Week 3 - Calorie Counting (Hardware/Computer Forensics)

    This week, I will develop on an aforementioned feature for FoodOn that will be implemented upon its release. It is a feature for the healthy-minded nation that our customers will be glad to know exists. This feature is a calorie counter that will be added as an additional tab in the app that will measure the amount of calories consumed over a standardized period of time. This is also made possible by the fact that all the restaurants that sign up with the service will be required to list all of the dishes with the calories as well as the nutritional information such as protein, fat, vitamin content, etc. Calorie meters will bring more people to use FoodOn because most restaurants today do not offer this information and therefore consumers will want to come to restaurants that sign up with FoodOn because of this information that is made available to them. As a result, everyone wins.
    Last week, the lecture was on computer hardware and computer forensics. My app will utilize information presented in both of the lectures because to support the apps functionality, very powerful hardware will be necessary to sync up all of the mobile devices. Several computers will have to be utilized, but most likely, the servers themselves will have to be very powerful. Cloud computing will be utilized because the power of the internet is great, but to deliver all of the information, memory of the servers will have to be vast, as well as the processor speeds which will probably exceed several gigahertz.
    On the other side, computer security will be a problem as well. The information that FoodOn offers on the nutritional info is very powerful and rival corporations could utilize it to hurt the reputations of other restaurants and companies. Therefore powerful anti-hacking measures will have to be taken. All this will be taken into account when the app is started up and the bigger restaurant chains sign up with the FoodOn service.

Week 2 - Excel

    The revolution in eating has begun. My idea, where we you order food from your phone before you even get to the restaurant has ballooned. FoodOn, will be the new name for the application for the smartphones of the world and will also include an algorithm similar to Genius for Apple that will allow users to automatically find selections they like. This selection process will range from dishes within the menu itself of the restaurant you have already selected to go to, to the choosing of the actual restaurant itself. The algorithm will process your eating habits over a trial period of perhaps a month to give you the best possible results of places that you might actually enjoy going to.
    The choosing of the possible dishes in the restaurant can be facilitated through this algorithm because it can monitor your dish choosing habits form your previous restaurant visits and therefore give you an accurate portrayal of what you might like even if you have never visited the restaurant before. This of course requires you to make previous selections over an extended period of time to ensure accuracy and maximum satisfaction and it also requires the restaurant to input every major ingredient used in a certain dish so the algorithm can “guess” what you might like to eat. This is different from the Genius feature in Apple because most of the time, I believe that the application is too rash and bases its decisions too rapidly thus giving me possibilities I do not really end up taking seriously.
    This can all be tied back to the previous lecture of Excel because an Excel database might be what is used to log all of the eating choices that a customer or user of the application makes. It can also chart the ingredients that a user intakes so the algorithm that was stated earlier can process the possible selections much more easily and with more speed. Although i am not really sure on the more technical aspects of Excel, I am sure that some form of functions will be used to calculate the sheer amount of food that the consumer will intake as this will all go into the calculation of recommended menu items and eating venues. And if there will be much data being processed, perhaps with numbers such as calories a person consumes, pivot tables will most likely be used.
    All in all, a successful start, I see this application becoming a large-scale operation that if done right, will revolutionize the restaurant market.

Week 1 Post 1 - The Delicious Social Media

    My entrepreneurial idea is the creation of an application for all Droid/Apple phones that will enable a person to order food from any particular restaurant that has signed up with the application thus, having the food, table, and whatever other order he/she desires available right as they arrive at the restaurant. They can also utilize the application to order inside of the restaurant, thus eliminating the need for a concrete menu. Waiter, food preparation as well as nutritional info would be able to be found in seconds as long as the restaurant provides the information and the customer would be able to track how long the wait will take, and who is serving their food (Waiter Watch TM).
    This follows in accordance with last weeks lecture of social media as well as the lecture before that of the history of computing because the application will be a highly social application as well as being very environmentally friendly.
    People would be able to use this application for dates, social gatherings or just to catch a quick bite to eat and it will make all food eating experiences a much better time. Also, because the act of eating itself is a very social activity unless you are eating alone, already existing applications such as foursquare could be used with this application for the dissemination of information on networking sites like Twitter or Facebook. Integration into the already existing internet infrastructure would be quick and effortless. As well as being highly profitable to the restaurant that is being attended, because more people would be exposed to the restaurant and therefore, more people would go.
    The first lecture we had was on the history of computing and how rapidly technological advances come upon us. This application just shows much much we have advanced as we can order anything from anywhere (as long as the restaurant signs up) and have our food ready to eat right as we arrive. It uses a preexisting device so there is no need for other hardware, just software that is easily downloadable onto our phone and because as time passes the people without smartphones will soon be none, everyone would be able to have unlimited access to this marvelous app. Furthermore, it even helps the environment because paper menus are now, with the advent of this app, a thing of the past. Now that's green computing.
    Future things to focus on would be the inner workings of the app itself as well as figuring out a name for this app.