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  Reflection

 

Chapter 1: Internet Apocalypso

Learning Expectations: 

            I expect to learn about the different things about the internet,  different technologies and everything that has something to do with computers.  

Review: 

As human beings, we have our own freedom to choose or do what we want in our life. As many people say, “Life is too short”. There are a lot of things that could happen in our day to day life. We have a lot of options to choose from and it is our choice how we will live our life.  

We don’t know how long we will live here or what will happen in the future. There are so many things, too much important people, events, etc. that will come our way, and sometimes we will begin to ask ourselves, “Are these things really important to me? These things are just normal and don’t really matter. The important thing is that we are able to do what we want and we have lived our life to the fullest. For me, that’s the most important thing that even money can’t buy.  

Before, we have what we call, “the business world”. It’s a world full of different types of people, different companies, gadgets, technologies and everything that seems unusual and people are not used to. We had poor communication and everything seems so hard to do.

Nowadays, we already have what we call the World Wide Web or better known as the Internet. It is the most efficient, effective and convenient tool that people use not just in communicating, but in so many aspects of our day to day life. It made everything so easy and instant.

At first, Internet was just exclusively for governments’ use and communication. People don’t really know much about it and as time pass by, it has evolved into a much improved and advanced equipment that the public became interested and curious about that’s why even up to this day, a lot of successful companies use internet because it does not just make things easier, but it also makes everything faster and with just the proper knowledge, it will make you richer and richer every day.

People are just so irrational and immature. Some just really care about the money they will earn from it and they don’t really mind whether what they’re doing is good or bad. Internet has big advantages but it also has disadvantages. I guess it all depends on how people will use this amazing tool.

Due to the evolving technology, we now have what we call Ecommerce. It’s a combination of business banking with the mixture and use of Internet. It is now widely known because of the benefit and profit that we can get from this type of business. As people say, Commerce is a natural part of human life, but it has increasingly abnormal separation between people depending on it like workers and customers. The evolution of technology has somehow affected the public in terms of working habits and lifestyle. One example of this is the building of big factories over the town villages and trade was also affected by it.

Internet is the root of all business connections. It has opened a lot of doors of opportunities, into business world and to so much learning.

            In every situation, there’s always a conversation involved. Through the help of the Internet, it has made a lot of our transaction in business and life easier.

            Internet is very recommendable for everyone’s used because of its different features and it is accessible almost everywhere.

            Before, most communication networks were very limited to only allow communications between the stations on the network.

            The Internet carry various information assets and services, electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, etc.

Chapter 2: The Longing

Learning Expectations:

 

 

            People are longing for this new technology and I expect to learn how it’s originated. I would also expect to learn how life is before without internet. This article would broaden my knowledge about a certain thirst and hunger of all mankind to justice and innovative product.

 

 

Review

 

 

            What’s the web for? When the web was born few years ago, the people really don’t know the use of it. We were so curious about it because it’s a new tool for us to discover. Unlike the television, the radio and other gadgets, the web is something new for us to discover and learn. Like me, before, i really don’t know what the web for is, and as time goes on, the web became so famous because of its benefits that no other technology could do. There’s more than meets the eye.

            The web became so useful in day to day activities and even to the business world. It helped us managed the things are important to us; it has also reduced the risk of a business failure and have also thought us to be more wise and careful in life.

            Through the help of the web, we’re able to express our thoughts more and through the evolution of our technology, it has made us more competitive in the business world. The web is a very effective tool for learning. It is the fastest tool for learning because with just one click, all the information that you need will be on hand.

            People are able to learn and adopt this new technology in just a short period of time because it is user friendly and manageable. It is so accessible wherever you as long as you have a computer. Although it’s a very pleasant tool, it also has some disadvantages like any other things. There’s this some malicious websites that will cause your computer to malfunction because of the different viruses that could be pass on and harm your gadget. There’s this also websites that are full of pornographic materials that could affect the behaviour of anyone who sees it especially the young one’s if they’re left unattended. Some teens are unable to concentrate on their studies because of the different games online available and can be easily played at everywhere.   

            We think that web is just a tool for fun and entertainment. We don’t really realize its importance and the knowledge it gives us. I cannot imagine our life without our latest technology. We really had a lot of advantage because of it. It helped us achieved what we’re dreaming of in just a little span of time.

            Web acts as our voice and has created a connection all over the world. It had opened the door to a lot opportunities, it has broaden our knowledge about different things. It has given us the ideas, the facts and at the same time experiencing it personally.

            To sum it up, this experience of new technology is the answer for our longing of innovative evolution. It has given us new hope that everything is still possible and brought us different perspective about our life.

We can have a successful career with the help of proper knowledge and continue studying about this evolving technology. We may never know what will happen in the future but I am sure that we will be ready and equipped whatever may occur.

            Nowadays, there are a lot of successful people because of this Technology Internet. It helps us and teaches us a lot of things. It made our life simpler and faster. With this technology, other generations will continue to benefit and will change for a better future.

As I have read this article, I’ve learned that Internet or new technology is really important today because it would help me in my job in the near future because it’s my course and it is just usual for me to learn things like this.

With this knowledge, I have at least understood some unclear words and topics for me because I know that computer world is a broad topic, now I became more competitive in the industry. I hope that this would really help me someday. 

Chapter 3: Talk is Cheap

Learning Expectations:

 

 

            I expect to learn the benefits that internet could give us. I also expect to learn the different terminologies and unclear topics so that why knowledge would be wider and I would be able to apply and have a good job and career in the coming future.

Review

 

 

            There is art in almost everywhere. We can see them around us even the smallest one. Life is full of art. As I have read this article, I was curious about the title because it seems that it has got nothing to do with technology and retailing or any business topics. As I continue reading, I found this topic about pots. It’s about a child who wonders on how pots are made and he’s fond of the things that can be made out of clays...big and small...like mugs, cups and pitchers.

            Pottery is also an art. We can create different things out of it with the help of creativity. In every work, creativity is so much important because it enhances our ability to create and help us do amazing things out of simple stuff. Every one of us has our own definition of creativity for we are all unique. We apply it on whatever makes us happy or whatever craft we’re into. Being an artist, we have our perspective about life and obligation to do our work with pleasure.

