Some web pages' reviews.

                 This time I decided to write for you two reviews of web pages. One of them concerns the charity program and is the part of The GreaterGood Network which is a family of websites that provides simple and effective ways of helping people. The second one is the official site of my favorite soccer team FC Barcelona.

                 Below you can click on the link that allows you to open the website www.thehungersite.com. Opening the site you can see a lot of advertisements of the companies that endow meals for the poor. The site is guided by the very easy rule 'one click-one meal'. It means every “click” provides one meal for a poor person. The more clicks, the fewer starving people on the world. It’s the very easy way to help others sitting at home and opening this site every day. It’s a good habit to set this site as your home page.

                The other page I wanted to present you is the official site of soccer club FC Barcelona – www.fcbarcelona.com. FC Barcelona is a type of huge club which contains many departments. There is not only soccer team but also basketball, handball, hockey and futsal one. Visiting the website you get the access to many webpages describing every of them. Choosing the link 'football' you can open webpages that concern the current situation in the club (official statements, news and press releases), you can see the current squad (pictures and description of every player), club and team statistics, history or simply you can buy a ticket for a game. The interesting way of presenting information allows to stay readers involved. The website is a little bit overloaded by links and advertisements but I think that every fan of FCB can understand it because of the huge sponsors’ help for the club.

                I hope you’ll enjoy watching the web sites, helping people by using the Internet every day and supporting one the most famous soccer clubs all the globe.

The report on "The Internet - Tool or Weapon?"

                This report was written to investigate the influence of the Internet on people and to answer the question „The Internet- Tool or Weapon?”. The report bases on scientists’ researches and the film “The Virtual Revolution”, created by BBC.

                Is widely believed that the Internet revolutionized the world and transformed the society, especially relationships between people. It changes the meaning of the word- friendship. That is why the Internet is compared to the Gutenberg Bible which by showing people other way of communication, it means written word, also entirely transformed the civilization of that time. We can’t also contradict that the Internet has a huge impact on our live, politics and business. This invention allows us to find out all the information very fast, then print it and present or send to others.

                The most wired nation on the world is South Korea, where 52% of the citizens use the Internet every day what means no less than 8 hours per week. There can be no doubt that the Internet influences strong on South Koreans. But opponents argue that there is a lot of people who are addicted from the Internet, what means that the addiction makes them impossible to live in a normal way. What is the most terrifying this problem touches also children. The addiction is the state when somebody spends on the Internet no less than 18 hours daily. A recent survey proved that about 20% of the addicted have to be hospitalized. We can only imagine how a big impact has the Internet on their relationships with peers or parents.

                In conclusion, the Internet is both, tool and weapon. When we use the Internet as a tool which can help us to improve our live and help us to work more efficient, there is no doubt that Internet is omnipotent. On the other hand if we allow the Internet to take possession of our live then the Internet transforms into a weapon, the weapon against humanity.

Technological innovations in banking service

What I wrote in the first post I had finished banking and accounting, that is why I decided to write a new post concerning technological innovations in banking sector. The inspiration to write about this subject were two films. First of them describes the vision of Commonwealth Bank for 2013 and and their plans how to improve the customer service to fulfil the growing needs of their clients. Another one presents Visa's idea for the pack of applications for current mobile phones.

Commonwealth Bank released a film that show us the vision of future banking. As we can see on the film taking a credit and making decision about buying a house or a car will be possible without going to a bank, preparing documents and signing them. All the way of taking credit, it means contact with consultant, reading documents, signing an aggrement will be availible on your mobile phone.

On the other hand Visa decided to create a new service for almost every type of mobile software that are commonly used in current cell phones, such as Androids, IPhones, Symbians and Windows Mobile. This applications will turn our mobile phone into credit card and will allow us to settle payments (both cash items transactions and retail purchuses), check our balance of account or history of transactions. In the future the application will work on every type of mobile handset and allow us to use very safe ways of protection such as digital signature or finger printing. Placing the application on a SIM Card let us move accounts from one phone to another.

Of course the first question is whether it’ll be safe. There is no answer for this questions. We can only imagine that it’ll be a new challenge for hackers and any type of burglars.

Me in NYC

My name is Peter. I'm 25 and I arrived to NYC two weeks ago. I'll spend with you 9 months so I decided to say everyone HALLO!

I came here together with my beautiful girlfriend Magda. We had finished our studies and we decided to spend another year somewhere abroad. And we chose NY!

Now something about me..
I finished finance and accounting at Warsaw school of economics. I worked for a year in Kompania Piwowarska (the branch of the SABMiller Group - brewing industry) - btw. I love drinking beer.
My interests are sport (especially volleyball, soccer and American football), economics, book (crime and thriller) and film.

I hope that you got to know me a little and that we will have a chance to meet and talk about our opinions about NYC.

Btw.
For me the most fascinating is that everything in NY is so mixed. Old brick-edifices are connected with the glass one, lots of narrow streets and enormous tall buildings. The lack of greenery in the city center is compensated with many parks around the Manhattan.
If you want to explore majority of Manhattan's nooks- it's true: you need a lot of time. Within 9 months we'll try to do it. But there are so many worth visiting places in the USA, so it can be difficult.