Homework 12/16/2006

For housing services, compare the three websites
http://www.housingmaps.com/
http://www.urmap.com.tw/asp/kijiji/
http://www.7house.com.tw
List the differences in the user interface design and usability. Make commentsby your use experiences

ans:

Housingmaps:
1.結合google map和地圖資訊的一個新穎應用
2.有詳盡的資訊加上map可以讓客戶快速找的到想要的house
3.但目前google map沒有台灣的街道圖，但可以利用本土的map
軟體來做應用

Urmap:
1.有詳盡的街道資訊
2.相對於google map,台灣街道資訊便很好用,可以用其他應用來結合

7house:
1.在各種房屋都有很詳盡的資訊和照片
2.但相較國外housemap就遜色許多

在看過3種網路應用之後，以housemap最為出色，再空間時間上都有很棒的想法

Homework 11-25-2006

1. In an era of Web 2.0, Software as a Service is becoming popular.
Google Docs is one of the famous examples. In the followling lab, let's give Google Docs a try.

• Go to Google Docs. Google Docs lets you write Word documents through an online web service.
• Write some words in a Word format.
• Publish the Word document.
• What's the URL of your document.

Hint: This is a sample Word document.
URL:http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg6wdk36_0hqhxgr

2. RSS is a tool to syndicate web publishing. Many blogs and news websites make use of RSS.
In the following lab, we will see how RSS is used for syndication and subscription.

• Enter Google Reader
• Try to put the following in the search box.
  

news.yam.com
中時電子報
New York Times
Taiwan

• Subscribe to the RSS feeds one by one.
  
• What is the RSS feed that Google Reader takes in? List the URL of these RSS feeds.

(Hint: Examine Yam's RSS feed. )