I never thought of myself as the type to start a business or get into entrepreneurship. However, I learned that coming up with ideas and building them as time passes is such an integral skill that many should learn, and in the end, I think that I might end up needing these skills as well.
I came up with MyMoodRadio as a pure whim; I didn't think much of it. I am a music junkie, but I'm majoring in graphic design. I wish now that I focused more on an idea that would be beneficiary to my major, but I am still glad that I got a lot out of this project.
One of the biggest things I learned is that an idea is never perfect; as time passes it develops and always gets better and better. One thing that a lot of people commented about on my idea is how I'm going to get any renevue if I don't have subscriptions or ads on the site. I just plain don't like ads in general, since I always think they take away to the website, but I thought about it and, how exactly will I make money out of it? Towards the later blogs I introduced an idea that MyMoodRadio will have a subscription-based aspect to it in which, when users pay a yearly subscription, they will get many benefits out of it; they will experience a better music-listening experience as the company gets revenue.
Another thing I learned is that technology really is an integral aspect to entrepreneurship as well. When I saw that every lecture that the professor held relates to something for MyMoodRadio, it's fascinating how we take technology for granted. Everything is just so intertwined with technology, the internet, social media, etc. Social media will promote the blog, and of course the music/mp3 aspect to technology is so important to my idea. As technology involves, my idea will involve too.
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http://sarahbrandt123.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-assignment-1-my-project-idea.html?showComment=1320057237955#c8649938175131994241
http://matttallmanist195.blogspot.com/2011/09/week-1-social-media-matt-tallman.html?showComment=1320057572402#c2983592608407787360
Monday, October 31, 2011
Professional Blog
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com
Webdesigner Depot is a site that features different web and graphic design techniques, great examples and best practices. Catered towards graphic designers, professional or not, it strives to provide savvy designers tips, inspiration and news on graphic design, thus allowing them to be eager to learn more and share their knowledge with the design community. It's run by run by Walter Apai, a web designer from Vancouver, but it's also a joint collaboration between well-known leading designers around the world who blog about various fields of design, such as coding, typography, Photoshop tutorials and more.
As a aspiring graphic designer, I have followed this website for months and I can see why it's such a popular and well-known blog. For one, various different graphic designers give their own input and tricks, thus appealing towards a larger audience. I always learn something knew about different aspects of editing, web designing, etc. It keeps me on my toes and gets me begging for more.
Webdesigner Depot is a site that features different web and graphic design techniques, great examples and best practices. Catered towards graphic designers, professional or not, it strives to provide savvy designers tips, inspiration and news on graphic design, thus allowing them to be eager to learn more and share their knowledge with the design community. It's run by run by Walter Apai, a web designer from Vancouver, but it's also a joint collaboration between well-known leading designers around the world who blog about various fields of design, such as coding, typography, Photoshop tutorials and more.
As a aspiring graphic designer, I have followed this website for months and I can see why it's such a popular and well-known blog. For one, various different graphic designers give their own input and tricks, thus appealing towards a larger audience. I always learn something knew about different aspects of editing, web designing, etc. It keeps me on my toes and gets me begging for more.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Digital Images and Hexadecimal
For a successful business, appearance is everything. To attract new users and keep the loyal ones, it's important to keep up-to-date the website and application design. Since we believe not sounds can also be "seen," while the music is playing on the background, there will be images that play in the background that relate to the mode setting you have set. Known as color synthesia, (sound → color synesthesia) it is something like fireworks": voice, music, and assorted environmental sounds such as clattering dishes or dog barks trigger color and firework shapes that arise, move around, and then fade when the sound ends.
Sound often changes the perceived hue, brightness, scintillation, and directional movement. Some users will see music on a "screen" in front of their face. The music produces waving lines like oscilloscope configurations—lines moving in color, often metallic with height, width and depth. It's important to have these "images" be in sync with the music and create that perfect mood, be it through color and whatnot. Every aspect of the sound makes the colors gain different tonalities, textures and shapes that various users perceived in some patterns... for example, the bass can be red, nylon guitar strums are green, hats and the treble frequencies are white. Users can customize this as well on the computer screen or iPod to make it more accessible for them.
