Yahoo

Yahoo's business plan is to more efficiently compete with other major companies such as Google and Facebook. To do so, Yahoo is developing a new communications hub based on their email software. At the consumer electronics Show in Las Vegas, Jerry Yang displayed Yahoo's email software prototype. Jerry Yang is the chief executive of Yahoo. The goal is to create a "starting point" for consumers like Google and Facebook. In November, Yahoo's traffic reached 136 million people and made it the most popular property on the web. However, Google surpasses Yahoo in searching. Google has narrowed Traffic to Yahoo from 22 million people to less than 5 million. To more readily compete, Yahoo is changing to provide more access to third party applications and content. Since the change, Yahoo's front page traffic increased by more than 6 million in the last year.

Place for Creativity

To be creative, it does not matter what time of day it is, where I am, or the materials I am using. I can be inspired by random things. The place where I am most creative is at home. During school hours, I take medication for ADHD which keeps my mind from wandering around and keeps me focused. At home I do not have this medication so I'm always thinking about something different than what I'm doing and that's when I can come up with very creative ideas. This is because I may be watching TV or something and be thinking about what I'm going to draw for art class and then I make these random connections between what I see and think and from there i get ideas. It doesn't matter what idea I have, Ill try anything new that I haven't tried before.

From Frustration To Learning

Most of the problems I encountered during 2007 was simply not having much structure or guidelines for my work. I have ADHD so my mind tends to be all over the place and I need structure to perform well otherwise I try to tackle a bigger challenge than I need to. To solve this problem, I simply asked Mr. Fink for some help such as what is needed in the assignment or what should be changed. Another problem I had was forgetting the commands or tags for HTML. To solve this problem, I reviewed my notes and if I still could not figure it out, I just asked for help. I also had trouble managing my time for assignments and often fell behind. I just had to work harder to get my assignments done on time.