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Danaiwat Komoot (Cloud)


 * How to Build a Website**

__1____. Reserve a Domain Name__ - Identify the aim and goal of the website - Identify and choose the most suitable registrar company - Consider about privacy Protection - Consider about the image of the web's design

__2. Selecting a Web Host__ - Compare different web hosts through different features offered by hosts;
 * Availability of easy web builder
 * Free built-in shopping cart
 * Usage of own HTML Editor (DreamWeaver, CoffeeCup, etc.)
 * Wide Range of advance software support
 * Weight between Price and Offers


 * It is the web builder's responsible to create/obtain a script of their own to create the type of website of they want, including different applications and features.

__3. Creating a Web Page__

When one is experienced with programming - Obtain the HTML Editor where one is most comfortable with - Create HTML & CSS Script or download scripts - Make sure features uploaded are applicable to the web host - Trial run the site and identify existing error(s)

When one is not experienced with programming - Hire someone to create the website for you


 * If looking for making money through website, try and learn through 'Site Build It' and remember that most web hosts only provide a space, not guiding builders in creating website

__4. Site Maintenance__ - Provide a constant maintenance routine during the least busiest hour.

Source: http://www.2createawebsite.com/


 * Thoughts on Comparison of Restaurants' Usage of Internet**

A comparison of two Asian restaurants in Bangkok, Thailand

__Chabuton Ramen, Siam Square__ There are evidences of usage of however all tags are in Thai.The web is in Thai, and mainly focused in displays of pictures and the ma of the restaurant is shown.

Top Queries from Search Traffic

Source: http://www.alexa.com/
 * Query || Percent of Search Traffic ||
 * 1 __naruto 523__ || 1.25% ||
 * 2 __bloggang.com:aed7777ห้องเลข__ || 1.13% ||
 * 3 __bloggang__ || 1.07% ||
 * 4 __lexus__ || 0.60% ||
 * 5 __a team__ || 0.43% ||
 * 6 __one piece 605__ || 0.41% ||
 * 7 __bloggang jeban__ || 0.29% ||
 * 8 __bloggang phoebe__ || 0.28% ||
 * 9 __kku__ || 0.24% ||
 * 10 __blog__ || 0.22% ||

__Ra-men Bankara, Sukumvit 39__ Very similar to the competitor's web page layout, mainly focused in displaying of pictures. However there are no usage of meta-tags nor the address map is shown.

Top Queries from Search Traffic

Source: http://www.alexa.com/
 * Query || Percent of Search Traffic ||
 * 1 __vanilla garden__ || 7.92% ||
 * 2 __bkkmenu__ || 5.60% ||
 * 3 __bkk menu__ || 3.04% ||
 * 4 __cheesecake house__ || 1.96% ||
 * 5 __hidden stuff__ || 1.92% ||
 * 6 __honmono__ || 1.83% ||
 * 7 __cafe buongiorno__ || 1.65% ||
 * 8 __the sensual restaurant__ || 1.57% ||
 * 9 __polka dot__ || 1.49% ||
 * 10 __the roof__ || 1.46% ||

Conclusion: Chabuton Ramen restaurant did a better job in term of marketing internet due to many other approaches in social media such as Flickr and Facebook, however there are numbers of much more professionally organized and well presented restaurants in Bangkok such as Five-stars hotel restaurants (eg, Lord Jim's in Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok) which is open to a much wider market including international market.

Source: http://www.facebook.com/ChabutonRamen www.flickr.com/photos/tallenough/4878366840/ www.thaipixstories.com/forum/index.php?topic=429.0


 * Feedback on Web 2.0**

__What did social media do for the ongoing unrest in the Arabic world? (try to compare Egypt and Libya)__ There were evidence of the usage of social media to gather/assemble a group of individuals who may be disagreeing with the government or has a hostile intention towards the government, it acts as a online-digital safe-house or gathering hall these group of protesters.

