Sha Qiang BLOG

As a university student, studying could be either enjoyable or painful. As a matter of fact, the environment of study has huge impact on the efficiency of studying outcome. Studying at home is good choice, but not as efficiency as studying at library or learning center. Besides the quiet, people at library they do study and hard working, this issues probably can push people to study instead of checking Facebook or Youtube something wastes the time.That’s why during the exam time, all library and learning center all full of people, and it takes a long time to find a seat.

For me, i really like the learning place such as woodward or irving at UBC. First they are quiet, comfortable, and multi-functional. I look back in the city shenzhen where i originally came from, it has not a learning place like that. Yes, what i am looking forward to is too open a learning center for public. This is not a library.

Here are some thoughts and ideas about how this learning center works.

1. open to public for free 24*7 free.

2. free wifi and internet access for anyone.

3. join for membership for high-speed internet, private studying area, priority for booking small rooms, discount on food service

4.provide hotel service, which is cheap,clean,and convenient.

5.large rooms are available for rent. people can use it to hold workshop, class, lecture, anything else.

This idea may be a little unpractical, because it costs a lot to run the place like that. However, it can be assumed as a non-profit business, which means it needs donation from government or social organizations.

After all, what i want to do is to provide a well studying place for people.

There are three important notices for starting business whatever a restaurant, a clothing store, or even a huge mall. The first one is location, second is location. The third again is location. Roughly, we can define this kind of business is location-based service.

Today, we have already entered the internet era, which significantly impacts our daily lives, also the business. A new connection between business and customers shows up by location-based service website, location-application on smart phones. One of the famous location service which is widely used by us is Google Map. Usually, it can be used to search to location we looking for with some relative advertisements coming up.

Now with new companies entering this industry, one is http://foursquare.com/. Another one is http://www.facebook.com/places/.

Compared to the Google Maps, these two website actually offers more service or coupon to the customers which is more business related.

For the foursuare which started two-years ago now having over 5-million users allows users to “check in” from various locations, ranging from ballparks to coffee shops to hotels. The service relies almost entirely on smart phones and other mobile devices. On the other hand, for business users, Foursquare offers a compelling branding opportunity.Businesses can claim their virtual locations on Foursquare, and offer deals that encourage customers to visit the physical storefronts more often.Businesses can also offer special deals based on frequency of visits, or a one-time deal when a customer visits for the first time.

For the facebook.com/place. One of its advantage is that it is the largest social networking tool in the world which is very attractive for business owners who want to advertise their product or service. However, facebook just cooperate with group0buying site such as Groupon and Teamsave. Usually there web-site offer a great deal to customers. Users can check in to various locations, and see nearby discounts from participating businesses.

Nowadays, one of the values of consumer adoption of cell phone technology is that many companies are beginning to develop cool-style and useful applications. However, not all cell apps are useful but the latest app offering from Microsoft is an interesting one and the way they are making the offer is sure to trickle to other app providers. Customers can download the Top 100s by Year by Bing apple-app for free. As the name of the app implies, customers can actually listen to the Top 100 songs from 1947 to 2010, again for free without strings attached. To be able to listen to thousands of songs for free, I think this is something all users can live with. I can only imagine how royalty payments are tracked and how long Microsoft will offer this for free. Do you think this free giveaway will help Microsoft increase Bing app installs? Only time will tell but giving mobile users the ability to listen to thousands of Top 100 songs for free is definitely a great incentive for any campaign, and one that only few companies can even consider offering. Therefore, download one and enjoy the music.