Blog Post #3- February 14th, 2011, "The Orange Bazaar"

Even though that the "Orange Bazaar," Syracuse University's very own eBay, is mainly run over the Internet, there should be a couple of people that run the website and oversee all of its productions, including sales, buys, and trades. Therefore, the website will need to have a workspace with the proper hardware and software installed to prevent the system from crashing as little as possible. This would include having stable motherboards, CPUs, RAM, etc. The website's company would need to have top of the line, state of the art hardware to prevent the system from crashing, thus creating a stable website that its users can fully rely on. 

The Orange Bazaar can fully benefit from the use of digital streaming formats. One significant and essential  part of a website is advertising. Advertising can help finance the website and pay for all its debts. It can also help finance the website by providing the right amount of money to help the website further advance its ideas and accomplishments by allowing the website to expand its content and its client base. Video advertisements could also be used before showing a product. It would be very similar to what the website Youtube does; showing a video advertisement before showing the actual video so that funding can be accomplished. 

Another way that the Orange Bazaar could use digital streaming format is by presenting all the products to its viewers. On eBay, clients that are trying to sell their products usually provide other website users with some form of visual medium, such as an image, so that people know and can be certain that they are purchasing the right item. However, why not take it one step further? On the Orange Bazaar website, Syracuse University students can upload pictures as well as videos to the website to show other students what they are trying to sell! The Orange Bazaar would use Adobe Flash Player, since it seems to be the most reliable and does not take up a lot of memory on the website. Students can upload videos of products they are trying to sell, such as tshirts, printers, old computers, microfridges, or hats. That way other students looking to buy the products will have a clear idea of what they are purchasing. It can also be seen as a way for the buyer and seller to connect over the Internet.