            In Business world, creativity and knowledge are some of the things that would give us an advantage and help us succeed in the field we chose. You shouldn’t be afraid to try and experiment new thing for we may never know what will happen until we try it. We just need to have a little faith on ourselves because for me, I believe that everything is possible.

            In our society, no matter how old or young you are, we all have the ability to talk and make a difference. We the ability to distinguish different types of voices like peoples’ voice, committees, and bots, we also are able to respond according to what is needed.

            Electronic mail is just one of the many products of technology. Nowadays, it is just common to everyone. Almost everyone have one email address or so. It is a very useful tool that technology has given us because of the different benefits we get from it, like easy communication around the globe. It had made our life easier and even faster with just click and of course, with the assist of the internet.

            A lot of business groups are using emails because of the fact that emails are a more medium than paper. You don’t need to expend a lot of money just by sending information via internet. It had helped a lot us especially the public because of the profit            we get from it and some us used it as a source of income.

            We also have what we call Chat. It is very famous nowadays because it’s a tool for easy communication. Wherever you are, it seems like you’re just somewhere near because of the many features like voice chatting and web cam.

            Webpage is another story. It lets us see different stories of different people posted on different websites. Like us now, in one of our subjects, we are now doing webpage... There we learn to write or should I blog about the different things that have happened to me. It is so much fun because in this way, I have somehow expressed my thoughts and people get to know me better. We somehow had made a connection and this is more important that even money can’t buy.

            The things I’ve leaned about this article are the importance of internet and websites in our daily life. I have also learned the different applications of this in our life.

            For me, Internet is so much fun and learning that’s why I chose my course that has got something to do with computers. Before, all I care for is playing to the net and surfing unimportant things, nut now, I’ve learned that there’s more to it. Not just easy thing, there’s also hard stuffs and it challenges me to become more attentive to my classes for me to learn new things properly.

            Communications have made communication easier and faster. Now we also have mobile phones that are also connected with our technology evolution. All the things we thought are impossible are now possible and that’s because of the help of the internet.

            Actually, Internet is not just a tool for learning, it is also for entertainment. But you should control yourself so that you won’t get addicted to it and you won’t fail your grades.

 

 

Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

                                           

Reflection

 

Chapter 1: Max Mancini: 1 eBay

 

Learning Expectations:

I expect to learn more about EBay. The things that it can teach me, I know that eBay now is so famous all over the world and to the internet. I want to know some background information on how to use it and how it started because it can be a big impact on me for the future.

Book: Web 2.0 Heroes Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers

Quotes: “You blur the lines between a desktop experience and a Web experience, and that’s really where everything is headed.”

 

           [Our] role is to inspire innovation through experimentation

 

Review:

            This chapter started on discussing about the use of EBay. EBay is not just an online selling and auctions of things all over the internet. It’s basically a business transaction. It talks about the process of how EBay earns money from being the tool between the meeting of buyer and the seller. EBay is not just doing ecommerce business; it also includes the service of PayPal, which, like eBay, makes money when transactions happen. PayPal makes it easier for both buyer and seller because they can do these things with just simple transaction model.

            This chapter also talks about Max Mancini who is the senior directory of disruptive innovation at eBay. He led over 70 developers at eBay, focusing on eBay Stores, registration, sign-in, merchandising, and more. He has also worked with eBay’s classified business, Kijiji.

 

            Max Mancini explained the parts of his team. Actually, there are two parts; one is the platform side which enables the third-party developers to create applications and other innovations that accelerate commerce around eBay. The other side is the Disruptive Innovation which role is to inspire innovation through experimentation. They studied the trends of their market and they provided infrastructure and resources that encourage developers, internally—and also externally—to think and create within the boundaries of their known silos. The trends they concentrate on shift over time.

 

            Now, people are more willing to share the information they have over the internet. There are now applications that enable people to communicate and work together their works to other people all over the world. A good example of this is the face book. We are in a social environment, and the interesting things we learn while we are having fun. We discover new things with the help of our friends and people around our community.

 

Things learned:

 

            I have learned so many things about the background of eBay and how it really works. How it helped so much people and made our life easier. I now know that it’s not just a simple buying and auctions of different things all over the internet. It has so many features like the PayPal that also made each business transactions so much easier for the market. I now know more about Max Mancini and how he does his work through the success of EBay.

 


Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

 

Reflection

 

Chapter 2: Alan Meckler: Internet.com

 

Learning Expectations:

 I would want to know more about Internet.com and about Alan Meckler. The significance and the contributions that made and helped so many people these days and background information about Alan Meckler.

Book: Web 2.0 Heroes Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers

Quotes: “Going back into the 1990s, I believe that there really were Web 2.0 properties; it’s just that nobody knew to call them that. In fact, they were mocked.”

 

            “The Internet was going to have a greater impact, perhaps, than the computer and it was going to be all-encompassing.”

 

Review:

            Chapter 2 talks about the Web and the Internet. It talks about Internet.com and about Alan Meckler. Internet.com is a site name that is very easy to remember for obvious reasons; however, it is just one of the many web sites and company products that make up Jupitermedia.

 

            Jupiter media is the leading provider of images and information for creative, business, and information-technology professionals. It is divided into two primary divisions. Jupiter images supplies photos and other graphic images electronically. JupiterOnlineMedia provides information to IT professionals, developers, and creative professions through five different channels as well as through events and jobs areas. Internet.com is one of the outlets within JupiterOnlineMedia.

 

            Internet.com is a doorway to an inspiring list of sites. Also, there’s the more impressive CEO in charge, Alan Meckler. He is one of the early pioneers in beating into the Internet, particularly from a media viewpoint. As such, he has some interesting insights and perspectives. Alan details on his history about the business. He’s been in the publishing business since 1969 and he also had a PhD in American History so on and so forth.

 

            He detailed all the background information and details his own perspectives about stuffs on internet.com. He then realized that the Internet was going to have a greater impact, perhaps, than the computer and it was going to be more comprehensive.

