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hey guys,

here is my end of the year final project, my website that i created for my Marketing 291 Plan for a new product or service. I had a lot of fun in this class this semester and the information i learned will bring me value in the future,

thanks,

GOR-DEEZY haha

http://www.users.muohio.edu/gordonm2/IMS/ims-finalwebsite.hmtl/IMiami.html

Marketing 291 Class

So for my Marketing 291 class we have to come up with a marketing plan for a new product or service and we chose the company apple and are going to introduce a new application for the IPhone and Miami Students. A little background on this application is that one just came out for Duke University that was created by the students at Duke. We were thinking of implementing their concept except with Miami. There is a survey that if you interested in this new application at the bottom of this post that I hope you will all fill out in an effort for my group to gather data and properly analyzed its potential growth and popularity.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/162803/report_tap_tap_revenge_is_iphones_most_popular_app.html

My article this week is about the IPhone's most popular application Tapulous's Tap Tap Revenge with 32 percent of iPhone owners having installed the game, followed by Stylem Media's Backgrounds at 27 percent and FlipSide 5's Touch Hockey: FS5 at 26 percent. Indeed, 12 of the 25 top installed applications were games, with the top non-game applications, aside from Backgrounds, being social networking clients like Facebook and MySpace. Many of the top applications are free including Tap Tap Revenge and Backgrounds with Namco's $6 Pac-Man being the top paid app on the list at fifth place.
ComScore is the company that has collected this information and has used its data to provide other information about iPhone application customers. For example,IPhone users are three times more likely than average Internet users to visit gaming Web sites and social network and entertainment sites like Twitter, Hulu, and Digg. The IPhone users also tend to be from wealthier households. Not a surprise there. The number of devices running iPhone applications is between 22 million and 23 million, which is close to three-quarters of the 30 million devices that Apple said it had sold at the end of 2008. These numbers just show you how far we have come from cellular devices to the ones we have presently. What is next?

Here is the survey, Thanks:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bivEdjdTpYWvAqwzaNvCZg_3d_3d

Five Technologies that Tim O'Reilly says point past Web 2.0

Tim O'Reilly is the co-founder of the Web 2.0 Conference and he gave a short speech on the 5th anniversary of the conference.He gave his insight of what he believes is to come for these applications that could thwart the 2.0 and excel past it. In his speech he compared the internet to a child and how it has grown from the foundations of search engines to where it is today. He believes that sensors will soon past the humans in front of the keyboard thus allowing Moore's Law to be applied to humanity's greatest problems.

1)The first application is Google voice on the I-phone. Google introduced a new application for users of the i-phone that allows the user to search not only by voice recognition but by the gesture recognition as well. The sensors activate as soon as you move the phone towards your face this technology is now being tested for computers so that keyboards will one day be extinct.
This technology is so impressive and advanced that it seems those sci-fi movies with the outrageous technology could actually be created one day.

2)The Computer Disk Database is a service that identifies CDs by looking at the unique fingerprint created by the duration of songs in any collection on a commercial music CD. It doesn't identify individual songs but rather analyzes the aggregate data on albums in order to identify the collection. This could be useful by being able to shuffle songs by different artists or songs. But what I would like to see is the application of Pandora the online music database where you type in a song or artist and not only does it bring that up but it also provides the user with similar artists or songs of that nature. If we could create that technology for the radio where you can put that in car it would great and people would spend less time searching through an ipod or changing CDs and the technology could be voice recognition it could decrease the amount of accidents due to stereo equipment.

3)AMEE has discovered that the energy fluctuations of home appliances are so unique that they can tell what make and model of refrigerator you have by the way it acts when the motor turns on. Then it can suggest a more energy efficient appliance.
AMME is a smart electrical grid company tracks energy use in customers' homes and offers all kinds of valuable information based on what they see.
This could help in reducing the number of fires that occur from furnaces, ovens and even offer information on how much life the appliance might have left. If we could come up with a device that can detect the energy being used we could conserve more of it by monitoring its frequencies.

4)NASA and CISCO unveiled plans last month to build what they call a Planetary skin of sensors to monitor global climate change. We can use this battle Moore's law and humanity's greatest problems. We could predict when storms come and monitor them giving the public the information to be prepared for whatever may come and come up with action plans in dealing with the weather that is occurring.

