Cloud storage in 2017 and personal review

Cloud storage (web file saving or sharing) has been introduced few years ago and, now, a lot of people use cloud storage for file saving purposes. Since many people have smart phones and taking photo with smart phone camera, people need extra storages for their smart phone so people upload their photos on cloud storage. Cloud storage is essential for people who downloads a lot of documents or photos, sharing files with colleagues, and for much more purposes.

In 2017, there are a lot of company offers free or paid cloud storage. On this post, the best top 5 cloud storage will be introduced in 2017.

The first cloud storage to introduce is Dropbox. Dropbox offers free 2GB and, for paid option, it will be 1TB for $10 a month.

 

The second one is Google Drive. It has 15GB for free, 100GB for $1.99 for a month and 1TB for $9.99 for a month.

 

The next one is Mega. It has 50GB for free and 200GB for $6 for a month.

 

OneDrive offers free 5GB and 50GB for a month for paid option.

 

Lastly, iCloud has 5GB free and $0.99 for a month.

I believe that choosing a cloud storage is depends on users taste of usage.

Personally, I use free option of iCloud because I am a iPhone user and I have tried all the cloud storages that are listed on this post. I also use Google Drive for sharing file with friends that Google Drive offers a document editing technology which many people can join to edit specific documentation. From my experience, I have used Google Drive for making presentation slides with friends for university assessment. I see that cloud storage is not only for saving file. It truly helps people to make documentation through the technology. In the future, I hope to see new technologies that can improve cloud storage/sharing service with a lot of features.

References

Drake, N. (2017, January 23). Top 10 best cloud storage services of 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2017, from http://www.techradar.com/news/top-10-best-cloud-storage-services-of-2017

Muchmore, M., & Duffy, J. (2017, July 19). The Best Cloud Storage and File-Sharing Services of 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2017, from https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/306323/the-best-cloud-storage-providers-and-file-syncing-services

 

 

VR and Mixed Reality

Virtual Reality (VR) machine have been developed and began to sold couple of years ago. Most of people purchase VR for gaming purposes, but, also, VR can be used for variety of purposes such as documentaries, movies, etc. VR became popular since a lot of game companies have released many game that can be run for VR machines. Personally, I am looking forward to purchase Play Station VR for gaming purpose, but still, I want to see the development of the VR market and perhaps I might consider to buy one for next generation versions. Many people comment about VR that it still need to developed to optimization for games.

Early this year, mixed reality have been introduced to people. Mixed reality is blending of augmented reality and virtual reality that camera from VR machine detects surrounding environment of an user and it let you bring virtual objects in virtual space within the space that user is using the VR.

 

It is hard to tell that how mixed reality will develop in the future, but I believe that it will develop for good. Currently, many VR machines are made for gaming purpose. Therefore, it can be easily predicted that many companies will use this technology for gamings. Also, as I am a gamer that I am looking forward to see some games that use mixed reality technology in the future.

 

References

 

Mixed Reality Blends the Physical and Virtual Worlds. (2016, December 07). from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xpI0JosYUk

 

Odom, J. (2017, January 18). Five Windows Holographic Mixed Reality Headsets Have Now Been Seen, but Most Have Not Been Touched. Retrieved August 11, 2017, from https://mixed.reality.news/news/five-windows-holographic-mixed-reality-headsets-have-now-been-seen-but-most-have-not-been-touched-0175820/

 

Statt, N. (2017, March 01). Acer’s Windows Holographic headset will ship to developers this month. from https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/1/14779706/microsoft-acer-windows-holographic-mixed-reality-headset

Social Media on Society (Bad Influence)

 

Smart phones are ubiquitous now that it is hard to find someone with older 2g phones. Since smart phones are everywhere, it is easy to see someone with doing something with their smart phones. 

To be specific, many people install social media applications on their mobile phones and start to communicate with anyone who are using the same applications. It is good phenomenon that communication with somebody, but it could cause bad effect for people.

(Wee, R. Y.,2016, July 14)

Recently, one article published that social media, such as Instagram, Facebook, etc., is harmful for young people’s mental health. Spending too much time on social media could cause feeling of anxiety, depression, sleep problem, loneliness. The study was issued by researching from young people whom are aged 14 to 24 years old.

(Campbell, 2017)

It is not deniable that social media effect bad influence such as relative deprivation.

From personal experience, when I was teenager, I have felt relative deprivation when I was addicted to social media. I knew that I should have stopped looking at other people’s social media page but I was really hard to stop looking at it. I solved my addiction problem by dividing time to do productive work, in my case, learning instruments.

In conclusion, it is true that social media plays a role in unhappiness, but it has as many benefits as it does negatives. Therefore, young people should be taught how to cope with all aspects of social media which are pros and cons.

Here is a video that I strongly agree with.