 

            With the evolution of the Internet through time, it also changed Intenet.com and Jupitermedia so that it can cope up and adapt to the changing environment of our society. He talks about the Jupitermedia and Internet.com today.

 

What happened to him then was that he was approached by several companies in 1998 about buying the business, and he then sold the company in 1998. He had been building the company along the way, from 1993 on, and had one of the first web sites in the world, launched in early 1994, and at the time it was known as “Meckler Web” as a codeword, but it got picked up by the press and it was written up in Fortune and Forbes magazines.

 

Things Learned:

 

            There are so many things I have learned specially about Internet.com, Jupiter media and the background information about Alan Meckler and his contributions to the continuous development of the internet.


Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

 

Reflection

 

Chapter 3: Eric Engleman: Blog lines

 

Learning Expectations: 

I would want to know more about Blog lines and about Eric Engleman. The significance and the contributions that made and helped so many people these days and background information about Blogs and Web 2.0.

Book: Web 2.0 Heroes Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers

Quotes: “Web 2.0 brought the learning curve down to a really low level so you didn’t need to be a computer engineer to be able to run your own blog site.”

 

Review:

             Chapter 3 talks about Blogs and Web 2.0. If we do a survey now about naming the most popular sites about blogging, we’ll see that their answer is Blog lines. Blog lines started as a tool created by Mark Fletcher in 2003. It quickly grew from there. Today the site bills itself as a free online service for newsfeeds, blogs, and rich content. It helps you to search, subscribe, and share these services without requiring you to understand the core technology.

 

            This chapter also tackles about Blog lines is just a brand of Ask.com under the management team of Eric Engleman who serves as the general manger of the said company. He worked under Yahoo!, EarthLink, and Excite/Excite@Home. Also, he had an old media background and made a transition to online at CNN. He has a wide range of experiences, with a lot of focus on start pages which started in 1996. He also launched Excite Live, which became myExcite and won an award in 1998 as best start page. He also worked on start pages at EarthLink and Yahoo!, so he is also familiar with the RSS feed reader space.

 

            There’s also some background information about how Blog lines started. Blog lines was one of the early innovators for Web 2.0. It was launched in 2003. It was really a self-funded operation by the founder, Mark Fletcher. Mark built the tool for himself, basically. He saw that there were a lot of blogs that were coming online, and people were writing a lot of really interesting things. He didn’t want to spend all his time going to these different sites individually, so he built this application to grab the content via RSS and display it in one application.

 

            With the success of this application called Blog lines, Eric Engleman tried to connect things between the Cluetrain Manifesto and O’ReillyWeb 2.0 doc. He tried to make the application as a platform for the end users. The application is a system of users and consumers of the application and the data that is created by the user. It is really about the user. It is about creating a user-controlled experience and leveraging the end user to create additional significance.

 

            Bloglines may not be the app as a platform yet, but it is definitely “web as the platform.” Bloglines is all about consuming data, all about consuming RSS feeds. Nowdays, with the development of our technology, there’s now more options for the end users like java scripts and AJAX that will be helpful for everybody who uses this kind of technology.

 

 

Things Learned:

 

            Now, with the help of this chapter, I have some background about how blogs started and how it changed the lifestyles of so many people. People now have so much knowledge about blogging and we continue to develop new things and ideas because with this kind of technology, communications over the internet is so much easy and business transactions are more possible.


Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

                                           

Reflection

 

Chapter 4: Gina Bianchini: Ning

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to learn about Gina Bianchini and about Ning. I would like to know more about this chapter of this book. I would like to learn more about the use of our latest technologies.

Quotes:

“I think the freedom that is enabled by the Internet and what

people are doing with it today is just really profound.”

“I think it [Web 2.0] just means a lot of different things to a lot of

different people.”

 

Book: Web 2.0 Heroes Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers

Review:

            This chapter talks about Ning. Ning is actually a social networking website called Ning.com, which was started by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini back in 2004. Marc has worked with Netscape before. What sets Ning to other social networking sites is that it is actually a platform for creating social networks and not necessarily a social network itself.

 

            In other words, people can go to Ning and set up a social network on any topic for any people with any features they want. Ning provides the platform for creating the social network and leaves it to individuals to decide the topic of their social network.

 

            Well, creating a social networking website in Ning would just take a few minutes. People now have the freedom to blog, put videos, pictures, edit your own profiles and lots of interesting things.

 

            Gina is a hero in the Web 2.0 space, and her work on Ning has helped propel her to that status. It is interesting to hear perspectives on the topic of Web 2.0, social networking, and more from a hero in the space. It is worth pointing out that not every person is sold on the term Web 2.0.

 

            To sort it out, Gina and Marc had helped each other to put Ning.com which had helped them earn so much profit and it’s just because of doing the things their passionate to do. It’s so simple yet it should from a lot of hard work and determination.  This just explains that if we want to be successful in the business world, we should do the things we love the most.

 

            You shouldn’t spend too much time on irrelevant things. Ning has so much benefits, for example, In the time the company has had many meetings, interviewed stakeholders, hired enterprise software companies to build them out this “special thing,” they could have been up and running with a social network on Ning.

 

Things learned:

 

            I have learned so many things about Ning.  How simple it is and how can it help people from our daily lives. Now, I know that social networking website is very advantageous for the people because of the many benefits it can give to us.

           


Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

                                           

Reflection

 

Chapter 5: Dorion Carroll: Technorati

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to learn about Dorion Carroll and about Technorati. I would like to know more about this chapter of this book. I would like to learn more about the use of our latest technologies.

Quotes:

 

“For Technorati, a lot of Web 2.0 is about authenticity, accountability, interaction, and this idea of the people powered or the social web.”

 

Book: Web 2.0 Heroes Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers

Review:

            Basically, this chapter of this book talks about technorati which tracks about how many blog users are there all over the world. It’s different from Web 2.0 which deals about blogs, and many more. Dorion Carroll is Technorati’s vice president of engineering. Prior to working at Technorati, Dorion worked with companies such as Postini, Excite@Home, Electronic Arts, and Oracle. His experiences are in search, email processing, E-commerce, CRM, ad targeting, and numerous web and enterprise technologies, thus making him an expert in his field and a great person to discuss the topics of Technorati and Web 2.0.

