Blog#6: wellnote

Hi!! I'm Akari Higuchi. Today, I'd like to introduce one of social media, wellnote. Wellnote is SNS specialized in a family and provides a place where a family can communicate. You can use it by only your family, so you have no hesitancy in putting your photos or comments on the site. There are mainly three functions in wellnote. First, you can share photos with your family in a moment, so you can watch them on real-time wherever you are. Also, photos were saved in your photo album automatically, so you don't have to file them. Second, you can tell your family that you are healthy by only clicking 'smile' mark. Of course, you send a message to your family, too. Third, you can get health information and popular column. Especially, the health information is distributed by more than 150 medical professions. Also, you can share the information with your family in a moment. SNS enabled to communicate with people in the whole world. But I think SNS is useful to contact your family and relatives living apart from you. So I think wellnote is the new state of SNS and such type of SNS will be needed more and more in the future!
If you want to know more information about wellnote, click here!

Blog#6: MySpace

Hi! This is Masako. Today, I'm going to introduce the "MySpace." Do you know this site? It is the social networking service managed by News Corporation. MySpace started in August 2003 in Beverly Hills in California. Until it was overtaken by Facebook in April 2008, it was the most famous social networking service in the world. Like Facebook, you can make the profile with the picture, and make the friends through the site, and you can enjoy exchanging information and chatting. It particular concentrates on the music and the video contents, but you can add all kinds of things such as the HTML and the picture to your page. You can keep in touch with all your MySpace friends by using the Email, the blogs, or the message every time. It is different from Facebook that anyone can see your profile without your permission. Of course, there is a privacy setting for your MySpace profile, but that means no one can see your profile. It's not the mainstream social networking service now, so most of its user is the professional musician, the amateur musician, and the indie, because they can exhibition their own music. If you like music, and if you want to communicate with these kinds of the musicians, please try to check MySpace!

This is the official web site of MySpace.
You can change the language, so if you want to read the page in English, please change the setting.

He is the founder of  the MySpace.
If you interested in MySpace, try to check it.

Blog#6: LinkedIn

Hi! I'm Tomoko. Today, I would like to introduce social media, 'LinkedIn'. Do you know it? It is a social networking site for businessmen. It is used by a hundred and sixty million people in over two hundred countries. Many people can find new jobs,  build their network, discover advertisements for help that they are interested in and seize chances that they can succeed in business. For example, if you meet a stranger,
you don't know about him or her. Then, when you want to know him or her, it is difficult to know his or her profile in detail with other SNS. For instance, Users want to know what jobs the person do as a proffesional. So, many people who know 'LinkedIn' use it, research the person's career, know him or her,contact the person on 'LinkedIn' and join hands in business.
If you want to know about 'LinkedIn', please click here.
You can also know abou 'LinkedIn' in detail on YouTube.

Blog#6: Japanese culture, "Manga"

 Hi, I'm Megumi. Today, I'll introduce about Manga. Manga is comic in English. These days, Japanese Manga is getting popular all over the world. So "manga" represents only Japanese Manga. Manga's history is considered from Edo era. But at first, Manga meant a funny sketch just like a Hokusai Katsushika's sketch. In Showa era, today's Japanese Manga style has established.  Japanese manga's characteristic is an onomatopoetic words are often used in it.

By the way, do you know the most famous manga in the world??  It is "ONE-PIECE. " as you know, It's a Japanese manga. Its translated version has published over 30 countries and broadcasted over 40 countries.

 If you are interested in this Manga, you should visit here.

Blog#5: Dancing house

Hi!! I'm Megumi. Today I'll introduce "Dancing house". It is located in Prague. The building was designed in1992 and completed in1996. The official name is "Nationale-Naderlanden building". As you see, the shape of building is so interesting. Do you know what does it stand for??........It stand for a pair of dancers. The curved building stands for dancing woman. The very non -traditional design give rise to discussion at first. 

It is used as an office building and it is not open to public. 

The dancing shape is supported by 99 concrete panels.

This is the video of dancing house !! If you are interested in this building, check this video!!

Blog#5:The Lou Ruvo Center

Hi, I'm Moe. I'd like to introduce Frank Gehry's latest project, Lou Rubo center in Las Vegas, which  is a clinic for brain health. It opened on July, 2009. I was surprized that this building is for a clinic because the design is too dynamic for a clinic. Frank Gehry said that these complex constructions mean the structure of  human brain.

                                        
                                       
The most interesting charasteristic of this building is that there are "two wings", that is, the building is separated to two parts of structures.

If you want to know the building more, please watch this movie.

                                           

Blog#5: Ray and Maria Stata Center

          Hi! I'm Akari Higuchi. Today, I'd like to introduce my favorite architecture in the works of Frank Gehry. My favorite one is the Ray and Maria Stata Center. Surprisingly, it's located on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in the U.S. and used as an computer science laboratories and classrooms! The construction started in March 2000 and opened on 16 March 2004. The scale of the center is 713,000-square-foot and it includes five classes of 11,000 square-foot and 625 seats. There are not only classrooms, but also a food court, fitness center and swimming pool. When I saw the building in the first time, I thought it seems a building in a fantasy because its shape is unusual! Don't you think the shape and colors are so cute? I think my school life will become more enjoyable if my university would be such a design!


These pictures  are the exterior and interior of the Stata Center!

If you are interested in this building, click here!

You can see it in the video, too!