Week 5

Brokerage Model
Brokerage is means, a person or a company (broker) is an intermediary between a purchaser and a seller, after the deal to complete,  it may collect a portion of the money obtained. In some cases, a firm receives money from both parties, while in others, it receives a commission only from the seller.
For example, TradeKing
http://content.tradeking.com/trading/stocks-options/online-brokerage.php?split=true&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=cj&utm_campaign=splitter&ADTRK=ACJ20100715

Advertising Model

Online advertising is simply advertising that is done over the Internet. for example, forum, sometimes there are some advertising about movie, festival, event or product, etc. 

http://adelaidebbs.com.au/bbs/portal.php

Informediary Model

the infomediary model is characterized by the capture and/or sharing of information. The simplest form of an infomediary model is the registration model. In this scenario, companies require users to register before gaining access to information on their Web sites, even if the information itself is provided at no charge. some firms function help the buyer or sellers understand a given market.

http://www.nsic.co.in/infomediary.asp

Merchant Model
A people whose occupation is to buy items at wholesale prices and sell to other people at retail prices. Such as, Sasa, is a  sell skin products.

http://web1.sasa.com/SasaWeb/eng/sasacms/drive_promo/20130417_Season_of_Love/promo.jsp?cm_mmc=google000214&gclid=CK6Xj_KD17YCFcgbpQodoAsAcA

Manufacturer Model

Is a company they are produces the product and sell at there own store or web site.

Such as, Apple.

Community model
Is a website can let people to put a lot of time and emotion. A normally community website a sale the ancillary products and service or voluntary contributions. For example, Facebook.

Subscription Model

This model website will need the member to pay the member fee, every month or every years. Whatever you use how long or how many time, after you paid the member fee, you can use the site all the time. uch as, Lawmart.
http://www.lawmart.com/forms/bus-lc09.htm


Utility Model
Is a website, need you to paid when you use the website services, it means, the website will depend on how many you use, such as water, gas. For example,Utility design.
http://www.utilitydesign.co.uk/

Week 3

Q 1)
the story is talking about the Australia Post office's computer glitch has exposed the names and locations of thousands of Australians who have been sent parcels. Customers who typed a random number into the online parcel tracking system were provided with the details of thousands of customers.

Bita, N.(2012). Australia Post in online Privacy breach. News.com.au
.http://www.news.com.au/business/companies/australia-post-in-online-privacy-breach/story-fnda1bsz-1226498834454. (9th April 2013)

Q2


What AmI technologies are identified in the case?
in this case, AML are identified are: location implants, sensor networks in homes and cars, surveillance systems, mobile phone tracking, the algorithms involved in comparing data and predicting information about individuals

What drives DMC’s officers to take the actions they took?
The DMC officers hid the security breach with a desire to maintain public image. The news of a data leak by their own employees would weaken relationships with clients, negatively impact share prices and dampen business prospects. Due to these factors the company had chosen to cover up the breach.

DMC is the clear market leader in the aggregation of AmI data. Are there any comparisons you can make to technology companies today?
A comparison can be made with a company such as Google. The company has access to a user's search history if they use the Google search engine; GPS and location information through Google Maps; Worldwide satellite imaging and 'streetview' photographs through Google Earth; And social updates through Google+.

How realistic is the description of governments using the technology and prohibiting immigration from states with no AmI data aggregation information?
The likelihood of prohibiting immigration from states with no AmI data is low. It would be viewed as unethical by the general population to discriminate against a group of people simply because their history hasn't been recorded in a database somewhere.

List some of the ‘unintended consequences’ described in the case.
Such as: Unauthroised bank transactions, Having to be bailed out of bankruptcy, Public knowledge of shady deals selling information to governments, President of the company resigning over the issue and Being sued by consumer activist groups for negligence

Week 4

Q1

A customer centric web site is mean, the web site include all the information a customer would like. And that is centered around customer wants and needs. For example, customer want to go a web site to buy a T-shirt, the customer want to know the size, color or the cost of shipping or delivery time, the customer want to find out these information from the web site. But this is hard to show all the information the customer want to know, it is because every customer have different needs. The other reason is it will take a lot of time and money to make a great website. For a business it’s hard to know what its customers’ needs and wants. Customers want a quick and stress free process when navigating a web site. If this process is not this, the customer will become frustrated and will leave the website.