            The company was founded by Dave Sifry and a couple of people that he brought in. That first year was a lot about inventing something that didn’t exist at all, recognizing this phenomenon of blogging. Technorati was able to find these connections again in near-real time. Real time is important because some of the basic underpinnings of blogging are different from the rest of the Web, fundamentally.

 

            Social Networking websites are about authenticity, accountability, interaction and people powered websites. Before you start your own social networking website, you should make it unique, I mean as you’re own and not just any other website. You should create it as your own and make it appealing for the consumers or your market.

 

            Technorati has been part of the creation of what is Web 2.0. On the other hand it’s this idea of public social conversation, that aspect of the social Web that lets people connect, that gives an opportunity to have an open sharing of ideas. People can be published quickly, easily, found, discovered, and read, and other people can react to those things. There’s also more of an importance on this view of a people powered Web, whether it’s through trivial social gestures of connecting, people.

Email is basically a back-and-forth between two people; with blogging, the video sites, photo sites, all of these different types of social media, one person can now communicate with a mass audience, most of whom they’ll never encounter, but they can actually see their own stuff rising in rankings and getting better and see a wave building around it; there are a lot of folks out there that really like that.

 

Thing learned:

Now, I understand what Technorati is. It’s for tracking those users of social networking websites. It’s very useful for people because it made conversations over the internet so much easier. It had so many benefits that made Dorion Carroll earn so much Profit. It all boils down to one point; it’s all really hard work and determination. If you have the enthusiasm with what you, then there’s no way for you not to be successful. I have also learned about Dorion Carroll, she has so many experiences in so many fields of technology and it served it as her basis to start Technotari.

 

Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

Reflection

Chapter 6: Raju Vegesna: Zoho

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to learn about Raju Vegesna and about Zoho. I would like to know more about this chapter of this book. I would like to learn more about the use of our latest technologies.

Quotes:

 

“Enterprises have some complex work flows, and I don’t think online applications…are ready to really fit into the complex workflows in enterprises yet. They’ll get there someday, though”

 

Review:

 

            With the quote above, I can start by saying that this chapter talks about Enterprises that are complex and that it has complex workflows. Those online applications are just not ready for it, but of course, with some more advancement, it will get there.

 

            It talks about a small company called Zoho.com. How it became so successful in the field of our industry. Zoho.com is an office productivity suite from AdventNet. Zoho provides a number of tools including an online word processor (Zoho Writer), an online spreadsheet (Zoho Sheet), an online presentations tool (Zoho Show), an online conferencing tool (Zoho Meeting), an online notebook (Zoho Notes) for taking notes, a scheduling and planning tool (Zoho Planner), a project management software tool (Zoho Project), and a mail program (Zoho Mail) that allows for a mail account.

 

            There are other tools as well, including CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tools, a database application, wiki tools, and chat. Utilities include a web site monitoring tool, a viewer, online polls, and more. While companies like Google and Microsoft are moving forward in the online office space, it is easy to see that when it comes to collaboration and online office productivity tools, Zoho has already got a grip in the field.

 

            I have learned that Raju Vegesna is the spokesperson of Zoho and he’s been working with Zoho and the parent company AdventNet for the last seven years. He’s an evangelist for Zoho currently. He have been with the company for about seven years and prior to that he started his own start-up back in India. Literally this is the second company he has worked with.

 

            Also, Zoho is not a company; it’s a division. Many people think that Zoho is a separate company. In fact, it’s a brand, not a division, within a larger organization called AdventNet, a private company that was founded in 1996 and has been profitable from the first year. [Over] the last 11 years, AdventNet has [had] more than 20,000 customers, not considering Zoho. It has been very profitable without raising any venture money. It is a private company. Zoho is one of the brands of AdventNet, and AdventNet has several brands; one of the well-known brands is ManageEngine that is on the management space. And there are other brands like, say, Jambav that is for kids and education for kids. The headquarters are located in Pleasanton, California. All of our development is in India. We have offices worldwide in London, [England]; Beijing, China; and Tokyo, Japan. Zoho is the only division that is focused on online software. All of the other divisions of AdventNet primarily sell software. In some cases Open Source software like vtiger, but primarily software.

Things learned:

            I have learned that Zoho is not just primarily software. It’s fast rising software that’s now competing with other big companies with its so many features listed above. It is very useful and so easy to use. It is now becoming more famous to the public.

            Zoho is so compatible with web 2.0 and it is not AJAX, although it does help a lot. Web 2.0 is a combination of the wisdom of the crowd and the Read/Write Web.

 

Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

                                           

Reflection

 

Chapter 7: Richard MacManus: Read/Write Web & Web 2.0 Workgroup

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to learn more about Richard MacManus and about Read/Write Web & Web 2.0 Workgroup. I would like to know more about this chapter of this book. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies.

Quotes:

“Whereas the last era of the Web was people publishing

things and you went onto the Web to read it, with the

current era anyone can contribute, can write content, or

can launch applications on the Web.”

Review:

            With the help of AJAX, websites became more interactive. It adds more features and offers more things that people can now do. Richard MacManus founded and runs Read/Write Web in September of 2005; he had also started the Web 2.0 Workgroup along with Fred Oliveira and Michael. He has worked for companies such as ZDNet, Micro Media Corporation, and more.

 

            Read/Write Web is a popular weblog that focuses on Web technology news, reviews, and analysis. It was started in 2004 and is now ranked by Technorati as one of the Top 20 blogs in the world. Richard, along with Fred and Michael, is recognized as being in tune with Web 2.0 and the trends around Web 2.0. The starting of the Web 2.0 Workgroup is just one example of their early efforts to help bring attention to the topic. The Web 2.0 Workgroup site was originally an attempt to bring focus to the key blogs discussing Web 2.0 technology. As Web 2.0 has become more mainstream, the Web 2.0 Workgroup has become above all a simple gateway for some of the leading Web 2.0 sites.’

 

            It offers people more ideas online and not like before, the only source of information are the likes of TV’s and radios. Now, we have Read/write web hat offers people to interact with the news that are happening as of the moment. It also allows people to give comments, suggestions and feedbacks that can further improve the business processes of the system.

