With today’s technological advancements and convergences, portable electronic functionality is experiencing enormous change. Mobile phones can now function as a portable computer, enabling users to connect to the web. They also double up as cameras, audio and video recorders and players, and so much more. Following this trend, the question always beckons: in the future, will our mobile phone be all we need? Contactless payment methods through your cell phone are being explored, as well as its ability to replace your wallet and keys.
With much debate going on, I felt the need to voice my two cents: I feel to say all we will ever need is our mobile phone is to be very simplistic. Read the rest of this entry »
Mahesh and I, along with two other members outside of NOC, took part in a cross-college initiative last evening. The word of the day was BizBuzz 07. Basically, it was a business case competition, within the space of 72 hours. It involved two teams each from Silicon Valley, Bio Valley, Singapore and Stockholm. Our team was called “Hejsan!”
The case was on a web 2.0 company called Zazzle, which allows for on demand printing on multiple user-generated custom made products. You can check out more on their website.
Zazzle had 2 main goals: to increase brand awareness, and increase revenue, at the same time pushing forth the image that Zazzle was a convenient and easy way for artists to express their creativity online through merchandise, as well as an online marketplace for uniquely designed items. They wanted to be seen not only as a gallery but also as a revenue source for contributors, and they were now specifically targeting the college population.
This was supposed to be done a lot earlier, but little miss me has been really busy recently. However, I did manage to discipline myself enough to finish it today. Here it is - Fun facts from Hubbub 07!
… and if you can’t be bothered to watch the entire 3 minute video, which could potentially be the most unproductive 3 minutes of your life, here are the details, in good old text! Read the rest of this entry »
Radon has kindly lent their services to nuStart and made the following video for us! It’s too bad much of our own footage was ruined due to interferences. =(