The business impacts of social networking

After extensive talks with Mr Batchelder about how social networking and the way the web is going. I can only wonder why businesses would want to tap into it. I think it’s a fantastic idea in trying to get more people involved through many of the mediums. But I think we need another sort of outlet besides social networking.

THey say it’ll take 2 years catch up, but we keep changing so much that5 I believe we’ll fall behind. My belief is that we need to create a trend to help people move into the direction we are steering into. Then we can stay ahead of the game when it comes to social networking. THe financial aspect is still hard for me to grasp seeing as though, when we create social networks. They are free but things like ads have to support the site.

The upside is that for employees for social networks would be a dream. Gaining knowledge from others in the company and policies. This could be an optimal key tool for the future.

Studio IMD problem

I have chosen to do a site about getting people together for breakfast, lunch or dinner. I’ve gotten a few ideas but most of the sites are dating based. I would like to merge maybe people who just wants to meet new people. Many of these sites are pushing for relationships and marriages, and while the intentions are good. I feel that it is all forced into a great expectation on the first date. Without even seeing or contacting each other prior before the meeting.

My idea would be a site that I can gather singles and couples together. Sometimes we as people fall out of society and when we want to go somewhere. It might be the same people and while that can be comfortable to some. It can be boring to others, I’ve been on plenty of “dates” where I went out for the exprience, some of them were really great and others, I knew it would only be a one time deal.

Here are some of the sites I have chosen:
1)Lunch Spark
The good: I think this would be a good idea for people looking for somewhere new to eat rather than just eating at the same old place. It shows the top ten places among the area you placed your area code as well as genres of food that people have reviewed. Not just some food conseiur(?) that placed in the paper.

The Bad: I didn’t see anywhere that you could meet new people and there aren’t any real descriptions of the place. You are going based off of a review or some friends that might have suggested it to you.

Things I would consider: I would definately change the navigation. It’s all over the place! it’s on top, the sides and some are at the bottom. Some topics were related to each other but they spaced it all over the page. The colors are plain and I feel like upon clicking it, it just seemed like another page with a different picture.

2)Dinner Dates This is a Florida based site.
The good: It explains it alittle more detailed about how this site is ran. Showing that they can cater one on one or group dates. They even show Group dates that occur at certain events and dates. They also conduct interviews to best suit your interests and compatibility with another person.

The bad: I feel that while they seem to promote friendship while going to events, they are pressuring more on dating. There are various pictures of couples and their site seems to contradict itself in many aspects.

Things I would consider: I noticed on one or two other sites, they had some pre questionaires. It can or cannot be useful in this situation. The content is good quality but I feel there can be more descriptions or better details at the very least.

3)Lunch Dates A boston based site
The good: I would say that this is very nicely put together. If I was to put a site together, most of the content considered would come from here. I think they explain thoroghly what this site is about and how you can find someone to fit the same timeframe as yourself.

The bad: Again, I am looking for a site that is more human interaction. Not just another date sort of thing. And while they are good at what they have provided, I am looking for abit more expansion to my site.

Things I would change: Members only, I think that page shouldn’t have to be a page by itself, it has nothing but a logon and a password. Abit boring, I would have the login and password along the top or side of the page so when a user wanted to log in, they would have to click on an extra link to get where they wanted to go.

4) It’s just lunch milwaukee
The good: it has chalk full of stuff like most of the other sites did. It even showed the restaurants that they partnered up with. It even had some tips for dating, if you are serious for the dating aspect.

The bad: I didn’t see too much of the bad.

Things I would consider: I wasn’t sure what I would change. I would like to think more about it.

http://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/stp/1395675635.html
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/stp/1419926933.html
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/stp/1416469157.html

A few of this listings are some of the ideas that I was thinking about. I used to make posts for replies on dinner dates and it was fun. But mainly a lot of this site became spamming and scammers.

Intro and Final Flash

I didn’t put sound on it. It slipped my mind and when looking for sound, it wasn’t anything I had envisioned in my head.

