Reflection

COM 125 has been a eye opener for me. After this course, i have began to take better notice of the internet - its functions and its capabilities. The history of the internet was boring yet interesting. I am amazed at how it all began with ARPANET and now with web 3.0! This course has shown me the little important things about the internet that we often over look in our everyday lives. For example, the power of something so simple like twitter! Even though it is just a micro blog, with the internet, it can reach our to masses. My greatest take away from this course is the relation between the internet and business. I have come to realize how powerful the internet can be to expand and boost businesses. Lectures about E-Commerce really opened my eyes to the wonders how reaching out to the masses through the use of the internet. I certainly hope my learning for the internet would not stop here! The future of the internet is limitless! Thank you! :)

Week 12: The Future Of The Internet

TODAY


In today's world, you see that almost everything is connected to the internet. From everyday uses of a vehicle to skyscrapers that uses the internet everyday single day.

TOMORROW



The internet of everything of tomorrow will see even more objects being connected to the internet for some reason or another. Take google glasses for example. This is a great example of how something so minute in our everyday life can be connected to the internet to tell us information straight to our eyes. Who knows what the internet will bring us with things like our shirts, habits and more!


The Internet of Everything...
is about people, Process, data and things!
the Waves of innovation....
are made up of many technology transitions
(Cloud computing, IPv6 and much more...)

With the future of internet, we can expect to see business models changing slowly...


the important thing to understand is that i believe the future of the internet empowers people to do many things! Empower people in their daily lives - like running, walking, buying groceries etc.. it also empowers people in their workplaces! better presentation, meetings and interaction between businesses.


all i can say is BE READY for future innovations! 

Week 11: Internet Business

THE 5 PILLARS OF ONLINE BUSINESS MODEL

1. BLOG

blogs are websites design for social interaction. Typically, its a way of communicating with an audience. It usually allows an individual to comment, share ideas, and communicate with the creator of the site. Blogs have the ability to generate income through software products, affiliate links, ebooks, educational material and other forms.

2. MEMBERSHIP SITE

Membership sites are usually paid monthly subscriptions that allow the person purchasing the membership to become part of a community, gain valuable information on a topic that they consider important, learn valuable skills through multimedia such as video, text, and images, and gain exclusive offers and promotions.

3. NICHE SITE

A niche site is a website designed to target a very specific market. Niche sites tend to gain most of their traffic through ranking well in search engines for specific keyword terms, and use short copy to communicate the importance of their product to try to convert their prospects into buyers and email subscribers. Niche sites can also generate a decent income from placing within the top 3 positions on search engines such as google and using Adsense and advertising to collect revenue through ppc advertising.

4. REVIEW SITE

Review sites are websites that post reviews about products and/or services to allow visitors to make better buying decisions for whatever they are trying to purchase. These sites offer detailed information about each product/service and list of pros and cons of each to help the buyer figure out which product/service works best for him or her.

5. E-COMMERCE SITE

E-commerce sites focus on buying and selling products through an electronic medium. These type of sites can produce large amounts of income, but tend to require the most work to build and maintain. Communication with buyers and sellers is vital, and gaining traffic and converting prospects into buyers also plays a primary role in e-commerce.

now that we understood the 5 pillars of an internet business model.... did the 3 giants incorporate these into their enterprises? 

Week 10: Internet Journalism

HOW IS THE INTERNET SHAPING THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM?

1. The gathering of news

Reporters and editors use the Net’s links-based architecture to provide users with important background information, resources and archived articles that allow users to glimpse the trajectory of a news story over time.

2. Reporting the news

Speed is one of the Internet’s greatest virtues — and vices. In the current saturated media environment, the Internet heightens the intense competitive pressures to be first while a story is still developing and key facts remain unknown.

3. Ability to interact

This is what makes the internet such an extraordinary medium - the ability to interact instantaneously with people from all over the world in both print and on video. At the moment, most people are more accustomed to the passive format of radio and TV and don't know how to interact. But they are learning fast.

4. Two-way

As the internet moves into the next stage of broadband and wireless, it is going to turn TV into a genuine two-way medium. Journalists will be able to read e-mails off their wireless phones as they come in, live on air from almost any spot in the planet.

SO... DO YOU WANT TO BE A JOURNALIST?

Week 9: Internet & Politics

3 WAYS SOCIAL MEDIA (INTERNET) HAS IMPACTED SINGAPORE'S GENERAL ELECTION

1. Social connections brings more opinions and perspective of things

Just 5 years ago, people were receiving information on the general elections from newspapers, magazines and daily broadsheet. look at us now! Social media has changed the game plan for any upcoming general elections. With Facebook and Twitter, an individual's feed can be constantly flooded with varying opinions and perspectives of the public. Social influence through the internet is inevitable. 