Sound often changes the perceived hue, brightness, scintillation, and directional movement. Some users will see music on a "screen" in front of their face. The music produces waving lines like oscilloscope configurations—lines moving in color, often metallic with height, width and depth. It's important to have these "images" be in sync with the music and create that perfect mood, be it through color and whatnot. Every aspect of the sound makes the colors gain different tonalities, textures and shapes that various users perceived in some patterns... for example, the bass can be red, nylon guitar strums are green, hats and the treble frequencies are white. Users can customize this as well on the computer screen or iPod to make it more accessible for them.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Bits and Bytes
As MyMoodRadio gains popularity, we will introduce a subscription-based upgrade for users who want an enhanced experience on MyMoodRadio. Known as MyMoodRadioX, there will be upgraded features that will allow subscribers to listen to a distraction-free, better-quality online radio. Some features include an Ad-free listening experience, personalized lists of songs that subscribers enjoy and swapping playlists of other subscribers. The best upgrade, however, will be the quality streaming of music.
When listening on the web, subscribers will experience 192K bits per second audio. That's the highest quality streaming experience on the Internet. More bits means better sounding music.
A common mistake that people will make is whether the higher quality streaming will make the streaming quicker. The answer to that is no. Most of the online services stream at 128 kbit/s. Music encoded and streamed at 192 kbit/s is far closer to CD-quality. We will pay more in transport costs, which is the reason for the subscription fee of $4/month or $24/year. Music junkies, rejoice. There really is an answer for everything.
When listening on the web, subscribers will experience 192K bits per second audio. That's the highest quality streaming experience on the Internet. More bits means better sounding music.
A common mistake that people will make is whether the higher quality streaming will make the streaming quicker. The answer to that is no. Most of the online services stream at 128 kbit/s. Music encoded and streamed at 192 kbit/s is far closer to CD-quality. We will pay more in transport costs, which is the reason for the subscription fee of $4/month or $24/year. Music junkies, rejoice. There really is an answer for everything.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Input and Output
The next generation of search engines will index audio and video as well as process voices and meanings, and My Mood Radio will be a part of that movement. Hopefully we can take it a step further and even have what we call "mood recognition." Our voices vary when we're tired, stressed, happy, or pumped. With mood recognition, not only can you say that you want music that's, for example, relaxing, your voice will sound weary and tired, which will also have the voice recognition pick up and select songs for your mood.
This sounds like a stretch, but the voice recognition will be the selling point for My Mood Radio, and hopefully with this innovative technology, more customers will sign up and use it. MyMoodRadio will also have an app for smart phones, so users who are too lazy to type in their mood, they can just say it in the microphone. MyMood will translate it and hopefully select songs that would satisfy the user. We will be able to process different dialect, slang, languages, etc. It will be revolutionary, and in time our voice recognition system will beat our the other competitors. We will have to invest a lot of time and money for this, but it can happen.
This sounds like a stretch, but the voice recognition will be the selling point for My Mood Radio, and hopefully with this innovative technology, more customers will sign up and use it. MyMoodRadio will also have an app for smart phones, so users who are too lazy to type in their mood, they can just say it in the microphone. MyMood will translate it and hopefully select songs that would satisfy the user. We will be able to process different dialect, slang, languages, etc. It will be revolutionary, and in time our voice recognition system will beat our the other competitors. We will have to invest a lot of time and money for this, but it can happen.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Identity Theft
With MyMoodRadio, it's important to know how the company could avoid identity theft and cases where people would steal important information from the business. Identity theft could ruin the business and leave leave us bankrupt and ruined. Not only would the business be ruined, but nowadays, it is almost impossible to be in business and not collect or hold personally identifying information — names and addresses, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, or other account numbers — about the customers, employees, business partners or students. MyMoodRadio will require users to fill out general information about them. If this information falls into the wrong hands, it could put even our customers at risk for identity theft.
According to law, if one of our customers or employees is a victim of identity theft as a result of stolen information from the company, we are required to provide information that assists the victim.
Educating about the effects of identity theft and how to avoid it is key to prevention. Our customers and employees depend on us to keep their information safe; if we fail to do that, then they won't trust in our company anymore.
According to law, if one of our customers or employees is a victim of identity theft as a result of stolen information from the company, we are required to provide information that assists the victim.
Educating about the effects of identity theft and how to avoid it is key to prevention. Our customers and employees depend on us to keep their information safe; if we fail to do that, then they won't trust in our company anymore.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Social Media Privacy
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau
Privacy and the ethics of what information should be revealed online plays a pivotal role with MyMoodRadio. In order to take advantage of what our company has to offer, we need to know some information of our users. After they sign up with our service, we will ask personal questions in order to appropriately find songs that will best suit them. They will type in what their favorite artists/bands are; what their current mood is; their preferred genre(s) of music and some generic information (gender, where they're from, etc.).
Although most people shouldn't be worried about the information they send to our company, it will still be put out to the public. Each user will have a profile with the containing most of the information that they gave to us for everyone to see. If a lawyer signs up on our website and says that he enjoys listening to hard metal and screamo while he's in a pissed off mood, it won't look good for those who are interested in hiring him.
