{"id":662,"date":"2012-05-11T08:16:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T08:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/?p=662"},"modified":"2012-05-11T14:04:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T14:04:49","slug":"overview-of-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/2012\/05\/11\/overview-of-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview of Pitch to Dragons Den Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-800\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/11-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/11-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/11.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Background<\/strong><br \/>\nWith the popularity of social networks nowadays, people\u2019s social information becomes rich and wonderful. However, much information comes from the people whom we don\u2019t really communicate with and don\u2019t care about. The problem seems to be more obvious and worse if the number of friends we have on social networks becomes bigger. In fact, our real social lives are much different from the current social networks like Facebook or Twitter. People we know and actually interact with most in real life are in our mobile contacts. It is meaningful for people to pay more attention on the social networks information of our mobile contacts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Introduction<\/strong><br \/>\nOur group\u2019s project is a social network application on mobile phone called RankFirst. RankFirst integrates user\u2019s contacts on mobile phone and information on social networks effectively. <strong>The core idea of RankFirst is to rank user\u2019s social networks information according to the order of the relationship credits between the user and the user\u2019s contacts. <\/strong>The credits are calculated based on the statistics of mobile phone\u2019s social activities like sending messages, making phone calls, video calls and real meetings. Thus a relationship with higher credits gets higher social networks information priority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project\u2019s Benefits<\/strong><br \/>\nIn this way, RankFirst helps user find the closest friends on contacts and let user get social networks information of those closest friends more efficiently. That is what the RankFirst\u2019s slogan says \u201cMake you and your closest friends closer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Demanded Investment<\/strong><br \/>\nThe number of demanded investment is \u00a312 million, which is expected to be spent on stages of product design and development, product maintenance and upgrades, marketing, wages and benefits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Business Model<\/strong><br \/>\nOur choice of RankFirst\u2019s business model is advertisement model. Based on the big user base of mobile contacts and social networks, the advertisement model is believed to be an efficient approach to make revenue from RankFirst.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategic Target<\/strong><br \/>\nOur strategic target is to extend the total number of RankFirst\u2019s users to 30 million on different mobile phone operation systems like Android and iOS by 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background With the popularity of social networks nowadays, people\u2019s social information becomes rich and wonderful. However, much information comes from the people whom we don\u2019t really communicate with and don\u2019t care about. The problem seems to be more obvious and worse if the number of friends we have on social networks becomes bigger. In fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27717],"tags":[27727],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragons-den-panel","tag-dragons-den-panel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}