...INSTAGRAM Story of the innovation Instagram, as a free online photo sharing application with unique filters and social media networking opportunities, has first been launched by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in October 6, 2010 on Apple’s App Store. The development of the application first began in San Francisco Silicon Valley, with the attempt of the creators to launch the service application using their HTML5 mobile web application knowledge which they have first started through a check-in project named Brbn. With the inspiration the two owners got from their observations through Brbn that people would actually tend to share more photos on online applications, they decided to evolve the idea into a more specialized and innovative one, which is Instagram. The mobile photography application was first started on launch, with the seed funding $500.000 which was once provided by Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz in March 2010 while the owners were working for Brbn. Starting from November 2010 after the launch of the application on Apple’s App Store, new employees as community manager, engineers and community evangelist were started to be hired for the Instagram project, which has become a company by then. It is stated by the owners that it took only 8 weeks to build and ship Instagram, however, it was a product of a year of work. The co-founders were at working for Brbn at the beginning of their idea generation and innovation stage, which was giving the service of being...
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...strict list of rules he would be living upon in next several weeks before leaving for the camp. Within one day, his postings began spreading among blogosphere, provoking a political demonstrating, a state investigation and international new coverage eventually (Tremayne, 2007). The impact of the experience on him remains unclear, but the whole event suggests that the power and dominance of blog in transmission of information and message are evidence comparing with the pre-blog era, in which his story unlikely spreads out further than the circle of his family and friends. According to Gunn and Brummett (2004), among communication studies scholars, “popular communication concerns the study of objects that are widely circulated by means of mass media” (p. 708). In early time, the most popular objects of analysis were radio, television, advertisements and films. However, along with the Internet matures and becomes essential in people’s daily life, new types of popular communication medium gradually penetrate every corner in the world, such as weblog, e-mail, MSN, Facebook, Twitter and so forth. Weblogs, first introduced by Turnbull in 1999 as “the latest internet craze” in The Scotsman’s, have become one of the most popular communication tools, providing people a window to get into others’ life and making it a truly interactive, two-way communication form by which...
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...Behavioural Finance Topic 10 What it is: * Relatively new and controversial area in the study of finance. * Orthodox finance theory is based on a representative agent that is a rational utility ‘maximiser’ who makes unbiased forecasts about the future. * BF expands the attributes allowed for this representative, replacing the ‘rational’ agent with a ‘normal’ person who is susceptible to a range of cognitive illusions. How and why it began: * The idea that psychological factors may play a role in financial markets, as opposed to mant theorist have always known that less than rational behaviour has been a dominating feature of markets. * This counter act the rational utility maximising representative agent. Dividends: the dividend policy could be completely irrelevant to its share price. This can be shown with an example that if firm A was to pay a large dividene then its retained earnings fall. However if B paid a larger amount then the retainbed earnings is correspondingly higher. Which ever way you go the if the capitalisation is the same than the market will force the price up on the larger dividend company. Trading Volumes: Orthodox models of financial markets imply that there should be little trading in financial assets. The reason for this is that in a world that is rational why would anyone be selling an asset unless they had some information to suggest that they should – and if so, why would anyone else want to buy? Of course, some trading will...
