Annotated Bibliography-WEB

"AppData - Facebook application leaderboards, charts, and metrics."  AppData - Facebook application leaderboards, charts, and metrics. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 July 2011. <http://www.appdata.com/>.

AppData is a statistics website for Facebook applications which including the leaderboards of application, developer, top gainer, reports of application, developer, comparison apps, and personal alerts and feeds of Facebook application information. Through this website, the user can get the newest information and statistics of Facebook which are indispensable for developing applications on Facebook, and the user can understand the trends of Facebook users’ habits and preferences. Also, AppData has a pro vision that has more detail information for each application, such as daily and historical stats applications tracking, developers’ strategy and growth, pinpoint market opportunity, and receiving all the data of tracking information. Additionally, appData got a new iOS application category now, and the feature of iOS app is the same with Facebook app which give more information for the users.  

"Activism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 July 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activism>.

Wikipedia is a website that allows people to edit and add new knowledge which is bases on interlinked web pages and using simplified markup language. However, the information on wiki might not be 100% corrected or professional because they might involve subjective, and the information might not verify.  I often use wiki for basic or quick concepts and references. Another advantage of wiki is multilingual that is the most important element for me because of the language proficiency and the use of proper noun. There are many cultural differences and cognitive between different countries. Even English is the first foreign language in my country, but there are new terminologies come up at any time. Through wiki, I can have basic understanding for the “words.” For example, Activism is an important concept for my thesis, but it is hard to explain in Chinese because we don’t have a particular word in Chinese, so I couldn’t illustrate what Activism in my head when the first I heard about it. After using wiki and got the references of Activism, I started made association with it.

"台灣部落格協會." Taiwan Bloggers Assocation. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 July 2011. <http://tba.tw/>.

TBA, a blogger association, which was developed by many famous Taiwanese bloggers who are aims to welfare and prosperity for the association’s culture values which forcing on social issues researching and developing. The purpose of this association is “promoting reading and writing blogs, defending freedom of expression, and to ensure the sovereignty of Taiwan.” The digital media that TBA uses including YouTube, website, blogs, and social networking websites, like Facebook, Plurk and twitter, are the beneficial too speech up globally through the power of internet. Also, TBA becomes a shield for protecting freedom of voice of people. The website always hacked because of the censorship no matter the attacks are from local or other countries. The most interesting feature of TBA is the grievances map which using google map to points the problems and issues that Taiwanese people having, and the problems that government wants to cover, and it also warm people to pay more attention on things that are happening around. For example, there are some abandoned public facilities that cause dangers and wasting taxes, but every just ignore about the problems. Through the visual performance on google map, people can realize that how close they live with dangers and what cause problems for their daily