Homework 3-01-2008

1. According to the book by Treese and Stewart, what is the commerce value chain? Why not see them on an individual basis?

From the book, the commerce value chain gives us a useful way to think about Internet commerce projects. The commerce value chain - the following four steps link up.

1. Attract customers.

2. Interact with customers.

3. Act on customer instruction.

4. React to customer requests.

For textbook's example, we can look at the value chain of a retail store, which includes selecting products that will be sold, purchasing them from a wholesaler or manufacturer, arranging attractive displays, advertising to attract customers, assisting customers with their selections, taking payments for the products, and delivering the products to customers. Each of these links in the chain is important to the business, and if any one of them breaks down, the entire business is affected.

combined efforts, and individual basis can't satisfy : Quality：no discount, Service：Fast and Accurate, Value：to be worthy of

2. Is the Internet different from other media? Why?

I think the answer can be Yes and also can be No. The Internet link most kinds of media, and it can be presented one or multiple media. Besides, the Internet have some media differ from the old media, like BBS or Blog.

3. On this Internet-based tool, you are able to edit a paragraph while someone is working on another. In order to do so, you got to have an account to login Google. Please use your email to apply for one so that you can use it now. A link to the document will be included in the message, please just click on the link to collaborate.

Please be noted that not only can you browse the document but also you can edit and update it freely. You may see other colleagues online at the same time and refrain from making updates. Please feel free to go ahead. The software will resolve change conflicts for you.
The revision history will keep a log of all changes. So your changes will be noticed by other colleagues and re-reviewed.

Convert one of your Word document using Google docs.

a wise saw

4. Customize your blogs.

did it

ADL Recognition Based on the Combination of RFID and Accelerometer Sensing

A activity recognition system based on the combination of the data from two different types of sensors: RFID tag readers and accelerometers

two specific sets of activities that describe the functional status of a person (Activities of Daily Living (ADL) - bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, continence, feeding), as well as interaction with the physical and social environment (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) - using telephone, shopping, food preparation, housekeeping, doing laundry, transportation, taking medications, handling finances) have been defined

2. Summarize the What Is Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly

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1. List the companies Google acquired year by year.Briefly describe the strategic implications of each acquisition.

2001 Google Acquisitions
1. 2001-02-12 - Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com - Google Groups
2. 2001-09-20 - Technology Assets of Outride Inc - Online Information Retrieval Technologies

2003 Google Acquisitions
1. 2003-02-00 - Pyra Labs - Blogger
2. 2003-04-00 - Neotonic Software - Technology for Email Customer Support (CRM)
3. 2003-04-23 - Applied Semantics - Advertising Technology企業在線營銷管理工具
4. 2003-09-30 - Kaltix Corp - Personalized and Context Sensitive Search Engine Technology
5. 2003-10-07 - Genius Labs - Blogging

2004 Google Acquisitions
1. 2004-05-10 - Ignite Logic - Web Templates for Law Firms and Small Businesses ; Website creation technology
2. 2004-06-23 - 2.6% Stake in Baidu.com; 2006-06-24 ; Google Sells 2.6% Stake in Baidu.com - Chinese Language Search Engine
3. 2004-07-13 - Picasa - Digital Photo Management ; Photo management software
4. 2004-10-00 - Where 2 Technologies - Digital Mapping (Google Maps)
5. 2004-10-27 - Keyhole Corp - Digital Mapping (Google Earth)
6. 2004-12-00 - ZipDash - Maps and Traffic for Mobile Devices ; Used in Google Ride Finder

2005 Google Acquisitions
1. 2005-01-00 - 2Web Technologies - Google Spreadsheets ; Web-based spreadsheet
2. 2005-01-00 - Phatbits - Widget engine.
3. 2005-03-28 - Urchin Software - Web Analytics Software流量分析
4. 2005-05-12 - Dodgeball - Mobile Social Networking
5. 2005-07-00 - Reqwireless Inc - Java ME Browser ; Web browser and Mobile email
6. 2005-07-07 - Current Communications Group - Broadband Internet (BPL - Broadband over Power Line)
7. 2005-08-17 - Android(mobile phone platform) - Software for Mobile Phones ; Software for Handheld devices
8. 2005-09-15 - Transformic Inc - Search Engines for the Deep Web
9. 2005-11-00 - Skia - Graphics Software Engineering
10. 2005-11-17 - Akwan Information Technologies - Latin American Operations Center (Brazil, Mexico, Latin America) ; Latin American internet operations
11. 2005-12-xx - allPAY GmbH, bruNET GmbH - Mobile Solution Provider, Germany
12. 2005-12-20 - 5.0% Stake in AOL - Internet

2006 Google Acquisitions
1. 2006-01-17 - dMarc Broadcasting - Digital Solutions for Radio Broadcasting Industry ; Radio advertising software and platform.
2. 2006-02-14 - Measure Map - Web Analytics for Blogs
3. 2006-03-09 - Upstartle (Writely) - Web Based Collaborative Document Editor (Online Word Processing)
4. 2006-03-14 - @Last Software - SketchUp 3D Modeling
5. 2006-04-09 - Orion - Referential Search Engine ; Advanced search method.
6. 2006-08-15 - Neven Vision - Automatic Information Extraction from Photos
7. 2006-10-31 - JotSpot Inc - Wiki Technology for Collaborative Websites ; Website applications
8. 2006-11-13 - YouTube Inc - Consumer Media Company (Watch and Share Videos) ; Video sharing (San Bruno, CA)
9. 2006-12-00 - Endoxon - Geo Mapping Software ; Mapping solutions

2007 Google Acquisitions
1. 2007-01-00 - Xunlei (Partial Acquisition) - File Sharing Website ; Network, file-sharing
2. 2007-03-16 - Adscape Media - In-Game Advertising for Video Games ; Video game advertising
3. 2007-03-16 - Trendalyzer - Presentation Software
4. 2007-04-13 - Doubleclick - Advertising Technology Platform
5. 2007-04-17 - Tonic Systems - Presentation Creation and Document Conversion Technology
6. 2007-04-19 - Marratech - Video Conferencing Software ; Video conferencing (Stockholm, Sweden)
7. 2007-05-11 - Green Border Technologies - Secure Connections for Web Browsing and Email ; Desktop enterprise security
8. 2007-05-30~06-01 - Panoramio - Community Photos Website (Works with Google Earth) ; Geospatial Photo-sharing Service
9. 2007-06-01~03 - Feedburner - Feed Distribution and Management Tools ; RSS Feeds (Chicago, IL)
10. 2007-06-05 - PeakStream Inc - Multiprocessor and GPU Software ; Parallel Processing
11. 2007-06-19 - Zenter - Online Slide Presentations
12. 2007-07-02 - GrandCentral Communications - Services for Managing Voice Communications ; VOIP Phone Aggregation (Fremont, CA)
13. 2007-07-xx - ImageAmerica - High resolution aerial cameras
14. 2007-07-09 - Google to Acquire Postini - Services for Message Security, Archiving, Encryption, and Policy Enforcement ; Communications Security (San Carlos, CA)
15. 2007-09-xx - Tusli - Google Blogger Api Engineering Team
16. 2007-09-xx - Zingku - Mobile social network and communication platform
17. 2007-10-xx - Jaiku - An activity stream and presence sharing service that works from the Web and mobile phones (Helsinki)

Understanding Mobile Phone Requirements for Young Adults with Cognitive Disabilities

increasing independence
safety check-ins
help getting un-stuck

semi-structured interview

friendly,durable,Features targeted