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...HVAC Design for Cleanroom Facilities Course No: M06-008 Credit: 6 PDH A. Bhatia Continuing Education and Development, Inc. 9 Greyridge Farm Court Stony Point, NY 10980 P: (877) 322-5800 F: (877) 322-4774 info@cedengineering.com HVAC FOR CLEANROOM FACILITIES Indoor air quality is of paramount importance for human comfort and health. Air, whether it is from outside or re-circulated within the area, acts as a vehicle for airborne contaminants brought in by the movement of people, material, etc. Since many of these airborne contaminants are harmful either to products or people working in such environments their removal is necessary on medical, legal, social or financial grounds. Cleanrooms are specially constructed, environmentally controlled enclosed spaces where the concentration of airborne particles (contaminants) is kept within specified limits. In industry, cleanrooms are used in the manufacturing of electronic hardware such as integrated circuits (ICs) and hard drives. In biotechnology and medicine, cleanrooms are used when it is necessary to ensure an environment free of bacteria, viruses, or other pathogens. Four fundamental rules apply to cleanrooms. 1) First, contaminants must not be introduced into the controlled environment from the outside. 2) Second, the apparatus or equipment within the controlled environment must not generate or otherwise give rise to contaminants (for example as a result of friction, chemical reactions, or biological processes). 3) Third...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form full version Pran Essay Pran Category: Business Autor: jessica85 05 April 2010 Words: 4938 | Pages: 20 We would like to thank our faculty Ameer Yusuf Khan for his splendid support and guideline during our completion of this report. We are grateful for the patience and the time he gave us to solve the problems we faced in making the project. We would also like to express our gratitude to the management and all the individuals of PRAN Group who have taken part by assisting us with details on their company, especially to Mr. Chowdhry Kamruzzaman Kamal who is the General Manager (PRAN Sales-Marketing) of PRAN Group. He helped us a lot by giving his valuable time and lots of information which was very essential for us to make our project a superior one. We would also like to take the opportunity to thank our families, friends and classmates for being so generous, friendly and helpful and assisting us with both major and minor details. We in Bangladesh are blessed with a climate ideally suited to agriculture, specially fruits and vegetables-rich in taste and flavor: sweet, mellow and juicy. Our deltaic plains are among the most fertile in the world created and drained by the mighty rivers-the Padma, Jamuna & Meghna. There is plenty of water. And farming is a way of life to our people. Our comparative advantage as an economy lies in agriculture. We believe the way to economic...
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...authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of UNESCO or its Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace. Preface As stated in its Constitution, UNESCO is dedicated to “Promoting the free flow of ideas by word and image”. Part of this mission, therefore, is to promote freedom of expression and freedom of the press through sensitization and monitoring activities, as a central element in building strong democracies, contributing to good governance, promoting civic participation and the rule of law, and encouraging human development and security. Media independence and pluralism are fostered by the Organization, providing advisory services on media legislation and sensitizing governments and parliamentarians, as well as civil society and relevant professional associations. However, UNESCO recognizes that the principle of freedom of expression must apply not only to traditional media, but also to the Internet. Providing an unprecedented volume of resources for information and knowledge, the Internet opens up new opportunities for expression and participation and holds enormous potential for development. This comprehensive research publication examines the changing legal and regulatory ecology that has shaped the Internet over the years. The researchwas...
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...Film260 Week 2: iFriends Professor Sydney Matrix May 12, 2013 Lecture Notes Friendship in the Age of Social Media * 7 out of 10 people use social media (this hasn’t changed in 2 years) * 7 out of 10 facebookers check it every day * Many people say they’re spending less time on FB than we used to (but FB says we aren’t) * So do we have a disconnection between perception and reality? * Is FB so habitual that we go on every day for like 20 minutes but we think it’s 5? * Study from Social Bakers says the top reasons for not Facebooking are: * “I’m too busy” * “There’s too much drama” * “It’s too boring/irrelevant” * Migration from Facebook where all the parents and the police are to a more instant gratification like Snapchat (where there’s instantaneity and impermanency) * Younger generations may migrate to things like Snapchat because of the instant gratification and the impermanency of it all * A lot of people freak out over the “once I put it on FB or Twitter, I can never take it off” but Snapchat gives that false sense of security (self-destruct feature) which is why it’s often used for sexting * Social media fatigue – getting tired of social media * Leads to you taking a vacation from the site * But it’s really hard to do so cause FB is integrated into everyday event planning, decision making and networking * People who love FB the most are of course, the ones who are forbidden from...
