Week #5: Bits & Bytes (The Digital World)

Like probably 95% of websites today, my website would be in UNICODE, not ASCII (though it obviously would include it).

ASCII, on its own, only has 128 values (7 bits). This only takes care of 0-9, A-Z, a-z and punctuation. Languages that have characters outside of the English language cannot be used.

UNICODE, on the other hand, has more than 100,000 characters--a universal character set. Because of this, it's used more commonly now that ASCII, so that anyone in any country can read it.

Week #4: Input and Output

This week in class we talked about input and output. One of the most interesting things discussed, in my opinion, was the RFID chip. I think this would be the perfect technology to use for my tracking product! If it can be used to track a lost kid, it can certainly track a cellphone. :)

A perk of using RFID would be that it's inexpensive. In some case, it can cost as little as 5 cents per chip. Though I doubt my product would be that cheap, a starting price being that inexpensive could mean that my product wouldn't be all that costly, either, meaning that it would be affordable to a wider variety of people.

A disadvantage to using RFID is that it's still a developing technology and it's not 100% secure yet. As a result, the public domain doesn't have the best perception of it. However, as fast as technology is going these days, and how useful RFID could be, I'm sure the technology for it will have improved quite a bit within the next year or two, so after long, there won't be anything to worry about.

Week #3: The Making of Your Computer and Digital Video

On Monday, we talked about the important parts of a computer, and how one type of a product can be better than another product of the same type. Obviously, it would be appropriate to have the best computer equipment for whatever server ran my website.

On Wednesday, we talked about digital video. I was thinking that I could use video to make How To's of how to use different aspects of the website, as well as the product itself.

Because of the potential shift in software, I think it would be wise to make videos both for Adobe Flash and HTML 5, just so that either way, the website would be accessible to all users.

Week #2: Spreadsheet Essentials and Digital Images

We started off the week talking about Excel and some basic ways in which it may be used in the workplace (to make charts, graphs, etc.). I think this could be applied to my entrepreneurial idea by adding a graphing component onto the website.

If the item is not trackable for whatever reason, they could look at a graph showing locations in which they usually lost the item, and see if it's in any of those locations.

This week we also talking about digital images and how RGB (light source colors) and CMYK (printing colors) work. RGB, of course, would have to be used to design the website, as well as the above-mentioned graphs.