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Well what to say about this site??

Pros:

- Overall, this is a site that could go somewhere.
- The most impressive site out there!
- Great look and navigation
- Something i would use personally
- Having your own RSS Feed is extremely impressive!!

Cons:

- Can't think of any!

Overall, great job with EVERYTHING! You can tell that a lot of time and effort went into this site. I hope you keep it up and running so i can keep checking it out for stuff.
Great Work!!

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Pros:

- I really enjoyed watching this site come to life. It is something that i would use to follow the NBA.
- Great flow and design
- Overall GREAT JOB
- One of my Favorites!

Cons:

- Why would i go here instead of ESPN? I can find all the same info there.
- What makes you different?

Overall, i really like this site. You have put a lot of work and technology into this site and have done a great job on every iteration!

Great Work!

Well, the last iteration is done and ready to present.

Check it out

Yes, it does work in IE, Firefox as well as Safari.

Here is our presentation: Click

Everything is working and ready to go. We fixed the flicker problem as well as the problems we were having in IE. We also changed the coffee and tea pages to email one of us directly when someone clicks submit.

Let us know what you think!!

Ann Arbor is going through some tough time right now because of losing thousands of jobs with the auto industry downsizing and the closing of the Pfizer labs. Not to mention the housing market is at an all time low! The only good news for Ann Arbor's economy is Google.

Check out this story!

Google belives the Ann Arbor is a great place to open an office because of the presence of the University of Michigan which means a well-educated work force. Hopefully, the presence of Google will help Ann Arbor pull through these trouble times because without them the economy looks a lot worse.

So this is a personall Thank You to Google for coming to Ann Arbor, MI to help see us through the trouble times!!

I came across the story of Larry Page. He is one of the founders of Google and a Michigan Alumni. The story is actually really fasinating because of how the idea came about. In IS 449 we have learned many different ways of using other people's work and making it our own. Basically, taking what other people have done and putting our personal twist to it. That is what Page talks about in this articile. He just took something that already was invented and made it better. He is an inventor to some degree, but i would call it a prefecter (if that is a word) He basicaly perfected the search engine and then just went crazy from there.

This give me some hope because it is not just coming up with something from scratch, but just taking other ideas out there and perfecting it. So for me and my online store i just need to come up with a unique way of running compared to all my competition. Because it is all about being different than your competition that will help you to succeed.

Check out Pages story here

For anyone out there looking for jobs in the Ann Arbor Area, there are a couple of great places to check. One is the all powerful craigslist, but another great one is on mlive.com.

Check out Craigslist

Check out MLive

I think that craigslist is my favorite place to browse for EVERYTHING. I go on there at least once a day to browse their houses and even their jobs just to see whats out there. But, now that i have started to look on Mlive all the time i have found that they do a great job posting section as well as news section. Since, i live in Ann Arbor i like to see whats going on in Ann Arbor and Mlive does a much better job of reporting the news than Ann Arbor News does (in my opinion).

Yes, i am a Mac user, but i also use parallels for windows so i can run some of my business programs. The question i have is why people are so attached to PCs or the windows operating systems? There are so many ways to hack into PCs that is makes it extremely difficult to completely protect your computer from hackers. That is why i like Macs and the OS operating system more.

Check out this new story of another Windows security hole.. Here

As a former PC user it was hard to make the switch, but since i have i could not be any happier with my computer experiences!

In this new age of blog posting it is not only a way for people to complain about things or just post random thoughts. It is also a place where people can come together and talk about real issues such as the VT incident. It is helping the students and families to grieve and just an open place to discuss how they feel. It could actually be looked at as a therapeutic form of release for what happened. This way people can get things off there minds and talk with other people that are going through the same thing.

Check out this story.... CNN

I remember the Columbine shooting because i was at the park right next to the school the day it happened. If the blogging community was a big as it is now i think it could have help a lot of people.

So in conculsion blogging isnt so bad afterall...

Well, it happen around 8 p.m.on Tuesday when i could not recieve ANYTHING on my blackberry. I was able to make phone calls but unable to recieve text messages or emails. I was happy that it was mostly during the night but i still think that they should offer some type of discount to every blackberry subscriber because iut messed up a lot of peoples business processes. It also makes me second guess the reliability of the network. If this just happened out of nowhere, what is going to stop it from happening again?

They think they figured out the problem, but are not 100% sure. Check out this article at the star.com... Blackberry Blackout

After working through all the problems in my mini projects and our group project i have a suggestion for next semester of IS 449. Instead of trying to learn everything in class and go out on our own to figure it out on the computer, maybe you should try doing some labs. Even have a few lab assignments to make sure students understand where you want them to be. Also, personally i learn much better with a hands on type of enviroment than i do with trying it on my own.

Check out this website to see what your learning style might be : Learning Style

I was wondering if anyone else in class felt the same way. Let me know...