Response to Fenway Park Lowers Beer Prices for Fans

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Have the high prices at big events ever kept you from purchasing beer? Would you be more apt to buy them now that the price has gone down?

I think in any public place the prices for any type of alcohol are too high. And yes, this has stopped me from purchasing any type of alcohol even from bars. Its so much cheaper to just watch the game at your own place, and buy your own beer. Even at weddings! The drinks are so expensive! and not even that great! I wish there were ways to make it cheaper for ourselves. But then it would suck for the vendors, because that's where they make the most money and business. 

Big Data

http://deloitte.wsj.com/cio/2012/06/15/big-data-goes-to-work/?KEYWORDS=olap
Big data issues and concerns for business today because companies will need to decide where to focus, what capabilities to build, and what talent to pursue and develop. The biggest impediment to firms accessing big data analytics is that big data needs to be agile. 
Big data investment is a goo thing for businesses today because Businesses can glean powerful new insights, with the most value realized by those who learn to detect signals from the noise, derive meaning from the signals, and turn meaning into action. 

Amazon.com

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Amazon has done it again. The question now is how are other companies offering similar services going to compete? Physical data warehouses charge ten times as much for similar services. Not many other companies have the resources to compete with amazon in this new endeavor of theirs. Now that Redshift is global, it almost seems like a certainty that they will drive other companies specializing in data warehouses out of business. With Amazon seemingly getting stronger all the time, the gap continues to widen between Amazon and everyone else, will anyone compete?

Response marketing tools!

I find that it is too much when Facebook starts using facial recongntion when it comes to posting pictures, or even when trying to log in. In the past, I have tried to log on using a different computer, a bunch of other people's pictures pop up, and I would have to name them all, in order to log in. I understand the theory behind that, but I honestly don't know some of the people that I'm friends with on facebook, whether its people  that I've met only once through vacations or from high school, because I wasn't really friends with them, or just had a class or something. I understand why companies are using this, but we really should be concerned with how much informaiton we personally post, so we start to protect ourselves.
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The world is Flat.

The first three flatners were the fall of the Berlin wall, Netscape going public, and work flow software.

I believe that while these flatners have had a large impact on our society and have changed society, the printing press has had a larger influence on history. One factor is because the printing press was more of an instant transformation, while the flatners Friedman suggested were a long, drawn out transformation. Also the printing press was transformational in all aspects of life, including business, education, religion, and many more.

I think the most surprising aspect  process of Friedman's book was the development of the title for the book. I found the comparison between Columbus's search for India and instead finding the world was round with Friedman's trip leading to the discovery that the world was flat very interesting.

cyber attacks

 http://on.mash.to/YEZzxM
The big story behind this attack is the scope of it. The first company that was attacked basically provides a black list to other companies to block them from spamming them. Evidently the Cyberbunker company was upset about that they were on the list and they initiated this distributed denial of service attack. As the article says and as we'll discuss in her in further chapters thousands of computers are harnessed together to flood the website of the attacked company. The interesting thing about this is that a security company was hired by the attack company to help fix the problem. When that occurred the denial of service company attacked the security company. These are vicious and very destructive attacks and can have devastating economic effect on the companies. You may know that recently the North Koreans did a similar thing to the South Korean banking system.

In response to Gina's post; buying decisions.

I think that reference groups reduce the search and evaluation of decisions for myself, if I am looking for a high priced item to buy, I know who I normally go to, and ask their opinion of what products. But I feel like there are types of people that love the evaluation of products making the decisions themselves. They love to do research on products and evaluate how each one compares. In conclusion, it depends on the person.