Online auctions EBay and others.

Other shopping sites like amazon.com was also providing online bidding but due to lack of success they stopped providing online auctions due to which now mainly EBay is the main place for online bidding. Yahoo and amazon entered online auctions but they were not successful because of there design and other loopholes . EBay got success because it is well structured and navigated website . EBay is still continuing its online auction business whereas amazon and yahoo has abolished this business. EBay was able to dominant its position in this market because EBay provides with dynamic pricing which is very helpful for all the sellers and buyers..

Online Auctions

E bay one of the most successful online shopping site which offers new and used products at different prices. E bay also provides bidding facility which is very rare in online shopping and EBay is very successful in it. EBay tends to provide bidding which changes the price which is very beneficial for seller. People bid for product and mostly higher bidder gets the product. EBay is dynamic pricing website in which market determines the prices of product. Earlier amazon was also supplying this bidding option but now amazon no more offers this facility . There are few more big online shopping sites which provide bidding but EBay is biggest among them all. Online auctions take place which benefits sellers a most. Usually English Auction is preferred by websites and sellers in which price starts from minimum base price and then it kept rising as more and more customers tend to bid. Sometimes due to excessive bidding price of product gets over the value which is very useful for seller but not for buyer.

E shopping eperience

I have different sorts of experiences in shopping online. I used various sites like Amazon.com , Flipkart.com , Asos.com, etc. and they all delivered different and interesting experiences. I used to buy clothes and digital books and music online and I feel amazed after watching such a huge catalogue of books and music in online stores like amazon and Netflix. In my home country India I have to buy biography of Steven Gerrard ,former Liverpool FC captain and it was not available in physical form in small cities of India so I decided to buy it in digital form on amazon which was my best experience and I was amazed after seeing such a huge catalogue of books and music online which is practically not possible in physical form. I have one worst experience in online shopping also I bought a pair of shoes which I have to return because of size problems and when I requested a return I was shocked there was no facility to pickup that product . I have to spend my own 10$ to send that product back to that online store which was so annoying because I have to get some time to arrange that delivery . Though increasing development in return policies have convinced me a lot  to buy online despite that one annoying experience. Products in non physical form has biggest drawback which cannot be removed  because its very difficult to select products which we don't feel . Migration of consumers to online markets has been seen and prices of products somewhat went bit low because of large sellers and high competition. Almost every product which is available in market is also available in E market so bit of difference can be experienced because large numbers of sellers online also but they didn't impact price a lot.

Turing Test argument.

Turing test is though very high tech but sometimes it seems like fluke. Turing test has various examples in which it has given wrong results. These results goes against the Turing test and they show it is not that much effective. Machines cannot depict humans and they have been proved in some cases. Machines like computers in which humans give input are much more effective because they tend to give appropriate and correct results. Turing Test is a Flawed Benchmark as explained by Terry Wallby  in his article explaining all the advantages of other machines on Turing test. This link is to article of terry will reveal this. http://www.wired.com/2012/06/flawed-turing-test/ This shows that Turing is a flawed benchmark.

Turing Test.

The Turing test is a test, developed by Alan Turing  in 1950, of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine that is designed to generate human-like responses. The evaluator would be aware that one of the two partners in conversation is a machine, and all participants would be separated from one another. The conversation would be limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen so that the result would not be dependent on the machine's ability to render words as speech. If the evaluator cannot reliably tell the machine from the human (Turing originally suggested that the machine would convince a human 70% of the time after five minutes of conversation), the machine is said to have passed the test. The test does not check the ability to give correct answers to questions, only how closely answers resemble those a human would give.
The test was introduced by Turing in his paper, "Computing machine and intelligence", while working at the Manchester University .It opens with the words: "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'" Because "thinking" is difficult to define, Turing chooses to "replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words."Turing's new question is: "Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the imitation game ?This question, Turing believed, is one that can actually be answered. In the remainder of the paper, he argued against all the major objections to the proposition that "machines can think".
This picture shows how Turing test is done to interpret whether its human or machine or whether its identical to humans decision or not.

Cyber Twin .

