Wednesday, January 30

Japanese Best Sellers go Cellular


In Tokoyo, Japan. Their last years best selling novels have been cell phone novels. Five were originally cellphone novels, mostly love stories written in the short sentences characteristic of text messaging but containing little of the plotting or character development found in traditional novels. Cellphone novelists are racking up the kind of sales that some many people only dream of. A 21 year old girl Rin, recently used her cellphone to create a novel and is now thurned in a best selling novel. After cellphone readers voted her novel No. 1 in one ranking, her story of the ragic love between two childhood friends was turned into a 142-page hardcover book last year.As the population of people who had cellphones grew, cellphones had been an integral part of their life starting from high school. They punched out text messages with their thumbs with blinding speed, and used expressions and emoticons, like smilies and musical notes, whose nuances were lost on anyone over the age of 25.

Tuesday, January 22

Survival of the Fitest in the Corprate World






In an internet article about yahoo, the new runner of yahoo Jerry Yang said that he is trying to revamp yahoo to try to gain back all the customers he has lost due to Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. Because of the new advances in many sites, more and more users have stopped using Yahoo because they can do all the things they want on Facebook or Google.Analysts have been waiting for changes at Yahoo, and they have questioned whether Mr. Yang can lead Yahoo’s transformation quickly enough before competitors gain more ground and before investors become restless. “Maybe it’s too generous, but I would give them six to nine months to prove that these initiatives are having an impact,” said Mark Mahaney, an analyst with Citigroup. Google is now coming up with iGoogle wich gives you a way to make your own blog, which is all teens and adults are trying to do these days. This allows the person to google and search what they want and still be connect with their friends.



Facebook also allows you to reconnect and join with your friends. You are allowed to friend request old and new friends and chat with them through emial. You can look at friends pictures and explore their world. You can only accept people that you want to wich makes it safe and easy for kids and even adults.



Google is something that has been around for years that seems to connect to people that need answers and need them quick. You can search just about anything, and you are guranteed the answer, it may take a little while but it sure is worth it when you need something fast.



As you can see, every large online corporate buisness needs to compete and needs to keep coming up with new ideas that are going to make their company bigger and better for people. The people only want the easiest way to search and connect with family and friends and each company is working hard to stay on top.






Tuesday, January 8

CREATIVITY


Creativity is affected by where you are in a certain place or time. Lets say you are on a beach, you can think of things like related to the beach. Lets take the ocean or sand or shells. Creativity is something that comes naturally. When you are designing a webpage, you can get ideas from just about anywhere though, you dont have to be in a beach or in a classroom, you can let your imagination soar just by looking or thinking about one thing.