The following is the 2 blog that I found really interesting.
Dong Cheng Liang:
http://luckyboydc.blogspot.com/2011/09/manage-business-by-computer.html#comment-form
When I saw this blog, I felt the same thing too! I once studied accounting before and I could never balance my amount. The pullback of human labor is that they easily make mistakes. Creating this accounting program might need a lot of resources. From cost to professionals. As a professional programmer plus a accountant is really hard to find. I have to admit this is a great idea. I believe there are people who will be interested in this idea and would like to use it in the future!
IST 195:
http://ist195-ist195.blogspot.com/2011/09/family-terminal-control-system-with-gps.html?showComment=1320094145660#c1029445419506094665
This is really interesting! I think this is suitable for everyone especially people who lives on their own. It makes lives easier and saves time for people when they are always busy. The only drawback I can think of is the costs and time to develop this product. But technologies nowadays is more than capable to invent this new idea. When this idea is implemented, I am confident that a lot of people will use it because of its convenience.
To conclude my idea of this dessert pizza, I think that its workable. With the help of technologies, it could even prosper the growth of the idea and better serve it out to consumers. Implementing new technologies that were developed to ease the transaction helps a lot, for example the Google wallet which enhance the speed of payment. Security is also a major issue while information nowadays are all being saved in the internet cloud. Learning more how to protect information is crucial, it helps your business and protects you. Utilizing the social media is a factor of success. It is a trend that people now uses Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc... With a large population using the social media, it is a way to introduce an immature product. Reaching different kinds of people can further push the product to success. To know whether it is profitable, we need to implement the idea. It is still not sure right now because the consumer needs to adopt the new idea, and we need to wait for the product to get popular. All in all, advertising the dessert product is also a way of going. Some people might like it some people might not. But we will never know unless we try to put words into action!
Monday, October 31, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
week 7- Database
Database is every where and we use it every day. Once we switch on our computer, everything are database. Database are where we store out information and which information is ubiquitous. Therefore database mostly contains a huge amount of information where we need to categorize and arrange them.
Data are usually organized in documents so things could be separated and distinguished in different categories. It is a way to organize information and to find it easier. It makes things convenient and safe. You can find your documents safe if you set a password on it so that only you can read the files or overwrite the files. You can also control the access of the information if you would only want people to read it rather than overwrite it.
Restricting other people from writing it is a good way to go by it. In my idea, if I would want people to view it, I can set it into the mode that only I could write the files while others can only view it. Database is also the place where you store tons of information. If I am working in the dessert industry, there are a lot of things to save. For example, new recipes, bills, receipts, customer feed backs, surveys, complaints, accounting balance, etc... Some of them are confidential and they are all stored in a database, so if I find it useful and would want to use them again, it is going to be easy to find it out when they are organized in a good way.
Data are usually organized in documents so things could be separated and distinguished in different categories. It is a way to organize information and to find it easier. It makes things convenient and safe. You can find your documents safe if you set a password on it so that only you can read the files or overwrite the files. You can also control the access of the information if you would only want people to read it rather than overwrite it.
Restricting other people from writing it is a good way to go by it. In my idea, if I would want people to view it, I can set it into the mode that only I could write the files while others can only view it. Database is also the place where you store tons of information. If I am working in the dessert industry, there are a lot of things to save. For example, new recipes, bills, receipts, customer feed backs, surveys, complaints, accounting balance, etc... Some of them are confidential and they are all stored in a database, so if I find it useful and would want to use them again, it is going to be easy to find it out when they are organized in a good way.
Monday, October 17, 2011
week 6 - Networking
Nowadays, networking is essential in every aspects of our lives. In the world of technologies, you can fully utilize the resources on internet. Networking became important because it could connect you with other people from different parts of the world. It doesn't matter if you know them or you don't, networking is about knowing about more people.
There are a lot of benefits if you have a good network. First of all, you know many different people. It's always a good thing to know more people, even though you might not know them in person, there is always a way to get advantage from that. For instance, relating to my idea, a good networking can facilitate the growth of your business. You can advertise through using your networking skill. The more people you know, the more knows about your idea, the more eager you can find investor.
