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I visited the study in Lucern website. Based on what i have seen so far, i feel that the website is too boring. There are too little videos, music as well as intersting pictures. The font side of the website is indeed very small. One has to squint in order to look at the words. Furthermore, looking at such small fonts for a long time, makes the eyes tired. Hence i would like to suggest that they should increase the font size to make it visible at least a Times New Roman 12. Studying in Lucerne has a picture showing a lecturer teaching a student. However, this picture is being place out of the box. This gives one the impression that the website is not properly maintain and that the person maintaining the website does not really care about the details.
 * Studyinlucerne.ch**

Under the section titled Lucern first visit, they should emphasis that Lucern has a free wireless city internet. Since Lucern wants to promote itself as an educational city or hub, then they should makes such information easily visible and distinct. This could be in the form of bolding the information or having them in different colour font to make them stand out. It should also not blend in under the category (Lucern First Visit). I feel that emphasising this particular point is important, because to students, this will be a 'plus' point. Students can drink coffee or have snacks at a certain place, yet work on their projects or surf the net at the same time. Sometimes, students just want to do their work in a relaxing environment or a different environment from school.

Here are some possible keywords which i think can replace some of the current ones.
 * Keywords under metatags/ linking**
 * 1) Hotel management
 * 2) Universities in Switzerland
 * 3) Swiss universities
 * 4) Hospitality schools in Switzerland
 * 5) Hotel schools in Switzerland

For those that a general understanding of studying in Switzerland, they will know that Switzerland is the birthplace of the Hotel Industry. Hence, for a university education, they might just key in Universities in Switzerland as well as Hotel management. These are just my suggestions.


 * Noodles to recommend**

This is the beef meatball noodles that i would like to recommend (Nr. 57). It is available from this address as stated above. The opening hours are opened from Monday to Saturday, 11am to 10pm. The following are the details of the place should you need to contact them.

Address: Khoua Vientiane Kauffmannweg 7, 6003 Luzern. Switzerland Tel: +41(41)2110440

You tube is an example of web 2.0 because it allows users to post videos up there. These videos can range from being in the form of an entertainment to information such as how to jailbreak an Iphone with step by step solution as well as real time video. You tube is also being used as a form of viral marketing. For example, if a company wants to promote a product that they have just launch, they could post it on You tube. As more people spread the video around, it gets view more often and the numbers of view gets shown on it. This huge number that make a person curious in understanding what the product is about and why is popular. The word of mouth then follows and this creates publicity for the company and its product.
 * Classwork on 15/02/10**

Vernetzung means networking in English. It is a term from systems theory. In the field of Information Technology (IT), it refers to the infrastructure between electronic devices. In this specific case from the iHome, there are two aspects that elaborate this term.
 * Fieldtrip work on 19/04/10** **(Visit to the Hochschule Luzern iHome Lab)**

The first is the media surfer, whereby movies, music and videos etc can be stored or connected. The term that was being mentioned is network attached storage, also known as NAS. A NAS device is a server that is dedicated to file sharing. It does not provide any activities that a server in system typically provides for example email or authentication. What NAS does, is that it allows more hard disk storage to be added to a network that uses servers with shutting them down for maintenance and upgrades. With this NAS device, the sever handles the processing of data, while the NAS device delivers the data to the user. The NAS device does not need to be located within the server and it can exist in a LAN and can be made up of multiple networked NAS devices.

The second part is known as the home surfer. The home surfer controls the devices in the whole building. It can just be a small device. It controls the network in the case of the internet and also switches in the house or building such as the lighting.

In the iHome, Mr Mr Von Arx, an assistant researcher also the manager of the iHome project showed how with the use of an iphone, he can now use the wireless control through the wireless LAN to control the temperature in the room. He also demonstrated that with the click on a button on the iphone application, he can now watch movies on three various screens.

With this technology, instead of having many remotes, he can now have all of the switches or button on a single device. Areas include security camera, safety alarms for old people when they fall, and then their kin can be notified etc.

Lastly, with this advancement in research of technology, they can now focus on comfort, ambient assisted living and energy efficient. It all comes down to one focus. That is intelligent living.

To apply it to the Hospitality or Tourism industry, Hotels can make good of sure technology. I believe there is currently one hotel that uses an Iphone as a form of keys to the room. Hence, the usage of control the lights, air condition can be made into an application for the iphone. This way, guests would just need to use the technology in the iphone to control the television channels that there would like to watch or to control the volume. As for the hotels, such technology as seen from the iHome could be very expensive to incorporate into the hotel. However, bit and portions of the technology could be adapted. I am sure guests would be very welcome of such technological advances that the hotel is using.