Made me crying

This is a short clip from Japanese marrying program. When daughter married with another man, father was crying .....

Amazing

Have you heard Susan Boyle's voice, it's amazing, and I never heard before.
I download video and listen again, it's incredible. She just is a countryside old women and she lived alone, she said that she just want to find a boyfriend on the show. I started pay attention to her after I watched this show. I still remember that there is another people called Paul Potts, he won " Britiain's got talent 2007", he also is stunning person.

Project

We had a idea that we want to build mashup based on Blog and Amazon.
When users don't know how to do something, they would like to search on the internet or go to library to read books. This idea will make users feel easier that it will help them find the result they want quickly on Blog and give them more detail information sucha as location when they need buy books.
I and Sarach will design and make the interface of website. And Arron and Zahra will do programming. We try to make users feel easy to use and useful.

project

This week we start to discuss mashup. It's difficult for multimedia students because we don't understand Java or actionscript. What we can do is how to make web more beautiful. A big challenge for us, right?

Introduction

Groupware: Introduction

What is Groupware?
Groupware is technology designed to facilitate the work of groups. This technology may be used to communicate, cooperate, coordinate, solve problems, compete, or negotiate. While traditional technologies like the telephone qualify as groupware, the term is ordinarily used to refer to a specific class of technologies relying on modern computer networks, such as email, newsgroups, videophones, or chat.
Groupware technologies are typically categorized along two primary dimensions:
whether users of the groupware are working together at the same time ("realtime" or "synchronous" groupware) or different times ("asynchronous" groupware), and
whether users are working together in the same place ("colocated" or "face-to-face") or in different places ("non-colocated" or "distance").

Same time"synchronous"
Different time"asynchronous"
Same Place"colocated"
voting,presentation support
shared computers
videophones,chat
email, workflow
Different Place"distance"
Several typical groupware applications are described in more detail on our Groupware Applications page.

What is CSCW?
CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) refers to the field of study which examines the design, adoption, and use of groupware. Despite the name, this field of study is not restricted to issues of "cooperation" or "work" but also examines competition, socialization, and play. The field typically attracts those interested in software design and social and organizational behavior, including business people, computer scientists, organizational psychologists, communications researchers, and anthropologists, among other specialties.
How is Groupware Design Different from Traditional User Interface Design?
Groupware design involves understanding groups and how people behave in groups. It also involves having a good understanding of networking technology and how aspects of that technology (for instance, delays in synchronizing views) affect a user's experience. All the issues related to traditional user interface design remain relevant, since the technology still involves people.
However, many aspects of groups require special consideration. For instance, not only do million-person groups behave differently from 5-person groups, but the performance parameters of the technologies to support different groups vary. Ease-of-use must be better for groupware than for single-user systems because the pace of use of an application is often driven by the pace of a conversation. System responsiveness and reliability become more significant issues. Designers must have an understanding of the degree of homogeneity of users, of the possible roles people play in cooperative work and of who key decision-makers are and what influences them.
We discuss design issues in significantly more detail on our Groupware Design Issues page.
Why Bother?
Why is groupware design worth paying attention to in the first place?
Groupware offers significant advantages over single-user systems. These are some of the most common reasons people want to use groupware:
to facilitate communication: make it faster, clearer, more persuasive
to enable communication where it wouldn't otherwise be possible
to enable telecommuting
to cut down on travel costs
to bring together multiple perspectives and expertise
to form groups with common interests where it wouldn't be possible to gather a sufficient number of people face-to-face
to save time and cost in coordinating group work
to facilitate group problem-solving
to enable new modes of communication, such as anonymous interchanges or structured interactions
In addition to the benefits of groupware, another good reason to study usability and design issues in groupware is to avoid a failed design. Groupware is significantly more difficult to get right than traditional software. Typically, a groupware system can't succeed unless most or all of the target group is willing to adopt the system. In contrast, a single-user system can be successful even if only a fraction of the target market adopts it.

Resource:
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/groupware/intro.txl

Answer

1. Silence.
2. No, they won’t. They lie still after they die.
3. Your age.
4. He wants to have a hot dog.
5. Because someone will give her away.
6. It has the most stories.
7. The bridge of a nose.
8. A whole world.
9. They want to make faces.
10. Crane.

Question

There are some questions you may hard to answer, let brainstoming.
1. What will you break once you say it?
2. Will liars be honest after they die?
3. What always goes up and never goes down?
4. Why did the boy make his dog sit in the sun?
5. Why can a bride hide nothing?
6. Why is the library the highest building?
7. What is the smallest bridge in the world?
8. What is the difference between the North Pole and the South Pole?
9. What makes naughty boys long to work in a clock factory?
10. What bird lifts heavy things?

Story

Once upon a time the fox was talking to the wolf about the strength of man, how no animal could withstand him, and how all were obliged to employ cunning in order to protect themselves from him.
The wolf answered, "If I could see a man just once, I would attack him nonetheless."
"I can help you to do that," said the fox. "Come to me early tomorrow morning, and I will show you one."
　　The wolf arrived on time, and the fox took him out to the path which the huntsman used every day. First an old discharged soldier came by.
　　"Is that a man?" asked the wolf.
　　"No," answered the fox. "He has been one."
　　Afterwards came a little boy on his way to school.
　　"Is that a man?"
　　"No, he will yet become one."
　　Finally a huntsman came by with his double-barreled gun on his back, and a sword at his side.
　　The fox said to the wolf, "Look, there comes a man. He is the one you must attack, but I am going back to my den."
　　The wolf then charged at the man.
　　When the huntsman saw him he said, "Too bad that I have not loaded with a bullet." Then he aimed and fired a load of shot into his face.
　　The wolf pulled an awful face, but did not let himself be frightened, and attacked him again, on which the huntsman gave him the second barrel. The wolf swallowed his pain and charged at the huntsman again, who in turn drew out his naked sword, and gave him a few blows with it left and right, so that, bleeding all over, he ran howling back to the fox.
　　"Well," Brother Wolf, said the fox, "how did you get along with man?"
　　"Oh," replied the wolf, "I never imagined the strength of man to be what it is. First, he took a stick from his shoulder, and blew into it, and then something flew into my face which tickled me terribly. Then he breathed once more into the stick, and it flew up my nose like lightning and hail. Then when I got next to him, he drew a naked rib out of his body, and he beat me so with it that he almost killed me."
　　"See what a braggart you are," said the fox. "You throw your hatchet so far that you cannot get it back again."

project

This week, we need to form a group of 4 to do a project.
It's worth 40%, WOW, how important to me.
Keeping working!!!!
Hope I can get credit.

Second time

This is the second time I use blogger.
The first time is for IENV3000.
Any story, I will tell you later.
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