 

References

Campbell, D. (2017, May 19). Facebook and Twitter ‘harm young people’s mental health’. from https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/19/popular-social-media-sites-harm-young-peoples-mental-health

Doward, J. (2017, April 08). Revealed: the more time that children chat on social media, the less happy they feel. from https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/09/social-networks–children-chat-feel-less-happy-facebook-instagram-whatsapp

Fox, K. (2017, May 19). Instagram worst app for young people’s mental health. from http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/19/health/instagram-worst-social-network-app-young-people-mental-health/index.html

The bad effect of social media. (2016, October 26). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiZUWVwHpe0

Wee, R. Y. (2016, July 14). Most Popular Social Media Networks In The World. from http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-popular-social-media-networks-in-the-world.html

Best softwares to make website

It is not easy to enter web design area, but, nowadays, it became easier to do web designs through a lot of software. Web design softwares are developed to create a website easier than before. A lot of companies have developed free or paid software for web designers or people who are interested to create a website. Also, many software allows people to not to worry about codings anymore.

Most popular paid software are Adobe Dreamweaver,  Adobe Muse, Sketch, Marvel, etc.

Most popular free software are MACAW, Pictaclous, Webflow, etc.

These software can give a challenge to people who are interested to create a website and, also, for web designers who likes to give a try for a new software for a different style.

Personally, as a beginner web designer, I did not even know that there are a lot of softwares that can help to create website, especially free software.  By introducing a lot of software, I hope that it can be useful for other people who are a beginner of make website like me.

 

References

Edwards, D. (2017, March 13). 11 web design tools you can’t live without. Retrieved http://www.creativebloq.com/web-design/10-web-design-tools-you-cant-live-without-51514957

J. (2017, May 05). The Best Web Design Software, Tools And Free Resources – 2017. from https://makeawebsitehub.com/best-web-design-software/

K. (2017, July 27). Best Web Design Software (Free & Paid Tools).  from https://websitesetup.org/web-design-software/

Current trends of Web Design Styles

Layout trend of website design develops every year and, this year, new styles of website design has been developed and also adapted to a lot of websites.

There is 4 different style of web design to share on this blog which are video background style, parallax style, infinite scrolling and content style and deviating from the grid style.

Video Background Style

This style offers website users to show story about the website company or user.

(Free website Builder, n.d.)

Examples of websites:

http://globeatmica.com/

https://camposcoffee.com/

Parallax Style

This style gives more depths of a website and many website developers use parallax scrolling nowadays. Also, this style shows more active and appealing for users.

 (Parallax scrolling Design Inspiration – HTML & CSS Snippets ~ CodeMyUI., n.d.)

Examples of websites:

https://www.thened.com/

http://benpearce.nz/

Infinite Scrolling and Content Style

This style is similar to parallax style but this style is less active.

(Susa Ventures – A seed-stage venture fund., n.d.)

Examples of websites:

https://www.aucoot.com/

http://emersonbuilding.london/

Deviating from the Grid Style

This style does not really follow grid style for context and it uses broken down grid style. This style can be used for creativity website to show individuality.

(Curiousspace, n.d.)

Examples of websites:

http://humcreative.com/

http://www.duhaihang.com

 

These style of websites can be often found while searching on the internet. Personally, I am still not adapted to these kinds of websites, so I find difficult to use these styles of websites.

On the other hand, many developers use these styles for latest websites. Therefore, I can not ignore newest styles.

I believe that these kinds of style offer website users to show their (company or individuals who own website) uniqueness throughout websites. Also, nowadays many people like to see storytelling media contents. If new style can be adapted to show stories through websites, it can be a great advertisement or promotion for companies or individual website owners.

 

References

Curiousspace (n.d.). from http://www.curiousspace.com/

FREE WEBSITE BUILDER. (n.d.).  from https://mobirise.com/

Parallax scrolling Design Inspiration – HTML & CSS Snippets ~ CodeMyUI. (n.d.).  from https://codemyui.com/tag/parallax-scrolling/

Susa Ventures – A seed-stage venture fund. (n.d.).  from http://susaventures.com/

2017 Website Layout Trends. (2017, February 16). https://www.webascender.com/blog/2017-website-layout-trends/

The future of HTML5 game

One Canadian game company, Big Viking Games, secured $21.75 million to investing HTML5 mobile games. The company has vision to change gaming style for instant mobile games with HTML5. Therefore, Canadian bank funded for the company that Royal Bank of Canada with $3.75 million and Export Development Canada with $18 million. Other company’s have moved away from HTML5 because of the technical investment required, but the CEO of the company insisted that open standard could be powerful devices which will pave the way for a huge movement on tablets and mobile phones (Tech and Tech, 2017).

