Lecture Post: Networking

Entrepreneurial Idea Overview:
If you ever wondered what that delicious wafting smell is coming from, the Food FTW App can detect what food it is through the newest iTouch/iPhone generation's smell sensor. The app can also identify food by pictures. The app has a database of all kinds of cuisine with information about them making it a handy tool for food lovers who enjoy discovering and learning about the food they eat.

Lecture:
How the Food FTW App will relate to network is that the application itself is a network. It is on a iPhone and the app fosters communication amongst its users' by allowing to add or comment other users on the app. Information on food and its users' are compiled to be shared with one another. All the information on food and its scents and pictures are located on a bigger host server. The client using the application is accessing that information, which creates a network.

By allowing several people to use this application online at the same time, this is a form of network. Food FTW has a website and its web protocol goes through steps between the client and server to draw information. Also, a website cannot exist without its very own IP address. An IP address is a set of 4 bytes. The IP address needs a domain name. foodftw.com is its domain name. The application is used on the phone but the website allows users to access it through the computer and present information in a more convenient way.

At the Food FTW headquarters, our computers will become a client/server network. Multiple hardware, clients, etc can be accessed through a host computer because it becomes a server. It will make producing the application more convenient as it allows the workers do their work from anywhere. Also, it cost less to have multiple physical hardware and computers.

Final Post

Entrepreneurial Idea Overview:
If you ever wondered what that delicious wafting smell is coming from, the Food FTW App can detect what food it is through the newest iTouch/iPhone generation's smell sensor. The app can also identify food by pictures. The app has a database of all kinds of cuisine with information about them making it a handy tool for food lovers who enjoy discovering and learning about the food they eat.

Due to my love for food and hobby of documenting what types of cuisine I have tried, I wanted to do create something technological related to food. I also read of the smell censor being possibly made. I thought it would be really cool if there was an application that could incorporate the usage of a smell sensor with food. So that was how Food FTW App was created. It also includes being able to detect what the cuisine is through the camera of the iPhone.

As the idea progressed over time through the different blog posts, I realize that the smell sensor might be difficult to create. Instead, I felt like I continued to emphasize the Food FTW App as more of a database of looking up food and connecting people on similar taste in food because that has a practical chance of being possible. It was also one part of social media it could be related to. People could also share what they are eating and recommendations of what food to try. To encourage usage of Food FTW, I wanted ads to show people having fun with the sensor.

The other technical parts involved cloud computing, the system unit, and databases. While we were given the  task of creating our product, it meant having to learn how to incorporate the usage of different technology to make it possible. Databases would help organize the massive amount of information on food. The Application itself is a database for people to search and identify cuisine. Photoshop and 'bits and bytes' are used to enhance and promote the creation of this product.

The comments were helpful and made me realize how I could make the product better. Some of the ideas like using cloud computing to store scents was creative because I did not even think of that! It made me see how my application can be used to help other applications or software and expand its use of scents and not just for food. It also made me see how I forgot to include scents as storage because I was not sure of how that type of information can be stored.

The project made me realize how many different factors and ideas have to be put into to make this application a possible reality. To make this a reality, there needs to more research and experimentation of making a smell sensor. Once a practical prototype is achieved, then there is a chance for the smell sensor to be made onto gadgets, etc. Also, picture detection is slowly improving. Facebook's face detection is one example of how it can identify faces. Hopefully, something like that can be done for different types of objects so the idea of detecting food through photos can be achieved.

Lecture Post: Databases

Entrepreneurial Idea Overview:
If you ever wondered what that delicious wafting smell is coming from, the Food FTW App can detect what food it is through the newest iTouch/iPhone generation's smell sensor. The app can also identify food by pictures. The app has a database of all kinds of cuisine with information about them making it a handy tool for food lovers who enjoy discovering and learning about the food they eat.

Lecture:
The Food FTW App contains detailed information on many different types of food. A program that is used to sort its information and names of food are databases. Databases like Oracle easily and quickly manages complex data and do queries. There is so much information that using a database will ease the work of having to look and specific each cuisine into a category.

The database is not only used for sorting food but usernames, locations, user's data, pictures, nutritional facts, and statistics. The database will efficiently keep track of users without repeating names Multiple users have access to the data allowing Food FTW to continuously work on improving and adjusting its information to be accurate for its users.

Storing mass amount of information does not work unless we do something we the information. Organizing food by its name, cultural origin, ingredients, scents and other facts is what the App itself offers so the work of a database enhances the application. SQL is the database language designed to categorize data through a statement. Using a database is just one of many tool's Food FTW uses in creating its application.

Blogger Review

Blogger's URL: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/23/what-games-are-consoles-are-sinking-get-to-the-lifeboats/

The blogger of this post in TechCrunch is Tadhg Kelly and he is a video game designer. Tadhg is known for being involved in many game projects and having different roles with developing video games and technology. Not only that, he is a lead designer at companies like BSkyB and Lionheart. Also, he is a producer and creative director. Right now, he spends his time creating social games for various companies.

TechCrunch is a blog that includes a wide range of topics related to technology. For this post, he talks about how console games are declining in popularity. When the information of the PS4 was out, people were not intrigued or care about its release. Kelly says there is not something that makes the console seem innovating and a lot of effort just to connect with people. There is not something similar to the well-liked Wii control offered for PS4. Instead, a new thing called microconsoles is becoming popular because they are cheaper, powered by Android, and easy to develope by yourself.

I like how Kelly gives a reason that the game console's popularity is declining. Blogs tend to be opinionated but Kelly still manages to offer a lot of information and facts to support his reasoning. He divides up his post with several sub topics that are related to one another. But one thing I do not like is that he is a sort of negative about the video game console. Some people are old-fashioned and still prefer the classic controller and console set. At the same time, I think technology is always changing and innovative so it is not surprising that these new "microconsoles" could become the next thing.