My name is Manar Tajuddin and I am a first year Computer Science student in University College Dublin. I consider myself to be thoroughly interested in media, web design and web development.
In this website, I have a few examples of social media applications and websites which I have familiarised myself with in my own time. These include Linkedin, Pinterest, Pocket and even WordPress, which I am currently using.
My student number is: 15324696
Tools like Feedly can help you save time by reviewing multiple news sources at once. Buffer can help you schedule posts, so that you are not spending all your time creating posts in individual social media tools.
This is what sharing content will look like on the website.
For the map mashup, I decided to create a map that contains all the places you can eat in UCD. I created an Excel file which contained the latitudes and longitudes of the restaurants/cafes and then I uploaded the file to Google My Maps. I was then able to see the pins of the restaurants on Google Maps.
This is what the Map Mashup looks like on the Google My Maps. It contains all 5 restaurants I added, and clicking on the red marker shows you the name of the restaurant.
This is the Excel File I uploaded to add the information about the restaurants and where they are located on UCD campus. I used latlong.net to find out the latitudes and longitudes of the restaurants.
My most popular post was , and I believe this is because nowadays, among my age group, Facebook is the most commonly used social media website/app used. It’s also a very easy and effective way to share posts and information. The least popular post was Linkedin, and I believe it’s because it’s more job oriented than news oriented. The majority of posts and links shared on Linkedin are generally to do with work or jobs, and any news articles or posts posted there about unrelated things probably won’t grab anyone’s attention. However, that’s a different situation in other social media apps and websites like Facebook and Twitter.
Popularity was evaluated using how many likes, comments and shares were given to the post, as well as how interesting the post itself was to the age group I am friends with on Facebook, Twitter, etc. I believe that makes a big difference, as some things are definitely not as interesting as others. For example, because I am doing Computer Science and most of my peers are friends with me on Facebook, they will probably be more interested in posts to do with technology and not in “beauty hacks”, for example. That will mean the technology posts will get more likes, comments and shares, which will therefore make the post more popular.
In a business environment, the buffer analysis can be used to make a business find out which posts are more appealing to their customers based on the topic of the post, where it was posted, etc. This can help the business choose more posts similar to it so that they can become more successful and popular.
Flickr is a social media tool, used widely to store and manage images. It can help organise your images and share them with friends or the public. You can add a description and tags to your image/video. You can also add it to an album which you can create, and you can choose who can see that certain image/video.
I created a channel with YouTube and I uploaded a video to familiarize myself with the website. I learned that there are many options and tools that can be used to edit your video before you upload it. You can add music, add notations or speech bubbles, link your video to another video or website, add subtitles, alter the length of your video and even crop out part of the video altogether.
This is what my channel looks like on YouTube. You can subscribe using the red button on the right, and my videos are displayed along the bottom.
To create a screencast, which can then be uploaded to YouTube, we used screencast-o-matic. This lets you record what’s happening on the screen of your device, which can be used for tutorial purposes and can be uploaded to YouTube later on, or just shared on other social media websites/applications.
A dotted border appears around your screen which indicates the area that will be shown in the video. This box can be altered and adjusted to whatever size you wanted.
I recorded a video on how to conduct a google images search, and I found Screencast-o-matic a very easy tool to use. At the end of the video, you had the options to edit the name of the video, add tags and a description before you uploaded it to YouTube.
During the Social Computing and Media module, we focused on how to use the social media tool, Prezi. It has the same idea as PowerPoint and similar to it’s presentations, except the only difference is that all of the data and presentations are saved on the cloud. It has many similar features to PowerPoint but it’s more dynamic and has a lot more movement between each slide. It also allows you to have slides within slides which can be useful when using visual imagery. It also allows you to embed videos, audio, gifs and images likePowerPoint.
This is what the entire presentation looks like. There are also many hidden slides that are not visible now.
Hello Purr
This is what the application Hello Purr, looked like on the website MIT App Inventor. This was the first application I created and I found it highly amusing as well as interesting.
This is what the application looked like after I had built it and installed it on my phone. Thankfully, I managed to get it to work perfectly as I’d hoped. The application allows the user to “pet” or ultimately tap on the picture of the cat which would cause the device to vibrate as well as produce a cat sound or a “meow”.
Magic 8 Ball
This is the second application I created on MIT App Inventor and it’s called Magic 8 Ball. This is what it looked like on the website as I was creating it.
This is what the application looked like on my phone after building it and installing it. This application allows the user to ask the magic ball a question in which the responses are “yes” or “no” and when you shake the magic ball, or your device, the magic ball will produce a reply and display it on the screen for the user.
Pocket is an application and service for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet. It was actually previously known as Read It Later, but ultimately the application allows you to do just that; allowing the user to save an article or web page to the cloud for later reading. The article is then sent to the user’s Pocket list (synced to all of their devices) for offline reading. Pocket removes clutter from articles and allows the user to adjust text settings for easier reading.
This is what the website looks like on a desktop. It shows all three websites that I have saved for offline reading.
The grey pocket button (between the star and the Pinterest icon) is used by the user to save the website or article he is using to his list on Pocket for later reading.
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