 

(Drimlike.com, 2017)

Nowadays, many people owns mobile phones and, also, some people are addicted with mobile applications and mobile games. Personally, I also do play a lot of mobile games and try to find interesting games. Some games are made with heavy 3D engines, so battery of mobile easily run out. Some games are made with light engines that it does not interfere battery life.

 

Example of HTML5 game: Agar.io

(YouTube, 2017)

 

(Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog, 2017)

In conclusion, HTML5 is a technology for website and it feel very light for users, therefore if the company or other company can develop high quality games with HTML5. It could be very attractive news for gamers who is tired of heavy 3D games.

 

References

Drimlike.com. (2017). HTML5 Game Developers. [online] Available at: https://www.drimlike.com/en/gamification/html5-game-developers.html

Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. (2017). Getting Started With HTML5 Game Development. [online] Available at: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/getting-started-with-html5-game-development/

Tech, D. and Tech, D. (2017). Big Viking Games raises $21.75m, continues to bet on HTML5 mobile gaming. [online] Developer Tech. Available at: https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2016/nov/04/big-viking-games-raises-2175m-continues-bet-html5-mobile-gaming/

YouTube. (2017). Awesome Solo Gameplay Moments from pwnyy Gaming!. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFMyl-8L4A

Basic ontent marketing strategy

From the previous post I mentioned that I have my own YouTube channel and I am managing it to make profits through my videos. To maintain my YouTube channel, I need subscribers and viewers to watch my video and it is hard to get subscribers and viewers because there are a lot of YouTubers. Especially, I upload game playing videos of my own and a lot of YouTubers are doing that so it is tricky to exposure mine because people do upload similar videos. From the lecture, it discuss about press kit and events (“Week 9: Indie marketing techniques – self-directed practitioners,” 2015). Relate to my own experience, I have a blog and Facebook webpage that have same name as my YouTube channel and I believe and think that it is a part of press kit procedure. Also, to promote my YouTube, blog and Facebook page, I usually create my account for any games with the same name as my websites because I think it is a way to promote my YouTube channel. Also, for promoting and marketing to people about YouTube channel and myself, I try to maintain my game account as a top rank player.

 

What I have learned from the lecture is positioning part. Especially, I looked carefully about the differentiation part of the lecture, because many YouTube gamers upload similar games and all videos contain mostly the same content (“Week 9: Indie marketing techniques – self-directed practitioners,” 2015). Bhasin (2016) stated about branding as a part of differentiation strategy that promotion mix and the marketing communications of the company play a crucial role in the differentiation strategy of your product. This strategy should be considered for my YouTube content to show people about uniqueness of my videos. Credibility part from the lecture was new topic for me to think about marketing of my Channel. McCarthy-Gaspar (2016) talks about credibility of content marketing strategy. From the article, it says that communication with customers is important for content and I agreed with the article and the lecture. Communicating with customers or viewers will build credibility and quality of content product. Therefore, the lecture and articles support my reasoning and these professional articles and lecture are definitely significant guideline for my future content activities.

 

In conclusion, differentiation of contents and build credibility will help me to develop quality of my creativity contents. Until I had this lecture, I did not know specifically about these two important requisites. I only had a little knowledge about differentiation of content but, through the lecture, I learned about it and I can plan direction for my YouTube contents. Differentiation of contents will make my content unique and communication with viewers will build credibility of my channel and quality of videos.

 

Bhasin, H. (2016, November 30). Differentiation strategy. Retrieved from STRATEGIC MARKETING, http://www.marketing91.com/differentiation-strategy/

McCarthy-Gaspar, G. (2016, May 2). How to establish credibility with your content marketing strategy. Retrieved from Best of Online Marketing, https://www.onlinemarketinginstitute.org/blog/2016/05/establish-credibility-content-marketing-strategy/

Week 9: Indie marketing techniques – self-directed practitioners. (2015, March 30). Retrieved from https://medium.com/self-directed-practitioners/week-9-reaching-your-audience-aa1b2e58dd53#.rfjjx51i2

 

 

Copyrights, contract and registration

From this lecture (“Week 3: Copyright & contracts – self-directed practitioners,” 2015), I learned about basics of copyrights. Although I knew a little bit of copyright is, but form the lecture, I have basic concepts of how copyright works for creativity field. Personally, I do study design at SAE institute Dubai currently, but I am thinking of a lot of creativity works for future plan so I studied about copyright before I had copyright and contracts lecture. What I have learned what is copyright through internet and lecture is similar. In my case, I studied copyright and contracts through Korean website and it is the same for international or what the lecture discussed about. Therefore, the lecture was mostly obvious for me about the basic ideas of the copyright.