 

            Richard has been involved with Web 2.0 since before the term Web 2.0 become mainstream. As one of the founders of the Web 2.0 Workgroup and as the proprietor of Read/Write Web, Richard has insight into what Web 2.0 has been, and into what Web 2.0 is.

 

Things Learned:

 

            With the help of this information, I have learned some background information about the Read/Write web. Before, I have no idea that this kind of website exist. I didn’t know that there’s this web that can really help people regarding the latest news and events that are happening as of the moment. As what this chapter is saying, AJAX had helped people become more interactive also with the help of our latest technologies. I have learned the history of Read/Write web and how it started. It gave me ideas and encouragement to do things on my own with right perspective and goals on my mind. Now I also know more about Richard MacManus as one of the founders of Read/Write web. He had successfully revolutionized our web technology with his ideas and contributions with his creation of Read/Write web.


Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

                                           

Reflection

 

Chapter 8: TJ Kang: 8 ThinkFree

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to learn more about TJ Kang and about ThinkFree. I would like to know more about this chapter of this book. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies.

Quotes:

 

“We were about to change the way the software was used

and distributed. We were going up against this 800 lb.

gorilla in Redmond, Washington.”

 

“Competing against

Microsoft, which…I’ve been doing all my life, was becoming more and

more difficult.”

 

Review:

 

            Online applications are gaining good reputation. More important, online applications are gaining authority and functionality. ThinkFree is a major example of how much authority and functionality a little Java can bring to the Web. While companies like Microsoft and Google talk about online applications, ThinkFree actually is an online application suite that also happens to be Microsoft Office compatible. Although its origin predates the concept of Web 2.0, it is in fact one of the early leaders in the online office application space. Being an online web-based application, ThinkFree is also compatible with Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and Linux.

            Using ThinkFree, you can create a number of different types of documents, including word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. You can also edit existing documents. As an example, ThinkFree online will let you edit existing Microsoft Office 2007 Word documents

Here adding up to ThinkFree, there is also ThinkFreeDocs.com. ThinkFreeDocs.com is a site where you can share your various documents with the community at large. You can find documents that others have chosen to share as well. If you are looking for an example document or a starting point, then ThinkFreeDocs is likely to have them. For example, if you need an invoice document, you can search ThinkFreeDocs to see what others in the community have posted. You can then use these documents. Ratings, groupings and other features make finding the right documents a little easier.

 

TJ Kang is the CEO of ThinkFree, where he leads the tactical direction of the company. He has worked with ThinkFree since 1999, when he founded it. Like many people in the Web 2.0 world, TJ has a background that helped lead to what is now considered a prominent Web 2.0 site. TJ talks about his background, about ThinkFree, and about technology.

 

Things learned:

 

            I have learned so much information about TJ Kang and ThinkFree. It is an online application by java that enables online users to create different types of documents and you can edit it through online. It is also compatible to Microsoft Office and it is very useful to people because it made our life so much easier. Since it’s an online application, a lot of people able to see it and interact with it. Online communication is now achieved and much accessible everywhere.


Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

                                           

Reflection

 

Chapter 9: Patrick Crane: LinkedIn

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to learn more about Patrick Crane and about LinkedIn. I would like to know more about this chapter of this book. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies.

Quotes:

 

“I see Web 2.0 as a course correction…[that] weaves the social fabric back together again…You can now consume and share things, and discuss them, interpret them, and ultimately get that lens on the world, and it’s not just your own individual perceptions and observations anymore; it’s back to the old way.”

 

“Web 2.0 is the advent of the individual publisher and the advent of the group consumption and interpretation of media.”

 

“One of the interesting things…is the ability to mix and remix.”

 

Review:

 

            In my opinion and my own understanding, LinkedIn is just like the monitoring of people who are linked in with each other. It’s like Friendster. You will see how people are connected with each other. This same principle has been applied to a web site, LinkedIn. LinkedIn is an online network of more than 17 million experienced professionals from around the world. Within LinkedIn, you can connect (link) to other people you know. Those people can also connect to people they know. The end result is a giant network with everyone linked together.

 

The LinkedIn network can be searched and used to extend your network. You can search for clients, consultants, subject-matter experts, friends, family, old acquaintances, jobs, business opportunities, new hires, and much more. You can use it to do everything you would want to do with the professional network that you would previously have created with a Rolodex and lots of business cards.

 

The difference is that you have the power of the computer and of a very large network helping you. One other difference is that if you find someone with whom you want to connect, you can see how many degrees away you are from them. Patrick is the vice president of marketing at LinkedIn. He also has more than a decade of high-tech, world-wide business experience. A lot of this comes from having worked with organizations such as Vodafone and Yahoo!. Rather than detailing his experience here, it makes sense to suggest you take a look at his profile on LinkedIn. Patrick had a number of insights to share.

 

He has been in B2C marketing for about 13 years. He has worked on trying to make sense of new and emerging technologies for the consumer for pretty much his whole career. He have done that in a number of different countries; first on the wireless side for Vodafone, and then more recently, four years at Yahoo!

 

Things Learned:

 

            I have learned the use of LinkedIn and how Patrick Crane started this online application.

It’s just more than knows how many people are connected with you. With the help of LinkedIn, it had made online communication which had helped people to do conversation much more.


Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

                                           

Reflection

 

Chapter 10: Shaun Walker:  DotNetNuke

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to learn more about Shaun Walker and about DotNetNuke. I would like to know more about this chapter of this book. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies.

Quotes:

 

“Web 2.0…was sort of the best attempt at coming up with

a nice buzzword for a whole lot of new technology and

innovative ways that people are using the Internet.”

 

“It’s becoming more

difficult to find what

you’re looking for.”

 

“To categorize things

as Web 1.0, 2.0,

3.0…it’s pretty

difficult.”

 

Review:

 

            DotNetNuke is both platform and a website for building a website. It is very useful for everyone because it has make things simpler and things more possible. DNN is available for free. Additionally, it is licensed under an Open Source agreement that allows people to do whatever they want with the platform.

