Final Summary Post

My original idea has significantly developed within the last eight weeks or so. Way back on September 12th, I posted my base idea of creating a Laundry View application for both iPhones and android phones. This post covered what it exactly was that my product offered, it covered what problems it solves, and it also went into details about how I will market the product. For initial purposes I said that I think that it would be greatly beneficial to promote the product through social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter because this product is aimed at college students who for the most part are all very active on these sites.

Each week for six weeks after my original post, I made a  new post about how I can apply things that I have newly learned to the advancement of my product. My first idea involved applying excel to my business. The core idea of apply excel was that I could use it to organize my data, and then use formulas and its functions to make necessary accounting calculations. The next week I talked about how I could apply computer forensics to my business. The core idea about applying this was to make sure that all my employees are well informed to what information they should release over the internet, and be knowledgeable about data that will still remain after disposing of a computer. I then went on to apply input and output to my business. A couple ideas that came out of this was taking advantage of technologies such as voice recognition and QR codes. The following week I posted about how I could apply bits and bytes to my business. The main way I would apply this information would be to know how much memory I needed in my computers, and how much memory certain documents and such would require. The last idea that I applied to my business was networks. Core ideas from this information were understanding the uses of IP addresses, domain names, and the differences between different email protocols.

All of this new information that I acquired over the course of eight weeks seems to hold a great deal of value and opportunity for the success of my new business. All of these ideas will be incorporated and hopefully produce great results. The experience of creating the blog, learning new information, thinking about how to apply the information and eventually sharing these ideas withe the world was a great experience. It got me more experienced to blogging which I had never done before, and also got my to run my mind through ideas about apply new knowledge to a business environment which I would have never done before.


A few other things that further improved the experience were a meeting a had with the GA, a review I made for a professional blog, and viewing and commenting on other students' blogs. The names of the students and the links to their blogs that I commented on are listed below:

Benita Mach http://benitamach.blogspot.com/ 
James Jarrett http://jamesjarrett.blogspot.com/ 
Kristofer Curtis http://ist195classwork.blogspot.com/ 

Applying Networks To My Business

There are many aspects to networks that would be beneficial to running  a technology based business. Aside from just understanding the mere facts of networks such as what packets are and how they are sent, or what a protocol does, there are other aspects that can really be applied. One basic aspect would be in understanding how IP addresses and domain names work. This would be important when considerign whether I want to create my own site to advertise or promote my service aside from the actual existing Laundry View website.

If deciding to do this I need to understand that I will be given an IP address but will need to choose and pay for domain name that will be more easily recognized or coherent to customers. I will have to decide what domain name I would like and I will have to decide what top level domain I will want (.com or .net). If someone owns the domain name that I want, I will either need to choose a different one or pay the current owner of that domain. One exception is if someone is using the domain name in bad faith and just trying to capitalize off of the name or hinder the company. Then I can have a panelist look at the case and have the name revoked from them.

Another thing that would be beneficial to understand is the difference between different email protocols. Two email protocols that I may consider are POP and IMAP; POP is the Post Office Protocol, while IMAP is Internet Message Access Protocol. The major difference when looking at these two protocols is that with POP, emails can only be download to one machine. For example, if I download an email on my laptop it will not show up on my desktop. However, with IMAP the emails will show up on all machines. After understanding this difference, I believe I would like to use the IMAP protocol because it would be more convenient when trying to access business emails on different computers.

Blog Review Post

Blog being reviewed can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17
Source: Huffington Post
Subject: iPhone 4S

The Huffington Post is a professional online blogging site that provides news and information on an array of different topics. To the best of my knowledge, they produce some of the most known blogs and are credible in what they post. They are widely viewed and their posts can receive hundreds of comments within a single day. They have several different sects, the one I looked at was their technology section. The post that I chose to review was called "Apple: IPhone 4S Sales Topped 4 Million In First Weekend" and written by Catherine Smith.

In this blog post, what is primarily discussed is the success that the iPhone 4S had its first weekend. The phone was launched Friday the 14th and this blog was posted the 17th after weekend sales had closed. It was discussed that it sold more phones its first weekend than any previous phone in its first weekend. The post provides more information about new Apple products including its new iOS5 and iCloud.

What makes Huffington Post blogs so powerful is that they are so well known and so many people view them. They have been around and produce information on all different topics attracting people with all different interests. Bloggers feel they can get there ideas out there by commenting on popular blogs, which is why their posts relieve so many comments so quickly. A blog such as mine would take a vast amount of time to get anywhere near the power this has, and that will never happen. Huffington Post remains successful in producing the latest information and allowing anyone to blog/comment and speak their minds about what is posted.

Applying Bits and Bytes To My Business

When dealing with computers, bits and bites along with being able to count in binary are information that must be understood before any technological aspects of a business will succeed. Where this really comes in play with my business is when it comes to matters of how much memory I will need in terms of Bytes.  This is important to know because I need to know how much storage I will need on my computers. Basic knowledge about prefixes is a beginning to understanding this, but it goes further. I will need to know first off if business on my computers will require either Terabytes of storage or Gigabytes.

Word documents and PowerPoints will not really be a factor as a one page Word document only take up 30KB, which is virtually nothing in terms of a gigabyte or terabyte. Things that will need to be considered is how much video or pictures will be used. Specifically videos will take up much more space than anything else previously stated. Of course there will be other applications and such that will also needed to be looked at in terms of how much storage space they will require. With the material I am dealing with, I don't expect at this time to need as much as a terabyte of storage.

Applying Input/Output To My Business

Ideas involving input and output devices present a lot of opportunity to different aspects of my business. As many of the other things I have discussed in my blog have been about applying information to the management of my business, such as using Excel or disposing of hardware, input and output can be applied directly to my product/service.

I have several ideas for how I can use input or output devices to even further enhance the quality and the ease of use of my product. One idea I have that I believe will increase the ease of use of my product therefor making it more popular, involves voice recognition. Voice recognition will be implemented in two ways:

• First, voice recognition will can be used for the initial setup of the application. The user will simply speak into their phone, first speaking their campus name and then their dorm name. The application will then take them to exactly where they need to be.
• Second, if all machines are taken, the user will be able to speak "first available," and the device will then locate and point out the machine that will first be available to use.

The other idea i had concerning input/output involved QR codes. The QR code would be used to let the user know when his or her laundry was done. Each machine will have a QR code placed on it. After you have put your laundry in a machine, simply scan the code on your phone using the applications QR code scanner, and it will register that you are using that machine. When the time is up on that machine, you will be notified immediately.

These two idea I believe will be easy to implement and at the same time will be very beneficial to producing more business.