Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Friday, June 20, 2014

Club Internet - Making the World Wide Web a bit wider

Since the dawn of the human race, humans have always been trying to find faster and more efficient ways to do things. We now live in the age of the internet where we can order pizza with just a few clicks, send a message to a friend knowing they received it the second you sent it, or even work from home with the power of the internet. Most tech savvy countries such as the US and most of Europe have steady internet connections but still, lots of people (particularly the elderly) don’t use the internet at all. Also, surprisingly people even below poverty line in 3rd world countries can afford mobile internet (EDGE or GPRS at least) and initiatives like Google’s Project Loon and Facebook’s Internet.org are planning to make internet available to everyone everywhere. But the question is, how to teach these people to use the internet? Club Internet aims to answer that by creating a simple app that teaches people of any language in any country how to use the internet. The app is loaded with tutorials that teach people using hands-on teaching techniques so that the concepts stick. It teaches users how to use lots of popular websites such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Skype, Yahoo, and of course Google. The tutorials are written for people who have never used the internet before. It offers tutorials in small bits so people don’t get bored with it. This company aims to help connect the 4.3 billion unconnected people to the internet and become avid users. Right now the company is a small start-up relying on angel investors and contracts from larger tech companies. They are also looking at making deals with OEMs to get this kind of app pre-installed (which would be quite useful). Now while this will help at connecting people in third-world countries, it can also be used to help teach people here in the US and Europe. Imagine someone in a retirement home getting this app. They learn how to use Skype and can chat with their children/grandchildren who live too far away to visit. This app has lots of potential and there are lots of plans to expand it in the near future. The company has 3 founders, Hassan Baig (Duke Alumni and ex-KPMG), Sophia Pervez (ex-IBM) and Fahad Rao (ex- Convo). You can check out their beta website at http://www.clubinternet.co/.

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Friday, March 21, 2014

CourierPoint - Connecting the world, one parcel at a time

Many years ago, mailing a letter or a box was a complicated process. First you had to figure out what kind of postage you needed. Then you had to find a local post office, walk over there, and then just hope it made it. Not to mention that you had to pay an arm and a leg to have it sent out of the country. And you had no idea if it would ever reach its destination.The use of couriers helped with this but for twice the price. Back in the ancient world, couriers were people who were hired by someone (usually the goverment) to hand-deliver time sensitive notes.
Artwork dipicting an early Chinese courier
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 Couriers have changed the face of history by delivering notes of oncoming armies and traitors within the country. Unfortunately, back then couriers could only go as fast as their horse (or their legs). And they could only take orders from whatever town they were in. Couriers from a few years ago had the same problem. Couriers could only take orders from their current location, and they were limited by the speed of their vehicle. We now live in the technology age. Devices the size of pizza boxes are now processing mail orders faster than at any other time in history. Now teams of couriers could work together with maximum efficiency. Then, what started as a US military project, spawned into what we know as the internet. Now any source of information can be accessed from anywhere in the world. And the services of couriers are no exception. Now from your chair, you can order a courier to deliver your time-sensitive package to your destination. And once they come to pick it up, you can track its progress from the same chair. So now you can have peace of mind when you send anything through the courier system. But one problem still remains, it costs about 4 times more money than using the traditional mail service. What you need is a middle man. One who orders in bulk to get huge discounts. You need Courierpoint. What makes Courierpoint so special? They order courier's services in bulk, allowing them to get prices no single person could get (unless you need to send millions of parcels a day, not sure why...). When you place an order, they will check to see when the next open pickup slot is. Then, a truck will come and pick up your package. And this is what makes couriers unique from normal mailing services, one courier or a team of couriers are assigned to your package, and your package alone. Now you don't have to deal with your box getting crushed by other boxes or getting lost on a truck. And when the package reaches the destination, the courier gets a signature of the recipient so that you know that the person you wanted got the parcel. Courierpoint offers international shipping from the UK (sorry, they only pick up from the UK) to India, Russia, Australia, USA, and basically every country on earth (except North Korea). The internet is an amazing thing. Humans for decades have been building better and better things to overcome their physical and mental limits. The internet is the next step in this technology race. Throught the internet you can now order couriers to deliver to any country on earth for a fraction of the cost using courier-brokers. Save yourself some cash and head over to www.courierpoint.com.