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...restrictive interpretation of what EMH means. EMH does not imply that asset prices are always “correct.” Prices are always wrong, but no one knows for sure if they are too high or too low. EMH does not imply that bubbles in asset prices are impossible nor does it deny that environmental and behavioral factors cannot have profound influences on required rates of return and risk premiums. At its core, EMH implies that arbitrage opportunities for riskless gains do not exist in an *Princeton University. I am indebted to Alan Blinder and to the participants in the Russell Sage Conference on Economic Lessons From the Financial Crisis for extremely helpful comments. 2 efficiently functioning market and if they do appear from time to time that they do not persist. The evidence is clear that this version of EMH is strongly supported by the data. EMH can comfortably coexist with behavior finance, and the insights of Hyman Minsky are particularly relevant in eliminating the recent financial crisis. Bubbles, when they do exist are particularly dangerous when they are financed with debt. And the housing bubble and its associated derivative securities left both the consumer and financial sectors dangerously leveraged. Policy makers are unlikely to be able to identify bubbles in advance, but they must be better...
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...the structural hierarchy. The chemical level includes the tiniest building blocks of matter, atoms, which combine to form molecules, like water. In turn, molecules combine to form organelles, the internal organs of a cell. Cellular level – the cellular level is made up of the smallest unit of living matter, the cell. The individual cells may have some common functions but vary widely in size and shape. Each type of cell carries out a set of unique tasks within the human body. Tissue level – tissues are groups of similar cells that have a common function. A tissue must contain two different types of cells. The four basic tissue types in humans include epithelium, connective, muscle and nervous tissue. Each tissue has a characteristic role that is vital in the complete function of the human body. Organ level – an organ is a structure composed of at least two different tissue types that perform a specific function within the body. Examples of this include the brain, stomach and liver. Complex functions begin to emerge at this level. Organ system level – one of more organs work in unison to accomplish a common purpose, for instance, the heart and blood vessels work together and circulate blood throughout the body to provide oxygen and nutrients to cells. Besides the cardiovascular system, the other organ systems of the body are the integumentary, skeletal, nervous, muscular, endocrine, respiratory,...
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...gigabytes (GB) of data. A search engine helps us find what we want in this endless sea of data. It is up to the search engine to prevent us from getting lost. So search engines are becoming increasingly important in the internet world. This paper will cover the current search engine technologies, problems with the current technology and the improvements to build better web search engines. Introduction The number of internet users are around 1.97 billion as of 30 June 2010. It is incorporated in virtually all aspect of modern human life. The Internet consists of a vast range of information resources and services. Buried in which lies information of interest . The trick is to find it. This is where search engines play a critical role. A web search engine is designed to search for information, resulting in the generation of a list of results. The result will consist of web pages, images, video and other types of files. Archie was one of the first search engines.. It was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and J. Peter Deutsch, at McGill University in Montreal. The working of Archie was very simple compared to current search engines. It downloaded the directory listings of all the files located on public sites, and created a searchable database of file names. WebCrawler, came out in 1994,allowed the users to search for any word in any webpage, which has...
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...WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Internet privacy policy: violations and regulations. Social media context Natalia Wójcik Index number: 51149 1 TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………….3 2. Theoretical background…………………………………………………………...4 3. E-commerce and e-marketing influence on privacy violations…………….5 4. Social networking, Web 2.0……………………………………………………….7 5. Social media privacy policy………………………………………………………8 6. Privacy policy concerns based on a particular social media example….13 7. Process of implementation of social networking regulations…………….17 8. Conclusions and final remarks…………………………………………………22 9. Bibliography………………………………………………………………………..24 2 1.INTRODUCTION Throughout the last 20 years the role of the Internet has grown enormously is every individual’s life. The Internet has its roots in 1960, when the US government attempted to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. However, the beginning of the worldwide process of Internet expansion may be dated to 1980 and was triggered by the development of new networking technologies and mergers of many less significant networks with the financial support of the National Science Foundation and other private commercial funding. This led to further advancement in technological improvements and their incorporations as well as wider participation of ordinary users all over the world. The Web rapid expansion reaches back to the 90’. According to the Internet World Stats:...