Networking is a main criteria to determine whether a business is successful or not. There are now courses offered in business schools just only about networking, it reflects how important it is in a business aspect. To me, I think it is important to every criteria in life to know more people. It even helps more if your networking is great. A lot of people were successful because they have a strong network. Once a stable network is developed, you can use it in all kinds of mean. If you utilize it, you business will become successful. I feel that networking is getting important as time goes by. As Facebook prospers, social media soon will become a way to network.
There are a lot of benefits if you have a good network. First of all, you know many different people. It's always a good thing to know more people, even though you might not know them in person, there is always a way to get advantage from that. For instance, relating to my idea, a good networking can facilitate the growth of your business. You can advertise through using your networking skill. The more people you know, the more knows about your idea, the more eager you can find investor.
Networking is a main criteria to determine whether a business is successful or not. There are now courses offered in business schools just only about networking, it reflects how important it is in a business aspect. To me, I think it is important to every criteria in life to know more people. It even helps more if your networking is great. A lot of people were successful because they have a strong network. Once a stable network is developed, you can use it in all kinds of mean. If you utilize it, you business will become successful. I feel that networking is getting important as time goes by. As Facebook prospers, social media soon will become a way to network.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Week 5- Professional Blogger
http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2011/02/san-diego-strangely-delicious-dessert-pizza-at-the-merk-bistro-italiano.html
I found this blog when I typed in dessert pizza in Google. It was a blog that was created by Erin Jackson. She is food writer and a photographer who likes to discover tasty and cheap eats in San Diego, she also loves desserts.
The title of the blog was bacon dessert pizza. The dessert that she tried was called chocolate pig and sweet Pete. She described the dessert pizza as strangely delicious. The pizza was composed by a thin crust pie topped with chocolate syrup, strawberry slices, chocolate shave, and bacon. She mentioned that she hesitated when she order it, thinking if salty bacon could combine with sweet chocolate paste. Then she said that it was a brilliant idea. The flavor merged together without and problems and made the pizza even better than the normal ones. She also encouraged people to try it if they want a fresh new flavor in the pizza category.
When I first saw the title that popped out in the results of dessert pizza, I was a bit confused about it. Bacon with sweets? Doesn't sound appealing to me at the first place. So I even want to see what is it all about. After looking through the blog, it gave me a lot of ideas. I actually wanted to try it and wanted to create more kinds of flavor. The idea was fresh and innovative. Although it might seemed it wont work, but you have to try it in order to know it. If I get the chance to create my own dessert pizza, I will not hesitate trying new "weird" flavors.
I found this blog when I typed in dessert pizza in Google. It was a blog that was created by Erin Jackson. She is food writer and a photographer who likes to discover tasty and cheap eats in San Diego, she also loves desserts.
The title of the blog was bacon dessert pizza. The dessert that she tried was called chocolate pig and sweet Pete. She described the dessert pizza as strangely delicious. The pizza was composed by a thin crust pie topped with chocolate syrup, strawberry slices, chocolate shave, and bacon. She mentioned that she hesitated when she order it, thinking if salty bacon could combine with sweet chocolate paste. Then she said that it was a brilliant idea. The flavor merged together without and problems and made the pizza even better than the normal ones. She also encouraged people to try it if they want a fresh new flavor in the pizza category.
When I first saw the title that popped out in the results of dessert pizza, I was a bit confused about it. Bacon with sweets? Doesn't sound appealing to me at the first place. So I even want to see what is it all about. After looking through the blog, it gave me a lot of ideas. I actually wanted to try it and wanted to create more kinds of flavor. The idea was fresh and innovative. Although it might seemed it wont work, but you have to try it in order to know it. If I get the chance to create my own dessert pizza, I will not hesitate trying new "weird" flavors.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Week 4-Input Output
Last week, we talked about the input and output. We also touched on many technologies for example the Google wallet, radio frequency identification (RFID), voice recognition, etc... These technologies help us to facilitate our daily lives. In the text book, I found out other than the technologies we talked in class, there are many more devices that can help us a lot too. For example like the printers, interactive whiteboards, monitors, etc... These are devices that we always use, without the help of those devices, it makes things very hard to complete.
