New MacBook air

When cell phones first came out, they were larger than home phones.  These devices evolved so much, that when I first saw the razor I laughed.  I thought to myself, "who would ever buy this tiny breakable thing"?  Little did I know it would be huge in the market. 

We have also come from 25" tube computer monitors on desktops, to plasma/lcd 1 inch thick monitors and now the ultra slim Mac Book air.  This laptop is so thin that you can fit it in a yellow packaging slip.  I now think to myself, "who will ever buy this"?  And yet again, I'm sure it will be an even bigger hit.  This specific laptop has no CD/DVD player, no Ethernet cord, and no hard drive.  Unbelievable in my eyes. 

Social Marketing

Over the past few years, the social media and networking arenas have been expanding exponentially.  There is an article we are able to read for Dr. Karam's class that mentions marketing through word of mouth and paying customers to solicit their friends or people they believe are good candidates for the companies services.  What I wonder about, is if social networking sites would work for friends to solicit for others without posting advertisements through pop ups or whatever can be used.  basically saying, does word of mouth marketing or (pull-marketing) work by using peoples statuses.  Does a person mentioning "this place is great" or "just had the best experience of my life" really sell a product or service?  Its not even face-to-face contact anymore that makes this world work, and if thats true we can relate this back to the beginning of the semester with regards to the disconnect of people.  I'm starting to wonder if we could operate the world with no face-to-face contact.  What do you think?

Oracle

Talking about IT and how it is continuously growing, makes me go back and think about the Caregroup case and their systems crash.  We talked about how there was an overload of information between the servers and this was caused by 1 person as well as an outdated system.  I was thinking about how big Caregroup was and how much bigger and more complex companies are now, and while doing so I saw that Oracle released a new line of products and services that allow much more information and technology to to be connected and managed through only a single system with much more reliability and less complexity.  Its crazy to think that this is even possible.


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