From the lecture, I have learnt more about new media. The guest speaker managed to show us some of the works that his company, Ripplewerkz, have done. Some of these included the design of Xiaxue blog, nuffnang and more.
The guest speaker also mentions about the difference between freelance and employee. If working under employee, we have to fulfil the clients exact needs for his or her website under a limit of time and as for freelance it more free and you would only handle the job if you have the time. He added that a static website will cost about 1.5k on the other hand, a database website costs ranging from 5k to 10k.
He also mentions about the improvement from web 1.0 to web 2.0. One of the most common new media tool that people are using today is twitter. Twitter is a tool which enables users to send messages, upload photos and their current status online. It is convenient for iphone, blackberry or smartphone users to use the tool to communicate with others online.
He said that in the working environment it is different than in school. It is infact more complex and not so simple as passing and failing. In the working environment if we do not manage to meet the needs of the client we have to improve on our work further or even redo everything as a whole again.
Overall, I find the lecture interesting as I have learnt more about the uses of new media. And I also got to know about the competetiveness in the working world.