The technologies that I found interesting is the Google wallet and the "Starbucks phone pay" application. It was my first time to get to know the Google wallet. It is really a great application, and I also found it very useful. Cash is not popular nowadays, people tend to bring less cash but a credit card. So what if we don't need to bring a credit card too? We directly install our credit card into our phone which is an essential device in our daily lives. We don't even need to bring our wallet out. It is safe to use too, which you need to enter a PIN in order to use it. So if someone else stole your phone or you lost it yourself, you still would not need to worry about it. The only pullback of this application is that it only supports MasterCard. While this technology continue to develop and being accepted by people, hopefully most major credit company will cooperate with Google Wallet.
Merging this technology with my idea, it can be used in any kind of retail business. If I were going to set up a shop or restaurant for this dessert pizza, I will certainly use this technology. It is easy for customers and it makes it easy for us too. Even though this technology wasn't wildly used, I think that it is a great idea to develop. I will also use what Starbucks is doing today. It is easy, simply use the technology of bar code. Customer simply buys a gift card from Starbucks and install a application from your phone (which is free), then while you pay, just give the staff your phone and she will scan the bar code, in this case you would not need to use any cash. You can store money in your card too, and you also receives benefits. For example Starbucks is going to donate part of your drink price to charity which encourages people to use this technology. I found it very useful, and I am sure that if I have the chance to set up a store, I will definitely use it.
The technologies that I found interesting is the Google wallet and the "Starbucks phone pay" application. It was my first time to get to know the Google wallet. It is really a great application, and I also found it very useful. Cash is not popular nowadays, people tend to bring less cash but a credit card. So what if we don't need to bring a credit card too? We directly install our credit card into our phone which is an essential device in our daily lives. We don't even need to bring our wallet out. It is safe to use too, which you need to enter a PIN in order to use it. So if someone else stole your phone or you lost it yourself, you still would not need to worry about it. The only pullback of this application is that it only supports MasterCard. While this technology continue to develop and being accepted by people, hopefully most major credit company will cooperate with Google Wallet.
Merging this technology with my idea, it can be used in any kind of retail business. If I were going to set up a shop or restaurant for this dessert pizza, I will certainly use this technology. It is easy for customers and it makes it easy for us too. Even though this technology wasn't wildly used, I think that it is a great idea to develop. I will also use what Starbucks is doing today. It is easy, simply use the technology of bar code. Customer simply buys a gift card from Starbucks and install a application from your phone (which is free), then while you pay, just give the staff your phone and she will scan the bar code, in this case you would not need to use any cash. You can store money in your card too, and you also receives benefits. For example Starbucks is going to donate part of your drink price to charity which encourages people to use this technology. I found it very useful, and I am sure that if I have the chance to set up a store, I will definitely use it.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Week 3- Computer Forensics
We talked about computer forensics in class last time, and I found it very useful in all kinds of aspects. Not only in business, but also in personal daily life. There are pros and cons of computer forensics. As forensics is the way that people can back up their files even though they thought they deleted it completely.
The good thing of this way is that you can restore things that you deleted accidentally. Even though you cleared your recycle bin, you can still use different soft wares to find the files and get it back. The cons for it is that you can literally get everything out from the old user if someone got your hard disk. So selling your hard disk will not be a good idea, because as long as others know how to retrieve the information that was once deleted in the hard disk, all your information will be stolen.
Using this technology in my idea might help a bit. It doesn't only help me in my business or the idea, it can also help me in daily activities. This can be a powerful technology if I utilize it. Once my information was accidentally deleted, I could use this technology to get it back in case I don't remember. As I also know that all my information can be retrieved, I will be more careful once I dump my hard disk and I will also make sure that the idea will not be stolen.
