Designer Tsunho Wang came up with this amazing camera concept which lets us take photos from an angle that’s really up to how the camera glides. Not to mention, the shutter is automated by face recognition technology.
I remember making straw or paper fly like this when I was a kid, but a camera?! Resolution should not matter in this case. Turn this concept into a reality please.
Credits: Yanko Design
In Social Media class today, Michael Netzley recommended a blog of a fellow classmate. Without hesitation, I googled ‘daryl smube’. Daryl is his name and I figured that he belonged to SMUBE based from his name card. Voila! His blog, Unique-Frequency, was right up there. In short, his blog focuses on media.
Daryl’s blog is now subscribed under my Google reader because after skimming through his entries, I found that we have similar interests: marketing, Godin, TED, web 2.0, etc. Better yet, he’s in the same school and class as me. As Michael likes to put it, this is an excellent example of “People Like Me”.
Based from his personal blog, I think that Daryl has been on the blogosphere for quite some time now. What he has done since early last year was to focus on a single topic: media. That’s smart because more people like me will start reading his blog as we find it useful and interesting.
With more than 20 entries in less than a month, there’s always something to look forward to in Unique-Frequency. Keep it up, Daryl.
I came across the article, 10 cool new technologies at DEMO 08, from NetworkWorld, and 4 of the 10 technologies mentioned are mobile phone applications. I’ve been really interested in the mobile space since the launch of the iPhone. I think Apple has really jump-started the world into better and faster mobile-related innovations. Even in today’s Digital Life from the Straits Times, the feature story highlights Google’s Android platform and Yahoo!’s Go 3.0. I just wished that services providers, especially here in Singapore, would drop their data plan prices significantly to enable mass usage of these mobile services without worrying about the costs.
I turned a year older today (a day and an hour and 30mins ago to be exact), and it was certainly different from the previous 21 birthday celebrations or at least the most recent ones that I can still clearly remember. Instead of having dinner out with my family or meeting up with the girlfriend and friends, I spent the day at home and alone. I decided to be productive today to hopefully check some stuff off my To-do list. I learned how to prioritize what I had to do (although there was the occasional Facebook checks and iTunes playing on the background). Here’s how I spent my 22nd birthday:
That’s about it.
Oh and I had leftover food for lunch and pizza delivered for dinner.
I haven’t had the time to write an entry since the new year (actually, I haven’t done much) because I did not get all the required courses for my last term of school. Not getting these courses would mean that I’d be spending another term in school (if I get my courses then). There was so much pressure from both my parents and my girlfriend that I kinda hate BOSS now. So for the system administrator or whoever is in-charge of BOSS, here are a few recommendations:
1. Give graduating students a separate window to bid: It’s our last term in school and we probably are trying to bid for courses to fulfill our degree. To avoid students knocking at the registrar’s office during the second week of the term, just give us a chance to bid for the courses we need to graduate. We surely cannot compete with exchange students who have 500 e-dollars. Having our own window to bid will ensure a fair bidding system between us graduates without having to compete with lower batches and the exchange students.
2 . Increase class size or add another instance of the course: I’m sure the administrators maintaining BOSS can view how many bidders are there for a course. If you see a lot more students bidding for a course exceeding its maximum number of seats, please follow recommendation number two. For Michael Netzley’s Social Media class, there were 20 people bidding for 2 seats. What do you expect the other 18 to do? I understand that this does not apply to all courses. This course in particular is just really popular. However, I think if there is high demand, they should at least increase the number of seats to accomodate students who are really interested in the course. Better yet, put up another class if the professor allows.
3. Take the students’ degree into consideration: Our school registrars always say that there are other courses to bid for just in case we don’t get our first choice. That’s fine until there are no other courses that are related to my degree. Why in the world would an Information Systems and Marketing student study the Philosophy of Social Science or other law courses? I don’t mind studying general courses such as language and basic economics courses. Just do not force us to take something that won’t help our career.
I hope your listening. It’s going to get worse once SMU reaches its maximum student population.
