Homework 3-08-2008

Web Service System Design Homework 03-08-2008

Q1: Track your comments at a focal point

A1: Done

Q2: Using personal portal.

A2: Done. (Image as below)

Q3: Make your blog organized by adding labels

A3: Done

Q4: Reading Assignments: Read Chap 3. Answer the following questions.

A4:

a) What are the commercial values of Internet?

The Internet has brought about numerous new trademark issues. The commercial value of trademarks can easily be diluted in cyberspace. It is for this reason that expert advice should be gained to identify culprits and to take legal action.

b) List some business strategies for online commerce

* Channel master strategy - The focus by better price, better service and more convenience.

* Customer Magnet strategy - The focus on new budles of products and services.

* Value chain pirate strategy - The focus on only a part of the range of services provided by full-service firms.

* Digital distributor strategy -Has built a business selling research, analysis, and investor education from their web site without alos providing trading.

Homework 3-01-2008

Web Service System Design
Homework 3-01-2008

Q1: According to the book by Treese and Stewart, what is the commerce value chain? Why not see them on an individual basis?

A1: Based on the book, they look at a very gereral value chain for internet commerce, as shown as below. This value chain is focused in the interactions of busines with its customers. The details will certainly be different for different businesses ( and for some different business models). The components of this general value chain are as follows.
1. Attract customers.
Marketing -- get and keep customer interest.
2. Interact with customers.
Sales -- turn interest into order
3. Act on customer instruction.
Order management -- order capture, payment, fulfillment.
4. React to customer requests.
Customer service, technical support.

If in individual basis, unable to carry on valid contacting to Attract/Interact/Act/React in the sale of the products, so is unable to reach the due value of the products on customer's cognition.

Q2: Is the Internet different from other media? Why?

A2: Yes, The Internet is different from other media. The Internet except basic e-mail. Web use and msn...etc. to use. Internet function changes faster at present. Such as present shopping at network, P2P download . In the near future, can control consumer products through Internet ex(TV, DVR, electric light.....). This strong function is not that the single media can replace.

Q3: Convert one of your Word document using Google docs

A3:Sample of docs

Q4: Customize your blogs.

A4: Done

Homework 2-23-2008

Web Service System Design

Homework 2-23-2008

1. List the companies Google acquired year by year.Briefly describe

the strategic implications of each acquisition.

This is a listing of Google's corporate acquisitions, including acquisitions of both companies and individual products.
Refrence from Wikipedia

2. Summarize the What is Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly in one page.

Web 2.0 is a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users. The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use webs. According to Tim O'Reilly.

"Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

Some technology experts, notably Tim Berners-Lee, have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of "Web 2.0" have existed since the early days of the Web.

An IBM social-networking analyst, Dario de Judicibus, has proposed a different definition which focuses more on social interactions and on architectural implementation.

"Web 2.0 is a knowledge-oriented environment where human interactions generate content that is published, managed and used through network applications in a service-oriented architecture.

• The Web As Platform

Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.

Figure shows a "meme map" of Web 2.0 that was developed at a brainstorming session during FOO Camp, a conference at O'Reilly Media. It's very much a work in progress, but shows the many ideas that radiate out from the Web 2.0 core.

Refrence from Wikipedia & O'Reilly