Comparison Applications

http://www.weddingchannelonthego.com/

This is one of the sites I used for my comparison applications. This site in particular is very useful...very similar to the application I'd like to create.

Wedding Statistics

Here are some facts useful for my research.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,22049,20971164-5005941,00.html

(avg. age)

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20969684-910,00.html
(career oriented)

http://www.soundvision.com/info/weddings/statistics.asp
(more interesting stats)

Google and You Tube

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/technology/09google.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Although this doesn't have to do with wedding planning or organization, I thought it was relevant to things we've discussed in class and was just an interesting article in general.

Tip for Organization

These articles are all about organization tips...which can be very useful for planning a wedding. Although they are not specifically about weddings, I thought many of the tips could be applied. The trick will be working them into a mobile app.

http://www.onlineorganizing.com/ExpertAdviceToolboxTips.asp?tipsheet=1
They have a tip of the day on this site which could be really fun for a mobile device.

http://www.organizingnetwork.com/tips/self/articles07.php

http://www.organizingnetwork.com/tips/self/articles01.php

Wedding Site with blog

This is a great wedding planner website. It even has it's own blog to help bride chat about their ideas!

http://www.wedding.orders.com/index.cfm?srcCode=18022&trk=1&ssource=printad&kw=WO-ModBrideOctNov2007

Wedding Websites

Attached are links for several prominent wedding websites. This are great tools to base a mobile wedding application around. However, they will have to be greatly simplified.

www.theknot.com
www.ctbrides.com
www.brides.com

Coke article

Article about Coke and their wariness of mobile advertising. They will have to take a new approach and target the correct markets to be effective.

http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-kruse-control-cokes-mobile-ambitions-outlined-by-its-interactive-chief/

Future of Advertising

This is a great article discussing the future of mobile advertising. This article claims there is a huge future in mobile advertising and that it may be more effective than internet ads.

http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-mobile-ad-spending-144-billion-by-2011-half-web-based/

Redesign.

Here is one of the first article on redesign from Week 2. I definitely utilized this article for my redesign and will hopefully be able to use it for my final project.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wi-web/index.html

Office Depot and go2

Here is yet another great article about Office Depot's collaboration with go2 for their mobile advetising. Apparently go2 has had much success with mobile phone users and Office Depot is quite excited to be able to offer a new way for their customers to connect to the store.

http://www.primenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=125702

Mobile Advertising

This is a great article that pertains to mobile advertising. This particular article discusses how mobile advertising may not have performed quite as well as the industry has expected. Perfect for my topic.





http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-wpps-mediacom-weighs-in-with-its-mobile-internet-gripes/

Google Aims to Make YouTube profitable with Ads

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/technology/22google.html?ei=5070&en=4d96ac0875bdea10&ex=1188619200&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1188479533-A9kHPFP3RfISp46C6+f6XQ

This is so cool! I am such an amature.

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