Electronic device is getting new and updated nowadays since people have a demand of high technology in order to improve their life quality. For examples, people used cassette player or walkman to listen music, but later they chose CD or MD player, and now most of them probably are using mp3 player such as Ipod. The reason is that more and more features are improved and installed in the device to fulfill people's demand. People are attracted by the most updated products because they are improving people's quality of life. The article "Will There Be A (Successful) iPhone-Only Social Network?" by Michael Arrington in Techcrunch.com can support my point of view. There is no doubt that iPhone is one of the best soical network device.
IPhone is not just a mobile phone, but a multi high technology features electronic device. Youtube, music, movie, photos, wireless internet, and GPS are the basic and popular functions installed in iPhone. In the article, Michael Arrington mentions that Fon11 is an iPhone based social network, which is a live phonebook and a friend locator. It helps the users to get know of the people around themselves. Although Ipod has a function of sharing music library in a local network, it is just a way of sharing files. Comparing to Fon 11 in iPhone, Fon 11 is an excellent way to help people having more friends, maybe they will become a couples later.
Moreover, comparing to the video conference service in 3G mobile phone, meaning to make face-to-face communication simultaneously anytime and anywhere with using the 3G (third generation of) mobile phone (http://www.three.com.hk/website/template?pageid=41100&lang=eng), Fon11 in iPhone can have better archievement in helping people socialized. It is because even though people can see each other's face during the call, people cannot socialize very much to know more friends who they did not know before by enjoying this features.
Therefore, I would not say iPhone is the best and the most successful social network device in our community, but iPhone with the software such as Fon11 is really a very outstanding product to help people having or getting into a social life.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Cookthink...just think and then cook
People are creative and open-minded in cooking food nowadays since people are always seeking the inventive and innovative meal to fulfill their curiosity. The artice "Cookthink: Like Pandora For Recipes" by Duncan Riley in techcrunch really inspires me, because Cookthink does help the people who do not have the recipes or even the idea of what they want to cook.
Cookthink provides the recipes of what people are craving. Recipes can be searched in four categories, which are ingredients, cusisine, mood, and dish type. The users do not have to worry about the dependability of recpies since all the recipes have been already tested by one member of Cookthink.
Then, I visit Cookthink immediately. The word with bigger size in the site of the front page, the hotter ingredient people have searched. People can just enter ingredients, cusisine, mood, or dis type they want to have, then Cookthink will provide the recipes, cooking method, tips, and the time needed.
I believe that the recipes in this kind of online cooking database is much better than the recipes in books. People can brainstorm what they want to cook, and then input the key phrase in Cookthink. Afterwards, the best matching result will come out. It is very convenient because the recipes in the book or other websites are so limited and inflexible. Therefore, after reading this article, I would say nothing is better than online nowadays.
Cookthink provides the recipes of what people are craving. Recipes can be searched in four categories, which are ingredients, cusisine, mood, and dish type. The users do not have to worry about the dependability of recpies since all the recipes have been already tested by one member of Cookthink.
Then, I visit Cookthink immediately. The word with bigger size in the site of the front page, the hotter ingredient people have searched. People can just enter ingredients, cusisine, mood, or dis type they want to have, then Cookthink will provide the recipes, cooking method, tips, and the time needed.
I believe that the recipes in this kind of online cooking database is much better than the recipes in books. People can brainstorm what they want to cook, and then input the key phrase in Cookthink. Afterwards, the best matching result will come out. It is very convenient because the recipes in the book or other websites are so limited and inflexible. Therefore, after reading this article, I would say nothing is better than online nowadays.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Flash games offered in MySpace
Have you ever tried any free flash game in the internet? If so, which one is your favourite site? After reading the article "MySpace Quietly Launches Games Site" by Duncan Riley in Techcrunch, I am wondering if people would choose MySpace as their one of the favourite game site.
As Duncan states in the article's title, MySpace posts some free flash games quietly. I did not know nothing about MySpace Games due to none promotion or advertisement. Then, I click into http://games.mypsace.com/ to take a look what kind of games they have. Sometimes I would like to spend a hour in playing flash game online to relax. Then, due to my curiousity, I select the game "Micro Olympics," which is labelled as "Top Game," in order to see how the game is. However, I was totally disappointed because the outlook and the content are really simple and not attractive. I would say people can play this kind of game without using their brains. Comparing with my favourite game site, Crazymonkeygames, which provides plenty high-quality flash games, MySpace Games is absolutely in behind and unsatisfied.
