Following demo illustrates one of the applications of TalkValley:
Rohit Aggarwal
April 25, 2010
January 6, 2010
What Paypal doesn’t tell you?
This post is to explain the pseudo assurance that eBay or Paypal gives you.
“Pay with 
and your full purchase price is covered |See terms”
You see the above assurance on ebay and felt safe to purchase an item. You wait for many days but your item never arrives. Getting apprehensive you try reaching out to the seller. He never responds to your messages. After getting frustrated you test the above statement and later gets pointed to the following policy.
What if PayPal makes a final decision in my favor?
If PayPal makes a final decision in your favor, we will collect any available funds in the seller’s PayPal balance at that time. However, recovery is not guaranteed and is limited only to the amounts that PayPal can recover from the seller’s Account. Any amounts collected from the seller will be placed in your Account.
The point is that in case a seller commits fraud and never sends you the item, you can not do much about it. Fraudulent sellers are not going to leave any money in their Paypal account. So ebay and Paypal will only apologize to you and you will not get any dime back. 😦
I don’t recommend using debit card for paying an eBay purchase. With credit card hopefully you can still file a chargeback against Paypal and get your money back.
Best
August 5, 2009
TalkValley Celebrity Demo
Following demo illustrates one of the applications of TalkValley:
May 22, 2009
jQuery Calendar date time picker
I came across this very cool jQuery based date time picker. There were some bugs initially in this code, but the owner of this blog (Dan) is a very helpful person. On my request he fixed the issues and sent me the updated code.
I have tested it on IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera, and it works on all. For trying this awesome date-time picker click here.
Here is the picture of this picker:
jQuery date time picker
Rohit Aggarwal
February 5, 2009
PHP Functions for parsing data
function html2text($document){
$search = array(‘@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si’, // Strip out javascript
‘@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si’, // Strip out HTML tags
‘@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siU’, // Strip style tags properly
‘@<![\s\S]*?–[ \t\n\r]*>@’ // Strip multi-line comments including CDATA
);
$text = preg_replace($search, ”, $document);
return $text;
}
function getrequired($iugl,$csn,$csen){
if ($csn!=”){
if (preg_match(“/$csn/”,$iugl)){
list($r,$iulast)=explode($csn,$iugl);
if ($csen!=”){
list($iulast,$r)=explode($csen,$iulast);
}
return trim($iulast);
}else {return “XX”;}
}else{
if ($csen!=”){
list($iulast)=explode($csen,$iugl);
return trim($iulast);
}else {return “XX”;}
}
}
January 14, 2009
VPN client for University of Utah
If you are looking for a VPN client for University of Utah then the link is here and the details on that page are:
The VPN client software is available at no cost for the following operating systems:
Pick the client according to your system and enjoy the online books at Safari. You will need your university ID and password to download the client. I would have liked to download the clients and give direct links to my students; but that would have violated University policy because even the download is password protected.
An alternative solution to access library’s databases are:
https://tproxy01.lib.utah.edu/login
UNID ID and password.
Assistant Professor
Operations and Information Systems
David Eccles School of Business
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT-84112
Off. No.- +1-…
https://rohitaggarwal.wordpress.com
January 13, 2009
IS 6471 Spring 2009
Hi!
You can find the Course Syllabus here. Please do not miss your readings because that will hurt you in a quiz badly.
I have invested a substantial amount of time and energy in inviting good speakers in each session of the class. I believe this would make the class all the more interesting. Following is the schedule of the speakers for this class:
You can find the Course Syllabus here. Please do not miss your readings because that will hurt you in a quiz badly.
