Week 7
For this week, we learnt about multimedia on the internet!
Very much like the image above, multimedia is not just any traditional form of media, rather it is a blend of media such as audio, images, video, animation; all of which adds interactivity and life. Not difficult to understand why it is also termed as "rich media".In fact, multimedia is all over! We use multimedia for our project presentations, for our own entertainment, and even for interaction among other users. Any website which uses not only words, but images or videos are considered multimedia. This blog, is a multimedia!
Other than multimedia, one interesting topic we touched on was on 'Kumo' vs Google.
Everyone knows about Google, but what exactly is Kumo?
Kumo is rumored to be the brand that Microsoft will be using as their search. It means "cloud" or "spider" in Japanese. Personally, I feel it will need a lot of work to compete against Google. Based on this article, it seems that this rebranding effort by Microsoft may just backfire instead as it may confuse users between Kumo and Live Search.
Although all great things have to begin somewhere small, thus, we shall wait and see how it progresses. As a consumer, it is definitely exciting to see companies coming up with new innovations competing with one another!
