CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Eric Whitacre, Kickstarter, Zipcar

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

This style of generating capital to start a business is known as a crowdfunding which is small donations from large amount of ppl using the internet. Cn also scan barcodes with apps and compare prices onine to other stores of one product to get best price. Crowdsourcing- checking in with voice of the crowd. Ppl use apps to see other consumers verdicts on the product quality so companies use that input to improve their products. Cars can be asubscrition instead of paying one large fee. And call a bike is bike renting program in germnay , call the number on the bik e and it texts u a code to unlock the bike. Collaborative consumtion- implies we are joining together as a group to use specific product more efficiently so constantly connected with each other thatweve found a newfound sense of community apower again. Avoiding hackers ad viruses = threaten a compueters security.