In order to protect some of our users' privacy, we have the option of changing their privacy settings. That means that if they prefer that their hometown or usual keywords to now show up on their profile, it won't. We value the privacy of our users, and we wish to allow our users to customize their profiles to suit their preferences. We don't desire any online reputations to go down the drain because of our company.
Jean Cocteau
Privacy and the ethics of what information should be revealed online plays a pivotal role with MyMoodRadio. In order to take advantage of what our company has to offer, we need to know some information of our users. After they sign up with our service, we will ask personal questions in order to appropriately find songs that will best suit them. They will type in what their favorite artists/bands are; what their current mood is; their preferred genre(s) of music and some generic information (gender, where they're from, etc.).
Although most people shouldn't be worried about the information they send to our company, it will still be put out to the public. Each user will have a profile with the containing most of the information that they gave to us for everyone to see. If a lawyer signs up on our website and says that he enjoys listening to hard metal and screamo while he's in a pissed off mood, it won't look good for those who are interested in hiring him.
In order to protect some of our users' privacy, we have the option of changing their privacy settings. That means that if they prefer that their hometown or usual keywords to now show up on their profile, it won't. We value the privacy of our users, and we wish to allow our users to customize their profiles to suit their preferences. We don't desire any online reputations to go down the drain because of our company.
Monday, September 12, 2011
My Mood Radio: Intro & Social Media
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel
Do you feel like dancing? Crying? Falling in love? Do you want music for a rainy day? Summer afternoon? A girl's night out?
Welcome to My Mood Radio, a free online radio site that picks songs based on your mood and preferences. All you do is type in keyword(s) in the search box, scan through sample playlists and pick one that best suits your mood. For example, you're getting ready for a party and you're in the mood to dance and rock out. Type in "Dougie, clubbing, dancing," and we'll compile some playlists that will suite your mood. Are you cooking for your significant other? Type in, "in love, romantic, 90s," and our playlist will have you humming along to your favorite tunes.
Think you're falling in love with us? Then create an account - it's 100% free! Save all your favorite playlists and keywords for next time. Recommend some playlists to your friends. Listen to music suited for your mood to your heart's content. No strings attached; we promise.
It's simple, enjoyable, and free! With unlimited categories to choose from, there will always be a playlist that suits your mood. Let us do the work while you tune in to your playlist.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
Tweet tweet! Have something to say to us? Check us out at @MyMoodRadio and tell us what you think about #MyMoodRadio! Our team also made a Facebook page to link our followers and keep you guys updated on our top keywords and playlists.
Especially during this day and age, social media plays a large part for budding companies like MyMoodRadio to spread the word and promote our brand. We want to be able to communicate with our music junkies and provide the best music-playing experience for you guys. We'll use Facebook and Twitter to give you guys the inside scoop on improvements in the site, different genres that will be added on, and some playlists that we think you guys should tune in to. So, what are you waiting for? Let's get social media saavy!
Peace, Love and Rock&Roll,
MyMoodRadio
Billy Joel
Do you feel like dancing? Crying? Falling in love? Do you want music for a rainy day? Summer afternoon? A girl's night out?
Welcome to My Mood Radio, a free online radio site that picks songs based on your mood and preferences. All you do is type in keyword(s) in the search box, scan through sample playlists and pick one that best suits your mood. For example, you're getting ready for a party and you're in the mood to dance and rock out. Type in "Dougie, clubbing, dancing," and we'll compile some playlists that will suite your mood. Are you cooking for your significant other? Type in, "in love, romantic, 90s," and our playlist will have you humming along to your favorite tunes.
Think you're falling in love with us? Then create an account - it's 100% free! Save all your favorite playlists and keywords for next time. Recommend some playlists to your friends. Listen to music suited for your mood to your heart's content. No strings attached; we promise.
It's simple, enjoyable, and free! With unlimited categories to choose from, there will always be a playlist that suits your mood. Let us do the work while you tune in to your playlist.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
Tweet tweet! Have something to say to us? Check us out at @MyMoodRadio and tell us what you think about #MyMoodRadio! Our team also made a Facebook page to link our followers and keep you guys updated on our top keywords and playlists.
Especially during this day and age, social media plays a large part for budding companies like MyMoodRadio to spread the word and promote our brand. We want to be able to communicate with our music junkies and provide the best music-playing experience for you guys. We'll use Facebook and Twitter to give you guys the inside scoop on improvements in the site, different genres that will be added on, and some playlists that we think you guys should tune in to. So, what are you waiting for? Let's get social media saavy!
Peace, Love and Rock&Roll,
MyMoodRadio
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