Thanks to new media we can expand our knowledge,on Internet we can find everything,young people with a great originality could be found fortune and wealth as well. This the case of the website “ The Million Dollar Homepage”. The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a URL to which the images were linked, and a slogan to be displayed when hovering a cursor over the link. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator. The Wall Street Journal has commented that the site inspired other websites that sell pixels. Launched on 26 August 2005, the website became an Internet phenomenon. The Alex ranking of web traffic peaked at around 127; as of 18 December 2009, it is 35,983. On 1 January 2006, the final 1,000 pixels were put up for auction on eBay. The auction closed on 11 January with a winning bid of $38,100 that brought the final tally to $1,037,100 in gross income. During the January 2006 auction, the website was subject to a distributed denial-of-service attack and ransom demand, which left it inaccessible to visitors for a week while its security system was upgraded. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Wiltshire Constabulary investigated the attack and extortion attempt.
"From the outset I knew the idea had potential, but it was one of those things that could have gone either way. My thinking was I had nothing to lose (apart from the 50 Euros or so it cost to register the domain and setup the hosting). I knew that the idea was quirky enough to create interest ... The Internet is a very powerful medium."
Alex Tew, 22 February 2006.
There are other examples that we could cite, not so much in wealth but to exploit its own originality and attention to new media in their favor. Perhaps the best example we can cite is the video "Where The Hell Is Matt?" . Matt Harding has filmed a video in a few months has been seen by millions of people and is famous enough to merit an article in The New York Times. Matt one day decided to give up work, commitment, comfort, in short, everything to go around the world. Matt Harding, has done something more, however, decided to make it public on the internet its a little celebratory ritual which originated tribal dance. Matt has not underestimate the fact that the dance even though dilapidated and not comparable to any style is contagious as yawns. The dance, as they know the dance clubs around the world and even the Yanomami, a society of hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists living in the north of the Amazon rainforest, is a highly social activity.Matt has created a small video originally published on Vimeo, and then on YouTube. Some well-informed music video was commissioned by the same Matt. In addition, Matt was also found a sponsor Stride, a company that makes chewing gum.Summing up what we have? A good example of user-generated content, which uses a Social Media is able in order to make a viral video. The viral video was spotted by a brand that has finally decided to follow in the footsteps of Matt sponsoring the trip. So we can say that:
a) the User Generated Content is alive and well and can produce quality results especially if you have some form of cooperation between the authors as has happened in this case.
b) The Socia Media are essential for viral videos. This blog is a social media, less powerful than others, but still a Social Media.
c) The most effective viral videos are full of spontaneous passion. Building a table a viral video is very difficult because you need a good dose of creativity and spontaneity.
d) Brand intelligent people know that we must monitor the network for phenomena funny,interesting and that may in any way exploit, appreciate and understand. Stride has not made the video but has only put his hat on the journey of Matt before they do others. What is the effect of this choice? I did not even know existed Stride brand of tires and I think even you. Now you know. Pierre Levy in the "Collective Intelligence" said that when we are on-line, we want to learn, play and communicate with one another rather than to make money. Above all, we want to participate within the "collective intelligence" and i think this is the case of Matt.
And now that the dance begin!
The World Wide Web is an inexhaustible source of discoveries,we can find anything and it is thanks to this incredible media that people could create stories true or false and see how people believe and help to expand these stories in the web. An example of this could be the story of John Titor. I knew about this argument thanks to online encyclopedias, such as Wikipedia. Vannevar Bush in "As May We Think" believed people would create links between related articles, thus mapping the thought process and path of each user and saving it for others to experience. Wikipedia is one example of how this vision has been realized, allowing users to link words to other related topics, while browser user history maps the trails of the various possible paths of interaction.
