...prospect home buyer can search for properties/homes, get pre-approval, look for best rates and mortgage lenders, upload documents and get underwriting approval. Further, close the mortgage all at one place. Certainly, there has been a good amount of progress seen on the Internet. There have been changes in the way organizations have been or will be conducting business, and this is just adjusting/responding to the way customers, employees, partners, etc. have been using the latest advancement in technology. Probably, launching web-site to provide these services will be a good start. Being adaptive to way people have been lately shopping, searching i.e. here are some of the necessary capabilities critical to be incorporated by leveraging Web2.0 technologies:- 1. Broad communication (Blogs/podcasts/videocasts/peer to peer) - When the prospect home buyer is searching for homes in a certain location, present the homes fitting the search criteria. Along with showing the home, provide the customer with a videocast of the home. The buyer can click on the link and can have a virtual walk of the home. And next to the videocast, provide the customer to start documenting his likes/dislikes/feedback on a blog. Then...
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...Executive summary In the Web2.0 era, there emerging an endless stream of new media forms, the emergence of a new form of media means that the popularity and progress of Web2.0 (Bronstein, 2013). The emergence of this situation is related to the birth of a new media forms, the micro-blogging. Micro-blogging change is in the instant communication of news. For example, the first media releases King of Pop Michael Jackson's death is Twitter. The first media release the news of Wenchuan China earthquake is micro-blogging. Micro-blogging is with huge influence beyond the human’s imagination. In the marketing industry, Micro-blogging is gradually thought as an effective way to do marketing and public relations. For example, Starbucks successfully use Twitter to carry out brand image marketing. Dell has opened online sales and customer service on Twitter, and so on (Wilson & Quinton, 2012). This research will analyze the how the social media micro-blogging influences the consumer’s perception on the brand, especially for the fast fashion brand. This research consists of five sections, the first is introduction, and the second is literature review, which provides the TRA model helping to the research on customs’ perception on brand. The third is methodology, interpreting the methods used in this research which includes quantitative and qualitative methods. The fourth is findings and results, it talks about the six factors influencing the customer’s perception though the questionnaire...
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... The organization selects and owns the ultimate solution, and sometimes rewards members of the crowd. As this paper also explain the application aspect of crowdsourcing when it merge with web-technology. KEYWORDS: Crowdsourcing, WEB 2.0, Social networking. INTRODUCTION: The last two decades have seen dramatic revolution in information technology: not only in computer power, such as the processor speed, memory size and innovative interfaces, but also in the everyday use of computer. The 1990s was the decade of the World Wide Web, built over the physical infrastructure of the internet, radically changing the availability of information and making possible the rapid discrimination of digital information across the globe. Web2.0 is heavily oriented toward content generation by people who...
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...through its information. Different applications and information technologies include Wikis, Mashups, Tagging, Blogs and blogging abilities, Podcasting and video uploading, etc (R. Kelly Rainer & Turban, 2009). A few disadvantages of Web 2.0 is the fact that communication and sharing of information has now become unrestricted. This means that copyrighted material caqn now be infringed upon and even altered. Web 2.0 has made it to where users are more dependent on its technologies for research and information, socializing, etc. There are also a lot of unsecure websites that use Web 2.0 technologies and that poses a lot of threats as well, including accounts being hacked, spam, viruses, unknown scripts, etc. According to "Advantages Of Web2.0 Development And Web 2.0 Development Services" (2011), major advantages of this technology are its dynamic content, user participation, scalability, metadata, openness, collective intelligence, and also its rich user interface. Web 2.0 has impacted businesses in a number of ways. Web 2.0 has allowed businesses to provide more innovative...