The good thing of this way is that you can restore things that you deleted accidentally. Even though you cleared your recycle bin, you can still use different soft wares to find the files and get it back. The cons for it is that you can literally get everything out from the old user if someone got your hard disk. So selling your hard disk will not be a good idea, because as long as others know how to retrieve the information that was once deleted in the hard disk, all your information will be stolen.
Using this technology in my idea might help a bit. It doesn't only help me in my business or the idea, it can also help me in daily activities. This can be a powerful technology if I utilize it. Once my information was accidentally deleted, I could use this technology to get it back in case I don't remember. As I also know that all my information can be retrieved, I will be more careful once I dump my hard disk and I will also make sure that the idea will not be stolen.
Monday, September 19, 2011
week2- security and excel
In order to keep the idea of dessert pizza fresh, the issue of security is essential. As it is still a new concept, you will not want other people to steal your ideas and make it out before you can make it. There will be a time that you might post your new idea on Facebook and see how does your friends react to the new product. As you can set your privacy setting in Facebook, it is crucial to know how to protect your information from others who you don't know.
For excel, it is a really great application that can help to facilitate your information after you interview people or organize your data. If you have a bunch of data to enter, there are a lot of ways that excel can organize it for you. It can make bar charts, graphs, plots, etc. It can better present the data out so you can know the statistics better and find out which criteria is the popular one.
To protect your information from being stolen, privacy setting is important. Once you find out a way to protect your information, it will be safer to ask people you know and keep it as a secret. With the help of excel, it can also make your data better organized. Combining two of these methods, you can have a secure information database and also a well organized database.
For excel, it is a really great application that can help to facilitate your information after you interview people or organize your data. If you have a bunch of data to enter, there are a lot of ways that excel can organize it for you. It can make bar charts, graphs, plots, etc. It can better present the data out so you can know the statistics better and find out which criteria is the popular one.
To protect your information from being stolen, privacy setting is important. Once you find out a way to protect your information, it will be safer to ask people you know and keep it as a secret. With the help of excel, it can also make your data better organized. Combining two of these methods, you can have a secure information database and also a well organized database.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Week one-Social Media
Nowadays, social media plays an important role in the world of information. Almost everyone I know have a Facebook account, and most of them use it frequently. In a clip I recently watched, it was told that if Facebook is a country, it would be the world third largest country. We can tell that Facebook has a big population of users and it can potentially affect a large number of people.
I must also admit that I used a portion of my time in one day on Facebook. It influenced me a lot, and I am also sure that it influenced many other people as well. As there is a wide variation of people using Facebook and other social medias, it is the best way to advertise a new idea. My new idea is "dessert pizza". As a pizza lover, I would really want to try a pizza which is made of sweet things. It could be ice-cream or cookie dough, as long as it is sweet, I will take it. I don't think this idea is popular yet, because I can't search for much information in the internet.
With the help of social media, I can advertise this idea. This method can reach a large number of people with the lowest cost. It is effective and quick, where you can post new ideas instantly and people will see it immediately too. It is also the easiest way to give visual ideas to people where you can upload pictures. It becomes easier to attract people to try it and get attention from people all over the globe. As the social media is growing, more people will be joining the media. It is a very affective way to introduce a new idea and a lot of industry is using this technology too.
I must also admit that I used a portion of my time in one day on Facebook. It influenced me a lot, and I am also sure that it influenced many other people as well. As there is a wide variation of people using Facebook and other social medias, it is the best way to advertise a new idea. My new idea is "dessert pizza". As a pizza lover, I would really want to try a pizza which is made of sweet things. It could be ice-cream or cookie dough, as long as it is sweet, I will take it. I don't think this idea is popular yet, because I can't search for much information in the internet.
With the help of social media, I can advertise this idea. This method can reach a large number of people with the lowest cost. It is effective and quick, where you can post new ideas instantly and people will see it immediately too. It is also the easiest way to give visual ideas to people where you can upload pictures. It becomes easier to attract people to try it and get attention from people all over the globe. As the social media is growing, more people will be joining the media. It is a very affective way to introduce a new idea and a lot of industry is using this technology too.
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