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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Shopping and Product Reviews: Will Traditional Shopping Die ...
The popularity of online shopping has been seen by many as a threat to the existence of traditional shopping. Their argument is based on the recent widespread closure of established brands like Sears and Best Buy. But can we really say that traditional shopping is dying?
In 2011, even though the U.S economy was sluggish, shopping grew by 15% over the previous year. In addition, about 35% of Americans now have smartphones which enable them to purchase goods and services over the internet and this figure is expected to rise significantly in subsequent years. In actual fact, about half of smartphone users have used their phones for one purchase or the other. On Christmas day of 2011 alone, about 6.8 million iOs and Android smartphones were activated. Top internet retailer, Amazon, recorded a whooping net sale of $48.08 billion in 2011 which represents 40.6% increase over $32.20 billion recorded in 2010. This figure is expected to rise in 2012 and subsequent years. What then is the implication of all these to physical retailing?
Since many people now decide to shop over the internet due to the benefits derivable in doing so like convenience, easy access to market, price comparison, avoidance of crowd, better prices and so on, can we really say that that the traditional way of shopping is being threatened? In my own opinion, technology will enhance the traditional method and not kill it. The popularity of video cassette recorder (VCR) in the 80's was seen by many as a threat to movie theaters then, but today, the film industry has been strengthened by the new technology and the demand for films has increased.
Moreover, when the email became very popular, a lot people thought that the traditional postal service would die, but today, it is waxing stronger. The point I'm driving at here is that, if traditional shop owners can embrace new technology, shopping on the internet would not be a threat to them but a blessing.
If physical retailers can monitor shopping behavior through the use of Wi-Fi signals from smartphones, they would be able to compete favorably in a fast-changing world. They can use technology to measure loyalty, make better staffing decisions, improve store layouts, reduce wait times in checkout lines and so on. Online shopping has come to stay but it is not a threat to traditional shopping because many consumers still value some of its features like quality of customer service, the experience of trying and buying products, how products are displayed and so on.
Olushola Otenaike is an online shopping expert.
Source: http://mysoupbaby.blogspot.com/2012/11/will-traditional-shopping-die-because.html
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Book Nerd - Integral Education: The CIIS Blog
By LAURA TOWNE, student in the Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts MFA program
?This post was written for Cindy Shearer's CIA 7712: MFA Project. In these blogs, students are sharing their discoveries, reflections and learning as they enter the process of creating a body of art work and culminate their degrees.?
I?m the first to admit I?m a book nerd. I actually get excited about looking things up in the dictionary and hours magically slip by when I crack open my atlas. I have way too many books for someone my age. At last count, there were 402 books in my personal library, but that number has surely grown since then. They occupy four bookcases?no small feat in a tiny Bay-area one-bedroom?and when I am deep in my creative process, they overflow to stacks beside my bed and on my desk, sometimes taking up more space on the couch than I do. It?s reassuring just to have their energy near me?I am a collector of books because it?s the closest I can get to the people who wrote them.
There are books on yoga, dreaming, intuition, poetry, shamanism, astrology, Buddhism, art, reincarnation, ayurveda, astronomy, physics, mythology, energy healing, writing, gardening, tantra, entheogens, sacred geometry, metaphysics, spirituality...as well as novels and practical books about tangible things like 101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions. I could keep going, but you get the idea. Clearly, CIIS is the right school for me. Before moving to the Bay area to attend CIIS, I was the only person I knew with such an eclectic collection of books, a fact I kept hidden most of the time, as if spirituality was a secret I was afraid to admit. Now, a year and a quarter into earning my master?s degree in Writing and Consciousness, I am surrounded by people immersed in these subjects?so immersed that we often pause to laugh at ourselves: when did we become these people that ?hold space? and talk about ?the divine feminine? and say ?hold on a minute, let me get back in my body?? (I?m delighted to know we aren?t the only ones laughing at ourselves ? check out this video.)
I wouldn?t call myself ?new age? though. I prefer to defy labels?or embrace a hundred of them all at once, none of which are quite right on their own, but together form a collage that comes a little bit closer. I?ve amassed this library not because I swallowed a bottle of new age pills or joined a cult. No, these books are here because of my quest to understand what is unfolding inside of me, something that yoga sparked and has now turned into an all-out wildfire. These books are here because I?m a wisdom gatherer?the wisdom of the artists, wordsmiths, thinkers, yogis, intuitives, and researchers that have come before me, wisdom that I recognize by that tingly feeling on the crown of my head or in the palms of my hands. The same feeling that led me to CIIS in the first place.