 

In 2006, DNN was formed into a company, DotNetNuke Corporation. This was to allow for a focus on the management of DNN and to provide a solid foundation for future support. These characteristics have resulted in over 440,000 people using and supporting DNN. As a framework, it has been downloaded millions of times. The end result is that it is the most successful Open Source community project on the Microsoft platform.

 

It is not just like Ajax; Ajax is just one of the building blocks of Web 2.0. You couldn’t exactly just point to AJAX as a technology comprising all of what Web 2.0 has to offer. It becomes part of the fundamental infrastructure behind Web 2.0, but there are a lot of ideas around 2.0, which are more network-oriented, human-oriented, rather than just pointing at a specific piece of technology.

 

Shaun Walker is the president and chief architect for DotNetNuke. He is the creator and continues to be its key spokesperson. Having been involved with DNN and having seen the sites that have evolved from the framework have given Shaun a number of interesting insights into Web 2.0 and more.

 

Things Learned:

 

            I have learned so many things especially about DNN and Shaun Walker. It has a user-generated area that allow people to create whatever they want and that what makes DNN unique.


 

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BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

                                           

Reflection

 

Chapter 11: Biz Stone: Twitter

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to know more and I expect to know more about Twitter and what does it really do to us. How it started and who invented it. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies.

Quote:

“The Web is increasingly a social environment and…

people are using it to communicate with one another, like

they’ve always done—but now in such an open way.”

“The Web is a very

highly social utility. If

we create more open

systems, it will be

even more social.”

Review:

 

            I personally have a twitter account. Honestly, I find it so unique and helpful because it’s a way of communication but with immediate response. Like ym, people can response fast with the message you send to one another. You can also track the other people to know what they are doing as of the moment.

 

Twitter is a worldwide community where members send updates about what they are doing or thinking at any given moment. These updates are sent via text messages from the Twitter site or from a mobile phone, or via instant messages (IM) from Jabber, AIM, LiveJournal, or Gtalk.

 

As a member, you can post short (140-character) messages about what you are doing at any given time. All the other members can be doing this too. Of course, if you try to read all of these messages, it could get very noisy. However, if you subscribe to people that are interesting to you, then you can keep up with what they are doing by seeing what they post to their Twitter feeds.

 

Twitter is often described as a micro-blog because of its short-message format and its ability to follow what a person is doing. Regardless of how you describe Twitter, it has struck a chord with the worldwide community.

 

Biz Stone is the creator of a number of web sites. In addition to co-founding Twitter, he also helped with sites such as Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. He has shared his insights offline as well in books such as Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content and Who Let the Blogs Out?: A Hyper connected Peak at the World of Weblogs.

 

A lot of what people talk about when they talk about Web 2.0 is openness; I think the tools mentioned are tools that are freely shared, or the codes and ideas behind them are freely shared among developers, as well as being publicly available for free on the Web. The idea is that the more open these technologies and services are the better.

Things Learned:

 

            I have learned so many things especially about twitter and about its creator, Biz Stone. I’ve learned some background information about Biz Stone and how he started creating Twitter. How Twitter contributes to the success of our latest technologies. It is kind of unique because people can interact in a much shorter period of time. It’s not time consuming and it offers so many options. It also has so many features that you could detect what other people is doing.


 

Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

 

Reflection

 

Chapter 12: Seth Sternberg: Meebo

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to know more and I expect to know more about Meebo and what does it really do to us. How it started and who invented it. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies. I would also like to know the contributions of Seth Sternberg to our latest technologies.

Quotes:

“If you don’t [innovate], then you’ll lose market share and

you’ll wish you did.”

“Empowering the

individual

voice…let[s] any

given individual

become a publisher.”

“Empowering the

individual

voice…let[s] any

given individual

become a publisher.”

 

Review:

 

            At first, I really don’t know and I have no idea what Meebo really is. But as I have read this article, have learned that Meebo changed instant messaging by doing two key things. First, it provides

a single interface that can be used to connect to all of the different IM networks. Second, and more important, Meebo removes the need to install software on your machine. Instead, you end up with the ability to access your IM networks via a web browser.

 

In terms of social interaction and Web 2.0, Meebo takes social networking to a whole new level. As what have said in the article: There are Six million unique people sign into Meebo every 30 days and the average person spends two and a half hours per day on Meebo. When you do the math, you realize that about 250 years of time is spent with Meebo every day. That is a lot of social interaction.

 

Along with Elaine Wherry and Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg was one of Meebo’s three cofounders. He was an undergrad at Yale before working with IBM. He then attended Stanford business school. A few weeks into his second year at Stamford, he left to work full-time at Meebo. The result of the work of these three heroes is a social network of millions of people.

 

Meebo is to instant messaging what programs like Hotmail and Gmail are to email. They bring the ability to socially interact with anyone else in the world with the only requirements being a browser and an IM handle. With growth from start-up to over a million users in the matter of about a dozen months, Meebo has shown the power of Web 2.0 and the community.

 

Things Learned:

                       

            Meebo is not just like any other network social interaction; Meebo is above the other social interactions like emails and etc. It connects to the other users of instant messages and build a connection with them. It make things very easy and it is very useful for people around the world who wants to have a connection and communicate through the network.


 

Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

 

Reflection

 

Chapter 13: Joshua Schachter: del.icio.us

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to know more and I expect to know more about del.icio.us and what does it really do to us. How it started and who invented it. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies. I would also like to know the contributions of Joshua Schachter to our latest technologies.

 

Quotes:

“We find ourselves in a world where we have unfathomable

riches of which we’ve only scratched the surface.

If computer technology stopped advancing for a few years

right here, we probably wouldn’t be in terrible shape.”

 

“The cost of

implementation and

the cost of failure are

so low that we’re able

to prototype and try

lots and lots of things,

very, very quickly.”

 

Review:

           

            Del.icio.us allows you to store your favorites on the Web, so that you can then access them from anywhere, on any browser on any computer. More than that, you can also share your favorite links with friends, family, or the world. In my personal opinion is so cool because of its features. It makes everything easier for its users allowing us to make favorites and we don’t have to memorize our favorite stuffs on the net because Del.icio.us made it easy for us. It’s such a big help.

