Sunday, February 27, 2011

ProcrastiTermination- Lossy Compressions

ProcrastiTermination is a full service website that allows you to block certain websites when you're trying to work or study.  This website includes multimedia tutorials and image advertising that would be enhanced with the use of "lossy compressions".
Lossy compression allows you to upload a picture with less information (pixilation) so that the picture comes out clearer.  In addition, it allows you to compress multimedia data.  This would be a useful attribute to the ProcrastiTermination website in that it would allow you to view more with higher quality.
This will ultimately benefit the website because the customers and avid users would view higher quality videos and pictures then most other websites.  This eye-catching attribute will hopefully lure users in, making my website and blog even more appealing.

Friday, February 18, 2011

RFID Chip: ProcrastiTermination

    Since ProcrastiTermination is a website and there isn't any physical components an RFID chip would not really fit into the website. However, if the website grew and reached a certain amount of users we would take into consideration expanding ProcrastiTermination from just a web browser to a phone application.
   If we were to expand to a phone application the RFID chip would come in handy. We would be able to place the chip into phones and correlate a feed from the website to the phone application. This would ensure that not only when your doing your work are distractions on your laptop terminated but distractions on your cell phone as well. This would allow you to have no access to distracting websites at all. Of course this would be for the most extreme procrastinators.
   As you can see, the RFID chip is not a necessity to ProcrastiTermination. However, if a cell phone app were to be launched this definitely would be an extremely useful tool.



Sunday, February 13, 2011

Streaming Videos- ProcrastiTermination

Streaming videos would be a helpful marketing and advertising strategy for ProcrastiTermination. It would allow users to watch a tutorial on how the website actually works. It would take them through the process of signing on and picking and choosing which websites they wanted to block and then how the timer works. The reason I would choose streaming videos verses progressive videos is because streaming videos allows a user to jump to a specific point in the video and only watch that one part. If a user has already watched the video all the way through once but has forgotten how to use a specific tool on the website, the streaming video would allow them to jump to that specific part. 

In addition, it would allow advertisers to place ad's in the beginning of the video and expose users to their product. I think the use of streaming videos on the ProcrastiTermination website would really enhance its appeal to users nation-wide.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

How can Excel help ProcrastiTermination?

     Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows someone to enter numerical values or data into rows and/or columns of a spreadsheet. You can then use these numerical entries for calculations, graphs, and statistical analysis. For ProcrastiTermination, Excel would be useful in that it would allow us to observe how successful the website is.
      For example, we would be able to monitor through online tracking how many visitors we get in any given day. In addition, we would be able to more specifically see first time visitors and people who are returning to the website. This would allow us to create a statistical data chart and evaluate whether or not people find the blocking website useful.
      After organizing such information and assuming the website is successful, we would be able to approach companies with our Excel spread sheet in an effort to find advertising. Hopefully companies will look at our data and see an increasing amount of activity on the website and therefore place there trust and money and display their products. Excel is a very useful program for ProcrastiTermination and I look forward to using it in order to advance my website.