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Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom. She had heard of Twitter… She collaborated with the UT Dallas, Arts and Technology – Emerging Media and Communications (EMAC) http://www.emac.utdallas.edu faculty and as a Graduate student in EMAC I assisted her in her experiment. I documented the experiment for a digital video class with Professor Dean Terry, @therefore, and assisted Dr. Rankin in the experiment as a part of my collaboration and content creation course with Dan Langendor, @dlangendorf. It was a real pleasure to work with Dr. Rankin – a forward-thinking professor open to the intelligent use of new media.

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Queenie Ang 08:34:46 am on July 27, 2010 | 0 | # |
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Five years ago, YouTube was just getting started, MySpace was the most popular website in the U.S., and Facebook was still limited to college and high school students. Mobile was mostly an after-thought, as we were still more than a year away from the introduction of the iPhone and the idea of an app store. And “widgets” were just starting to emerge as a way to integrate third-party apps on a website (Newsweek would declare 2007 to be “year of the widget” in a late 2006 article).

Things look much more different now. Google will soon be outshone by Facebook. The “Like” buttons are yearned for as a non-monetary capital. And numerous applications are downloaded to a myriad of smartphones.

How was going on in between? Let’s review the development of social media in the previous 5 years.

The News Feed Unites All

The introduction of the news feed in late 2006 was a breakthrough from the conventional MySpace layout. Its idea of publishing stories in reverse-chronological order was followed by other social platforms like Twitter, Flickr and even MySpace. Though it was not accepted at the beginning (along with many other complaints such as the privacy issue), the feature was undoubtedly influential and successfully extended users’ attention span.

The Rise Of Videos

The appearance of YouTube in February 2005 received quick, positive response from the mass. It soon gained the title of the most popular video online provider ten months later. By July of the following year, a hundred million video views were served on the website. At YouTube’s 18-month birthday in October, it was sold to Google for as much as $1.6 billion. In December 2009, YouTube was recognized as the most innovative social media of the decade, facilitating the sharing of some compelling tutorials of masters from different fields and even random vlogs recorded by unprofessional video camera.

Social Networks Spread Their Wings

Social networking companies enter a war in early 2008, and the resources they were fighting for are portable identities, as they wanted users’ profiles to be seen across the World Wide Web. The war was followed by the launching of Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, MySpace ID, etc. Millions of websites have leaned on social plugins like Facebook Open Graph and Google Friend Connect, signifying a rapid ,and seemingly ever, growth of social networking online.

Social Media Goes Mobile

The speculation that social media would go mobile has been around for nearly 10 years and it did eventually happen in last few years when iPhone invaded the market.

Data shows that almost one third of those users browse social platforms with their smartphones. The percentage was possibly underreported, for the number of application downloads was not included.

Because of the improved broadband speeds, video is becoming mobile too. Of all videos served on YouTube, for example, 100 million were viewed on portable devices every day. Since most smartphones have incorporated the feature of video taking, they are expected to play an important role in the video making department.

What’s Next?

Now that more and more boundaries have been broken down, one wonders what will happen next in the social media. You will be kept posted wit more reviews regarding the 5-year history.

Want to find out more about social media, then visit Queenie Ang’s site on how to choose the best development of social media for your needs.

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