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...PART ONE 1. INTRODUCTION Theoretical knowledge is the product of practical knowledge. However, the extent that the knowledge can understand is greatly limited because it doest not come with experience. The academic knowledge is not well enough to complete with real world. It was a great opportunity to experience of practical related work to an appraisal of Colgate toothpaste Company. 1. Background Though we are the student of school of business in under graduate program (Bachelor of Business Administration) We have to do innovate our potentiality to develop our skill in various sources such as Report making, preparing financial statement of different kinds of organization. It is our academic part to prepare a report on “Factors influencing consumer behavior specially focuses on Colgate toothpaste” that’s why we prepare it. 2. Significance It enhances our knowledge base. It gives us a broad idea about marketing analysis. 1.3. Scope of the report Today's business world is a place of challenge. Challenge and problem can come from anywhere & anytime. Marketing prepare people to cope with the competition. 1.4. Objective of the Report 1.4.1 Broad Objective: To identify the factor those influence the consumer behavior to buy a product or service. 1.4.2 Specific Objectives: The broader objective may be broken down into further specific objectives enlisted as follows: o To know the using time of Colgate tooth paste o To find the...
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...BIOLOGY 10 Introduction to Biology Laboratory Manual Prepared by: KLLabrador Table of Contents |Exercise |Title |Page No. | |1 |Observation and Description |2 | |2 |Formulation, Testing of Hypothesis, |6 | | |and Experimental Design | | |3 |The Use of Models and Controls |9 | |4 |Plant and Animal Tissues |14 | |5 |Cellular Respiration |22 | |6 |Photosynthesis |27 | |7 |Phylogeny and Systematics: Survey of Plant and Animal Families |30 | | ...
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...across all lines and attracted large numbers of viewers who tuned in regularly to watch. The problem arose when it was noticed that such entertaining programmes were upping their popularity by introducing elements like sex and violence to grab more eyeballs. The alternative to these programmes were boring educational programmes that lacked attractive elements. The programmes focused on simply reproducing textual knowledge without taking care as to how such information was presented or packaged. People therefore had just two types of programmes to choose from and there was a feeling that the power of television was not being utilized for greater good. Entertainment education is therefore a communication strategy and a process by which media messages are planned and created with an aim to entertain and educate audiences so that they can live a happy, safe and value-filled life. These programmes first capture the attention of the masses by entertaining them and then educate them in a manner which is easily understood. Entertainment education programmes incorporate the best elements of entertainment and educational programmes to attract viewers with quality shows. These programmes are escapist in nature and introduce a new world to the people watching. The viewers were attracted to stories of people like them who meet with various challenges and solve them. People became emotionally and intellectually invested in the lives of the protagonists and their acts, values, beliefs and...
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...DIGITAL & SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING FINANCIAL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT | Wednesday March 7 2012 www.ft.com/digitalsocialmediamarketing2012 | twitter.com/ftreports Advertisers rush to master fresh set of skills There are great opportunities, says David Gelles, but companies are still largely feeling their way Inside this issue Cautionary tales David Gelles finds reasons to be careful when companies take advertising online Page 2 B2B Paul Taylor sees a chance for business to gain traction with customers Page 2 Ownership Ajay Makan looks at the wide variety of corporate responses Page 2 Viral campaigns April Dembosky looks behind the success of internet sensations Page 3 Marketing budgets Tim Bradshaw says campaigns via social media are still often unpredictable Page 3 A life in the day David Gelles follows the chief marketing officer of Gannett Page 3 Advertising Predictions of the display ad’s demise are premature, writes Jane Bird Page 3 Mobile Tim Bradshaw explains why the promised land is not quite with us Page 4 On FT.com April Dembovsky explains everything you need to know about Pinterest O nly a few years ago digital marketers might have thought all was plain-sailing. After a decade of disruption wreaked by the emergence of the popular web, companies and advertising agencies had finally understood the intricacies of placing online display and search ads. Yet in the past few years, a new generation of technologies has come along to disrupt once again the way advertisers...
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