Cyber twin was the kind of automatic machine which used to answer the questions and most wonderful thing about that was it was totally free before it was acquired by IBM. Everything would have been much easier but today instead of cyber twin people are using BOT which is automatic Bot which interprets most of our thinking and talk to us. Growing trend of BOT states that it is been used for telephone and computing services as well. The Botlibre has also potential and it is being used by lots of people.

BOT chat link...Chat here for E business queries. :)

http://www.botlibre.com/browse?id=12779394

Business models and Information and Communicatiom technologies (ICTs)

Every business online operates with some sort of business model there are few basic models for enterprise according to Marko Hurst and usually 9 business models . Brokerage , advertising , infomediary , merchant , manufacturer , affiliate , community , subscription , utility are the 9 main business models . Every business model has its unique features and every model operates according to its own features. Broker makes link between manufacturer to consumer, manufacturer to manufacturer , consumer to consumer and through this mechanism  business is operated. Every business model has its own features like in  subscription model consumer or buyer s charged daily , weekly , monthly or annually based on level of purchase. In manufacturer level direct link between manufacturer and consumer is made . In advertising various advertisements are done to promote businesses . These business models are adopted by firms and according to Marko Hurst usually firms appoint 2 basic models from that 2 basic model of his . Amazon has adopted 3 out of 4 businesses models of Hurst. So all these models have different identity.

Information and Communication Technologies(ICT) can change the economies of the world  . Every economy and society can be changed with ICTs but there is need to adopt it with efficiency. ICT revolution in progress in lots of nations but still its not widely spread. Various countries like Ethiopia and Central American nations reached improved positions in ranking of ICTs. In advanced economies certain segments of society are getting benefitted whereas lots of people are deprived of it because of their age , limited digital literacy and lack of access to technology.

Usable Doesn’t Have To Mean Ugly ‘for a web design to be truly beautiful, it has to be functional, have purpose and contribute in some way to the website’s intuitiveness, usefulness and branding. All of these things contribute to the overall effect of a design’.

Every website has the combination of design and navigation , they both need to be balanced otherwise your website may Suck like the website of the HEADHUNTER hair styling and many more. Your website is commercial so there is need to have purpose and usefulness for customer. Website is not only dependant on design or on navigation or on other features there has to proper mix of everything so that customers can easily find whatever they need and design of site should also impresses . Good design and proper functionality of site enables customer to dig more and more in site so that they can find and order wide range of things. Comparison features should be their in websites dealing with products that can be compared with its own company products or with other companies products. Websites should have main offer links and contact info on their homepage for an easy access to customers. According to me FLIPKART.COM webpage that does not suck at all it has all the features which any webpage need. It delivers all the basic things which every good webpage has. Contact info , main offer links , now trending webpage design of pics in background , footers, etc. everything on homepage , its perfect example of classic good webpage.

‘Presence’. Firms that do business on the Web should be more concerned about presence than firms that operate in the physical world.

Presence in digital world of enterprises means presence of all the necessary information or links for the customers so that they can have easy access to everything they would like to search and find. There should be proper availability of content , design , strategy with effective use of technology.

It is absolutely relevant to say that those firms which operate on web should be more concerned about presence than the firms that operate in physical world. There is difference in interaction level between business operation online and offline . Offline businesses are more flexible as customer can reach different salesmen but it is bit different in online operation businesses where website has to express all the available options to customers because its difficult to call customer services every time. Digitally operating businesses should have everything present in there site for efficiency of there services to customer's. Link to main offers , contact info , footers , video and other important links should be on homepage of website because otherwise its difficult to search whole site. In offline business there is bit of direct link with customers and they don't need to have much on their online sites.  Customers approach online websites for saving time but if poor design and navigation of site can ruin the expectations of customers and company can lose its customers. Good design but poor navigation can also have negative impacts on customers so presence need to be carefully managed in online operation businesses .So that's why I think business on web should be more concerned about presence than firms that operate in physical world.
 

In two paragraphs explain why a customer centric Web site design is so important, yet so difficult to accomplish

Web sites are designed to express the thoughts and products of the company and these products are available to be used by Customers so websites need to be customer oriented. There are piles of websites which sucks because of their design and there navigation . Customers some times often get confused while navigating site which means that site sucks . Customer centric website is the aim for every company but it is so difficult to accomplish because its not easy to satisfy customers. Most difficult task for every business is to satisfy customers with every kind of possible help and services. It is the customer who is going to give reviews regarding site so it has to be customer centric. Customers approach websites for buying goods and services because they don't have time to visit stores if  they have to spend lots of time on websites because of poor design and navigation of site than this can become the frustration for buyer.

