The document discusses user-generated content (UGC) and modern media. It defines UGC as content created and uploaded by non-media professionals. Examples of modern media categories that often feature UGC are given, including blogs, wikis, social networks, photo/video sharing, and slide sharing platforms. Specific popular sites are listed for each category, such as Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. Both benefits and drawbacks of UGC are mentioned.

1. Lakshan Senanayake BIT/09/C1/022
Sachini Dias BIT/09/C1/048
Aruna De Silva BIT/09/C1/077
Dasun Eranthika BIT/09/C1/099
Malith Wanasinghe BIT/09/C1/122

2. • What is user generated content?
• What is modern media?
• Examples for UGC
• Modern media Categories
• Blogs
– The huffington post
– Mashable
• Wikis
– Wikipedia
– Answers.com
– Wikia
• Social Networks
– Facebook
– Twitter
– Google plus
• Photo & Video Sharing
– Flickr
– You tube
• The Pirate Bay
• Slide share
• Benefits of UGC
• Bad side of the UGC
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3. • any material
• created and uploaded to the Internet by non-
media professionals
• One of the fastest growing forms of content
on the Internet.
• Web 2.0
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4. • eMarketer projects says number of US User-
Generated Content creators in,
EMarketer, “User-Generated Content: In Pursuit of Ad Dollars” April 2008 4

5. EMarketer, “User-Generated Content: In Pursuit of Ad Dollars” April 2008
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6. • User comments on Amazon
• Professional-quality video uploaded to
YouTube
• Student’s profile on facebook
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7. • “Modern” tools which use to store and
deliver information or data among people.
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8. Blogs Wikis Social Network Photosharing
Huffingtonpost.com Wikipedia Facebook Flickr
Mushable! Wikia Twitter Imgur
Tech Crunch Wikiversity Google+ Twitpic
My space Tublr
Video-Sharing Other
You Tube Amazon
Dailymotion The Pirate Bay
Vimeo Slideshare
Gamespot
*There are more modern media categories. But we insert must UGC enrolling categories only
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9. • Blogs are create by users
• Content about their ideas and through they
give some message to the society.
• Followers can give comments for the post
• Need a platform to create a blog(blogger,
wordpress etc.)
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10. www.huffingtonpost.com
• American based news blog
• Provide news about political, entrainment,
comedy etc.
• Users can read posts
• Now its like a news site
Ariana Huffington
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11. Mashable.com
• Tech blog
• Focus on Social media news, mobile,
entertainment, technology & gadgets etc.
• 2+ millions twitter followers & 425000+ fb
fans-February, 2011
• Users can read post, give comments & share
with social networks.
Pete Cashmore
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12. • Users provides articles & they modify it.
• Can write/modify any number of articles
• Powered by wiki software
• Knowledge management system
Old days
• Old days users have to read professionals articles
• Can’t modify
• Accept true or false
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13. www.wikipedia.org
• Multilingual web-based encyclopedia
• 19.8+ million articles
• Anyone can edit any article
• 90,000 regular active contributors
• Rank articles
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14. • Internet based knowledge exchange
• User can create an account
• Ask Questions & Give to other users
questions
• If you ask a question it tries to give answers
using their articles
Bob Rosenschein
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15. www.wikia.com
• Free web hosting service for wikis
• Read & edit
• Profitable Organization
Gil Penchina
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16. • Social structures
• Connect with other one or more people
• Friendship, common interest & knowledge
etc.
Old days
• Interconnected network among office,
universities
• Others can’t access it
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17. www.facebook.com
• Most famous social network
• 800+ million active users- July,2011
• Users can create a personal profile
• Add other users as Friends
• Update profile, status, images and videos etc.
• Can join groups if you like
Mark Zuckerberg
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19. www.twitter.com
• Social network and micro-blogging
• Enable to send and read text-based post Upto
140 characters (Tweets)
• 200+ million users
• Allow users to create profiles
• Update, tweets, follows etc.
Jack Dorsey
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20. Plus.google.com
• Newest Social Network operated by Google
Inc.
• Users should be 18+
• Hit 10 million after launching 2 weeks
• Circles, Hangout and Sparks etc.
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21. • Share User’s images online
• Publically or Privately
• Others can comment it.
Old days
• Watch the image in web can’t upload or
comment
• No proper way to watch videos
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22. www.flickr.com
• Popular for Image hosting
• 6+ billion images hosts-August, 2011
• Most of bloggers use this
• Users can create account and share images
• Without an account anyone can view images
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23. www.youtube.com
• Most famous Video sharing site
• Users can share videos, like/dislike it &
comment it.
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim
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24. • Host magnet link & torrent file
• Users allows to share any electronic files via
bit torrent
• 5+ million users & 3.5+ million torrent files-
August, 2011
• “One of the world's largest facilitators of
illegal downloading”-Los Angeles Times
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25. • Users can upload slides privately or publically
• Power point, PDF, keynote & open office
• 16+ million registered users-August,2011
http://www.slideshare.net/misteroo/apple-study-8-easy-steps-to-beat-microsoft-and-google
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26. • Increases “rich media content”
• Increase Page Ranking of Search Engines
• Provide trustworthy
• Increase browsing time
• Share Knowledge
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27. • Copy rights violation(torrents, videos,images)
• Add images to insult, harm someone
• Some blogs insult races, religions
• Contain porn (images,videos)
• Give negative comments to cheat
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.113634596935.97722.109181601935&type=3
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28. • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/quarry-shooting_n_996041.html
• http://mashable.com/2011/10/05/samsung-iphone-4s-france-italy/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstin
• http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dark_Knight
• http://www.facebook.com/gayeshaMSL
• http://twitter.com/#!/SrBachchan
• https://plus.google.com/106249732534012792360/posts?hl=en
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhanushka26/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhanushka26/sets/72157624057528442/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug88888/5942514494/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
• http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6647873/Avatar.3D.2009.PANASONIC.EXCLUSIVE.1080p.BluRay.ISO
• http://www.slideshare.net/misteroo/apple-study-8-easy-steps-to-beat-microsoft-and-google
• http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.113634596935.97722.109181601935&type=3
• http://www.alexa.com/
• http://www.penn-olson.com/2010/05/16/understanding-the-modern-media-consumer-infographic/
* All the references appears in this page are working correctly until last we
checked at 4.00am on 6th October, 2011
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29. “This Revolution has both good & bad sides,
Make sure to choose the correct side”
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