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Our task of the group work was find the webmarketing of starwood hotel. We found some relevant sources in webpage. When we look at the starwood website, it rinked with sheraton.com. We can easily access the starwood booking pages and sheraton.com. Moreover, we type the starwood in google search engine, and we can found starwood advertisement in google ads link pages. Thus, in Lobby.com, there were starwood blog in tha webpage which is easily found to friends and other users in blog. And other webpage in spg.com also linked to starwood reservation process. We checked the facebook and youtube that was already linked videos and pictures. From this group work, I've learn what starwood hotel can use webmarketing. Moreover, this project helps me to understand what we learn about previous lesson. I think this kind of marketing method is going to spread more than now in near future.

Week 11. www.interpark.com &  [|www.amazon.com] I would like to introduce www.interpark.com. This is one of the biggest e-commerce market in korea. The feature of interpark is selling the biggest book seller internet market in korea. This site shows that all products lists and that prices; for example, book, clothes, food, CD, flower delivery, electronic facility and even tour packages. The most interesting fact is that interpark shows that compares the price lists in whole internet market in korea. That means which is the low price that particular I had chosen. It shows the detail of the products. Compare to one of the large e-commerce company, like Amazon, there are some similar thins and different things. Payment method Amazon has only option for credit card purchase. In differently Amazone, interpark has different payment methods. We can possible to buy for debit, transfer banking, credit card and even mobile purchase. In Amazon, for the first customer, they offer Amazone card that discount 30 dollars of the purchased products. When we purchase the product, both are give point of product that we can use repurchase on their site.

Secure I am not sure about the secure module of both company, however, both are have strong secure modules. When we purchased using the credit card, they offer the security system of the site and our computer. It can be banned who steals our credit card no. or important personal information like cell phone no. or address and name. Available Both are available many products. As I mentioned before, book, clothes, food, CD, flower delivery, and electronic facility. Different things are interpark has tour package and amazon sell download products like games and music.

Korean Portal Nowadays, Korean drama and music  is very popular in Asia market.  My target group is young people, so they interest in Korean cultural drama and Korean pop. Secondly, I focused on food. We have variety and fabulous food. Especially, galbi (BBQ Beef) is popular to foreigners.

We  have world heritages in our territory.- UNESCO treasures. Korea is shopping heaven. Inchoen Duty Free shop is no.1 in Asia. Also, we have traditional performance and dance.

__Cloud Computing versus Open Source __

“Cloud computing” came into focus in late 2007. Centralised service providers, such as Amazon and Google, offer Systems, Applications and Products (SAP) to a wide clientele base. The different Apps are managed and stored by the service providers (i.e. shared database centres) which allow require users less effort. Furthermore, this approach is less expensive to sustain: (1) the reduction in financial aid for research and development of existing or future SAPs, (2) the lessen frequency in acquiring both the latest hardware and software, (3) the minimizing of office space, and (4) the reduction in manpower for operational management. “Open source” is often viewed similar to cloud computing in many ways. It improves operation efficiency as a whole, and features on the move Apps in their latest versions that users contributed. Moreover, it acts as a common platform for individuals to express their ideas and this proves as a competitive advantage over cloud computing, who does not offer users the opportunity to do changes accordingly. Although both cloud computing and open source aim to achieve flexibility, users will find more mobility in cloud computing as they can access to their data 24/7 via the Internet. Users will often prefer cloud computing over open source because the surfacing problems of different software versions are minimised. However, such advantages required a monthly subscription fee and open source users tend to opt for its free usage. Large organizations will find cloud computing essential for its multi-tenancy. Although applications are run on a shared database, users have the flexibility to customize to their individual needs.  The various comparisons made between cloud computing and open source are still evident today. The pros and cons of both should be carefully explored but decision-making is still highly dependable on the scale of the user(s) or organization(s), and the objective(s) of the usage. Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the "cloud" that supports them. The concept incorporates infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) as well as other recent (ca. 2007–2009) technology buzzwords that have the common theme of reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users. Cloud computing services usually provide common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers. The term //cloud// is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on how the Internet is depicted in computer network diagrams, and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals. Open source is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code. Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical strategic element of their operations. Before //open source// became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term //open source// gained popularity with the rise of the Internet, which provided access to diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. Software development costs in organizations have been touted as being approximately 15% of total costs. This indicates that the value of one over another development methodology is more of a marketing decision (which customers and pricing models) as much as it is about the design of software. The open source model of operation and decision making allows concurrent input of different agendas, approaches and priorities, and differs from the more closed, centralized models of development. The principles and practices are commonly applied to the peer production development of source code for software that is made available for public collaboration. The result of this peer-based collaboration is usually released as open-source software, however open source methods are increasingly being applied in other fields of endeavor, such as biotechnology. "Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.