"Time Traveller" ... in a forum or a chat might well seem a common nickname of a fan of science fiction and time travel. Actually this nickname with a man named John Titor came in precisely on November 2, 2000, in a U.S. forum claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036 and coming back in time to the distant 1975 in order to retrieve an IBM 5100. He said that this particular computer was important because of special skills unknown to all but the same engineers at IBM. In practice it would be able to translate languages, UNIX, APL and BASIC with each other. This particular model would be indispensable to the people of his time since around 2036, the year of its origin, a bug should hit the UNIX rendering useless many machines working with the old IBM technology. Of course no one believed him initially believing that his were just the ravings of a madman or a prankster who only wanted to joke a bit . But as the days passed, noting that discussions were supported by Titor quite interesting and detailed above, many were convinced that this mysterious person came in earnest from 2036. As happens in such cases, however, discussions of John Titor divided public opinion into two distinct and separate, we call them "believers" and "non-believers", if possible, and skeptics.
Who of us has not dreamed of traveling through time? However, discussions of Titor were not devoid of logic or scientific rigor, I would say that was very plausible. Before you take one side or the other should analyze different points on John Titor. First, the name John Titor is, according to his statements, his real name. He says he was born in Florida, exactly in the city of Tampa, in 1998. But after careful research demonstrates that Titor was living in Tampa at the time and this detail might lead one to believe that it was only a joke. Many other details instead fueled the idea that his story was true. One of these details is the precise and accurate description of how his time machine, that Titor called C204,course description with photo and leave on the same projects Titor and deemed authentic by several experts.
He said that the means used to mount the time machine was a '66 Corvette, I retrieved a photo of that model to compare with the one representing the laser beam from left Titorand matches. John Titor said that within 18 months the CERN ( European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva will undertake some studies on electromagnetic fields and also the holes on gravitational blacks, experiments conducted to assess the possibility of faster transport. While some of these experiments, he said, scientists accidentally create a small black hole. Differently than you might imagine, this small black hole will not absorb all the matter in its vicinity (in this case the entire solar system) but on the contrary, scientists at CERN using an electromagnetic field ( in the center there is the largest particle accelerator in the world) will help curb the size and, over time, creating holes blacks voluntarily, and even larger sizes. This will make it possible to time travel.
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"Project of John Titor's time machine" |
At the end of 2001, after about a year from what he had said Titor, CERN officially confirmed the possibility of creating artificially of mini blacks holes. Titor also said what should happen in the near future. Talk about a civil war that would erupt in the United States (war in December 2005 but not yet the case), its role as a "partisan" at age 14 in 2011 and many other events that will occur between now and 2036 . Another point in its favor would be the real capacity, described by Titor, IBM 5100. Capacity confirmed by the engineers of IBM. At that time, certainly before the current war in Iraq, said that a war will be waged under the pretext of removing alleged weapons of mass destruction possessed by Saddam Hussein ever ... This should lead us to believe that Titor was telling the truth, would never have known ifshe had not experienced first hand, since the year before that happens he says seriously.
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"Pictures of John Titor's time machine" |
In the spring of 2001 John Titor greeted all to return in the year 2036 and he never heard from again.
The end point is its perfect preparation in physics, it exhibits very complex topics with such mastery that it seems incredible. Now will be the events to confirm whether or not what he said is the truth or just another hoax of the century (remember that on theinternet have been many cases of practical jokes, take for example the case "Ianezna",the alleged alien). What we are left in the hands of the various documents that are only Titor left as evidence of what he said.
Reffering to Transemedia Story Telling by Henry Jenkins we can said that transmedia stories are based not on individual characters (John Titor) or specific plots but rather complex fictional worlds which can sustain multiple interrelated characters (all the people who read and commented Titor's blog) and their stories. This process of world-building encourages an encyclopedic impulse in both readers and writers. We are drawn to master what can be known about a world which always expands beyond our grasp (In this case could be the future world). This is a very different pleasure than we associate with the closure found in most classically constructed narratives, where we expect to leave the theatre knowing everything that is required to make sense of a particular story.
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