I have invested a substantial amount of time and energy in inviting good speakers in each session of the class. I believe this would make the class all the more interesting. Following is the schedule of the speakers for this class:
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Date |
Topic |
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19-Feb |
· Guest Presentation on “Web 2.0 & Internet Marketing”: Mr. Anthony Ha, VentureBeat.com |
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· Course Introduction, Requirements, and Policies |
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· Web 2.0 marketing-Marketing using Social networks, Blogs |
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26-Feb
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· Guest Presentation (Webinar) on “SOA & Web2.0”: Ms. Sandy Carter, IBM VP SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels & Marketing; Author- The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0 ; Author- The New Language of Marketing 2.0 |
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· Quiz 1 (SOA & Web 2.0; Readings-TBA) |
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· Group-Presentations: Twitter, Causecast, Slide |
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| 5-Mar
|
· Guest Presentation on “Virtualization & Cloud Computing”: Mr. Alan Chhabra, Egenera Director Public Sector |
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· Quiz 2 (Virtualization, Cloud Computing; Readings-TBA) |
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· Group-Presentations: Basekit, Coghead, Friendfeed |
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12-Mar |
· Guest Presentation on “Privacy Breach Cost”: Mr. Thomas C. Bell- Partner at Perkins Coie LLP |
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· Quiz 3 (Topics & Readings-TBA) |
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· Group-Presentations: Wikipedia, Cake Financial, eSwarm |
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26-Mar |
· Guest Presentation on “Open Source Model”: Mr. Roy Rubin, Founder and CEO at Varien, CEO at Magento |
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· Quiz 4 (Topics & Readings-TBA) |
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· Group-Presentations: Drupal, SugarCRM, Moodle |
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· Individual business case analysis submission |
Best
Rohit Aggarwal
IS 6470 Spring 2009
Hi!
You can find the Course Syllabus here. Please do not miss your readings because that will hurt you in a quiz badly.
I have invested a substantial amount of time and energy in inviting good guest-speakers in each session of the class. I hope this would make the class all the more interesting. Following is the schedule of the speakers for this class:
|
Date |
Topics |
|
15-Jan |
· Guest Presentation on “SMS Gateways and SMS Payments”: Mr. Vahid Sedghi, VP Technical Services at CellTrust.com |
|
· Course Introduction, Requirements, and Policies |
|
|
· Overview of Electronic Commerce |
|
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· Group- discussion (Fixed price product selling platforms: Amazon, BetterWorldBooks, Buy, Newegg, Bestbuy, Circuitcity) |
|
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22-Jan |
· Guest Presentation on “VoIP based Telephony Platform”: Mr. Mark Spencer, Creator of Asterisk, Chairman & CTO at Digium.com |
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· Quiz 1 (Ch. 1-3) |
|
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· Group-Presentations: Ribbit, WhosOn, Kasamba |
|
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29-Jan |
· Guest Presentation on “Patents as a way of IP Protection”: Mr. Randall B. Bateman, Founder of Bateman IP Law Group |
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· Quiz 2 (Ch. 4-6) |
|
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· Group-Presentations: Swoopo, eLance, Keen |
|
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5-Feb |
· Guest Presentation on “Software as a Service, with focus on SAAS based CRM”: Mr. Raju Vegesan, CEO at Zoho.com |
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· Quiz 3 (Ch. 7-9) |
|
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· Group-Presentations: Salesforce, Payoneer, eFresh |
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12-Feb |
· Guest Presentation on “Web Analytics”: Mr. Chris Parkin, Senior director Genesis Solutions for Omniture |
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· Quiz 4 (Ch. 10-12) |
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· Group-Presentations: Amazon Mechanical Turk, Causecast, Pubmatic |
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· Individual business case analysis submission |
Best
Rohit Aggarwal
IS 4460 Section 02 Spring 2009
Hi!
You can find the Course Syllabus here. Please try to keep up with the reading and work out examples regularly. If you will not work regularly then it will be hard to catchup with the class later.
I will make sure that at the end of the class you are comfortable in making web applications such as a simple online review site.
Best
Rohit Aggarwal
IS 4460 Section 01 Spring 2009
Hi!
You can find the Course Syllabus here. Please try to keep up with the reading and work out examples regularly. If you will not work regularly then it will be hard to catchup with the class later.
I will make sure that at the end of the class you are comfortable in making web applications such as a simple online review site.
Best
Rohit Aggarwal
Rohit Aggarwal 