2. Broader discussion with people you do not even know

Besides Internet forums, where topics regarding the GE were discussed readily by forum members familiar with each other, this election will be noted as one that allowed complete strangers to connect instantly via social media. Twitter's Hashtags (#) provided a single information stream for people to view, retweet, and reply tweets they wanted to comment on. This led to strangers having heated debates, rebutting comments contrary to their political beliefs, and even going as far as blocking users who disagreed with them.

3. Everything is much much faster!

As early as 2300 hrs on 7th of May, words spread quickly that a hotly contested region had fallen to the opposition on Twitter and Facebook. Only 3 hours later, did the mainstream media confirm the news. In fact, almost all the election-related information shared on social media was more accurate and faster than mainstream media. Information on a candidate can be easily dugged up and reviewed by the public - where the internet can set ablaze varying reactions. 

With everything much faster, what are the disadvantages?

Campaigning is tough in general. However, internet campaigning might not be a good idea. Its bad enough as it is to do it in real life but the internet is a bad idea. For example, since so many people have access to the internet there are the potential for more lies to be spread, more hate speech from blogs, and more issues that can be spread from those that are against a certain candidate. As it stands right now, many people use the internet to vent of their frustrations about the campaign like they do here. Campaigning online would mean an immediate slander for anyone who runs. 

SO WHY ARE YOUNG ADULTS & YOUTHS APATHETIC TOWARDS POLITICS?

sadly, this should explain the attitudes we have towards politcs

Week 8: Multi Multi Media Mania!

Versus...

The battle continues.. APPLE VS SAMSUNG!

Internet Multimedia

Multimedia is a content that contains a variety of different media, for example, video, images, sounds and texts. Many companies today use multimedia in their marketing communication, given that is a more interactive way to promote their new products to the consumers.

Comparison

1. Both utilises multimedia: I had found this video on Youtube, both also have social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook pages which they update regularly. Likewise, I found the promotional video of new products on their social media sites, as well as their official website.

2. Comparing the two videos, Apple’s use of multimedia seems more advanced than Samsung’s due to the seamless transition between different scenes. as well as the incorporation of computer generated imagery. Samsung video, on the other hand, featured a rather simple use of multimedia, using mainly celebrity assurance and the idea of a family product. 

3. However, apple til this date has been using the same format for their commercials. From the different scenes of the products to someone introducing the product at the start. All has NOT changed. Unlike Samsung - one product probably has like 5 or more different kinds of advertisements. In addition, the purpose of multimedia in marketing communication is to make it look more interactive to consumers, so as to engage and hence entice them to buy the product. 

so my finally verdict!

SAMSUNG!!!

NewsML is an XML standard designed to provide a media-independent, structural framework for multi-media news. NewsML was developed by — and is a registered trademark of — the IPTC (International Press Telecommunication Council). It is structure based, leaving layout and other presentation features to style sheets and other presentation languages such as XHTML or SMIL.

It has also been adopted as Japanese Industry Standard (JIS) X7201:2005.

Currently, NewsML has 2 standards

1. NewsML 1.x

NewsML 1 is the first design of the NewsML approach to exchange news. It was adopted by big news agencies around the globe and is still in use.
NewsML 1 was released first in 2000, the current version is 1.2 of 2003.

2. NewsML -G2

NewsML-G2 is the next step in the NewsML evolution: it builds on a framework which is common to a whole family of news exchange standards while its focus remains on the exchange of general news. Also the handling of metadata values has been improved.
NewsML-G2 2.0 was first released in spring 2008, the current version is 2.1.

Week 7: "Houston! We have a problem!"

With the rise of the internet, comes many benefits and disadvantages. With technology advancement waiting for no man, people are constantly under threat from internet security. However, with the rise of cyber attacks, many companies have invented "ANTI-VIRUS" programs to prevent such an event. BOY! are we spoiled for choices when it comes to anti-virus's programs! here are the list of some of them....

While these programs may make us feel a little safer on the internet, WHAT DO THESE PROGRAMS ACTUALLY DO?!!!

Anti-virus software (usually known as AV) are softwares that are used to prevent, detect and remove "MALWARE" (Malicious software). There malware such as computer viruses, hijackers, torjan horses and worms! 

Now, you may ask HOW?

one basic method would be the "SIGNATURE BASED DETECTION"

Traditionally, antivirus software heavily relied upon signatures to identify malware. This can be very effective, but cannot defend against malware unless samples have already been obtained and signatures created. Because of this, signature-based approaches are not effective against new, unknown viruses.

To improve on things and with the power of the INTERNET! we now have 

Cloud antivirus is a technology that uses lightweight agent software on the protected computer, while offloading the majority of data analysis to the provider's infrastructure.

One approach to implementing cloud antivirus involves scanning suspicious files using multiple antivirus engines. This approach was proposed by an early implementation of the cloud antivirus concept called CloudAV. CloudAV was designed to send programs or documents to a network cloud where multiple antivirus and behavioral detection programs are used simultaneously in order to improve detection rates.

OH! I FEEL SAFER ALREADY! ;))

till the next post! see ya!

Week 6: Internet Tools