Linux and open source technology can be used to support windows. Most users are either pro Microsoft or pro Linux, but I happened to be one of the few that sees the need for both. Just like with the phone and cable companies, competition helps drive the price down. It's more of checks and balances. Open source helps with the development of technologies, groups of individuals work on a project, not for pay, but for the love of doing it. There is nothing wrong with wages for work and open source does generate income. It allows you to be creative, which brings ideas for advancing our world and companies such as Google, IBM, and even Microsoft see the need to invest in open source. Give some away, get some in return. It's a win-win solution. Open mind, open source. We must stay forward thinking at all times to grow.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Web 2.0
If you talk about web 2.0 you will get different responses based on when that person actually started to use the net. While running a website drop shipping products in the 90's my partner and I saw the dot com boom come and go. It was manly based on potential hopes for the future to be the first with this new internet idea(sort of like a first round draft pick getting more than a veteran player). Some made it big but most ended up crashing because all markets will peak. Having those static webpages with nice content and search engine submission kept us in the game. Webpages shifted from static to flash driven and the start of 2.0. Web 2.0 became more of an interactive platform allowing the user and the publisher more real time contact with video,I.M. chats, streaming video and blogs to name a few. The user has now become a content provider and they have unlimited avenues for self expression. I spend more time online than I do watching t.v. Reality tv is a platform controlled by a few, web 2.0 is controlled by the masses, the new tv. As we move along we will witness the lines of internet and tv blur becoming one and we all will have a chance to be involved.
Don Wansley