Lecture 5

Well this was certainly one of the most interesting lectures I've been to so far and that was largely due to the lecturer we had this week, Jason. First he showed us some data visualizations, one of the more interesting being disaster map.

He then went on to talk about the rise and fall of websites today. The 'dot com boom' saw the rise of many websites only to subsequently crash a few years later. Jason gave us the example of AOL, which was a website that supposedly would never die out however it has repaidly decreased in profits in the recent years.

He also talked about Social Networking sites and the fall of myspace to sites like facebook and twitter, which he then predicted would also die out in the near future. There was also another social networking site he went to called Elftown. Yes, Elftown was as bad as it sounds. I sort of strangely want to sign up for it - mostly so I can receive some Elftown badges like one guy had that Jason showed too us.

He concluded that in years to some social networking will become smaller and more refined to suit individual people more.