Finally Presentation Soon!

Guys, sorry for not been updating my blogs for sometime. Busy with assignment and projects! However, I did manage to squeeze some time to go for NEXUS 2007 at NTUC building. I'm going to say this loud..."It was GREAT!" The event was very informal and the speakers are COOL! They talk about Web 2.0, future of the web and how disruptive the web can be in the media industry. The one that impressed me the most is Nathan Torkington.

Nat Torkington comes from O’Reilly, the very company that coined the term “Web 2.0″. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on technology trends that really matter and in turn spurring their adoption. Nat is a long time pioneer in the technology space, having chaired the O’Reilly Open Source Convention and other O’Reilly conferences for over a decade. He co-wrote the best-selling Perl Cookbook and was one of the founding O’Reilly Radar bloggers. Few people are as plugged in as he is to the Web and the open source community. Want to listen to his talk on WEB 2.0? Go to Web 2.0 podcast

BM362 module is coming to the end soon and we have to go for our final showdown on coming this Thursday. This module is really useful. Minor in Entrepreneurship has changed my mindsets about setting up business and teaches me how to think-out-of-the-box but it is purely generating of crazy ideas but BM362 is slightly different. Beside coming out with crazy ideas, Prof Lee shared with us his deep thoughts and experience. He imparted us on how to think in a logical manner yet it is still daring and creative! Strategic mindset and presentation skills are the attributes that I'm weak in but Prof Lee has taught us well in this aspect. Lastly, I need to say this to Prof Lee. I can't believe that such a veteran person can know much more on new mobile technology development than youngsters like us! I feel that it is time for me to learn to be more tech-savvy. I don't want to lose to an old man. Opps! I hope I didn't offend any of my visitors by using the word "old"! Haha!

Jokes aside... Need to concentrate on the biz plan presentation. Btw, my dear friends, if you happen to be reading my blog now, I will be having my presentation on coming Thursday (5 April), 4.30pm at SA IT Lab 2. There will a lot of wireless application biz plan presentation on that day, i believee you can get to see some innovative ideas and learn something from there. Most importantly, come and support Neo! Thank you!

Week 9

Oh man...it is already Week 9! Time is pressing hard on me! Use case video, technology plan and ultimately business plan!! Oh my God! However, I really enjoy this module unlike my Economics module which doesn't simulate my thinking while in the class. Well, my school is still running in a typical type of Singapore education system! Come on! we should be moving on to Education 2.0 phenomenon! There are so many web 2.0 sites for the lecturers or students as the new learning platform and I personnally like the Slideshare where user can upload and browsed other people's slides. A very good form of information sharing! Erm...the design is simple and easy to use! Well, there is a website that collates many web 2.0 sites that targeted at education. Click here if you want to know more.

Design...hmm that's the core topic of the lecture! It is extremely important. I believe all of us have bad experience of buying products that are very hard to use and make you very frustrated! Although the product is using very advance technology, people might not want to use it because it is not easy to use. Therefore, commercial value drops. I think Apple Ipod and Creative MP3 players cases are very good illustration on the portable MP3 market. Creative is the one that invented portable MP3 player but it is actually Apple that created a shock in the market. Why? it is because of design. The circular motion controlled by the thumb makes music scrolling easier as compared to other portable MP3 players. Oh man...Steve Job is an Icon!

When we talk about designing the product, we talk about drafting of use case. Well, I'm sort of doing my use case (this is the first time I'm doing! Guys, remember? I'm Economics student!) Hmm...manage to get some templates over the web and I've done some modification here and there. It was a bit hard initially but after some time, just get used to it. In fact, i learnt that use case can actually help you to think through how the operation should go rather than just an idea. At least, it starts to simulate me to think much more than the marketing point of view. For my uDrive travel service, we start to make some changes here and there so that it can help us to solve some internal problems that intially we didn't think of. Guys, i also found some people actually produce a use case video for their product(See youtube ). After you watch it, can someone tell me what's the difference between use case video and proof-of-concept video?

That's all for the day! I feel tired. Before I end this, just want to share some findings with you guys. All the while, we have been talking about application of web 2.0 like business 2.0, real estate 2.0 and health 2.0. I found this article over the web. To my surprise, even US military intelligence goes for Web 2.0! Guys, for your reference click here.

Week 8 - remember the privacy issue?

This is the interesting video i found over the web. I remember discussing over privacy issue in class and this video actually talks about the so-called "Master plan of Google". To a certain extent, I think the video maker is trying to convey a message in such as way about Google's dominace over the web and its capability of collecting information. Well nevertheless, this is to let u guys think about the possibility of our future! Stay objective!


Video: Google Master Plan