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...Statistics (NCES) claimed that 97% of public school teachers have computers in theirs classrooms with 93% having internet access. "Children use computers for a wide variety of activities encompassing education, play and communication , making computers a significant part of young people's lives" (DeBell & Chapman,2006, p.20). In 2003, 4 percent of U.S. school districts had use one to one computer programs which mean each of the student was given a computer for her or his own use while this percentage rise up to 52% by 2011 (The Greaves Group, 2012). Nowadays, web technologies hand immerse into different field in our life such as education, security and even buying things. Web technology did create a huge impact on education . The latest tools web2.0 is used to promote and support student learning. This new direction changes the current technology study practice. 2.0 Literature Review a) (Jobe & Peck) explained that by using educational technology contend technology accommodates individual learning abilities and styles and student access to learning whenever and no matter where they are. They also said that by using technology in teaching provides students with the chance to learn the technological skills they will need when they enter the society for employment. Besides that, by using technology in classroom will also develop students critical thinking, problem- solving and skills of communication. Students are more easily collaborate with peers for activities or their assignment...
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...The author of “digital natives, digital immigrants” Mark Prensky, is a writer, consultant and inventor in the areas of education and learning. We should listen to him because of all the above information and he has a masters degree from Yale, Middle bury and Harvard business school. In his story he argues that this generation isn’t capable of learning the traditional way, and we need a know technological way to learn. The author of “the internet” Steve Johnson has wrote and edited many books. He is a respected writer in the residence at the New York University department of journalism. He has published in the New York times, the Wall street Journal and many other periodicals. In his story he argues that the internet has come a log way from what it was intended to. He argues pro technology because according to him internet has helped us out a lot. The author Maryanne wolf who wrote learning to think in a new world is a professor in the Eliot-Pearson department of child development at tufts university. Her accolades are: distinguished teacher of the year award, and the teaching excellence award. In her story she argues that those growing up in the digital world don’t read and think about text like they should. In other words they don’t think critically any more. The author of “learning theory video games and popular culture ”James Gee is the presidential professor of literary studies at Arizona state university. In her story she argues pro technology. She says that video...
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...小 型 微 型 计 算 机 Journal of Chinese Computer 2007 系 统 Systems 2007 年 月 第 期 Vol.28 No. 基于 Atom 的远程对象交换机制的研究 崔 璨 1，陆桑璐 2 1 2（南京大学计算机软件新技术国家重点实验室, 南京大学计算机科学与技术系, 210093） E-mail ：alancui@gmail.com 摘 要：随着互联网的发展，Web2.0 和 Mash-up 逐渐成为 Web 环境中的主要应用形式。针对现有远程对象交换机制的 局限性， 本文以 Atom 文档格式与 Atom 发布协议为基础建立了一种更易被 Web2.0 和 Mash-up 应用的远程对象交换机制。 在兼顾半结构化数据与强类型语言结构化要求的条件下，利用 Atom 文档格式解决了远程对象的封装问题；利用 Atom 发 布协议解决了远程对象的操作问题。在此基础上，通过性能评估和综合比较，说明该机制具有实现简单、适应半结构化数 据、在少量易变数据时性能好等优点。 关键词：Atom; REST; 对象交换; 半结构化数据; Web2.0; Mash-up 中 图 分 类 号 ：TP 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1000-1220（2005）02-- The Research on Atom Based Remote Object Exchange Mechanism CUI Can1，LU Sanglu2 12 （State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, 210093） Abstract: Web2.0 and Mash-up applications are gradually turned into the primary form of the applications in the Internet by the fast development of Internet. Concerning the limitation of the existing remote objects exchange mechanism, this paper proposes a new remote objects exchange mechanism which is based on Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol, and thus, can be easily adopted in Web2.0 or Mash-up systems. Firstly, considering the requirements from both semi-structure data and strong type languages, Atom Syndication Format is used to solve the encapsulation problem. Secondly, Atom Publishing Protocol are leveraged to implement object exchange. Finally, with the evaluations...