As this journey down the rabbit hole picks up pace, I take in the wisdom of the teachers on my bookshelves and the teachers all around me, I find what matches up with the truth of my own experience, digest it all and voila ? art emerges. It is unavoidable. Laying ink down on paper is my way of making sense of it all. Words fill countless sheets of lined notebook paper; drawings, doodles and symbols fill pages and pages of sketchbooks. In the midst of chronicling this journey, I?m not entirely sure what will come of it, but I do know that tomorrow I?ll be putting pen to paper again.
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Source: http://blog.ciis.edu/my_weblog/2012/11/book-nerd.html
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Sharp Aquos SH930W reviewed early in Russia, mates Sharp's 1080p screen with a mid-tier phone
Lest you think HTC has a complete lock on Sharp's supply of extra-dense 5-inch, 1080p screens for the Droid DNA and J Butterfly, Sharp itself is building a phone around the giant LCD. The Aquos Phone SH930W slightly rethinks the internals of HTC's new Android 4.1 flagship to make it more affordable, doubling the non-expandable storage to 32GB but scaling back to a dual-core, 1.5GHz Snapdragon S3 and dropping the currently unsupported LTE. That cost-cutting will be vital, as the SH930W is headed to a more price-sensitive Russia first, in late November -- one of the few (if not only) times that Sharp has tailored a smartphone to a country other than its native Japan. The 22,000-ruble ($694) off-contract price in Russia could undercut mere 720p rivals that often cost 25,000 rubles ($789) or more.
It's an odd phone by any account, and Mobile-review was curious enough to snag a pre-release SH930W for an early inspection. While the device under the microscope was running vanilla Android rather than the planned Feel UX and may easily have a fair share of buggy code, initial benchmarks seem to validate fears of a mismatch between the display and an underpowered chip: the S3 is fast enough for common tasks at that resolution, but chokes with playing 1080p video and certain 3D games. Anyone buying the extra-large Aquos Phone will mostly be choosing it for the good battery life, the camera and that killer price, the site says. We'll admit to being slightly disappointed at such a pedestrian fate for Sharp's screen so soon into its lifespan, although we suspect performance-minded Muscovites could get a chance at a much faster HTC Deluxe in the near future.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Best Android apps this week
Zombie Driver THD
$6.74?Google Play
Zombie Driver was first released as a PC game on Steam back in 2009, and now it's available to Tegra-packing Android phones for the first time. Mixing cars, speed, explosions and zombies, it's a high-octane thriller packed with 31 different missions and unrelenting packs of the undead. With a whole host of crazy vehicles and upgradeable weapons at your disposal, zombie killing has never been so fun. Don't fancy the campaign mode? There's also the Blood Race Tournament and Slaughter mode to try out as well, giving you plenty of zombie-packed gameplay.
Photo Punch
Free Google Play
If you like the idea of bringing a little bit more creativity to your smartphone snaps, Photo Punch allows you to mash a number of images together into one. First, pick the part of your image you'd like to "punch" out using the outline tool, then superimpose it onto your background image, or choose one from the Photo Punch library instead. No doubt hilarious consequences will ensue ? putting a cat's head onto a squirrel's body is certainly what we'll be doing first.
Movember Mobile
Free Google Play
It's that time of year once again, where men across the country ditch their razors for a whole month and leave their moustaches to grow freely. No, it's not a hipster invasion, but Movember? ? an annual event to raise cash and awareness for men's health charities. This accompanying app allows Movember participants to request and track donations, update people on their Mo progress with statuses and photos, and even recruit people to join their Mo team. Step away from the razor and get involved.
Fontly
Free Google Play
Typographic geeks will have a field day with Fontly ? a place to collect, share and explore the wealth of vintage typography found all over the world. To get involved, you simply take a picture of the lettering you've found, title and tag it using the provided categories and then it will automatically be geo-tagged and added to Fontly's feed, map and website. You can then browse other people's photos by time, location or best rated to get your font fix.
This article originally appeared at Stuff.tv
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