Though every customer need easy way to buy products, websites give this option but if poor design and navigation of website can lead to frustration. There are advertisements on sites but they should be of very minimal level because ultimately website is for customers but not for advertisers. Heaps of advertisements will develop frustration in mind of customer so there is need to websites designed according to customers. Good looking design of website is of no use if there is no effective navigation of site because customer is finally satisfied with the way he/she is treated but not with the looks of websites. There should be contact links on homepage for customers and links to main offers on website. So all these things are though very difficult to achieve but still if these things are achieved than we can say website is customer centric.

Intellectual property

Intellectual property implies the legal rights of owners on it and they are often misused it creates hype. Patents , Trademarks and Copyrights are important parts of intellectual property. Every legal work tend to have patent trademark or copyright.As seen in video of TED  copies can be very useful. often big companies have copyrights of there videos which cannot be copied. If same video is uploaded with other name of up-loader it is detected by mechanism used by YouTube and than company was given choice to remove or to keep that video .Sometimes companies old songs tend to get popular with home made videos on that song than  companies allowed that  videos to remain on YouTube. These kind of scenarios can be very handy for companies as there old non trending songs tend to become famous and they start earning alot from them. So according to me these copies and mash ups should be allowed because they sometimes gives huge revenue along with fame. Normal people tend to get lots of fame from YouTube videos. Big singers has come out big only because of YouTube and there help by allowing videos to be on YouTube rather than removing them from YouTube.

Example of Privacy Breach - DAVID JONES

After the one day of security breach of KMART , DAVID JONES also suffered the hacking of personal information of their customer. Customer ordered product from David Jones online store and breach of Personal information occurred like Name, address , telephone no.,email id ,billing address but fortunately no credit card or online payment information was hacked. When David Jones received the information about hacking of personal information of customer than they contacted each affected customer and they apologised to customers for this inconvenience .Company revealed that information hacked has not been misused and they said its cyber crime and they informed there forensic doctors to study this case and solve the issue and breach was also reported to Australian federal police.Customer was warned to lookout for calls and emails in the name of DAVID JONES though company dont ask for personal information without any need so customer should be careful. Company apologised heavily everywhere for this inconvenience .Company apologised on Facebook page and on other resources.
Often I have seen that there is option of OPT OUT while providing information this can be dangerous as when you opt out your stored information can be hacked but if there is opt in option that it shows the marketing strategy which gives negative impact on information provided.

Marrisa Mayer intrview and my views

'Search at its infancy' I partially agree with this statement because in early stages searching web was   very hard for normal users because there are piles of results not shown according to priority. Still searching web is complicated because thousands of results for one word will surely create problems but searchers need to learn and filter results according to their needs. Though Advertisement is key for search engines but sometimes they create messy environment for searcher. Earlier when searching was just born and early browsers makes very difficult because simple search and URLs have different boxes to put addresses but searchers usually put them in wrong boxes but now with improvement Google chrome has done brilliant job by providing just simple one box for simple searches and URLs. This made search easy for searchers. That was main problem from my experience and it was rectified by Google..still there is need to do piles of improvements in searching the web. Sometimes popup windows and useless advertisements should be prohibited. According to me there should be filter in search engines which should give filtered results according to the needs of person who is searching. there should be more privacy and security while searching and mailing otherwise it will important information of one person can be leaked. One good area which has improved a lot in few years is the online payments.Earlier there were hefty thefts and online hacking of accounts but secured methods of payments have made it bit secured than earlier times but still there is need to do lots of improvements because searching has wide scope and Google is leading search engine and they should be making this searching more easy safe and secured ..

Suarez and melwood

Luis suarez and currently FCBARCELONA striker visited his ex team in their training ground named MELWOOD.
As usually he showed a very kind and happy nature towards players and staff members.thats why players like him are not called TRAITORS..happy to see him in Liverpool.:)