IT Stack Activity Yes.. There is an App for that App...

(Sesame Street: Song: There's An App For That)

It seems like there is an app for almost anything we could possibly thing of in life… And I bet you have them all. How do you keep track of them all.  WELL there will be an app for THAT…

We worked on a group activity in class and broke into groups and to choose a business model we worked with . Our group chose to use a business model done group member Kaleigh, for an App Organizer.  This app will be able to take inventory of the apps that you currently have on your phone and intuitively be able to suggest other apps that the user may be interested in.

1.            The network infrastructure: The app would be a connected to a cloud that holds the entire infrastructure.

2.            Data Management Technologies: For the data management technologies we would use a MySQL database to hold the data from the app

3.            Application/Business Logic Topics: We will develop a GUI (Graphic User Interface) for the mobile app client

4.            Client Side Technologies – Hardware/Software: For the clients side technologies we chose the major phone platforms such as Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows

5.           Developmental Tools: We chose Development tools such as Phone Gap to create the application. Using Phone Gap to develop the software will take care of the issue of cross-platform development and only have to maintain one product. Phone Gap will convert the code into compliant web standards. Also, HTML5, CSS3, and javascript.

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Internet Infrastructure Scavenger Hunt

Mary J. Blige - Searching
This week in class we talked about the history of the Internet and also did a Internet Infrastructure Scavenger Hunt.  Here are a few of the topics

Who is Tim Berners-Lee and what was his role in development of the Internet?

Tim Berners-Lee was the man leading the development of the World Wide Web (with help of course), the defining of HTML (hypertext markup language) used to create web pages, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators). All of those developments took place between 1989 and 1991.

What does W3C stand for? What year was the group formed? Who formed it?The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in October, 1994.

 What year was the Web Standards Project formed? Who formed the group?founded by George Olsen, Glenn Davis, and Jeffrey Zeldman in 1998

 Aside from the W3C and WaSP, list two entities that help govern the web.

Internet Activities Board (IAB) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) help govern the web.

What is DNS?The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network.

What is Abilene? The Abilene Network is an Internet2 high-performance backbone network that enables the development of advanced Internet applications and the deployment of leading-edge network services by Internet2 universities and research laboratories across the country.

What is the total number of possible addresses for IPv6?2^128 = 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

What are the four layers of the Layered Network Model (related to but not the OSI 7 layer model)?

Application Layer, Transport Layer, Internet Layer Network Access Layer

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The Tale of Two Michaels

Jackson Five - Blame it on the Boogie 1979

In Week 2 of MIST  7500 class we discussed business models and strategy.  Instead of the Jackson 5, one the strategies we discussed was The Porter 5… Porter’s 5 Forces that is.

Porter’s 5 Forces

While MICHAEL JACKSON and the Jackson 5 were busy “Blaming it on the Boogie” in 1979, MICHAEL PORTER was at Harvard Business School busy developing the concept of the 5 Forces. Porter’s  5 Forces Analysis assumes that there are five important forces that determine competitive power in a business situation. Three of his forces referred to the competition from external sources and the other two were internal threats.

Five forces

1. Threat of new competition
 - Is it very easy to enter this business and will I have an abundance of competitors
 - The easier it is to enter leads to more competition and less profits OR The harder it is to enter  leads to less competition and more profits 

2. Threat of substitute products or services
- Will there be a product that will come out on the market that will take the place of mine and lower profits

3 Bargaining power of customers (buyers)
- Do the customers have a the power to demand lower prices
- Bargaining with customers with lower prices may reduce profits

4 Bargaining power of suppliers
- Suppliers may be able to able to raise their prices
- If suppliers raise their price and we don’t raise ours we loose profits

5 Intensity of competitive rivalry
- Do we have an existing competitor that we are constantly having prices was with to gain or retain customers?
- Fierce competition may reduce profits



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