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Creating My Mobile Application

The kind of mobile application I am building and why people would want to use it.

I am planning to create a Social Networking Application. People would want to use this app because it would enable them to chat with users worldwide and create mobile video as well. Also my app would include a guide to the closest restaurants, hotels, gas station and movie theaters around

Who are my specific users?

My specific users would be teenagers, young adults, adults and business people.

How to keep and grow my user base

I will make my app free to the users and provide updates all the time and also an alert to let the customers know about the new updates.

How to get my app on to my customers

I will post some advertisement on some social networks and internet.

Will I be able to make money with my application?

Yes. I am going to make money from advertisers ads at lower rates. I will make sure my app is free to get a lot of customers.

What activities do I need to complete to publish this application?

I will carry out some research about the needs of the people in terms of video and also the type of updates that would fit into the app.

What resources do I need to produce this application?

Research the software that I would need for the application especially the multimedia software that I would need for the videos.

"App"

Definition of "App"

App is an application software that has a filename extension for applications on a lot of platforms.

What you need to download to use an app

A mobile phone is needed to download an app. The most popular mobile device is the Android or iOS operating system.

Types of data that can be accessed by apps

Apps can access the following datas; text, numeric, yes/no date ole and hyperlink, lookup wizard, date/time, currency, memo etc.

Why some apps collect location data

Some apps collect location data to give the user maps, coupons for nearby stores, information about places closeby and also locations to ad networks.

Why some apps are free

Some apps are free because the developers make money in other ways such as selling adverts spaces within the app. Also, some offered free so that the users would be interested in the companies other products.

Why some apps have advetisements

Some apps have advertisements because advertisers believe that people can easily be reached on the apps. Because more people are into social network these days. Also because the advertisement are cheaper than regular adverts rates.

How app makers are abke to customize advertisements to specific interests

The advertisers always use the information the app collect from user's device to customize individual's needs.

Why you should keep your apps updated

New updates are introduced into the market everyday, so it is always good to update for best experience and current security information.

Can review about apps be trusted?

Not really, it is easy for developers to post wrong consumer reviews to boost its ratings.

Open Source

Open Source is an exercise in production and development process that promote access to the end product's source materials. Open source gained more control with the rise of the internet.

Open Source have impacted the developers and end users in so many which include the availability of source code at all time and also the right to modify. It is available at a low cost. It helps the developers with unlimited tuning and improvement of a software product, the possibility of porting code to new hardware in order to adapt to new changing conditions. The various open source initiatives currently being utilized are Sample ICC, IccXML, Argyll, Icms.

Java is an example of an open source application. Java is a programming language which was released in 1995 and was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystem. It is one of the most popular programming language in use in these present day. Java applications are compiled to class file that can run on any Java Visual Machine regardless of how the computer was configured. Its purpose is to let application developers "write once, and run everywhere".

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a recent term used for the delivery of computing as a service and not as a product. The term came from the use of a cloud image to represent the internet or large networked area. Cloud computing has three characteristics namely; it is sold on demand by minute or the hour, a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any time and lastly, the service is managed by the provider. A cloud computing can be either private or public.

I believe the cloud in the cloud computing is because the end user does not know how the products gets to him/her. Like the electricity supply, the end users do not know the location of the system that delivers the service.

An example of a public cloud is Amazon Web services. Amazon is known to sell services to anyone on the internet. Also the Gas company and the electricity company. For Amazon, customers order stuff on the internet, the stuff would arrive within 2 to 3 days. The customers have no knowledge all the steps the products go through before arriving at the destination.

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The Kind of people more likely to monitor their online identity:

The way people use the internet has changed dramatically from its inception about 40 years ago. Nowadays privacy issue is becoming a concern to most internet users especially the young adults internet users ages 18 to 29. This group remain the group that would be concern about the amount of information posted on the internet about them. These people have taken the steps to change the privacy setting on their profile to limit the amount of information they share with people about themselves.

How much of online information is accurate?

Not all online information is accurate. One annoying thing about internet is that anyone can create a website within a minute and post inaccurate information about himself or services. It is essential for internet users to check the information critically to know if it is accurate or not. Sometime it is good to compare another source when searching for information. If however, it is a government publication, the information will most likely be accurate.

