User talk:LeshedInstructor

Students' links to user pages

In this section please provide a link to your user page using the bullet format. Don't forget to sign your post and follow the talk page guidelines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lenwomp

• twr28 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Twr28 —Preceding undated comment added 02:57, 8 September 2011 (UTC).
• Lenwomp (talk) 19:18, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
• Cmb268 (talk) 19:18, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
• Akk53 (talk) 19:18, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
• Kprincisvalle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kprincisvalle 21:58, 6 September 2011
• BreakfastPancakes. (talk) 23:38, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• Anaccountforclass (talk) 06:08, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• Kjv4 (talk) 13:58, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• jlazoff(talk) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jlazoff 13:40, 7 September 2011
• ac667 (talk) 15:38, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• Circumloquent (talk) 15:48, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• cwitte949 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cwitte949 16:04, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• Brianb0511 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brianb0511Brianb0511 (talk) 20:14, 7 September 2011 (UTC
• DanielleSHammer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DanielleSHammer (talk) 16:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• Kwolf713 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kwolf713 (talk) 17:09, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• cusb09Cusb09 (talk) 21:17, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• T-Ravenous (talk) 21:29, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• stc62 (talk) 17:42, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• Dqmcmanus (talk) 03:03, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
• Dsullivan7 (talk) 21:52, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• atd42 (talk) 21:54, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• Nlw34 (talk) 22:11, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• Jlg5390 (talk) 22:13, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• Jwormser (talk) 22:35, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• breakfastlover (talk) 22:54, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• Jlynn21Jlynn21 (talk) 22:59, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• Ral41090 (talk 23:39, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• dwc86 (talk 19:44, 7 September 2011 (UTC) *
• Msackler (talk) 00:35, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
• Jasonmarder (talk) 00:44, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
• Jay3460 (talk) 01:00, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
• Laurensac (talk) 00:44, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
• Erina89 (talk) 01:55, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
• kbs54 --Nocturnalcaffeine (talk) 04:08, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
• kmacdonald4 (talk) 00:44, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
• jtemiller (talk) 02:52, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
• Nerak_kd63 (talk) 02:52, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
• Amonina (talk) 14:10, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
• Ejs296 (talk) 21:05, 8 September 2011
• bethjaco (talk) 21:05, 8 September 2011
• Amandahill23 (talk) 21:05, 8 September 2011
• hbw26 (talk) 24:03, 9 September 2011

--MPComm3460 (talk) 04:28, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Links to projects

In this section provide a paragraph explaining your project. It should include the article you will be writing/improving/expanding, a link to the article, and a justification and explanation of what you will include in your project. Also provide the names of the students working on this project and links to your Wikipedia user pages. Use the bullet list format.
By Tuesday 9/13, 1:25pm

(1) Bro Communities LaiYee Ho lh363, Lucio Leone lgl37

Our page: Bro (online subculture)

Our page under Lenwomp user page: Bro(online subculture)

We are creating a new wikipedia page for the emerging community of bros online such as Brobible and Brogramming. "Bros" have emerged as a counter culture in America and wikipedia currently does not cover it. We plan on creating a page that includes a general history of bros and then continues onto the evolution of new online cultures. Headlines include History, Stereotypes, Communies and more. --Lenwomp (talk) 03:29, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

(2) SlickDeals.net Katherine Verbeck kjv4, Jessica Shipman breakfastlover, Carolyn Chu anaccountforclass

We are planning on writing a page from scratch for slickdeals.net, an online deals site where you can find and post bargains and also communicate on the forums. All the deals are posted by other users and Slickdeals.net is a free sharing site. We are planning to include headlines such as, apart from the basic description, a History, Applications (phone, filters, alerts), Registration/Online Community/Blog, Types of Deals (personalized, hot topics, deal of the day, etc), and the Business Side of Slickdeals. breakfastlover (talk) 18:40, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

(3) Lamebook.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamebook Juliette Miller jtemiller (talk), Melissa Panasci mpcomm3460 (talk), Jasmine Wade jay3460 (talk)

We would like to expand and clean up the wikipedia page about Lamebook - in it's description, it describes itself as the "funniest and lamest of facebook." Users submit quotes, photographs, statuses, etc. which were posted by their friends on facebook. Lamebook does not require a user account. Within Lamebook, people like, dislike, comment, or share the submission through twitter, facebook, tumblr, linkedin, or other social networking sites (there are about 80 choices). The Wikipedia page currently contains complaints about inline citations, unsourced material, notability, additional citations needed, and disrupted neutrality. We would include headlines such as: "Legal Issues" (Lamebook has been in an ongoing law dispuit with Facebook for over a year, and it has just been settled), "Privacy" (they blur out the last name and photo of each person, yet people have still found themselves and complained), "History," and "Publications" (they are currently in the process of making a best of lamebook book which will be released in 2012). jtemiller (talk) 9:19, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

