Gaming Wikis

The video gaming world has become a realm that the average individual cannot likely understand. Users become completely infatuated and consumed by the world and game created for their enjoyment. There are endless gaming wikis available online for active users and even the motivated user that is interested in creating their own video game. One for example, Wikia gaming, allows the gamer to be interactive, as well gives the gamer access to Action, Adventure, Blogging,Shooters, Simulations
,Game Industry, Fighting,,and Racing Strategy. All the games are free and once the gamer is finished they have access to an active so they communicate with all of their other gamers.
Another product on the shelves that has revolutionized the game world is FPS Creator software. This software, which I read about on their wiki, is a commercial application that allows inexperienced or experienced users to efficiently make new games very quickly without any programming. The wiki describes its efficiency in saying, "FPS Creator uses a drag-and-drop system in which the user can select entities such as walls, floors, ceilings, doors and windows to create a level. This level can then be populated by entities such as furniture, desk objects, enemies, weapons and pick-ups. Light-markers can be used to place lights of which the color and range can be defined, and true light mapping has recently become available with a newly integrated tool created by the same developers." This site is ahead of its time and will lead to many new emerging video games in the future. The video game world, which was always interactive, has become even more so now that users can communicate while playing with one another and discuss the game on blogs or chats, even though users are probably living across the country. Wikis available about gaming sites allow people that are interested to quickly access information and get involved with barely any experience with the gaming world. Wikis are a fast and (at times) can be an accurate representation of efficient digital information.

Privacy Concerns Unveiled

Most of our discussions in the past months have surrounded growing criticisms of privacy issues and concerns that surround social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. While browsing through new technologies in a section of the \ (New York Times), I came across this article about a ongoing murder trial that has been followed by many twitter users inside the courtroom. This could be detrimental activity before a trial has been closed. Was this one of the intentions that twitter creators envisioned for their product?

Privacy Concerns

During class this week in New Media studies, we have been discussing the many privacy concerns that people should be aware of when using social networks and location sharing programs. I personally had never fathomed the potential ramifications for giving to much information online on my facebook page before taking this class. After reading all the class readings, I could not help but ask myself if our generation is too open with the kind of information we make public online without any consideration of the future consequences and if this "shameless attitude" will end up haunting us when we are all adults out in the business world. Although, I find location sharing to be an interesting internet technology, I have always thought that it is a little bit narcissistic. Why does our society think it is normal to be constantly concerned with where other people are? And why do people assume that other people are always worrying where they personally are? It almost seems vain to be constantly updating the status of where one is at every given moment of the day.
Privacy boundaries have started to become extremely blurry these days due to the emersion of recent internet technologies. Is internet activity ever considered a safe or private experience? The answer is no, everything can be replicated with only one click. I found it extremely alarming that even our browser history can be accessed easily. I read an article in a computer magazine discussing this invasion of privacy and how the user must disable the manager history by clearing it and using a few other tips suggested by technicians. Firefox provides a website of tips aiding any user in protecting their privacy and browser history.

(http://malektips.com/mozilla_firefox_-_security_and_privacy_help_and_tips.html)