HW9 Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a great website for finding useful information about virtually anything. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that is compiled and refined by a vast number of people around the world.

HW 8

ebay

• I chose to add a link to ebay because I find it useful in finding things for less money then in stores.


• Ebay is an online auction. It links buyers to sellers (and sellers to buyers) of virtually everything. It allows people to buy things that might be more costly else ware, or in many case it allows people to buy collectibles that they could not find someplace else.


• Ebay gets its information from people that sign up to use the sight, and post goods for auction. People can provide feedback for particular users, to help keep the site honest. In addition, ebay has the right to kick a user off ebay if they have too much negative feedback.


• Ebay organizes information in a way that makes it easy for the user to find what he/she is looking for. The user can type in a key search word and narrow it down by selecting one of ebay’s search categories. The user can also search only by category. Ebay also allows the user to arrange the search results in different ways (price, date, etc.).

Competing website: Overstock.com

• Overstock.com and ebay both have a very similar auction system. However, in addition to the auction, Overstock.com acquires new goods at wholesale prices and sells them. This provides customers with a choice of how they want to do their shopping; they can either participate in an auction, or get good prices on products with less risk then an auction.

HW 6

Jonah – Thank you for putting a link to my blog in the sidebar of your blog.

HW5

I installed Google Analytics on my blog. One person has read it so far.

Date range	Visits	Page views
10/2/2006 - 10/8/2006	1	1

HW4 - Why I Chose the Two Companies I Did

I chose General Motors and Advanced Auto Parts mainly because I am interested in cars. In addition, I knew that the automotive industry is very large and has a lot of connections, making it interesting to look at.

The path connecting the two companies has a combination of people and other businesses, some of which do not directly have to do with autos. One of my people is on the board of directors for 5 companies.

I chose to add a bookmark to a Universal Currency Converter and a bookmark to a list of 43 things people want to do with their lives. I added the currency converter because I thought it was useful. I added the list of things people do with their lives because I thought it was interesting.

1. Universal Currency Converter


2. 43 things people want to do with their lives

My Creative Commons License

Why I chose my Creative Commons License
I chose a Creative Commons license that allows viewers to copy, distribute, and edit my work as long as they attribute the work to the authors (myself or another source sited). I chose this license because my blog does not contain any material that I feel necessary to retain exclusively for my own personal use. At the same time if someone does find something that they would like to use, I would like the proper sources to be acknowledged. I am allowing commercial use, only because I don’t feel anything on my blog is the type of original information that would allow someone to make a profit.

You can view the license at :
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
For more detail and defining terms of the license pleas visit:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode