Sunday, July 08, 2007
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Amazing class!!!
I would like to thank you for everything.
It is amazing that my name is Number one on Google for my website and my Blog is number one as well. It was a great learning experience in this class. I was not into the internet research thing and the web in general; today it is easy for me to find information and related data to my topic. I also liked the way how you organized the class with a large amount of learning during the class time.
It is a pleasure to be in your class
Thanks for the pizza and for every thing
Marouane
Lovely class
Sandeep thank you for the class and the pizza.
Charlene
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
My blog is back on google!
My post:
Some interesting statistics on UW Bothell vs UW Washington, courtesy of http://www.infoplease.com
With 55% women, UW Bothell is clearly the winner!
UW Bothell vs (UW Seattle)
Total Students Full-Time: 1,620 (39,246)
Undergrads: 833 (23,552)Percent Accepted: 69% (68%)
Percent Women: 55% (51%)
Resident Tuition Fees: $5,157 ($5,286)
Non-Res. Tuition & Fees: $17,787 ($17,916)
To which my girlfriend commented, "what is the advantage of having more women than men?"
But have no fear, I wasn't busted yet. I replied, "This is very important because according to worldwatch.org, "Study after study shows that girls with more education not only have fewer and healthier babies, but enjoy better health themselves." Therefore, by having a higher proportion of women to men than the Seattle campus, UW Bothell is clearly doing more to combat serious problems, such as childhood obesity and overpopulation. "
So money!
Yeah, so I was a little confused after my presentation today and now I know why! I realized on the way home I was missing two of my slides. I had already uploaded the file to my website and ended up adding two more pages, but I forgot to delete the file and upload it again. *smack*
Ironically, after class today I was online and one of my friends IM'd me and asked me if I knew what furl was, needless to say I did! I hope people keep blogging on this site. I've learned about a lot of valuable resources on the internet and it would be wonderful if people still wrote on here about any great sites or services that they come across. I'll get the ball rolling...healthfinder.com, imdb.com, moviemistakes.com One is educational and the other two are fun ways to spend countless hours online! Well I need to get going, study time. Talk to you all soon. Invite me to your blog if you're gonna stay active on it: mkahn81 at gmail dot com.
It was so fun having class with you all! Enjoy the rest of your Summer!
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
Mypsace is #1
"According to the data from tracking firm Hitwise, MySpace.com was the No. 1 most visited website for the week ended July 8, with 4.46% of all Web visits in the U.S., knocking Yahoo! Mail from the top spot. Yahoo! took exception to the rankings' comparison of all of MySpace with the Yahoo! Mail site, given that Yahoo! comprises a network of many different sites and services. I tend to agree, but the data is still interesting to contemplate, taken with a grain of salt."
See the full article: http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2006/mft06071319.htm?source=ihghlpban100102
Battle for hosted app market
Google has made it's move offering the online spreadsheet in an effort to compete with Excel, but there are many companies providing various (some quite complex) programs using the same concept. Microsoft, not wanting to be left out of what it views as the next big thing, has unveiled online versions of it's Windows and Office applications. Microsoft likes to refer to its online applications as "Live Software." In my opinion, Microsoft has a long way to go before this live software is anywhere close to being as useful as its standard Office applications, but I guess they want to get their foot in the door before other companies grab the market. You can read a little more about it here.
Once really nice example of online software done right is the CRM software offered by Salesforce.com. This company provides a CRM software that is entirely available online to paying customers. The benefit to companies who choose this software is that they dont have to invest as much in server hardware to host the application in-house or the associated IT costs.
In the near future you won't be going down to the store, buying some software and installing it on your computer. All you'll have to do is subscribe to the program online and begin using it right away.
Mark Cuban is a Toolbox
But enough about me. We're talking about Mark Cuban.
http://www.blogmaverick.com/
Most of Cuban's ranting falls into the category of "Everyone complains about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it." Nothing "unique" has happened on the net in "forever?" You're right, Cuban. This whole Internet thang is sad and tired. I give it six months before you can buy AOL for the change you find in your couch.
Further, Mark stretches the truth just a bit in talking about how net speeds haven't increased in TEN YEARS (emphasis his). I remember trying to get DSL just seven years ago (that's 1999, Cuban. I wouldn't want your head to explode from an attempt at complex subtraction). Even living in Microsoft's backyard, I couldn't get DSL until '99 and even then it wasn't at the speed it's available at today. Ten years ago puts us squarely back in the days of 56Flex, with that blistering ISDN you dismissed as ancient just becoming available for the priveleged few.
Markie further "complains" about not being able to buy a PC that has problems running "any" application. Leaving aside the obvious interpretation that Mark must not be a PC gamer (can't fault him there), it's obvious he hasn't been paying attention to the OS overhead that Windows Vista is going to be bringing us as part of those "innovations" that Mark says he wants.
Cube then even answers his own earlier question but doesn't bother to notice. If it's now becoming as cheap and easy for you and me and a dog named Boo to create and publish captivating, professional sites (in theory anyway, I'm still holding on to my hack cred), then what would be the incentive for ISPs to provide greater speeds if their own share of the audience is being constantly eroded by this plethora of new sites anyway? And how do all these sites manage to stick around and pay their hosting charges if the net is becoming so "boring?"
I don't think the net is "boring." I just think it's beyond Cuban to keep up with it.
Page Rank!
Sandeep said he gave me the power of his site. The next update will be my last chance to top the charts so I am waiting nervously. I must beat N*AT*E DA*WG*Z. I shouldn't even mention his name, it probably is improving his pagerank. I have changed my post name to Nathan MacDonald so it will search higher. I even linked myself from a couple blogs. This is what the quarter has come down too, will i be a WINNER or LOSER?