__What did social media do to tourism industry?, showcase samples__ Social Media now has become something known as Social Media Marketing for Tourism Industry, the industry has to take its marketing measure up to the next step through social media. Since more than 45% of all the internet users in US are also social network users and the number is still growing said eMarketer. Its no longer about the company but about what is being said and discussed in the social media, becaues there has been a lot of conversation going on publicly and companies has to get involved with it to interact, to know and to spy. Website such as Twitter, Facebook, Tripadvisor and many more can be a great tool for social media.

One example would be an earthquake in New Zealand which was recorded to be the largest earthquake over the last 80 years. Traditional media is lacking in providing enough vital for every individuals, and after the earthquake telephones and mobile phones are only limited to emergency calls. What did people do to get in touch with those within the earthquake zone? They used social media websites to get into contact, some started producing stories and headlines even.

__How active are yourself in Web2.0, what role does it play in your life (private, student)?__ I am active to the media to a certain extent, I have myself being alerted whenever there are news going on in Thailand on daily basis, and also I subscribe myself in Ensogo which is a a groupbuy company in Thailand so I know whenever there is any new deal being offered to me. Obviously I keep myself alerted with Facebook to keep in touch with social life. Another thing I am being connected to is the IMI VLE Mail which will be redirected to my main mailbox.

Therefore if I am to reflect upon myself, I am active in web 2.0 at an average level, and it play a lot of role in my life. It has intergrated in my daily live, hourly even. However, it acts as a very convenient tool to keep myself connected to basically everything in term of information. For example; I no longer have to pay for international call to know what is happening with my family at home. Moreover, in terms of work and education it acts like an alarm clock if something really important occured.


 * Integrating Social Media with Marketing for Business**

Type of Business: Private-own Fusion Food Restaurant in Bangkok

Chosen Type of Social Media:

__Social Networks__ One of the obvious choices which is being used in nearly every companies is Social Network, which is likely to be using Facebook as a part of this section. It is popular and it is easy to create a brand recognition. Pictures and news or some sort of promotions are to be added through this channel as well.

__Publish__ Website such as Wikipedia, or wikia would make more serious approach in brand recognition, it may not be required at the earlier stage of the business; but as the company grows and expand a more structured introduction about company could be done.

__Share__ Youtube and slideshare can be used to promote upon the website itself, existing advertisment, promotion or even review from third party organisations.

__Discuss__ Skype, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger is a perfect tool for public relations and getting in touch with potential customers, since the mentioned software is commonly known and used by many internet users.

__Microblog__ Blog such as Twitter and many others can be used to as one of the tool for public relation and announcement of any news or messeges that is required to be convey to public and customers. Publics can also comment upon such news or the business itself as well.

__MMO__ Very often in MMO games, before entering the game or server itself one must go through a patcher page. During that process is where advertisment, news and announcements are being posted for players to read while waiting. When targeting adults, this can be utilise for business purpose, examples for Thai well known MMO with local server is World of Warcraft or New World.

__Livecast__ With a more funky approach to media, livecast is certainly popular among people of all sex/age, interestingly teenagers are often attracted to this type of Livecast as well. Through Livecast, advertisement and be posted within the website or even being announced in the cast itself. Yahoo Live is one of the popular choices.

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 * Animoto Assignment**

Title: Holiday


 * Mobile**



One of the largest change that I was notified in the recent class is how much Mobile has come into our way of life. It may not a big of an issues for young people as we live along side with Mobile, but for earlier generations it is a big thing, and takes a lot of time to cope up with it. Even among young people, new applications for communication and travel integrated software are ever coming into people way of living, whether it is the Google goggles where mobile phone can take photo on certain landscape or book or item then information can then be provided in place (Visual Search). Another example is DotTel where a simple url. can bring in the person to a full access to contact methods whether its a mobile no. or address. Mobile is bringing more reality and digital world together whether it is for leisure or business purposes and all of these technology and applications can be done in a simple mobile phone showing how much convenience Mobile has offered to us yet we did not even realized it.


