Week Three- Hardware involved with Beatzburne

Beatzburne aspires to evolve into an exceptionally popular social media website. This will require hardware to support such heavy internet traffic. In Beatzburne's modest and beginning stages less servers will be needed to mediate the flow of traffic. However once Beatzburne launches as a powerhouse media sharing website, more servers will be needed. The Beatzburne team may need to incorporate data centers, which are thousands of computer servers connected through fiber optic cables in its peak of popularity.
The RAM on a computer will not need to be considerably high to have access to Beatzburne because it requires mere internet access. If consumers want their internet experience to be moving rapidly users may look have a better experience on computers with a higher amount of RAM since more RAM means more speed. SGI servers will be a necessity for Beatzburne as it will house all the information of  billions of songs, lyrics, videos photos, and blogs being posted onto the website. Concert photographs, streaming videos, and music files take up more memory space than a typical blog or song lyrics do, so more RAM would be required to support this. As more information is being posted onto the website, there will need to be a backup of all user info being stored. In order to have an updated, modern looking page, professional photography and video editing programs will be needed to keep the site looking fresh. Beatzburne will be using the best graphic design systems to date by having access to Adobe Photoshop. The Creative Suite 5.5 Design System issued by Adobe will be used to edit concert images, band interviews, band photo shoots, and used to advertise the website in an attractive, refreshing image. The Creative Suite 5.5 also has access to interactive programs that will attract user attention as well. Another editing software that Beatzburne employees will be tinkering with to advertise, as well as cater, to potential and existing users is Final Cut Pro X. This program will be used to edit concert footage, make montages of interviews between bands, and also music videos.
The Huffington Post reported on Thursday in its article, Facebook Music in Ticker: Listen with your Friends that "Facebook has partnered with streaming services like Spotify and Rdio to let users discover new song as their friends are listening to them." This would offer Beatzburne a great deal of competition, especially considering that Facebook has been deemed the most visited website on the Internet. However, this music feature will be displayed on Facebook's much disputed ticker device. The ticker has been attacked by Facebook users everywhere saying that it breaks a law of privacy by updating status's each second. The Huffington Post explains that "If a friend plays 'Titanium' by David Guetta on spotify, you'll see that update in your ticker". I feel that this is an invasion of privacy. When a user is not even logged on to Facebook, their Facebook is being updated via a completely different website? That does not sit well with me.
Beatzburne will have a completely secure website that will not display user information without the user's consent.




Huffington Post article link: 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/facebook-music-ticker-friends_n_976264.html 

Week Two- Privacy in Social Media on BeatzBurne

Privacy in social media is a substantial factor for BeatzBurne users. With video chat, blog forums, and instant messaging being featured on the website, it can be easy for users to offer out too much information. To ensure that our affiliates are blogging safely BeatzBurne offers the feature to categorize individuals as followers or friends as soon as a request is sent. If the member knows the person sending the request outside of the internet and feels comfortable offering personal information, chatting, and blogging with this person, they are defined as a friend. If the member  does not know the person sending the request but feels comfortable sharing music files with one another, they are categorized as a follower.  A friend has access to video chat, instant messaging, and personal information about the user such as what tour dates they have attended. A follower is merely someone who enjoys the same music as another user and would like to share files together. When sending a friend request the user must answer two personal questions about the member they are requesting to be friends with to make sure that the user truly does know this individual. Questions can range from "Where is this user originally from?" to "What are this user's hobbies?" These are simple questions that a friend should have knowledge of. We ask users to choose carefully when categorizing friend/follower requests because there is such a vast difference in the amount of information a friend can obtain versus a follower. An affiliate can always delete someone as a friend or follower if they feel the need to do so.
All BeatzBurne profiles are initially private. Users who are not followers or friends can only see another member's top five favorite bands and latest three songs they have posted. From there users can decide whether or not they find another member's taste intriguing or not. To secure personal information from being shared too freely, BeatzBurne recommends that users have a profile picture of their favorite artist instead of a personal image. Members also have the ability to block or report other users if they feel threatened for any reason. BeatzBurne asks users to provide the website with their current address, that way BeatzBurne can suggest local concerts or shows the member might be interested in, however it is not a requirement and affiliates to not need to give this information. The same privacy options are available for bands as well. If bands do not want to allow fans to message, video chat, or blog with the group, they can block this option in their settings.
An advantageous feature to BeatzBurne is the ability to create a public or private blog. If a member does choose to make a public blog BeatzBurne asks users to blog tastefully. If users decide to create a private blog, they invite other members to view the post and anyone who was not invited cannot observe the writings. Bands and music lovers alike also have the choice to allow comments to be posted on their private or public blogs. This ensures that blogs are being written are examined by an audience that the author feels comfortable. Authors of blogs can also tag different users in the writings to notify other members about what they are blogging. Authors can only tag friends in their writings and only the writer of the blog can view who has been tagged in the post. Other users cannot sees who has been tagged.
 The privacy settings on BeatzBurne are completely customizable which allows our affiliates to decide for themselves what information is shared online and who can view this information. All of these settings available on BeatzBurne allows users to have a personalized profile that is safely shared and completely customizable.

