Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Convergence

Convergence, is combining two or more to make a phenomena. Converge is first introduced in the 1990s used by some companies work together to make better product and work efficient. Cell phone is a great example of convergence product, for example- Sony phone, runs on android software.
Microsoft and Apple were the only companies who were using converge in the same building. Apple was dying and Microsoft was its rival. Microsoft was known as the one of the strongest companies and was controlling everything and gets done whatever they want. The government step in to tell Microsoft that they have to make a different department for its products. Because of this, Microsoft invested  $150 million dollars, to keep Apple alive and Microsoft did not have to make another department.

What does a community and does tech provide

                  Technological community, it is a community in the virtual world, online community. This community is used in many different ways. We can communicate with others, share our thoughts, vacation pictures, find other friends and highlights with others things. We can do it just like real life.  There are many different communities like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, UW Canvas. All these is like a virtual community, we can message anyone at any time, block the people we don't like. 
                 Just like the in real life, ignore the people and don't talk to them. Facebook and Twitter are the biggest social networking websites with user all over the world. These company are worth billions and billions of dollars. People get very addicted to these sites and people are always on their phones. Today, people like to text more than talk on their phones. 

Monday, December 7, 2015

Presentation- Facebook by Mahumaad

                  Facebook was founded in 2004. Most popular social networking site and have overtaken all its competition. It has over 1 billion users across the globe. It got popular during 2009 and became one of the strongest companies right now. It connects people, share their thoughts, pictures and memories with no cost, just free. Now, we can even call with the messenger, without any phone number. 
                  In Brazil, three friends made Facegloria which is like the cleaner version of Facebook for the Christians or other religious use. Over 600 bad words have been blocked from it. You can even find your soul mate through Facebook but there are no guarantee about it. Facebook has some disadvantages like- too addictive, Have no life, being jealous and trying to show off too much.
                 Overall, it was an amazing and the funniest presentation. I really enjoyed listening to the Positive and Negative effects of Facebook. 

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Startup.com movie

Startup.com is a documentary movie based on a true story during the late 1990s and early 2000s. This movie reminded me of 2008 recession where people thought they were balling (rich) and suddenly the economy crashed and people lost everything. This company named Govworks is a great example for the Dot.com to Dot.bomb to Dot and Pyramid Company. In 1998, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman get together with a faith of making online services where you can pay the parking tickets online and save time-money. They all quit their jobs and started working together. Day by day the company started growing, hiring more people.
The company is getting famous and getting a lot of attention from media. Tuzman also met up with President Bill Clinton. People started buying their shares, I would of too. He is having meetings with the President, obviously he is legit and going to make a lot of money. After getting popular, people got interested and bought the shares. Became the more than 60 million dollars before even doing anything, before the actual website was made.
They were living the celebrity life with the bling, they were making a lot of money and having a lot of fun- big cars, being on the media all the time. They get some competition from other companies who were doing the same thing. Tuzman lets their competitors to see their workplace and plans with just being overconfident and stupid. They paid a lot of money to the web-designers but the website did not achieve the expectations. The competitor’s website was better. It was interesting Turzman with two sides, he fired his friend Tom but on his face he acted like he didn’t have anything to do with it.

In 2000, the company went bankrupted total 0 and everything ended.