It's Break Up Time

It's not you, it's me. I can't do this anymore, all these late nights and long project papers. We need to break up. It's been fun, but I need to golf on Tuesdays and you need to get jobs. Seriously, this was a great semester, we covered a bunch of stuff and I'll bet the non-techies are pretty close to techies today. Hopefully you all learned something.

I'll post an echo tomorrow morning (clues for the final and who knows what else).

Online Quiz Due Today at 11:55PM!!!

Just a friendly reminder, your quiz is due today at 11:55PM!!! 28 of you still need to take the quiz. You will find it in Blackboard>Assignments.

--Scott

Team Project Presentation Schedule

April 16 - Thursday
BioTechnology
Mobile Commerce

April 23 - Thursday
Fantastic 5
Wearable Computers
MERG
BlueTooths
Handheld Gaming

April 28 - Tuesday
Virtual Goods
In Game Advertising
Tourzilla
Gesture Control Devices

April 14 -17

This week we will focus on two very important aspects of Internet based business and entrepreneurship: Internet Marketing and E-Commerce Systems. Today we will focus on "How To Catch a Mouse," specifically we'll talk about understanding your environment, Internet Marketing techniques, campaigns and web analytics. Finally, on Thursday we will discuss E-commerce systems and hosting issues.

Assigned reading: 3G Internet Marketing pgs. 93-168
Assignments Due: Team Projects Due April 17

Web Programming & Technologies

I wanted to post a follow up to Jim Daley's talk on Tuesday. Obviously it was very informative and very technical. Here are the top five topics along with an resource to help explain them (in case I ask you on a quiz). Again, if you were confused, the links below will help you!

AJAX
Article: http://webdesign.about.com/od/ajax/a/aa101705.htm
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJXLRLDWjn4

XML
Article: http://www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_whatis.asp
Article: http://www.textuality.com/xml/

API
Article: http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/apis-who-what-why-how/
Video: http://blip.tv/file/399231/

MashUP
Article: http://webtrends.about.com/od/webmashups/a/what-is-mashup.htm
Video: http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13569_22-152729.html

SQL
Article: http://cplus.about.com/od/thebusinessofsoftware/a/whatissql.htm
Demo: http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_intro.asp

Team Project Examples

So I stared reading over your drafts and I was pretty disappointed that most of you didn't take advantage of the time given and opportunity for me to review it (actually one group is almost done). As we get closer to the due date for our Team Projects I thought it would be a good idea to provide you with a couple above average team projects from last year (These were B+/A- projects).

Smart Clothing

RFID

Wearable Computers

Wireless Consumer Marketplace

Research In Motion's (RIM) media-rich BlackBerry smartphones, such as the Pearl, Curve, Storm and Bold models, compete with Apple's iPhone for retail customers. RIM has pushed aggressively to diversify its user base beyond executives, lawyers, politicians and other professionals who use BlackBerrys to send wireless e-mail.

RIM opens software store for BlackBerry
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5300R920090401

Will this new store allow Blackberry to cut over to the broader consumer marketplace (the iPhone space)?