(4) "One Deal A Day" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_deal_a_day Beth Jacobs bethjaco, DanielleSHammer (talk) 21:07, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

We would like to expand the wikipedia page of the term "One Deal a Day", which is the overarching definition of the genre of websites of online deal sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial. Currently, this genre of websites is becoming very prominent in the online retail community. Like many students our age, we are both members of deal of the day websites. While terms such as "Groupon" and "LivingSocial" have very expansive Wikipedia pages we were surprised by how very little was written about the definition of explanation of the "Deal of the Day" genre. At the present time, the pages includes only limited information in the following sections: History, Online Forums, Newsletters and Reminders, Affiliates. Foremost, we would like to focus on the History section adding a timeline of when specific sites came about and noting trends of around what time they all started. Other sections we believe would be relevant are: genres (i.e. clothing, services, furniture, etc.), Structure of Sites/Process (do they tailor deals to individual preferences, is there a minimum number of users that have to purchase to redeem the deal), Demographics (age/gender/geographic location of users), Financial Aspect (current growth in stock market, recent IPO's etc.). There have been a lot of coverage on the topic and we do not foresee having a problem finding references. Finally, we'll spotlight the most successful Deal of the Day websites with their own section on the definition page. bethjaco (talk) 6:30, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

(5) "Cybercrime and Countermeasures" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercrime_and_Countermeasures Amanda Kushner akk53, Danny Sullivan Dsullivan7

We would like to expand the wikipedia page about cybercrime and its countermeasures. In particular, we wish to focus on identity theft and the detection of identity theft in social networks. As the page stands currently, the concept of identity theft is presented weakly. How does the U.S. government get around the privacy protection laws in order to track down identity thieves? In which ways can identity theft or fraud be committed? How does the government counteract identity theft and fraud? Which privacy protection laws strive to protect citizens against identity theft? These questions and more remain unanswered in the current Wikipedia page. Our goal is to answer these questions and fill in the gaps on the page surrounding identity theft and its countermeasures, given the current privacy protection laws. akk53 (talk) 11:10, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

(6) Google Catalogs - Mikel Giordano MikelG2012, Lauren Marx (Cusb09), Jen Herlihy (jlynn21)

Without a current Wikipedia Page for Google Catalogs, we hope to create a comprehensive profile that explains the intricacies of this new Google product that was launched this past summer. The page is currently under review. We want to focus on the history of the product, its current functionality, and what merchants/catalogs are currently represented within the app. Since Google has a particular page that is dedicated to all of its products, we want to link a content heavy page to this site to enhance the information that is already present. As this product evolves, it will be important to continually monitor and update the progress of the product. Currently, Google Catalogs is only available on the iPad, but will be moving to other devices in the coming months. As online shopping is moving to tablet devices, the growth of Google Catalogs will be quite interesting as it spreads across user platforms. MikelG2012 (talk) 14:20, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

(7) "ApartmentList.com" -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartmentlist New Page: Melissa Sackler Msackler (talk), Nicole Wolf Nlw34 (talk)

We would like to create a new article on Wikipedia about the tech start-up "ApartmentList.com." It is the web's first apartment matching engine, helping apartment hunters find the perfect home. It uses social networks and state-of-the-art matching technology to not only find users an apartment that fits their needs, but also potential roommates. This website aggregates listings from hundreds of apartment sites on the Internet. It then uses Facebook, Yelp and other social networking sites to personalize apartment recommendations. Users are asked a series of questions to further narrow their search. We think this article would be important an important addition to Wikipedia because it will inform Wikipedians about this collaborative apartment hunting engine. This website is different than any other typical listing website in that it offers collaborative features and allows users to use their social networks to find a home. Furthermore, as upcoming 2012 graduates we understand the necessity of efficient apartment hunting. We will include History of the website, background on the creators, a description of the various functions available to users, information about how to find apartments using this website, and information on its integration with social networks. Msackler (talk) 19:33, 12 September 2011 (UTC), Nlw34 (talk) 19:35, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

(8) "Online Fantasy Football" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Sports: Brian Billigen Brianb0511 Brianb0511 (talk) 20:03, 12 September 2011 (UTC) Tom Randall twr28