 * Augmented Reality (AR)**



What is happening right now is how digital world is integrating into the world in reality, one example is the QR code where mobile phone can decode these QR code found in reality and message or data will automatically be transferred into the phone without having to connect to the server or such. QR codes are becoming more and more complicated where it now becomes measurable and can help with statistic and data collecting, it makes things more and more inter-connected and it is growing everywhere in the world. QR code can also be easily generated through using website that helps generate the qr-code just by inputting sort of information which can either be sms, url link, messages and more. Consumers now wants to be more informed about everything like some food product which has QR-code on that tells about the nutrition inside that certain food item. There is then new ways of generated AR like Marker Tags which shows a 3D image on the video in the screen. Not only for recreation purpose but also for business and marketing purpose where people can use it to try the product at home like Tissot watch AR, it is however still in the small market at the present time. Applications at the time are all distinctive on its own and still need further development for these apps. to be all in one. One of the AR apps. helps find a specific landmark for the user only just through camera pointing at specific direction. There is possibility where AR can bring up image of construction or building which no longer exist which integrate with the camera of the phone, so ones can really get a real feeling of the culture and the architecture in the past. It could be of use for health and safety as well, where people can be notified of nearby people who happens to have a heart attack in the area. AR has reached the point where everybody knows about it and went beyond the point of rejection. Some finds that AR no longer need to be based on devices and such anymore, it has to integrate with how people interact in their everyday life. Therefore gesture is one of the main feature where many producers are trying to integrate reality with digital world.

Some of the examples can be seen here: - http://www.t-immersion.com/?gclid=CJ6e05ulragCFYMI3wodeBAcHA - http://www.arcane-technologies.com/en/ - media type="youtube" key="qdlLVMGXSQk?version=3" height="245" width="399"


 * Twitter**



Twitter is becoming more and more important in people way of life especially in Arabian and Dutch countries, people are being able to follow with people they want to keep in touch with. Twitter can also be used for business purpose Twitter application called Twitter Consultant which helps people who wants to get a job and the same goes the other way around. Business can use Twitter to get in touch or information on their clients, knowing the trend around the world that relates to their business. They can use Twitter to actively find their client and be involves with the clients. It can be used to bind the community together through continuous usage of Twitter, business can also announce its success of the business or any accomplishment of the business through Twitter to expand its business recognition.


 * Generation Y**



Over decades the generation is changing dramatically over generations. The people from previous generations are becoming more and more concern on the new generation, they think that new generations are stupid, unorganized, no goal in their life, addicted to electronic gadgets, not thinking of consequences, not very good at physical social interaction (speaking in front of people, listening to others), they are spoiled by various influence. Do these new generations agree? They do to the certain extent, and there are still arguments going on around between generations whether that is true or not. One for example; think that old generation should now start hiring and moving towards the new innovative ideas of new generations even in companies and business as they have a much better/smarter idea of doing things. New generations are able to perform multi-tasking when many older generations cant. New generation expect a customization of their each and individual product to personalize themselves and to express themselves through that certain product. They (Gen Y) are expected to be sustainable as they are in the future expected to be a leader, and fun work very closely with work, but not mixed. The new generation will have hundreds and thousands of contacts through Facebook, and online networking, they are fast and efficient with technology that they're used to.


 * Crowdsourcing**



First of all, there is such thing called 'outsoucing' this is something that IT plays a lot as part of it. It basically means an IT is setup and doing all the job for the person, so the person does not really have to be there to work, on the internet, the server is doing all the job for him generating revenue. There are many philosophy that states that crowds are wisdom, meaning the majority is smarter then some of the experts and there are many proofs in which stated so like Wikipedia where anyone can come in and post information about certain things. Experts these days are even asking from the crowds like the Oil spill in Mexico, it expands rapidly and it helps notify people. So the crowd is ready because of globalisation. It is however not a new thing, this crowdsourcing has been going on for centuries since the slade trading during Imperial Age. Only problem was back then there was no internet so distribution was difficult. It is still an ongoing development. There are those that contacts their fans one year ahead ad sell the album before the album even existed. Another example is the making of Lord of the Ring where the team work along side with fans, where they can submit ideas and feedback. There are many existing examples that uses the crowds to share experience and ideas for the business like 'Amazing Thailand**'** website.