3/18/13

today i went around to four different businesses and wrote a summery of each

Audio air is a company that designed a modem that transmits the sound of the television to an app that you can download on your phone. Bars can rent these modems so that there customers can listen to what ever TV they want. They use the internet as the very back bone of their business. without it they would not be able to sell abroad and no one would be able to down load there app. There second largest source of income is through selling ad space on their app or on the TV. This would also be impossible without the internet. They can use the placement of the modems to specializes the type of add sent your phone. My favorite part is that the theme of the app changes depending on what bar you are in.

Duffy is a free lance web consultant and webpage designer. he also does advertising. He uses Word Press to design his websites. This means he is a "Front end" designer, this means he works with the part of the internet that people actually see. A "back end" designer actually writes code such as HTML. Using word press he can create a web page within hours, where as a back end designer would take much longer. Obviously he would have no job without the internet. I found it very interesting that you can make money by creating something that does not actually exist. I find it fascinating that we have grown to put value on things that are nothing more than electrical synapses. The thing that interested him the most was that the larger the field of things you do the more local you have to be, and the smaller and more specialized your skills the broader the range of your customer base.

I also got to meet with the city but I was not able to talk long with them, they seemed to have a system much like Stone age with virtual computers and virtual servers. Without the internet the city of Durango would not have as accurate maps, would not be able to remotely control utilities. They would not be able to remotely access the computers of their employees to trouble shoot. they would not be able to monitor the location of there police cars or save the video from the cameras on those cars. My favorite part were the 3 dimensional maps that were made using satellite mapping.

Southwest Connects is a local business that attempts to catalog all of the talent and human resources in the 4 corners and allow people to find the people they need. They rely on the internet to save these different profiles. There business goal is to allow people to find better matches for tams or work groups so that the full potential of the southwest can be utilized. They also use their website to monitor statistics about social trends. Humans can understand subtle things very easily and computers can monitor statistical things very easily. Working together they allow for clearer understanding of a situation. The most interesting I found at Southwest Connects was that they believed that industry was going to change from being a very money oriented system to a open source type program.