Visualizing Culture and Those Who Are Different From a Communication Perspective

For my paper, I focused on Visualizing Culture and Those Who Are Different From a Communication Perspective. While writing my paper, I came across a really interesting project/application from National Geographic called The Genographic Project. The Atlas of the Human Journey section shows how cultures have spread. This might be interesting for those interested in tracing their ancestry. Hope everyone finds this as interesting as I did.

Facebook Event to submit Travel Application Ideas

I created a Facebook event to collect travel application ideas. Anyone can join and post there ideas. Please join the event Facebook Travel Application. If you could get some of your friends to participate that would be terrific. The more feedback I get, the better the end product will be. I appreciate everyone taking the time to post their ideas.

Interactive Tourism Application

Last week I wrote a long post about the reading, this week I decided to focus my post on our project. For my project I was originally planning on doing an interactive tourism environment that was almost game like. Then a few days ago, I read an article (the link is below) about Apple’s plan for their new tablet. It made me consider a few good points about creating the project. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Use resources that are available to you.
You should be filling a void in the market. I discovered through research there were environments that did exactly what I intended to do already available. Additionally, I discovered that Facebook doesn’t have any really good travel applications. The best one available is Going Places, which only has a few hundred users (less then 200 active users). Thus, creating an interactive travel application for Facebook would fill the void in the marketplace.
Products can have multiple uses. These uses can be from educational to fun. I realized that what I create should be interactive and fun while still having some educational value. Having a product with multiple uses will expand the market of people who would be interested in the product.

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