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...communication that were discussed in this article are smart sheets from smartsheet.com and web 2.0 Mashup by kapok Technolond. Smartsheets are a system that manages your project or business online. These spreadsheets use different designs and layouts to show the data. This data can be shared alongside your co workers where they can find important documents included with the smartsheets or even use your personal or business email to send you notifications. Web 2.0 mash-up is a way we use to think of the future of how diferent apps should be industrialized using things like RSS and java to get the app body and a purpose thru formatting which is catching on so fast because this day and age you do not need a P.H.D. to do this. I could use web2.0 mash-ups in my workplace by putting in an Application programing interface. This will allow people from outside the company to interact with the product of the company true request they (the customer) put in. With me (the maker) able to manage the data like I want the interaction between customer and company are greatly increased at just the tip of the fingers. With smart sheets at the workplace I am able to use my spreadsheets like graphs and tables. I can assign constants to certain columns as well. Smart sheets are the right hand of web 2.0 mash-up and together constantly make technology itself have a hard time keeping up leaving the companies that are not willing to step up their technology far enough behind to see it in their profit...
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...Sending or receiving business on the Internet is called ecommerce. This term of business is also known as electronic commerce. All of ecommerce is really the buying and selling of anything online. There are many different types of activities that fall in this category. Anyone on the outside must remember that any type of business conducted electronically can technically be a part of ecommerce. Popular examples of ecommerce revolve around buying and selling online. But the ecommerce universe contains other types of activities as well. Any form of business transaction conducted electronically is ecommerce (Hampton, 2005). Some of the most popular types of E-commerce that many people now and might not relate to it are online shopping which consists of buying and selling items on the internet. In my research one of the most profitable one in the most recent years is the business of electronic payments and handling these transactions. A lot of people don’t realize they are involved with e-commerce but if you are an individual and auction things on eBay you are a part of a huge billion dollar a year business of e-commerce. E-commerce can be seen in many different ways which include Business to Business, Business to Consumer (B2C), and Consumer to Consumer (C2C). A fun fact is that some of the earliest transactions in the global economic system involved barter. Some of the unique ways e-commerce is in a setting involves all of those stated above. It is wide open to the possibilities...
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...Dell has been a Web2.0 technology pioneer in the computer manufacturer industry. Dell spreads their activities over multiple platforms. Here are the core platforms that Dell uses. Dell’s IdeaStorm, Direct2Dell, StudioDell. IdeaStorm is a Dell’s platform where Dell can listen to customer’s idea of Dell’s products. It’s just a 4 easy steps to submit ideas. View, post, vote and see the results. Other visitors have the ability to vote for the ideas they would most like to see Dell produce. For Dell, this site has been a priceless source of innovation and customer feedback. Diret2Dell is Dell’s official corporate blog. Not only the Dell employers can post articles on the blog, the customers and visitors can also do that. You could also post different languages on the blog. English, Chinese and Spanish. Basically, any topics related to Dell’s product, you could post on the blog. Also, the blog has a variety of different functions that made it easy to use. Customers could email the blog, share the blog the Facebook and put comments to the author. StudioDell is a platform that people share videos on it. Customers could upload videos about Dell products and services. Videos for different categories. Main purpose is for customers to watch, learn and share. In 2007, Dell actually uses these platforms to help the company to put out fires. In 2007, Dell computers started getting reports of laptops exploding in flames. That’s really a bad news for Dell. How did dell response? Dell’s...
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...Revenue model Affiliate revenue model Customers can browse satisfying consuming experiences of their friends and popular users. Hyperlinks of some credible e-tail websites (such as taobao.com, tmall.com, mogujie.com...etc.) are posted in our website, so that customers can directly go there to search product information and to purcahse their favourate products. We will charge those e-tail websits for refer fee, which will be varied with the click ratio of the hyperlink. For example, in the following web page, the hyperlink to Amazon is posted, which can direct our users to the online shop to purchase that mineral powder. Advertising revenue model This is another major revenue model. Positioned as a social network site, our website may possibly attract considerable amount of users and therefore produce large influence power, according to the social network effect. In order to fully leverage this influence power, we allow brands and stores to post advertisements as well as link buttons to their own websites. The charging fee will be varied with the ads’ position, size, time, format...etc. market analysis Positioning Twinkle.com is a social network site which enables people to exchange satisfying consuming experiences. We definite ourselves as a market nicher since this business area has not been occupied by any other company. Targeting Twinkle.com’s target customers are those who aged 15 and 45, frequently using social media and caring about product comments. According...