Week 5 Assignment

What enables hatred as public performance? What other effect come from the combination of the same source?

Cultural differences, hates, lies and sometimes racism and lack of organization.

User Generated Organization

This is where people tag other people's information or video they love on delicious. These videos will be deposited back on the Web so that other people would be able to access it.

User Generated Distribution

When the stuff that people tag out get distributed out appear on other users front pages. If a tag or share information on Youtube, it would appear on the front pages of other users that are connected to him/her.

User Generated Commentary

It is a process whereby the stuff that have shared out start going about other users blog. Moving these information along the web and people get to know more about it.

Purpose of Media

The purpose of media is to keep people informed about what is going on around them. To reach a very large audience and get informed about what is happening around them. People can be reach through mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, internet and other form of the mass within reach.

What is... and why do we care about .... networked individualism?

This is the changes that communities started experiencing from groups to network even before the invention of the internet. Initially people believed that industry and bureaucracy would dissolve community groups and be left with only isolated individuals. But the reverse is the case as the communities continued.

Future of Social Networks

Nobody knows what the future hold for social networking in the next 10 years. When social networking was first introduced, it offered something new within the communication networks. It created the ability to communicate information between groups and individuals. Before social network was introduced there were other forms of communication between people such as email, telephone and wireless networks. When social network was introduced, it became more popular than all other networks. People switched to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Linkedln.

However, I believe because of the increasing issue of privacy, social networking might one day become obsolete. Full privacy cannot be achieved in a social network, most networks provide few privacy options, if any, for the users.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/05/social-networking-future/

Social Networking

My Space and Facebook are popular social networking sites. Facebook is the largest social network with about 800 million users worldwide. It is used by adults and teenagers of all ages. Facebook users can like and share something into its network without leaving its web page. This is how far the technology has grown. My Space has about 70 million visitors and has become the equivalent of hanging around at the mall for teens. Facebook is more of college students. Twitter too is more of a social networking site that enables his users to send and read text based post. Twitter sometime is described as SMS C Short Message Service) of the internet. Users join these social networking sites voluntarily and add their contents through their profile page.

The social network sites have had lots of impact on businesses and advertisement. Since the number of the people that use these site have grown significantly, marketers are using the sites to reach out to their prospective customers. More people are getting involved in these sites to grow their businesses. It is one of the easiest and least expensive and most effective ways to gain exposure and strengthen business reputation. People can shop for things on Facebook without leaving the comfort of their homes.

Also, social networking has become part of politics in today's world as politicians are using the medium to reach out to their supporters and even lash out on their opponent. Social network also has an impact on pop culture as well. Most pop artist have been able to post their jobs on the sites.

Social networking sites are being used by the government to promote government information and services. It is used for recruitment and advertisement of government jobs and also to announce upcoming events and recruiting professional.

There has been lots of controversies relating to privacy issues on social networks. Facebook has been under the limelight in recent time. Most information posted on Facebook and My Space are visible to other people's pages hence infringing on privacy.

Unlike Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, Google is an American multinational public corporation that is used for internet search. Google hosts and develops a number of internet-based services and products.

How Internet Works

One thing I love about the internet is that it does not belong to anyone. That is amazing!!! Internet is a global collections of networks both big and small. Internet uses the standard Internet Protocol Suit (TCP/IP) to serve billions of people that connect to it all over the world. Each computer that is connected to the internet must have a unique address in order to communicate with each other. This is called the Internet Protocol. (IP)

Internet is accessed through an Internet Service Provider. There must be an IP address which must be typed on the website link to provide connections. The browser will send out a request to the address. The router will then relay the message along the best route possible for the connection. As soon as the data packet arrives at the website, the server will read the request and send it back through a return address inside the data packet.

Busy weekend!

The past weekend was a very busy one for me. I was in Cleveland, Ohio from Friday evening until Saturday evening for a church program. Was so tired when I came back to Columbus. I had to attend another function yesterday. Right now, I am very tired and exhausted. WoW!!!

Test

I just took the spelling test few minutes ago. I got all the questions right but got A-.

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Hi class,

I'm Anthonia. I am new to blogging, I might be slow, hope you guys will bear with me.

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