 

In addition to storing and sharing your favorites, using del.icio.us also allows you to add tags to them. Using tags provides you the ability to easily categorize, sort, and search your favorites.Del.icio.us, however, is also about social bookmarking. You can search other people’s favorites using the tags they have added as well. This makes it Easy to find out what web sites others thought were worth adding to their favorites.

 

Joshua Schachter is the founder and creator of del.icio.us. Even after Yahoo! acquired del.icio.us in 2005, Joshua has continued as the director of engineering for del.icio.us. His experience with del.icio.us provides great insight into Web 2.0.

 

It is for saving bookmarks and organizing our thing all over the internet world.  Del.icio.us has a low barrier to entry because Joshua Schachter made it that way because he had no business plan, not because he thought there would be money there, but because he wanted it; he had the ability to build something and the desire to see it happen. It’s not just an AJAX application, although it had some help of AJAX.

Things Learned:

 

            I have so many things that I have learned after reading this article. About Del.icio.us and the things it does for users. Now I know what it does and how it helps its users. It made everything for its users easier. I have also learned about its creator, Joshua Schachter and his experiences that contributed to the success of this new application.


Jerome E. Jose                                                                                                        BOOK REVIEW

BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

 

Reflection

 

Chapter 14: Ranjith Kumaran: YouSendIt

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to know more and I expect to know more about YouSendIt and what does it really do to us. How it started and who invented it. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies. I would also like to know the contributions of Ranjith Kumaran to our latest technologies.

 

Quotes:

“That’s where Web 2.0 started; it was to help people

more easily get into services like ours, which are braindead

simple to use. So, it has allowed people to have

conversations that they wouldn’t necessarily have been

able to have.”

 

“By outsourcing a lot

of the services

through companies

like ours, people

are becoming more

productive.

 

Review:

 

            YouSendIt is a site that has a primary focus and they do it well. That focus is the transferring of information and files to others. In the past, this has generally been done with FTP software; however, with the changes that have occurred on the Web, and with the larger averages size of files that are being sent, there are now easier options, one being YouSendIt.com. They make sending and receiving files a much easier, much more “on demand” endeavour.

 

While YouSendIt has a focus on what they do, you’ll find that their task touches on many of the critical issues that people face with the Web. This includes securely sending information as well as tracking where information has been sent. For some perspective on current Web trends, including Web 2.0, one of the co-founders of YouSendIt, Ranjith Kumaran, has some experience to share.

 

Ranjith is a founder of YouSendIt, where he’s currently responsible for product management and corporate marketing. His experiences prior to YouSendIt include Veracity Design (which was acquired by Cadence in 2005), as well as Red Hat, where he architected Open Source software.

 

Things Learned:

 

YouSendIt is a site that has a primary focus and they do it well. I believe in what this article is trying to explain.  It’s the ability for people to easily adopt services and thus connect to more people and start more conversations. That’s where it started.

 

This application is so much amazing that it makes everything easier for its users. Like what Ranjith have said. Its for people to use and believe and he has working experiences to other companies like his work to open source software.


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BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

 

Reflection

 

Chapter 15:Garrett Camp: StumbleUpon

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to know more and I expect to know more about StumbleUpon and what does it really do to us. How it started and who invented it. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies. I would also like to know the contributions of Garrett Camp to our latest technologies.

 

Quotes:

“Web 2.0 is really about the user experience and not the

underlying technologies”

 

“The Web becomes

a lot more of an

interactive platform

rather than just

a way to buy or

read stuff.”

 

Review:

 

            StumbleUpon allows you to share those interesting sites that you stumble upon as well as helps you to discover sites others have found. By using the community, StumbleUpon gathers positive and negative ratings to help those sites that are really good float to the top while others sink out of sight. The overall result is that with a little bit of tagging and categorization, you can quickly find sites that others thought worthy of recommending on any given topic.

 

To make it easy to recommend sites, they’ve also created add-ins for Microsoft Internet Explorer and FireFox. With more than 4 million people contributing, it should be no surprise that you can get results.

 

Garrett Camp is the founder and chief product officer for StumbleUpon. Since 2001 he has been helping others share the sites they stumble across. The result of this experience helps to provide some interesting insights into Web 2.0.

 

 

All I can say is that StumbleUpon is just one of the amazing sites available in the internet. Like other websites, it has some unique features like it allows you to share the interesting sites you stumble upon. It also has some add-ons.

 

Things Learned:

 

            There are so many things that this article has taught me, especially about how StumbleUpon works and some of its others feature. Like its chief officer, Garrett Camp. He said that Unlike Google, where you have to tell it exactly what you want, the general trends are leaning toward community interaction, social systems, personalization recommendations, and proactive information filtration. Systems in the future will look at your past preferences and try to recommend what you personally will find interesting or useful. That is what StumbleUpon is doing in the context of web sites, photos, and videos online.

 
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BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

 

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Chapter 16:Rodrigo Madanes: Skype

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to know more and I expect to know more about Skype and what does it really do to us. How it started and who invented it. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies. I would also like to know the contributions of Rodrigo Madanes to our latest technologies.

 

Quotes:

“The most important thing is that even though we felt in

the ’90s that the Internet was having a big impact in

people’s lives, we’re seeing in this decade that it’s reconstructing

a lot of industries and shifting a lot of value

around while improving people’s lives.”

“People don’t tend

to see…how the Web

is getting more

homogenized and

more easily ‘cut

and paste’-able.”

 

Review:

 

            Skype is considered a Web 2.0 site and company; however, its web site is a minor part of what it is. Skype is used to make phone calls to other people through the use of peer-to-peer technology.

 

You can use Skype to call other Skype members free, or you can pay small fees to call other people on regular or mobile phones. In fact, Skype has made it easy to call other people no matter where they are in the world. Several interviews from this book were done with people who were using Skype. That allowed calls from London, New Zealand, and other far-off locations. In fact, Skype meant that the location did not matter.

 

Skype goes beyond a desktop browser. It requires that you download a program to your desktop in order to make calls. The downloaded program is similar to some of the common instant message programs, so it is easy to use. While most phone calls are all about voice communication, Skype also allows for chatting and video. The power of the Internet is pulled into what you can do.

