Sunday, September 18, 2011

week 2- privacy and microsoft excel and how they could help

       This week in class we learned about privacy when it comes to social networking and how to use Microsoft excel at a beginner level. I feel like these two classes taught me a lot and they can be useful with my new idea of temperature responsive touchscreen windows. I feel that these two topics are very important and can be extremely beneficial to the success of my entrepreneurial idea.
       Privacy is very important when it comes to the protection of my ideas, as well as the protection of information that may be exposed with the use of social networking. Social networking sites such as facebook, twitter, and linkedin are powerful tools that are very useful when it comes to advertiseing. However, if I am gonna put out information regarding my idea it is very important that I put a passcode to lock up very valuable information that strangers could get their hands on. I would only make it so I can share information with my friends, I also have to be careful with who I interact with on these sites because some people could be information hijackers.
      Excel is another important tool that can be helpful when it comes to developing my ideas for a final product. Excel is a powerful tool that I could use when it comes to adding up the number of products that I sell in the future. Excel would also be able to keep an average of how much products I sell in a week. Also when it comes to paying my employees who make my product excel can be used to keep track of how much I am paying each of my employees by adding up their pay rolls individually. I could also keep track of their hours that they work as well.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Week 1-My new Innovative Idea

        My new idea is something that would probably revolutionize the way windows are used it your household. This new idea involves windows to be made out of touch screen glass in order for this new idea to work.  On the window's touch screen interface there will be a control menu. This control menu would be used to control a multitude of things that are used in conjunction with the window such as a curtain or an awning. This menu will have control over the awning and the corners opening and closing.
        The menu will have a function that would make the window sensitive to weather conditions and sunlight. For example, don't you hate when snow accumulates and builds up on your window. If it were snowing you would set the window's responsive temperature to 34 degrees Fahrenheit. When snow begins to hit the window it would heat up over time and melt the snow as it continuously comes down from the sky. In conjunction with heating up the window would make the awning above it expand in order to further minimize the amount of snow that hits the window. When the sun begins to reach those hot summer temperatures and you want to close the shades, however there is a scene on your favorite soap opera that is about to come on and you don't want to miss it. Don't worry when there is a will there is a way, the window automatically adjust to the hot temperature and close the curtains for you so you don't have to get up.
        Last class we learned about different forms of networking. Some of the most popular, such as twitter and facebook would positively affect the success of this idea. Facebook is a social networking site that i can use to create a page and get people to like it in order to get my ideas out. Twitter is also another social networking site that can help move my plans along. Through twitter I could tweet updates about the progress of my ideas and let the whole world see.