Week 4

DAY 04      MONTH 10

Lecture time...

It was a cloudy morning. But we don't feel cloudy because we were having our third IS class today:) The topic of today's class is e-commerce and global collaboration. As we know, to survive or succeed in a  marketplace, the businesses should have their competitive advantages. Nowadays, information technology is potential to become the competitive advantage of a business. Today, we can easily found many people start their online business through social mediasss. Besides that, many virtual companies also have their own Facebook pages or official instagram in order to communicate with customers. Although social medias are easy (and FREE!) to use and can attract more people, a business still need the website because it is more formal and official so that can gain the trust of customers. ( thinking of our CIP now... ) 

Let's talk about the story of FireFox web browser. I think most people are the ex-users of Internet Explore (IE) right?? I think most of you abandon IE is because can't endure the slow loading speed right?(shhh). Actually, the IE became so miserable is because of the hard work of a bunch of foxes (hackers)! This bunch of hackers were on the line and held the same goal, that was kick IE out. They dreamed to replace the position of IE as the leading of web browser in world and finally develop the "FireFox". They use the idea of somewhat awesome, so called open source to operate FireFox. The open source idea is aimed to make all the things the internet be free to access, in other words we can download and use that web browser for free. For your information, one of the open source example around us is Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).

Bussiness via internet is known as e-business or e-commerce. I was wondering that both terms are not the same. What is the main difference between e-business and e commerce??

e-business ➙ no online transaction

e-commerce ➙ provide online transaction

Diffusion of innovation (DOI) curve:

Innovators are those develop a completely new things. Early adopters are tend to accept a completely new things. Most of the people are early majority and late majority that fear to accept a new things. While laggards those old fashion that resist of any new things. What type of people you are?

Lab time...

It was my first time access to wix.com. Before that, I have saw it's advertisement on youtube but I don't mind it. Wix.com is a website creator that can help us to create our own website for FREE!!! As long as we have a email address or Facebook account. The advantages of is website editor are that it has many types of fashionable template styles for us to choose and we don't need to create and design the icons by ourselves. In my opinion, wix.com is not so hard to operate and it has many features that are interesting. Most important, all the design of the website are following the trends today (claps).

The class was ended with a task, that was to create our own personal website using wix.com as for a practice to prepare our CIP.