 

Rodrigo Madanes, who leads the product strategy at Skype. While he could talk to you about user cantered design, virility, disruption, and a variety of other topics, he is also the person at Skype to talk to about Web 2.0. Skype is a piece of software that people can use to talk for free, all over the world. As of version 2.0, they can even video-call with each other. Most people are familiar with Skype at this point.

 

 

Things Learned:

           

            The article has taught me about how Skype originated and who are its inventors. Skype is now famous and it is used worldwide. People are now used of using it. Like other instant messaging tools, Skype is so easy to use and very much user friendly and it is one of the  many factors why it became so successful.


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BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

 

Reflection

 

Chapter 17: Rod Smith: IBM Corporation

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to know more and I expect to know more about IBM Corporation and what does it really do to us. How it started and who invented it. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies. I would also like to know the contributions of Rod Smith to our latest technologies.

 

Quotes:

“Web 2.0 is about how businesses are changing, how

people are collaborating, and how people are unlocking

content to be used in new and innovative ways through

customization, at orders of magnitude of less cost than

they’ve ever had before.”

“Web 2.0 really is

empowering and can

help transform IT

and line-of-business

relationships.”

Review:

            Before, I really don’t know what IBM is. I have no idea what really it is about and what it does to people. All I know is that it’s a big company and that’s it. I have no more background information about it. Reading this article, i have learned so many things about this company. IBM stands for International Business Machines and is a name that has been around the computer industry for a long time. In fact, IBM incorporated nearly a century ago, in 1911. Its roots, however, go back even farther than that.

 

IBM focuses on many areas, including products and services. The company is well-known in the mainframe arena and has also been a big proponent of Open Source, Linux, and more. It would take an entire book to describe what IBM has done and what they do now. With such a vast history, IBM is a company worthy of being asked for an opinion on current and new technologies.

 

Now I know that Rod Smith is the vice president of Emerging Internet Technologies. Rod has stated in interviews that blogs, wikis, and innovative sites like Wikipedia and Google Maps are going to change the way that productivity applications are developed. Given that he’s made such statements in the past, it is worth hearing what Rod has to say about Web 2.0 today.

 

Things Learned:

 

One of the few things that i have learned is that IBM is nicknamed "Big Blue" (for its official corporate color) IBM has been known through most of its recent history as the world's largest computer company; with over 388,000 employees worldwide, IBM is the largest information technology employer in the world. Despite falling behind Hewlett-Packard in total revenue since 2006, it remains the most profitable.


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BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

 

Reflection

 

Chapter 18: Tim Harris: Microsoft Corporation

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to know more and I expect to know more about Microsoft Corporation and what does it really do to us. How it started and who invented it. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies. I would also like to know the contributions of Tim Harris to our latest technologies.

 

Quotes:

“Enterprises want to take advantage of the social and collaborative

aspects of Web 2.0 but don’t necessarily want

the business models of Web 2.0 shoved down their throat.”

“People have a

tendency to put

Web 2.0 in the

‘browser bucket,’ and

say that if it is not

running in a browser

it is not Web 2.0.”

Review:

Microsoft Corporations a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.

Originally founded to develop and sell basic interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft is showing itself as a big player in the Web 2.0 market. As a tool maker, they have developed some of the key tools people are using to develop Web 2.0 web sites. This includes their ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. A newer tool provided by Microsoft also can be considered a Web 2.0 site.

 

Things Learned:

            I have learned a lot of information about Microsoft Corporation. Not only that it is one of the biggest business firms when it comes to technologies, it is also one of the best corporations in the business world. It had helped and changed the way of life of so many people. I cannot imagine our life without the use of it. We really need it for our daily life, We need to develop it more so that we can still use it to the next generation.

 

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Reflection

 

Chapter 19: Bob Brewin & Tim Bray: Sun Microsystems

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to know more and I expect to know more about Sun Microsystems and what does it really do to us. How it started and who invented it. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies. I would also like to know the contributions of Bob Brewin to our latest technologies.

 

Quotes:

“Anyone with reasonable smarts can have a good idea for

a web property on Monday and can have something on

the air two weeks from Thursday.”

 

“If you have

something to offer, it

will get noticed.”

Review:

            Robert Brewin is a distinguished engineer and the chief technology officer for software at Sun Microsystems. He has been responsible for developer products and application platforms including the Java platform, mobility, enterprise software, and business-integration products.

 

 He has been chief architect for Sun’s developer tools portfolio, where he led in such initiatives as strategic enhancements to the NetBeans IDE, the creation of Java Studio Creator, and more. He is responsible for Sun’s role in Web 2.0 technologies.

Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on 24 February 1982.[5] The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center. Sun is a proponent of open systems in general and Unix in particular, and a major contributor to open source software.[6]Sun's manufacturing facilities are located in Hillsboro, Oregon and Linlithgow, Scotland.

When it comes to web technologies, at Sun, the Java language and other initiatives that have occurred have been deeply involved with what is happening on the Web. Their work in hardware and operating systems has also given them perspectives that are worth noting in regard to the Web as well.

 

At Sun, two distinguished engineers took time to answer a few questions about their perspectives, and that of Sun Microsystems, in regards to Web 2.0. Although there was general agreement in most of the comments; at times the two definitely had different perspectives—perspectives, however, that are both interesting.

 

Things learned:

 

            I know a little about Sun Microsystems because we a course that deals with it. I also know a little about programming java codes and other stuffs about sun Microsystems. But, reading this whole article, my knowledge about is have increased because i have learned some background information about it and the people behind its success. I hope it continues to develop so that more people will benefit from its features.


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BS-IS                                                                                                                           Sir. Paul Pajo

 

Reflection

 

Chapter 20: Bob Brewin & Tim Bray: Sun Microsystems

 

Learning Expectations:

            I would like to know more and I expect to know more about Sun Microsystems and what does it really do to us. How it started and who invented it. I would like to learn more about the use of it to our latest technologies. I would also like to know the contributions of Bob Brewin to our latest technologies.

 

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