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...The web is constantly evolving. New and innovative websites are being created every day, pushing the boundaries of HTML in every direction. Html 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and publishers seeking new techniques to provide enhanced functionality are being held back by the constraints of the language and browsers. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics. HTML5 is a language for structuring g and presenting content for the World Wide Web, a core technology of the internet. Work on HTML 5, which commenced in 2004, is currently being carried out in a joint effort between the W3C HTML WG and the WHATWG. Many key players are participating in the W3C effort including representatives from the four major browser vendors: Apple, Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft; and a range of other organizations and individuals with many diverse interests and expertise. (Hoy, M. (2011)) HTML5 is a really good thing for web developers and designers, because it: * Is mostly backwards compatible with what's already there — don’t have to learn completely new languages to use HTML5. The new markup features work in the same way as the old ones, and the new APIs are based on mostly the same JavaScript/DOM that developers have been programming in for years. * Adds powerful new features...
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...Social Computing: Study on the Use and Impact of Online Social Networking IPTS Exploratory Research on the Socio-economic Impact of Social Computing Romina Cachia EUR 23565 EN - 2008 1 The mission of the IPTS is to provide customer-driven support to the EU policy-making process by researching science-based responses to policy challenges that have both a socio-economic and a scientific or technological dimension. European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Contact information Address: Edificio Expo. c/ Inca Garcilaso, s/n. E-41092 Seville (Spain) E-mail: jrc-ipts-secretariat@ec.europa.eu Tel.: +34 954488318 Fax: +34 954488300 http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu Legal Notice Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of this publication. Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union Freephone number (*): 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed. A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server http://europa.eu/ JRC 48650 EUR 23565 EN ISSN 1018-5593 Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities © European Communities, 2008 Reproduction is authorised provided the...
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...1. (TCO 2) What is an example of mobile entertainment that you might utilize via your smart phone? Television viewing through smart phone or Online chatting on social networking sites via smart phone. 2. (TCO 2) Key factors of the services provided through L-commerce include all of the following except OPTIONS NOT GIVEN 3. (TCO 2) Goods that can be transformed to digital format and delivered over the Internet are referred to as DIGITAL PRODUCT OR GOODS 4. (TCO 3) One of the characteristics of Web 2.0 in the travel industry is that it allows access to all the content and services on network, which helps to build up portals from resources that are readily available to be shared between the trading partners, including availability checking, reservation, query services, booking, rental, insurance, weather etc. 5. (TCO 3) All of the following are true about a general-purpose pure-play e-tailer except OPTIONS NOT GIVEN 6. (TCO 3) A company that creates and manages many-to-many markets is called a market maker 7. (TCO 4) The __ secure socket layer___ was invented by Netscape to use standard certificates for authentication and data encryption to ensure privacy or confidentiality. 8. (TCO 4) Access to a network should be based on factors like anti-malware protection level, firewall assessment, both user and host authentication etc. 9. (TCO 4) All of the following are important security functions of proxy servers except OPTIONS NOT GIVEN 10. (TCO 4) All of the...
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...bureaucratic managerial styles as being the fundamental approach and communication was viewed as a managerial tool to command and control employees. However the study of communication has evolved extensively and organisational communication has become more complex than was traditionally observed. “Our global economy is complicated, our connections with other nations are complicated...nowhere is this complexity more apparent than in consideration of communication processes.” (Miller 2009) Miller highlights the impact of globalisation in her latest offering, suggesting changes in global demographics, diversification and technological advances have attributed to such major changes within the area of organisational communication. The emergence of web2.0 which was coined in 1999 by DiNucci was launched into the business jargon by Tim O Reilly in 2004. he term is describe new way in which software developers and end-users started to utilize the World Wide Weparticipatory and collaborative fashion.” The traditional online services were affected by the burst of the dot.com bubble in the early 2000’sthe enhancement of the newer Web 2.0 services saw a new era in computer mediated communication. The move from the traditional social software’s of email, IM etc was primarily due to the development and use of software such as RSS, to enhance speed at which information is exchanged increased the demand for tools to exchange information. The growth and the increasing use of wikis, blogs, tagging etc...
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