So here’s my link
http://www.aid.aiistudentwork.com/pl/motion/wong_c/wk11/preloaderNfinal2.html

Flash Week 10

Here is an extremely rough idea of my intro. Likens and I had a talk about how my flash wouldn’t necessarily animate. So I think my problem is working with transitioning from still to still. So here you go. I wasn’t sure what to post so you get all the copies

HTML
http://www.aid.aiistudentwork.com/pl/motion/wong_c/wk10/preloaderNfinal.html

FLASH FILE
http://www.aid.aiistudentwork.com/pl/motion/wong_c/wk10/preloaderNfinal.fla

SWF FILE
http://www.aid.aiistudentwork.com/pl/motion/wong_c/wk10/preloaderNfinal.swf

Flash Preloader

Here is my flash preloader.

http://www.aid.aiistudentwork.com/pl/motion/wong_c/wk8/preloader.fla

Flash Week 7

So I have my invisabutton on the first banner.
http://www.aid.aiistudentwork.com/PL/motion/wong_c/wk7/banner2final.html

I know, I’m kind of lame, I didn’t know what to make for the second banner but I ended getting the first idea of the sun progressing through the day. I got a few kinks in it, I’m working on a few things but I enjoyed this one. I had a few ideas that could work.

http://www.aid.aiistudentwork.com/PL/motion/wong_c/wk7/bannerfinal.html

CSS Positioning

http://css.flepstudio.org/en/css-properties/position-static-absolute-relative-static.html

This one was extremely basic but helped with pictures and such. Even the boxs along the time and bottom helped as well. I’m not always savvy with these kinds of materials but I understood what Batchelder said. But sometimes, pieces click in place when you see it explained in a different manner.

I’m having problems finding something worth my while. Either they find a quick brush up on positioning or people having problems with it. I found a site, it didn’t load but I am going to put it up on here so later on I can look at it
http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/

Anyone else running into the problem?

Final Project Ideas

I had some ideas, I had a couple that stand out strongly. FYI, Mr. Batchelder, I will not be rescrapping the Yo! crazy site. During the holidays I felt that the site had so much more potential to use in a later course in the program.

Here are my two ideas, first one was a motorcycle safety course/gear. I liked this one the most because I’ve ridden motorcycles for the last 7 years only and a few years ago I was trained to teach the course. I learned how to ride on the very principle on my ex’s bike where he told me if I dropped the bike, we’d have to walk home, haha. That built determination and a concious idea that riding is to be taken seriously. The second idea is a drum buying site, I am drummer and I love exotic or higher brand drums that are hardly ever found, along with cymbals and many other items. I would say this site is more for the serious drummer or someone that has that type of money.

So in the motorcycle idea:
http://www.msf-usa.org/
http://www.bikerhiway.com/
http://www.msgroup.org/

The first link motorcycle safety foundation, it is nationwide. The book motorcycle excellence was the book my ex had bought me and I learned so much reading parts of it. I know teaching online would never justify being there or doing it. But I would touch bases on my site with the basics of understanding the motorcycle and all the components as well as getting the people who do ride fine tune them in hazardous situations. I love this site because it puts state laws and everything you would need to know and numbers for the informer if they wanted to take that course in their state/locally. There wasn’t anything I didn’t like about it, I’ve gathered so much information from this site.

The second link is more towards apparel, I firmly believe that a rider(novice or advanced) should wear any protective gear or purchase protective gear for themselves and their bike. In my site, I would like to put gear down for people to see and understand, such as helmets. There are several styles of helmets and the dynamics of how they function. I would like to do a review on them or maybe have other users that visit the site put down their 2 cents. When you click on a helmet http://www.bikerhiway.com/shoei-hornet-ds-helmet-p-517.html it tells you how it’s made, DOT(dept of transportation) approved and how to size at the bottom. Useful tips when buying online or perhaps before you go to your local motorcycle dealer. There isn’t too much I don’t like about the site, the only thing was the homepage looked bland with tons of links but you were able to find your way around.

The last site was more on safety tips and tricks. How to handle situations like taking a passenger or braking(since you’ll have two places to brake). This one had a forum on it, something I would probably not add to the site. Sometimes forums get cluttered by idiocy or people who like to come in and start something. I would like to try and keep some concrete information within the site and not confuse people with what I say on the site and the forum says differently, it creates contradictions. I would look into merging more tips on riding along with what was already on the site.

The Second idea was the drumming:
While I’m not really well versed on if I want just exotic drums for purchase or if I want to teach you how to buy drums. I was trying to figure a fine tune way of what I want to convey across as the message. I’d like to take more time to find search into this idea before I say anything else.