5) The IBM Smarter Planet project is a broad body of initiatives by IBM to integrate efficient technology into a wide variety of systems around the world. Much of it is public infrastructure work. Last week IBM announced that it would bring its channel partners into the Smarter Planet project as a major priority and that it will be sharing the huge amounts of data it collects through the initiatives with the channel partners as well.
By doing IBM, is allowing more people to think , create and offer advice on what we can do to better improve the technology that currently have. The advancement of technology has no limit, we can always make equipment better, faster, more durable and more portable.

At this conference it gives the great minds of our generation time to reflect on what the web has grown into and examine the potential growth for th future of our technology.

As long as we never give up or give in, the sky is the limit to the success we can have.

http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/04/01/01readwriteweb-five_applications_tim_oreilly_says_point_past_web.html

Making Sense of the 'semantic Web'

The "semantic Web" does not sound like it's fun or easy to use, but it could make surfing Web 3.0 a more rewarding and interactive experience for users. Some believe it could even lead to a new form of artificial intelligence. The idea behind this is to make things on the Internet be described with descriptor languages so that could computers can understand what they are.

The semantic Web is considered a key part of the upcoming "Web 3.0." It's starting to occur here and there, but widespread adoption is still a long way off. A pair of German researchers have created an experimental kiosk that lets you easily use semantic Web capabilities -- even if you have no idea what they are. All that is needed is an iPhone and a finger with which to drag icons around on the kiosk's touch screen.

The kiosk takes advantage of the fact that MP3 files are "things" that have already been described in ways that machines can understand. That's because they have ID3 tags, which supply information on the artist and album.

The idea is that their system can be used for quick and precise interaction with any rich semantic content. Real-world settings might include heavily trafficked places like airports or train stations, where they envision their kiosk ending up in the future.

This is a tool that could be the evolution of things to come and what our kids could be using in the future. I feel that this technology is growing by the day and is harder even kids my age are having difficulty being exposed to it all. Already my little sister knows how to use a PC like those commercials and I have trouble doing some of that stuff. If you cannot keep up with technology and its advances then I have a feeling you wont survive in the current economy.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/17/db.semanticweb/index.html#cnnSTCText

My Favorite Things :P

These are just a few of my favorite things, yeah whatttt

• Long walks on the beach


• entourage


• The color green


• Harry Potter


• Chicas, senoritas and margaritas

Copyrights

I included this journal article in my research because it describes a certain issue that is raised in the copyright regulations and infringement policies that concern the usage of the web site YouTube. The article presents the criticism of major record labels by the users of YouTube because the labels want their music content removed from the site. The author says the fair use rights claimed by these users are misconceptions of U.S. copyright law and the companies that are trying to find a business solution fair for everyone. The creation of home music and video editing software united with distribution power offered by YouTube has propelled a new generation of creative expression. Users are no longer satisfied with passively consuming entertainment but they want to put their own personal spin on it too. Restricting this usage would be a serious mistake for the music industry. People want to express themselves with their favorite artists combined with their own creativity; but should it come at a price is the question that the music industry is facing. This article was just published a month ago and is relative to my topic on the issue of where to draw the line between personal expression and copyright infringement. Should the users of such sites like YouTube be able to put whatever they want online even using songs in the backgrounds for free? I think it is an issue that needs to be examined more thoroughly to decide what is acceptable to be put on YouTube and other similar sites with the compensation of the artists’ work. I think that if the author included other sources that do the same as YouTube does then it would be more effective and more reliable, but to be honest I do not know any other websites like YouTube so it is hard to make a comparison. The article is more specified to media sharing than it does to copyrights but copyrights play an important role in the usage of YouTube.

Photoshop project

For this being the first time working with photoshop, I thought I did a good job exercising all of its utilities. My band name turned out to be bandit and i thought the quote came out to be quite reasonable as, "badly written and randomly enforced," sounds like an album name. The picture also seems to fit the band name really well with a a lone man in dark clothing walking in the rain is a great look for the album cover. It seems that he is carrying soemthing which could be implied to be hs music and how he will be randomly enforcing work to the people he meets.

I used the render lens flare to enhance the photo's lighting scheme of the picture. I then used the brush strokess too to make the photo look more like a painting than actually a photo. I think it entices the audience more and allows each viewe to form their own opinion of the band and their music. I then used the smart sharpen to outline the edges and shows more texture to the photo. I enjoyed using the photoshop tools, seemed easy to use.