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Mac App Store is a huge market where all users are enable to download many useful and entertaining applications on their mac products such as iPhone and iPod. I personally think that mac app store is ingenious in the way that they are allowing any eligible users to develop and release new application with minimum restrictions. Furthermore invention of the Mac APP STORE was revolutionary although similar market existed prior to app store’s release, Mac has traded marked the app store opening a potential market for all apple users. This method of blue ocean strategy was successful by January 16 2010 reaching 9 billion download to date. =====

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For mac developers, this new idea of creating applications by the users would be incredible because they no longer had to pay overpriced license fee to start developing the apps and only 30% of the revenue was commissioned towards the Apple. This method brought more and more developers to apple reaching estimation of over 400 000 apps by Jan 16 2010. =====

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For Apple, it is also beneficial for them because they can now focus more time on developing actual mac hardware products and its system. Also, they can now put more funds for other research programs. When you think about the actual profit, yes they are saving a lot of money toward developing applications but this may cause many troubles such as troubles with certain types of application, degree of completion of the application and many more. =====

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 ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ For Mac app store users, this new approach can be benefiting for them in a way that they are now able to access many and innovative programs. Through mac app store users can download many useable applications onto their mac products and I think that the prices of the applications are reasonable regarding the effort that the developers put to create the applications. Nowadays people are able to download many different games as well as other informative applications such as navigation programs and data based phone-call services allowing them to save money and time. Therefore, I think that overall, mac app store is very useful and beneficial for the developers and users as well as the apple store itself. =====


 * __Lab 3 : January 27, 2011 __ **
 * Choose one and discuss a real-world example that demonstrates it (2-3 paragraph response as usual, before midnight tomorrow)**

When you look at the title of the book, “Alone Together”, it is very ironic that people can feel connected to the world by using technology when they are alone. For instance, as stated in the article, applications and webpages such as Facebook and Twitter have become very popular and it is well used by many people. It allows people to see their friends’ current status and what they are doing. Furthermore, people can share their ideas and give thumbs up, which is all processed online. With this developing technology, we no longer have to take our time to travel to meet people. Online shopping is now also available through the web just by a click of the mouse. It is very convenient and saves a lot of time but it may limit people’s social life skills. I personally do not think that this would be a problem because it is really up to the person to make decision whether to stay home and interact online and be connected to the world through the web, or to go out and be connected to the world through face to face communication.
 * __Lab 4: February 3, 2011__**
 * Respond to this article with your own contextualized opinion don't generalize**

I absolutely think that Sherry Turkle raised a very interesting point. I somewhat agree with her opinion that our technology is used beyond its purpose. Nowadays, technology is taking a great part in our everyday lives all over the world. For instance, when I visited my homeland Korea, everyone in the subway was holding their cellphones and text messaging their friends. I agree that technology might restrict people from building social life skills by allowing them to connect to the world online. However, people greatly take advantage from new technology as they are now able to send e-mails, check information online, share ideas and communicate through an online system.

I believe that using technology can bring both good and bad results. The technology made our lives convenient but at the same time because everything is done online, it limits people from interacting in real-life situations. It is truly agreeable that many people use technology to a great extent and sometimes it is not only used for the good reason. I also think that as Turkle stated in the article, we are generation that has grown up with technology and therefore, it is obvious that many people are addicted to web applications and technological devices. In my personal opinion, it really does not matter how much technology is involved in our lives because technology is certainly essential in our lives today. However, I believe that it has to be used to benefit the lives of the people and not in a negative way.

__**Lab 5: February 10, 2011**__ **Choose one** **Talk about your views/concerns about the future of privacy or** **Does privacy really matter? why/ why not?**

There are many inventions of informative websites such as Facebook and Twitter where people can share their information and opinions. Sometimes unfamiliar people can have access to your information and find out about your identity. Privacy is vital to humans because it protects your identity. For that reason there are number of information that should not be public. Nevertheless I personally do not think that we should be concerned about our privacy at this time. I think that privacy depends on the person’s and the social choices. For instance, on Facebook people can change their privacy settings and choose what to be presented and what not to be. On most of the web sites, they have settings where the user can select to show their personal information or to hide it.

When you think about future, certainly there will be more applications and web sites where they may expose more of the users’ information. Even so when people register and be a member of the websites and other online applications, they are the one who is registering their own information on the website and are asked to choose their privacy settings. If a person truly hesitates his/her information to be public, he/she has the choice of changing the settings and even more they are the decision makers to use the web sites or not. I believe that the personal information that are shown to the public or to certain group of people that you chose to show is the result of your judgment.

__** Lab 6: February 17, 2011 **__


 * __Rules for radicals - by saul alinsky (1971)__**
 * Try talking about how you could apply one of the rules to your group project!**
 * Talk about one that inspires you**
 * Rule 1**:**Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.**

I agree with the Rule 1 of “Rules of Radicals, “Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have” and I find it very fascinating. I think that even if you have small group of people making tactical response to a strategic power of strong authority, you can conceal yourselves and make your opponent think that you have a large group of member fighting against it. In my personal opinion, I think that the number really does not matter, but your strong belief and how well the group come together is essential and critical in disguising yourself.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Rule 1 inspired me in a way that it shows that no matter how many people are in your own group and your opponent’s group, if you are successful in presenting yourself of how you want you look like, you will be able to be seen more powerful and authoritative than you really are. I think that this is one of the great skills that you can practice in your everyday life and is actually used nowadays. For instance group of people stood up for animal rights in Korea to save animals from abusement and although they had to fight agaisnt a lot of people, they were able to pass the law by making tactical movements and disguising themselves to be seen more powerful than they are.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Write a response to this dichotomy// ie. your thoughts on e-learning **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Lab 8: March 10, 2011 **__

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__**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Lab 9: March 17, 2011 **__
 * What will/should Web 3.0 be about? What should we be focusing on? **

In my personal opinion, web 3.0 will make life much easier and creative from the use of semantic data. By changing web in database form and using virtual intelligence, it will allow cross searching for people to share their information. This intelligent web programs will result in open technology and open identity which makes it easier to get access to various information than the previous version of web. However, it may also cause a lot of problems such as security problems, lag of defying oneself and most likely all the information that users will access will be based on the left-brain thinking (logical, straightforward).

But overall, I believe that web 3.0 will allow internet speed to be faster, number of module web application will grow and from the development of computer graphics, it will be an important action for growth of World Wide Web. I believe that after the change from web 2.0 to web 3.0, a lot of things will be done through the web conveniently and logically which brings both advantage and disadvantage in people’s lives. To prevent these future problems, we should make sure that there are no personal information floating around the web, and that not only computers and virtual intelligence but people are able to put their own personal opinions to it.

Lab 10: March 24, 2011 how should it be handled?... or if it shouldn't be done, then what instead? (deep packet inspection)