We are planning on building off the Yahoo! Sports page and adding information about Yahoo! Fantasy Sports, specifically football or starting a page from scratch on ESPN Fantasy sports. Fantasy Sports have increased in popularity exponentially in the past ten years, and have built a social network within itself. With both websites, you can either join a public league with other fantasy users or create a private league with your friends. You can communicate through ‘Smack Talk,’ which is basically a way to talk to other players in your league and you can live chat during an online draft where the teams are created. You can also create your own Avatar to represent you and your team. We are planning to have headlines that include History, Registration (which is free to anyone with a Yahoo! or ESPN account), Communication and Forums, Avatars, and the Differences between different sites. Brianb0511 (talk) 20:03, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

• Yahoo! Sports has a very small section on their Fantasy Sports page, so we will build off that section on the Yahoo! Sports page. Brianb0511 (talk) 17:52, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

(9) Weardrobe - Weili Shi circumloquent (talk), Katie Princisvalle Kprincisvalle (talk), Karli Scott Nocturnalcaffeine (talk)

We want to create a page for a community called weardrobe, one of the more prominent online street fashion websites that are designed to allow community members to post pictures of their outfits. Users can also comment on other people's photographs, create a virtual wardrobe based on pieces worn in their outfit posts, and submit outfits to be judged for community-wide contests, among other features. People use the site as inspiration for their own personal outfits, as well as a source for finding pieces that they really like (the site employs visual search technology that scans the Internet for items similar to the ones you select in fashion snapshots). People who post particularly well-liked outfits to the site can be chosen to become part of the "weardrobe 100", an annual compilation of the 100 best outfit photographs submitted to the site that year. Categories that we are considering having aside from the introduction include History (from its founding by Suzanne Xie through its acquisition by Like.com), Features (like the site aspects mentioned above), Trends (that community members follow; for example, many of them also run individual fashion blogs outside the site), and Community (including prominent members and community interaction, like weardrobe NYC conferences and meet-ups). circumloquent (talk) 17:20, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

(10) "Social Media Lab" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Media_Lab - Julien Wormser Jwormser (talk • contribs) Joshua Lazoff jlazoff(talk)

We plan on creating a new Wikipedia article dedicated to the Cornell's Social Media Lab. This lab being one of the Communication Department's primary research lab for undergraduate and graduate students focuses on how people interact in CMC and on online communities. On going studies include deception on the Facebook, analysis of Grindr profile pictures, and disclosure analysis on Facebook. We hope to give a short back background to lab itself, give brief bios of the prominent professors that work and have contributed to the lab, and detailed descriptions and links to past studies/findings that have been produced by the lab. Jwormser (talk) 19:20, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

(11) Zwinky.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwinky David Chase dwc86, Samantha Cheirif stc62

For our online community, we have chosen Zwinky.com. Zwinky.com is a website where users can create a social avatar for themselves, then dress this avatar, take it into other virtual worlds and interact with it on a virtual terrain. On the website, users can become a part of the community by interacting with other users in the virtual world of Zwinktopia, by playing games, and inhabiting the same digital space and time. Features of the site that keep users invested include Zcards, zbucks and zchievements, which are all incentives to use the game more frequently and accumulate rewards to use on the website. There are many other features of Zwinky.com that we will explore in the article, such as the advertisements on the website. Preliminary thoughts for categories in our article are: Avatar Creation, Zwinktopia (this includes the different worlds within Zwinktopia), Feedback, zCards (including payment, zbucks, etc.), Interaction with other social media (ex. linking to google plus, facebook, etc.) and Games. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwc86 (talk • contribs) 23:21, 12 September 2011 (UTC) Dwc86 (talk) 23:25, 12 September 2011 (UTC)* stc62 (talk) 17:42, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

(12) Blogosphere - Jenna Greenbaum jlg5390 (talk), Rebecca Lesser Ral41090 (talk), Candace Lucke Canluck (talk)

We would like to expand the article “Blogosphere,” detailing the history and proliferation of this community. The current Wikipedia article only contains a very brief history, and a small paragraph on tracking. We would like to expand on this history, including the basic origins of the blog (with link to the article of “blogs”) and the divergence between the individual blog and the network of blogs that developed. We will add a section detailing the “explosion” of the blogosphere (i.e. the period from 2003 to 2006, when the number of blogs had doubled every six months). In the next section, we will discuss how blogs have become interconnected through links between blogs and how these networks became a source of information (whether credible or not) on various subjects (from politics and fashion to sports and cooking). We will examine in greater depth the relationship of the blogosphere to media outlets, such as newspapers, magazines, and broadcast news. Finally, we will provide a list, with links, of prominent bloggers, blogs and blogging niches, as well as a discussion on how blogs can be differentiated from other online communities. Jlg5390 (talk) 01:35, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