Q2
Web presence is mean, a web site of an individual, company or organisation on the internet, any one can have a look or use their website.  for example: Google is a highly visited and well-development website, so Google is a high web presence, there are some highly web presence, such as, eBay  gumtree, yahoo, and etc. An web site is very simple, not useful or no one know the site that will a low web presence.

It is because, there are a lot of customers like via internet to shopping, actually that is a tend, nowadays every one can use a lots of way to go to the web site anytime, is means people can use the internet to shopping all the time and every where. This is the reason why the company need an existence on the site every second, there are some customer want to have more information about the products or have some complain  and feedback to provide , so the firms need more concerned on the site than operate in the physical world.

Q3

I find a web page which ‘does not suck’ called Roanoke Doesn’t Suck: http://roanokedoesntsuck.com/default.html. The site posts fliers promoting businesses, churches and various organizations, and features photos of several business owners. It is well designed and has blog and local event to be searched. At the home page, customers can search the products they want.
Features that make a website 'not suck' are things like not having unnecessary information, is direct and clear what the website is about, looks professional and 'neat', is easily accessible from all types of technology (new & old), not having to register to look at the site/page, not having pop-ups and a site needs to have clear instructions on how to use the web page. A good site that i found is simply google, it follows all the examples i gave plus many other cool features, but my favourite feature is that it is just simple to use.

week 2

1. Not many people actually understand quite how a search engine works, they also don’t know the correct terminology to use in order to narrow results and gain the best possible information they are after. This inevitably leads to inefficient use of time as they have had to try and gather information and then sort through what is relevant and what isn’t. Only an extremely small percentage of people who use search engines actually understand how the information you put into the search is processed and interpreted to give you the best results.

2. Search engines do not have access to every single piece of information on the web; they can only access certain things based on what the individual types into the search to get those intended results. Therefore the information you are given from this particular search engine is not all the information that would be useful to you.

3. Within search engines they have databases which store information collected from the web. This database information can be used as a result when a search is performed. An algorithm is used to determine which results will give the most relevant information to the search initiated and what the best result is from that.

4. Search is becoming increasingly important to the way people and businesses search and utilise the internet and the information they gather from that.

Reference - http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDAQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalenterprise.org%2Fnavigation%2Fnav.html&ei=2N6IT5aDCur-mAWvx5jtCQ&usg=AFQjCNHqkjFK5kaHcnsMyFeqwGQd9JrLdQ&sig2=YMAQPRNW1w2GAHoF1AotZQ



The four main points i found the most interesting and significant for business from watching the Marissa Mayer interview are:

1) That Google wants to increase the amount of women working for them. Currently Google has 10% of their workforce occupied by women, however the goals they have set to achieve are at a much higher rate of 25%. This is more than double what they have now.

2) In the search industry Google has a large percentage of the market share. They have two main competitors in Yahoo who own 20% of the search maret, and Microsoft who own 10% of the the market. Google has 70% of the market but doesn't want to have a monopoly as it wants healthy competition to continue to improve idea's that they have. People who use Google however still use the other search engines from time to time.

3) China is a very big country and a lot of people use the internet. However Google is really struggling to enter the market over there because of Chinese govorment intervention and also because china has its own search engine that is competitive in Google eyes. Google would like to crack this market and allow the citizens of china to access uncensored information.

4) Google invented a search program called Google chrome. This search program is better equipped for users than the normal Google as it only has one search bar where you type information into. Google found that a lot of users typed searches into the URL bar and not the search engine.. so they created a better search which did not matter where you typed you question. Even if you typed in a web address, searches still come up that are relevant.

So what are the 6 webs?


a)The six webs was introduced because they envisioned the “far web” as the typical TV viewer experience, the “near web” as desktop computing , the “here web” or mobile devices with personal information, the “weird web” characterized by voice recognition systems, the “B2B web” of business computers dealing exclusively with each other, the “D2D web” of intelligent buildings and cities.

b) As the internet continues to evolve it is possible more Webs may be developed.

c)This means for business that the communication to the business partners, employees, consumer and to other business will be a lot easier and the relationship made closer.