My life depends on this..
Nathan MacDonald
The Summer retreat for entrepreneurship and career building
BlogMaverick
CUBAN YOU LOSE.
FURL IT!
Furl is a program that allows you to take your bookmarks with you. It then allows you to save them privately or publically as well as rank them 1-5. You can then search your bookmarks on a certain subject either publically or locally and it will organize relevance from 1-5. This is great for school research, too bad im graduating suckers!
The key to using Furl is that you need a button in your browser that you can click to save the item you are viewing. Thanks to technology called "bookmarklets" you don't need to install any software to do this. If you haven't yet put the button in your browser, read the button help page for all the details.
Once you have the button, continue to use the Internet as you normally would and whenever you find something of interest, click the "Furl It" button to add the page to your archive. You'll have the option to add comments, categorize and date the item before you click "Save."
I sabotaged my blog!
I was looking around the internet last night for information about what the hot trends are in the internet. I came across the page http://www.webtalkradio.com/news/000024.shtml which lists the “ten hottest internet trends for 2005”. Although we’re half way through 2006, I found the page very interesting. Here are the trends that they listed:
1. MOBILE DIGITAL MEDIA EXPLODES
2. WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY GROWS FASTER
3. MOST NETIZENS BECOME DIGITAL CONTENT CREATORS
4. MOBLOGS BECOME ALL THE RAGE
5. MEDIA SEARCH & ELECTRONIC IPTV PROGRAM GUIDES CONVERGE
6. LOCAL / GEOGRAPHICAL WEB SEARCH
7. WEBLOGS BECOME SPONSOR SUPPORTED MAJOR MEDIA SOURCES
8. EMAIL MAINTAINS "KILLER APPLICATION" STATUS AGAINST INSTANT MESSENGER FOR NOW
9. MOBILE WEB AND MOBILE STREAMING MEDIA GROWS
10. EMERGENCE OF UNLIKELY GEEK MEDIA STARS ONLINE
I also found a cnet article that seems a little dated, it lists the top ten internet fads. Blogger is on there at number nine! They were pretty funny, I recognized 8 of the 10 fads. How many do you remember? All your base are belong to us! hahaha
http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6268155-1.html
Look, up in the sky! It's a cloud! It's rain! It's summer in Seattle!
Sandeep Krishnamurthy. Scholar. Humanitarian. Blogspot user.
Our class yesterday
iTunes vs. Limewire
That was the title of my final choice for todays class. After much persecution and prejudice I was finally allowed this as a topic.My first choices were myspace (was ignored) -> Donald Trump (Not allowed) -> Britney Spears (right after someone took martha stewart, still wasnt allowed) -> iTunes.Then 90% into my iTunes powerpoint I was verbally assaulted that Limewire wasn't even a competitor of iTunes.After surpassing all of these barriers in my way to success I achieved my goal and factually reported on the status of iTunes and Limewire as competitors.I would thank to de-thank Dennis and Professor K. for trying to crush my hopes and dreams!I love bloggin.
Nate MacDonald
*EDIT* *UPDATE* I was just accused of not doing any actual research and relying on other peoples information. Isn't that was research is? Compiling experts first hand information into a cohesive arguement. It definately is at the BA level thats for sure.
Summer 2006, my experiences!
A summary of my experience Summer 2006 at UWB
Summer 2006 UWB has been a intense summer for me so far. As most of you already know I am currently taking 15 credits in what is essentially 4.5 weeks. This is 3 classes, twice a week, for four and half hours each. While far from ideal, I wanted to graduate as soon as possible and this was the only way to do it. Following is a summary of my classes and my experiences.
Consumer Marketing:
This class is very interesting and should be a core requirement of some sort. While the assignments were not really attached to the in-class lectures, I still attended because it was interesting. Overall, this was a great class with only a recommendation to have the assignments mirror the lectures.
Search and the World Wide Web 2006:
This class is exactly what a summer class should be like. I’ve learned more about searching, web sites, and just the web in general then I should ever need to know. At the same time I had fun and was interested the entire class time. With minimal homework, but maximum knowledge gained, this class has the summer quarter technique fine tuned to perfection!
Great Books in Business:
While unnecessarily ambiguous at first this class has turned out to be my most important management class. Through actual researching (requiring me to actually look at real life books) I have learned a plethora of knowledge on management. The discussions in class were invaluable as well as the teamwork. Fantastic class, my only recommendation: less ambiguity!
Nathan MacDonald
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Hello Everyone
Here is my summary:
Advanced google searching
The difference between the web and groups
Creating a webpage
Creating a blog
Using pagerank to improve your pages rank
Learning about googles competition
Using analysis tools to come to conclusions and consult a company on better pratices!
Thats it for now!
Nate
iTunes vs. Limewire
My first choices were myspace (was ignored) -> Donald Trump (Not allowed) -> Britney Spears (right after someone took martha stewart, still wasnt allowed) -> iTunes.
Then 90% into my iTunes powerpoint I was verbally assaulted that Limewire wasn't even a competitor of iTunes.
After surpassing all of these barriers in my way to success I achieved my goal and factually reported on the status of iTunes and Limewire as competitors.
I would thank to de-thank Dennis and Professor K. for trying to crush my hopes and dreams!
I love bloggin,
Nate MacDonald
*EDIT* *UPDATE* I was just accused of not doing any actual research and relying on other peoples information. Isn't that was research is? Compiling experts first hand information into a cohesive arguement. It definately is at the BA level thats for sure.
All about blogging.......
Marouane