(13) Allrecipes.com AllRecipes atd42 Alexandria DeVries kmacdonald4 Kelsey MacDonald

We will be creating a new wikipedia article for the website Allrecipes.com. Allrecipes.com encourages users to post, comment, and edit recipes. It also allows users to post blogs, vote on pictures, or receive awards based on recipes, blogs, or photos. Users become part of the community by reviewing and commenting on other people's food-related blogs and recipes. Users can post variations of recipes, share tips, and edit recipes. It is available in more than 10 different countries and in multiple languages. Sections included in our article are About The Website, History, How Users Access Information on the site, Privacy, The Buzz (main community part of the website), and others. atd42 (talk) kmacdonald4 (talk) 22:30, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

(14) Turntable.fm - Daniel McManus User:Dqmcmanus, Alvin Chiang User:Acsomeone25, and Eric S User:Ejs296

We are planning to expand the stub that currently exists about Turntable.fm, an online community in which users go into various "rooms" and take turns DJing to play songs and chat with friends and community members. The community is fairly new, but there is still plenty of information to add to the small article that is already there. First of all, we will add many more details in a section about what users actually do on the site and how it all works. Another section will give more information on the relatively short history of the website, discussing such topics as the creators and their background as well as the legality of the website and how it uses all the music. Unless it ends up needing its own section, part of this will include information about the investments Turntable.fm has received so far and its rising popularity over this past summer (with lots of interesting facts like how Kanye West and Lady Gaga invested). One more possible section can be about how both the website and the users can connect to and use various other social networks. Dqmcmanus (talk) 02:38, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

(15) Google + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B -- hbw26 (talk), Amandahill23 (talk), cwitte949

Google + is a social network launched by Google in June 2011. There is already a Wikipedia about Google +, but it is fairly outdated and includes inaccurate information. In our project, we will: provide more accurate and detailed descriptions of the product features, expand the “Growth” section, update the content under the “Reception” section, which is outdated and provide citations where needed (the article is currently missing 5 citations). hbw26 (talk), Amandahill23 (talk), cwitte949 22:25 12 September 2011 —Preceding undated comment added 03:25, 13 September 2011 (UTC).

(16) [| 8tracks] -- Jason Marder jasonmarder (talk), Katherine Wolfsthal kwolf713 (talk), Karen Daniels Nerak_kd63 (talk)

We are planning on creating an article for 8tracks, an innovative music community that, in short, combines some of the best elements of Facebook, Twitter, and Pandora, to create a highly personalized and intuitive internet radio solution. Registration is free, and once a part of the 8tracks community, members are encouraged to create their own playlists (of 8 songs or more, hence the name), browse the site and find existing playlists to enjoy, and find other users with similar musical tastes to “follow.” 8tracks also has the ability to sync with Google and Facebook contact lists in order to aid new users in building their community. We think this would be a great article to write because 8tracks’ popularity has been growing significantly since it was named to Time’s “50 Best Websites of 2011” List, it’s an extremely fun and user-friendly interface, and it’s a unique idea that we think more people should know about. Tentative sections of the article would be history/creation, usage, legal issues, press, and references/bibliography. Jasonmarder (talk) 03:39, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

(17) peoplofwalmart.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_Walmart#cite_note-telegraph-0 -- Lauren Sachvie Laurensac (talk), Clare Berner Cmb268 (talk)

These types of humorous websites have been popping up all over the Internet in the last five years and it will be interesting to not only look into what makes them popular, but expand on the information on the Wikipedia page. People of Walmart is a site where you can share humorous pictures, videos, or stories about your experiences at Walmart. When you look at pictures of the people who visit Walmart, you have the option of choosing which state they were taken in, what the most popular ones are, or which ones are the newest. There is an online store where you can buy clothes and mugs. Visitors can follow the website on other social media sites such as Facebook and twitter. 11:39, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

(18) SmashBoards (Smash World Forum)-- Noa Ikeda Erina89 (talk) 03:49, 13 September 2011 (UTC), Albert Monina Amonina (talk) 04:01, 13 September 2011 (UTC) , Rostislav Beltser BreakfastPancakes. (talk) 04:55, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

We are planning to create an article for smashboards.com, an online community based on forums discussing techniques, news, and professional players of the game Super Smash Bros. of all generations. It is a highly interactive website with a great sense of community. They share techniques that are not openly revealed in the actual game manual or promoted by the company. They are so called 'glitches' that create a very desirable outcome with certain difficult inputs. They also have idolized one single player who is considered pretty much God in smashboards.