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Research In Motion next big thing a Blackberry Smartphone is recently out and circulating rumors around the Web and blogosphere. Main features include in this new product are a touch screen and 3g capability and speculated feature is device’s slider keyboard.

The most recognizable feature of the phone according to the individuals who got their hands on the phone was the front-facing camera and able to used it videoconferencing.

If the allegedly Blackberry-based videoconferencing feature is true it could be very valuable to business individual and loyal customers for the clear reasons. But there are reports that Blackberry 9000 has battery problem.

The most recent version of the Blackberry Enterprise Sever(BES) is now out. RIM, Research In Motion releases the new software, version 4.1 service pack 5(SP5) that includes new features for IT specialists and users of smart phone. However many of the smart phone won’t be available for the software upgrade because Operating System must be upgraded first that will be expected to out this coming out.

The BES 4.1 SP5 download file is available at www.blackberry.com. Only users with Microsoft Exchange Mail Server and Lotus Domino Mail Server were compatible with the software and its free for subscribers of the Blackberry Techbical Support Services. To those not subscriber is a $1000 charge

Flows are the most important element to define the supply chain management. Material in the warehouse needs to flow. Usually the warehouses were tasks to buffer the inventory along the supply chain. In this way the demand across the path could be smoothed, and the managers can provide better planning and operation of the materials to sustain the stability of the business.

In essence cross docking basically entails receiving the materials at the inbound docks and quickly ship it out right after without the need to store it at the warehouse. If done correctly it saves the intermediate flows and order process tasks in the warehouse.

In this circumstance, utilitarian widget is a viral ad unit. Online marketing revolutionizes significantly and turn out to be a remarkable channel for brand name marketing. The value of the utilitarian widget is to deliver relevance for both call action and brand advertising.It is more robust than the gimmicky widgets in terms of social media experience on the web. It has a high value with longevity with focuses on a specific niche and creates audience’s loyalty.

It is considered as fun but with related, convincing and useful content, media and activity. The business model of this widget is based on programmed, viral ad unit and brand engagement.

The hit-base widgets are characterized that are low in utility, quality and value. Hence it has a short longevity. Commonly be seen as gimmicks and fun games whose general appeal is currently over-hyped. Just to excite users and constantly chasing the next fad.Sites like Slide are, at the moment, putting efforts to add ad networks to monetize the enormous user base they have produced.

It is in the assumption that their widget network will be beneficial to advertisers for the reason that behavioral information they are able to bring together. This is a symbol of a new twist on an old behavioral method that the TACODA, Revenue Science and others that have been using. An extra issue with this approach is that it was only address to call to action and does not anything for brand advertisers.

Currently, the build up on the widget industry is not surprising at all. Let just consider this, some of the known widgets have extraordinarily adopts viral marketing. The trouble along with this though is that several of the most common widgets are gimmicky hit- based practices that people grow tired of immediately. It was very obvious that those who have pushing the insane valuations have apparently paid no attention to this obvious risk.

The real value of the widgets is, hardly known to those that are fun and entertaining, come from the core to provide utility that shows longevity. Those widgets that can exist long are the basis for media programmable advertisement unit and a meaningful for the advertisers. 

This is the last of Josh Porter, a web designer from Bokardo Design, five principles in Social Software Designing.One way of to let users know why they are using such software is, thru Showing Causation. Porter cites NEtflix as the site that does this principle very well. It let the users to rate movies then at the same netflix will know what movies to recommend to other users and might as well to the same users. Last is Leveraging Reciprocity. It is a simple review of the things that revolve socially. It can be a review on a certain book or a restaurant, Amazon can be a good example. It can be in favor or unfavorably of the topic. So before they read the book they know what to expect.

Josh Porter noted that Giving Recognition was the third principle in Social Software Designing. The most popular example of this is digg.com. It was design to let the users submit their stories then rate them once find in the homepage.

Lately after the site progressed, digg’s designed was changed that shows who so the top diggers. People that submitted the stories most often have also seen in the homepage. It makes competition between those diggers and the problem is the new-comers on the digg systems can not make it to the top of the stratosphere. Old-timers in the site had already gained a commanding lead. This is the result of giving recognition to their users.

The second principle in Social Software Designing is “Tie Behavior to Identity”. LinkdLn, Facebook and Myspace were Porter’s reference in this principle, the idea of identity is associated in the profile pages. But it may not be applicable or be visible with other social website designs.

Other sites may be focusing in a specific function rather than showing personal profiles. For example is the ebay.com. In Ebay, users don’t really go after the real name but instead user’s behavior was to look after on how good each person in making transaction – how one is buying and how one is selling. This was done using the Rating System.

In a recent SNAP SUMMIT 2.0 in San Francisco, Josh Porter of Bokardo Design talks about principles in designing of social software products. Here’s one

First is he called it “The del.icio.us lesson”. This renowned social bookmarking site was his reference. Social Book-marking sites allow users to store their favorite articles on the web and make them accessible anywhere. What Porter exceptionally finds crucial with referencing the site from the design point of view is even if the users do not interact with other users in the web is that any person could find it very useful. Users do not need to save articles into a specific browser and machine.