Week One- Social Media

Have you ever felt the desire to expand your musical interests but felt cornered in by the same overplayed three minutes of melody that you listen to each day? BeatzBurne is a social media profile that will introduce you to new artists, songs, and albums through your own followers and friends. Once users create an account they must develop a playlist of their favorite songs and artists. This playlist will help friends and followers understand what kind of music the user enjoys, making song suggestions more accurate to the user's taste. The highlight of BeatzBurne is that the music being recommended for our users is by personal friends or followers who know what kind of music the user can vibe. Every time logging onto BeatzBurne the website will prompt the questions "What are you listening to?" and the user can choose an option to create a new playlist or just simply post a single song that they are listening to today. Playlists can range from the mood the user wearing that day to a special event coming up that needs music to fill the airwaves. This feature is advantageous because if users are following others of similar or diverging musical interests they can test out different music to see if they are intrigued by it or not. The way BeatzBurne shares media files is through YouTube, this way bands and artists do not have illegally downloaded files of their artwork floating around. YouTube also makes BeatzBurne user friendly since users do not have to deal with the time consuming nuisance that is uploading a file to the internet.

Bands also have the capability of creating a profile for fans to follow. Their playlists can include anything from musical influences of the band,songs the band currently is listening to, or even songs they are in the process of concocting at the moment. Users as well as bands have the ability to share images live from concerts through their smart phone devices to let individuals experience the musical realm through a new set of eyes. The website also keeps track of what bands the user is monitoring the most frequently and will inform the user about concerts in the vicinity of the user's home. Users and bands have the ability to blog about concerts, songs, albums, song meanings etc and other users can comment on the forum to share ideas. Users can mold anything out of the forums on BeatzBurne. From looking for a new drummer in a band, to forming a band, figuring out a band name, finding someone to attend a concert with, asking about how to go about meeting an artist after a show, the number of possibilities to make connections through melody are infinite. BeatzBurne is creating a breakthrough way for individuals to discover and make music. Never before have bands had the opportunity to come together to discuss formulating a musical group over the internet. With BeatzBurne's video chat feature, each member of the band can join live to hear what the guitar rifts sound like, the drum pieces thrash, and the vocals come together as one. The users can be miles apart but they are creating music together! The forums are open to free discussion from the band's profiles to the user's profiles. Bands have the ability to talk one on one with fans, and fans have the opportunity to pose questions to bands through BeatzBurne.

BeatzBurne is more advantageous than Pandora because the user is being offered musical suggestions by actual friends and followers rather than a computer. BeatzBurne is socially engaging. Users can chat with followers and friends either over a forum or live individual chat about different live concerts they have attended, what music they are listening to right now, or what a specific song means to an individual. The website will be linked to Facebook  and Google Plus so when a person completes a playlist or mentions a new song they are interested in, Facebook and Google Plus users will be alerted of the website and are free to join the Beatz at BeatzBurne as well. Social attention plays a huge role in BeatzBurne's development because it is so dependent on individuals relaying their musical interests to followers and proposing new music to friends. Through the involvement with huge social media websites such as YouTube, Google Plus, and Facebook, BeatzBurne will gain more awareness because it will be advertised on people's profiles. YouTube will receive view hits on their website for every individual time a user listens to the YouTube link. Bands have the option to block videos from being shared on BeatzBurne if they feel the need to do so. Social attention is vital to the growth of BeatzBurne and will be the reason for the rise of musical evolution everywhere! Social media is paramount in the advancement in BeatzBurne.