The Next New Thing

Technology is growing and changing very fast. There maybe new inventions everyday but we may not know it because it could be the low demand or something that didn't became popular. Something i have in mind is a local private network for mobile where we can connect easily and share things easily. It is something similar a many connection bluetooth but this one we can do more than bluetooth and faster. These networks are created by one mobile phone and can be created as public network or private network. Connectors can play games, share files, create chat group, etc. and the network is limited to about 250 feet. Except for socializing tool, this can also serve as a tool for work place. For example employee within a building can easily reach each other without have to wait for the phone to ring or when the person is out of the table.

P2P File Sharing

P2P stand for peer to peer and it is a computing network where each computer can act as a client or server to send or receive data. People can share any kind of files through p2p like there is no limitation. Some of the most famous p2p application are bitTorrent and Foxy . According to the article "The bittorrent effect" bitTorrent is one of the most successful p2p application out there and about 1/3 of the internet data sent is by bitTorrent. Lots of illegal activity are done through p2p such as sharing movies, copyright material and private files.

Privacy & Confidentiality

Privacy has been an issue for new media, because all the information posted on the web are public so many information can be found on the web. More and more people are posting information on the web and people liked to share something about themselves so all of these information are open to everyone. For example Twitter allows you to share your location so people surrounding the location can see where you located and similarly Facebook also share location of the person by using something called tag.
But as the issue became bigger, company like Facebook tried to add new features such as sharing information to limited people or having the option to deny the right to share the info.

Advice to Baruch College

I believe Baruch College should put more effort in expanding their new media network. For example Baruch sent out lots of email each day to notify students and faculty about upcoming events and current news but most of the student probably spent most time on Facebook, twitter, or something similar so it may be more effective in communicating with students.
One thing I think Baruch should have is a notification program for class registration such as when all the seats for a class  is filled then a student can sign up for alert when there is opening through twitter. Baruch actually does have a system like this but communication is done through email and the system is not fully functional.