Personally, as I mentioned above, I studied copyright because of music protection. In the future, I want to create my own music album so I have wrote few songs and have a lot ideas for my future songs. Therefore, I was very curious about protection of my music and I wondered that if I upload my songs now then will it be protected or what if someone uses my songs without my permission? These questions led me to study copyright, contract and register personally.

Only on perspective of copyright, what I knew was same as the lecture that music is protected once it is written (“Copyright FAQ,” 1988; “Week 3: Copyright & contracts – self-directed practitioners,” 2015). However, the registration of music is different for each country. For example, in the U.S., U.S. citizen would use their government copyright registration website that is http://www.copyright.gov/eco/ (“ECO registration system,” n.d.). For my case, Korean Music Registration Associations would be easier for me to register my songs to be protected for contract. To sum up, the significance of copyright is similar for most countries that music can be protected once it is written, however, there is a different point of view to be considered is that all countries have their own law for contracts and registrations.

In conclusion, I do study design for my future career and I am very interested in protecting of my own music. Most countries share basic ideas of music copyright that music can be protected once the music is written. However, to protect music professionally in legal ways, then contracts and registrations are required for people who are involved to create their own music. Before the lecture I only had few basic copyright ideas on music field only, but through the lecture I have learned the basic of the copyright. It was a great opportunity for me to learn about it because I do have my own creativity works to be protected and will protect (“Week 3: Copyright & contracts – self-directed practitioners,” 2015).

 

Copyright FAQ. (1988). Retrieved from http://www.prsformusic.com/aboutus/faqs/copyrightfaqs/pages/default.aspx#2

ECO registration system. Retrieved from http://www.copyright.gov/eco/

Week 3: Copyright & contracts – self-directed practitioners. (2015, April 15). Retrieved from https://medium.com/self-directed-practitioners/week-11-copyright-contracts-de8b049cd8f4#.szi58vpbj

 

 

Income and contents

Throughout the context of the lecture (“Week 2: Your income & your art – self-directed practitioners,” 2015), there were few topics that I already know about and something new. However, I found out one thing that I am currently doing it, which is from the advertising part. I have my own Youtube channel and I do put advertisements into the videos to make profits by views. I started Youtube channel about a month ago so I do not have a lot of profits. But, by running my channel, it helps me to see that there are a lot of ways to earn money. For more detail about my channel, I only have about 400 views over 23 videos and from the view, I have earned $0.1 total. I started my channel on 24th of October 2016 and it is only the beginning of my channel so I did not expect any incomes through channel. However, after one month later, I earned $0.1 through videos that I felt the potential of earning money through videos with advertising. Additionally, many people install adblock software program on their internet explore or chrome, so I believe that if there was no adblock program then I think I would have earned more money. Anyhow, advertising part of the lecture was obvious to me because of my experience on managing my Youtube channel (“Week 2: Your income & your art – self-directed practitioners,” 2015).

 

There are a lot of people making money through advertising with their videos on Youtube. Mandle (2015) reported one article that shows one of the highest earning Youtuber with annual income is reaching $12 million. This Youtuber’s name is PewDiePie and he earned more pre-tax than Maryl Streep, Cameron Diaz and Anne Hathway with his 40 million subscribers. On Reilly’s (2014) article, it supports that youtubers earn their money from advertisement on their video. Therefore, it will be hard to earn a lot of income from advert on video but it is possible to make money through Youtube videos. Also, Reilly’s (2014) article support that income through advertisements on videos are significant way to earn profits. Also, one article supported my opinion from my experience of adblock software program that this software surely decreases incomes of advertisement (Shaul, 2015).

 

In conclusion, from my experiences, I earned a little amount of money through Youtube videos by only put advertisement for a month. There were not a lot of views of my videos but I felt potentials of advertisement on videos that this activity obviously offers me income. Also, there are a lot of people earning money posting their videos on Youtube with advertisement. Not only from Reilly’s (2014) article, there are a lot of articles that reports Youtubers earn their money from advertisement on their videos.

Mandle, C. (2015, October 15). Forbes names PewDiePie as highest-earning YouTuber with annual income reaching $12m. The Independent – People. Retrieved from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/forbes-names-pewdiepie-as-highest-earning-youtuber-with-annual-income-reaching-12m-a6695536.html

Reilly, R. (2014, March 11). How to make money from YouTube: Analytics reveal video site’s richlist. Daily Mail. Retrieved from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2578472/How-make-money-YouTube-Analytics-reveal-video-sites-richlist.html

Shaul, B. (2015, November 2). PewDiePie on YouTube red: “Adblock has actual consequences.” Retrieved from http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/pewdiepie-on-youtube-red-adblock-has-actual-consequences/629327

Week 2: Your income & your art – self-directed practitioners. (2015, February 16). Retrieved from https://medium.com/self-directed-practitioners/week-3-your-income-your-art-133fe7b09488#.bwz55emgo