Week 7 EOC: The Pitch

The Idea I have for my vodka would be an extremely clean and neutral vodka with no impurities. Due to its clean and clear nature it would have the name Crystalline. It would use distilled water to remove any impurities from the water that could detract from the clean crispness of the drink. Its neutral flavor means it could go with just about anything. You have a nice meal and not worry about if the flavor of the food or if you just had another drink and want something that has a nice clean taste. It isn’t meant to overpower or make its taste a predominant one, though you could enjoy its taste it isn’t one that will spoil anything you just had. This is a drink you could have on a night out with some friends having a good time or if you just want to relax at home and want something that isn’t going to hit you too hard. This could be a drink you mix other beverages or just enjoy on its own. You could choose to enhance its flavor or just enjoy its crisp clean nature as it is. This is a drink that could be used for just about any occasion and, again due to its clean and neutral nature, doesn’t limit itself as something would be had at a certain time of year or for a certain celebration. It could be used for celebration or relaxation, it could be used for just about anything or whatever the person drinking the beverage would want to enjoy it. This drink invites a person to make of it whatever they want. The name Crystalline brings forth an idea of clear purity. It is a drink that is clear, crisp, and clean, won’t overpower you, and can be enjoyed for any occasion.

Week 5 EOC: Social Networks and Job Hunting

Job recruiters using Facebook to find new employees is an interesting idea.  There are already job boards, such as LinkedIn, that are created for this purpose I can see why they would want to go to Facebook though, this website has more than 750 million users, many more users than the job board sites, so therefore it wouldn’t be hard to find somebody that would want to work on a website with so many people. “Facebook's use as a job-recruitment tool remains small, but its appeal may be growing. Some recruiters say they have all but eliminated their spending on job boards, which can charge a few hundred dollars per job posting, depending on volume (Job Recruiters Turn to Facebook-WSJ).” It hasn’t phased out job boards yet, but some people worry that it might. While some people have been hired through Facebook, jobs requiring more experience and higher level positions are still being done through the normal job board websites such as LinkedIn. “Marketers are working to harness the power of these new social networks to promote their products and build closer customer relationships (Marketing, an Introduction, 142).” People use social media outlets, such as Facebook, a lot today. This is a great way for people to connect with other people, so therefore it would make sense that it would be a good place to find people for some work. They are already on this website so it makes sense to go where the people are already. Some of the downsides of this are that the job board websites are affected negatively from this, and Facebook is a social media website, a place where people go to communicate with each other, it is a little informal compared to job board websites where people find people based on professional connections and then discover jobs through that mean. It is interesting that people can get jobs through Facebook, but it appears that jobs require more experience would be posted through job boards.

Week 4 EOC: The Cult of Apple

An idea for an app I have would be a sample based synthesizer. The idea would be that you could take a sound, put it in this app, and then do whatever you want with it and, if you want, put it in a sequence with other sounds you have or created. You could either import audio from a file on your phone, record a sound from the built in microphone, record a sound from the sound card of your phone, or even use an internal synth to make whatever sounds you want. When you have it recorded you can filter the sound, distort, modulate, or just completely destroy the sound you have and make it something completely different. This could be used by anybody who is interested in making a composition based on samples, or even making sound effects wherever and whenever they would want. It could function as a bit of a digital audio workspace as well as it is a sound recorder you can layer and distort sound with. This could be used by musicians, sound designers on the go, and anybody that would just want to play around with something that simply messes around with sound. One instance that this app could be used for is somebody is walking around and they hear something, whether they like the tone or timbre of the sound, record it and add it to their library of sounds they have recorded. From there a person could leave it alone, add it to a composition, make it an interesting sound effect, or even export whatever interesting sound you have in whatever format works best for you. The app could even be used in conjunction with other apps to publish your sound or work to whatever platform you want. I could see myself using this app as I am a person that enjoys playing around with various sounds.