouTube videos show up on the Google Video interface and in the search. Users can use Google Video's own search (on site) or search for videos via Google — adding site:video.google.com if you want to find only videos hosted on Google Video. (Go back to Lesson 10 and remind yourselves of how to use Google search.) And here's a tip (from another site) to help you find (in this example) Google videos classed by their uploaders as 'educational':
3) How do you download videos from the web? If you are not infringing copyright (or other permissions set by the owner or uploader), there are many possibilities. What do you use? These sites offer some ideas: Download Video From Popular Video Sharing Sites: A Mini-Guide, Robin Good (2007) 12 Essential Greasemonkey Hacks for YouTube, Mashable (2007) 4) Flickr Not Google, but Yahoo! Flickr (which we had a glimpse of back in Lesson 18) allows users to open an account for free and share photos online. Users can set privacy so that only they see certain photos, or they and their family, or they and their friends (and/not their family), or they can make them fully public. Remember: all photos published online are, in the end, replicable and, when all is said and done, you still have limited control over who is your audience. So, why share photos? Watch Online Photo Sharing in Plain English, CommonCraft video (2008). And these slides highlight the role of tags (put there by the photo's owners and maybe by other people, too):
Slide courtesy of Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo! (http://tinyurl.com/3cjgpp; pdf)
Slide courtesy of Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo! (http://tinyurl.com/3cjgpp; pdf) Prep: On your blog, write some 300 words about Flickr using these links (as well as information in this lesson) for your research: Caterina.net: Storytelling and the birth of companies; John Naughton: How Flickr developed into a classic Web 2.0 success | The Observer; Going More Mobile « Flickr Blog; 3 Billion! « Flickr Blog; Flickr Commons; Flickr Creative Commons. |
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