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Wins, Losses and Discussions This Week (May 8th-14th)
Wins
May 12th
The Most Useless Machine of all Time - Watch this video and it will make you laugh. Such a win for the week!
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May 12th
Slide to Unlock Doormat - innovative!
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May 13th
99.5% of Social Media Experts are Clowns - I am relieved that someone actually realized this and made a post about it. Gary Vaynerchuk says “we are going to live through a devastating social media bubble” due to people claiming to be social media experts. This form of communicating is so new that nobody can truly be an expert.
Losses
May 9th
Tingle App - does the world really need a casual sex app? We are spending more time with our online social media lives rather than actually meeting people. why don’t you either 1. Just hook up with someones online made up profile or 2. hit a club downtown?
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May 12th
The Beginning of the End of Print - some may see this as a win but I see it as a loss of tradition. I love the feel of a newspaper and physically writing and screwing up crossword answers. The completion of the New Yorker iPad app is another blow to the physical paper sector of the news industry. I don’t think we will see paper through 2020.
Discussion
May 11th
Privacy Risks of ID Codes in your Apps - not surprisingly, there has been more and more research coming out involving mobile security in the last few years as smart phones have become more prominent. We are starting to see the implications of holding all of our sensitive data in one place. Unique identifiers are at risk of being used to gain access to your Facebook profiles and location data. I for see a strong user push from the market to upgrade security especially with the recent 1. Facebook security breach 2. Sony failing with their information security and 3. New NFC technologies for secure transfer of information.
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May 14th
Why isn’t wi-fi Better? – Stacy Higginbotham went over in her post the fact that most people use Wi-Fi “sitting still in a hotspot.” The infrastructure is there to support mobile wi-fi but has not been implemented yet due to the standard nature it must take on. These networks must be capable of seamlessly handing off between networks as you move so it has to be standardized. In order for this to take off, there must be a large advantage of mobile wi-fi over 3G communications and it must be saturated within large areas. Stacy believes that “it will likely never replace cellular when it comes to convenience.” I have to agree with this for the cellular market is already developed and working but soon there will be problems with bandwidth usage over 3G networks. This may spark interest in the mobile wifi technoogy down the road.
How the Last 5 Years has Changed Us: Part 1
I am starting a three part series on how the last five years has changed our lives and entire industries around us. If you don’t live under an excessively large boulder, you will have noticed a fundamental paradigm shift; that being the massive increase and accessibility of the internet. A mere five – ten years ago, you probably wouldn’t have a clue what WIFI is or know about a company named Apple. We have truly and completely changed a deep-seated part of our lives: our ability to communicate. There are three major things that have aided with our current ability to access the internet: Smartphones, WIFI (wireless fidelity), and Tablets/Laptops.
Blackberry, Android and iPhone
After the release of the first blackberry created by RIM, there has been a multi-billion dollar market created for smartphones around the world. There is something about having your entire computer carried with you wherever you go that is tantalizing for the general population. Then the iPhone was released, changing the market entirely and boasting a sleek new way to access their data whether it is email, calendar, or web surfing. Currently the two biggest Smartphone carriers are RIM and Apple but Google has also created a free operating system for smartphones called Android that is used by many different companies, installing it on their hardware. Now with the approximate 3.3 billion smartphones being shipped worldwide, more and more people are able to connect to the internet 24 hours a day.
Home Network
As you may know, not everyone has a smartphone; it is a relatively new phenomenon. A separate yet huge change that has allowed the global population to have online access is cheap and fast home network capabilities. Massive infrastructure changes in different cities around the world has allowed virtually anyone (who wants to pay for it) to have internet at home. This lets adults be connected to their work at all times as well as having their children grow up with access to the internet. This allowed full integration of the internet into our newest generation as well as influencing all other generations to use it as well. As home networks increased, we saw this paradigm shift occurring before our eyes and faster than ever.
Laptop
Throughout the entire of process of internet development and accessibility over the last 5 years, not surprisingly the number of laptops has increased. People are now demanding a portable computer that can give them full hands on OS experience when away from home. WIFI has now increased enormously in public places such as coffee shops and even grocery stores such as Safeway. We can get out of the house with a portable computer at a cheap price and be productive throughout the day.
Along with the laptop, Apple has stimulated the tablet market which is argued by many if it can replace the functions of the laptop (see my post about that). This is another device designed to increase productivity and relies on you having constant access to the internet…which is now a given.
These three items are the core backbone that supports many of the things used today such as Facebook, Twitter and so on. The next part of this series will be about the industries created due to this shift that has occurred in the last 5 years.
Technology Funny of the Week
Here is my first tech/business funny of the week. I plan to make the is weekly thing (hence the name). Enjoy:
Big Tech Companies Business Strategy
[Viral Vid] – Baby Discussion Translated
If you only live under a small rock you will have heard about the viral video posted on youtube composed of 5 minutes of baby talk between baby twins. Here is that discussion translated by the lovely guys on www.collegehumor.com
http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6465342&use_node_id=true&fullscreen=1
A Personal Take on the iPad
There is opinionated conflict between iPad lovers, skeptics, and whiney know-it-all wannabe tech junkies regarding this: can the iPad replace your laptop? I pulled the trigger about a month ago now to purchase my shiny new old generation iPad. (It was cheaper ok! Who wants the iPad 2?) I want to bring to you my personal take on how it has worked out for me so far.
iPad versus Laptop
The first thing I said during day 1 with the iPad: “Yes I can finally keep up with my neglected blog feeds and twitter account!” Try to read tweets and blog postings on a small iPhone screen; I will schedule your laser eye surgery in advance for you. The most useful social media apps I have discovered so far are Flipboard, Twitter for iPad, Facepad, and HootSuite. If you are a social media addict like me, these apps will save your life. Beautiful interfaces and layouts allow me to go through my social media feeds in ¼ of the time! Keep in mind that I am a student and am not constantly on a computer to check social media and email, so now I am able to turn to my iPad.
Funny but I disagree!
Not only will this device prevent you from going to facebook.com and twitter.com 20 times a day on your laptop, the battery will last for 3 days without charging! That is about 30 times longer than your two year old laptop we all know you have. Along with battery life, internet anywhere access and the $600 price tag make this device very appealing.
Some will argue that the iPad cannot replace your laptop in terms of word processing and spreadsheet management. I have been using Pages to write all my Finance notes and that is without an external Bluetooth keyboard attached! This blog post is also entirely written from my iPad just to prove my point. I have been using the apple iOS interface for 2 years now so I am used to the sensitive touch keyboard. All it takes is some practice so complainers hush up and try it.
Destroyed!
Basically all I can say is this: if you are doing heavy statistical analysis or writing a novel, I would recommend supplementing your iPad use with a computer. Other than that, forget putting your laptop in your backpack and tuck the iPad under your arm instead. Your back will thank you.
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