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.
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