MySpace Games also offers multiplayers games such as Pool, Chess, Poker. Players have to login in their MySpace account before entering the game rooms. Basically, it is just like Yahoo Games and Sina Games. However, since MySpace Games is still unpopular, there were very few players in the game rooms. The number of players is shown in the front page. Most of the number of players shown are zero. Therefore, comparing to other flash game sites, MySpace Games is not very competitive.
I believe more features and elements should be input in MySpace Games. It is not only to compete with other popular flash game sites, but also is to increase the market share of flash games in order to make more money.
As Duncan states in the article's title, MySpace posts some free flash games quietly. I did not know nothing about MySpace Games due to none promotion or advertisement. Then, I click into http://games.mypsace.com/ to take a look what kind of games they have. Sometimes I would like to spend a hour in playing flash game online to relax. Then, due to my curiousity, I select the game "Micro Olympics," which is labelled as "Top Game," in order to see how the game is. However, I was totally disappointed because the outlook and the content are really simple and not attractive. I would say people can play this kind of game without using their brains. Comparing with my favourite game site, Crazymonkeygames, which provides plenty high-quality flash games, MySpace Games is absolutely in behind and unsatisfied.
MySpace Games also offers multiplayers games such as Pool, Chess, Poker. Players have to login in their MySpace account before entering the game rooms. Basically, it is just like Yahoo Games and Sina Games. However, since MySpace Games is still unpopular, there were very few players in the game rooms. The number of players is shown in the front page. Most of the number of players shown are zero. Therefore, comparing to other flash game sites, MySpace Games is not very competitive.
I believe more features and elements should be input in MySpace Games. It is not only to compete with other popular flash game sites, but also is to increase the market share of flash games in order to make more money.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Microsoft takeovers Yahoo, what is your stance?
The big news "Microsoft-Yahoo: What Will Stay And What Will Go?" by Duncan Riley in Techcrunch really draws my attention. It is because both Microsoft and Yahoo are big IT company in the world. I am curious what will happen when Microsoft makes the $44.6 billion takeover bid.
I strongly believe that people will enjoy a better searching engine due to the combination of the strengths from both companies. People will get more accurate and sufficient information from this combined engine. Nevertheless, I also believe that this new searching engine will make Google be the first sufferer. Live Search, Yahoo, and Google are all the well-known searching engine in worldwide. Then, this new searching engine must be a very powerful competitor to Google. That's why Duncan Riley states that it just likes creating a "Google killer".
Moreover, there are a lot of technical problems, such as management of messanger id and email id, to be solved after the takeover. I think this problem can be solved by professional techicians, but the system and the change may make people confusing and inconvenient.
Finally, I still agree Microsoft's takecover bid. Infomation technology becomes an indispensable thing in human's life. People are always seeking the most updated technology. For instance, Apple was mainly selling Ipod Classic and Ipod Mini few years ago, but now we can see that most people are using Ipod Touch, Iphone, Ipod Nano with small-sized, big color screen, and new software. Therefore, I believe that Microsoft-Yahoo symbolizes that we are going into a new IT era.
I strongly believe that people will enjoy a better searching engine due to the combination of the strengths from both companies. People will get more accurate and sufficient information from this combined engine. Nevertheless, I also believe that this new searching engine will make Google be the first sufferer. Live Search, Yahoo, and Google are all the well-known searching engine in worldwide. Then, this new searching engine must be a very powerful competitor to Google. That's why Duncan Riley states that it just likes creating a "Google killer".
Moreover, there are a lot of technical problems, such as management of messanger id and email id, to be solved after the takeover. I think this problem can be solved by professional techicians, but the system and the change may make people confusing and inconvenient.
Finally, I still agree Microsoft's takecover bid. Infomation technology becomes an indispensable thing in human's life. People are always seeking the most updated technology. For instance, Apple was mainly selling Ipod Classic and Ipod Mini few years ago, but now we can see that most people are using Ipod Touch, Iphone, Ipod Nano with small-sized, big color screen, and new software. Therefore, I believe that Microsoft-Yahoo symbolizes that we are going into a new IT era.
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