Blog 6: Mobile App

Changing our lifestyles to healthier options is now at the forefront of our society, more and more people are embedding fitness regimes and healthier food choices into their everyday lifestyles. A recent discovery I made was a mobile applicationn called 'my fitness pal'. This application works by entering the food and drinks consumed to work out your daily calories intake, it also keeps a diary of any exercises and weighs up the calorie intake and allowance accordingly. 

This application and my recent visits to the gym made me think it would be great to have an interactive personal trainer. An idea for an application could be 'my personal trainer' whereby phones could be designed to project a digital 3D image through your phone which can train you in the comfort of your own home. 

The application could have features such as set timers to automatically make the trainer appear so that people do not get lazy and skip training sessions. Other personal features could be using celebrity 3D images to train with, personally a 'Bradley Cooper' or a 'Thierry Henry' personal trainer would really keep me motivated to train!! 

So maybe this could be thr future of health and fitness!

Blog 5: Mashups

What is a mashup?

Here is an article explaining in detail what a mashup is and showing some examples: http://bit.ly/ZgHjrL

Here is an example of how Google Street view, Twitter and Instagram is mixed together 'mashup' of information and data to create a new site.

http://bit.ly/UYUvBx

Blog 4: TripAdvisor User Generated Content

Trip Advisor User Generated Content:

Trip Advisor http://bit.ly/KP907 is the worlds largest travel review site which enables customers to review hotels, restaurants, flights and other traveling experiences. The website generates its $3 billion revenue through the number of clicks it gets. This revenue is also assisted by its parent company Expedia, which accounted for 36% of Trip Advisor's total revenue.

Trip Advisor also uses Facebook as a means of finding reviews, once a member is signed up, Trip Advisor searches through the members Facebook friends to find any restuarants etc they have 'liked' then uses this information to generate reviews on their own website.

It is interesting how Trip Advisor allows customers to add reviews in many forms, such as a rating scale, writing commments, uploading images and even dates when the review was written. Personally I have used Trip Advisor and it is really useful to see how recent the review is and this makes the review a more reliable source of information.

Trip Advisor really has utilised the method of user generated content effectively.