Hardware and Software
Take a look at the bobspauldingclass broadcast. Today it’s a spécial edition on hardware and software used to communicate with internet. Indeed E-communications depends on hardware and software.
Nowadays E-communication seem so difficult for many people but in effect it’s so simple and so easy to use…
Prosper.com
What is prosper.com ?
It’s a site about lend and borrowing. But it’s not a bank. You can give money to help a stranger, and a stanger can give you money.
How its work ?
People who need money request it, and other people bid for the privilege of lending it to them. Prosper makes sure everything is safe, fair and easy.
How can i trust them ? There is any identity verification ?
Yes prosper.com wants to assure that their site works and its securized. You can read the FAQ, and how its work here
Google the new big brother ?
Force for good, or force for evil? It seems to be everywhere now, introducing new tools everyday. Big brother or Benefactor friend ? On one hand they are so genial, and on other and they scared me.
First you must see this videos : part 1, 2, 3.
Curently, google make a lot of attractive tools, and moreover free tools ! (google docs, Google earth,…) but with this tools they can watch what you do 
This problem is about the question of privacy, because google use your personal information to impose ads on your computer. They know who you are, what you buy, what are your search on the web, where you live, but it is a problem ?
If google use this personel information to just do targeted advertising is not a problem and maybe a good thing. In this way you can buy some product you like.
But if google sell this personal information to other firm is a problem, because you lose the control of your private life. and privacy is “the ability of an individual or group to control the flow of information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively”
Facebook, why does Microsoft want to be part of it ?
Microsoft recently bought a little part of facebook (1.6%) and for 240 millions dollars. Why a giant like microsoft payed a lot of money just for a social network like facebook ? it is an error ?
“No” says microsoft, they just want to have a part in a very popular social network. But, it’s not the real motivation of microsoft. Indeed, they want to control ads on the net like google, and for this facebook is a good place. With facebook, they can put ads for millions people.
But google want a part of the social network too. So they have make the “open social” counter attack. What’s “open social” ? It’s an association of different social network against the giant facebook (Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle, Flixster, iLike, RockYou and Slide).
Today the war on social network begin…
To be continued
Google docs
Google docs is an online software, so you don’t need to install something on your computer. You just need an internet connexion, and a navigator like mozilla firefox or internet explorer. After, you clic on google docs and you can import your documents (présentations, spreadsheets,…) or create new documents with the tools available in google docs.
Goodbye windows office pack, because you can use this tool everywhere you want, with just a internet connection. All your docs are stored securely online, and it’s totally free !
Moreover, you can invite people to your documents and make changes together, at the same time. It’s collaborative work.
Let’s see the google docs ads :
I think that googledocs is a great application but just when you are 3 or 4 on the same document. When you are more it’s just impossible to work because all the people change the doc in the same time and it’s too chaotic.
Killer apps
What is a “killer application” ?
A killer application is a computer program so attractive, so cool, which justify, for many consumers, to buy a computer, a PlayStation, a game-boy, or an operating system like windows vista for example.
In the definition of “killer application” there is a big part of subjectivity. MSN is a killer application witch justify to buy a computer to chat but not for all the people. For me, it’s just ridiculous to buy a computer just for MSN, Skype, or Windows office pack. So we can say that “killer application” is not an objective term.
When we talk about video game it’s the same thing because for many people “Tetris” was a killer game which justify to buy a game boy. Also, this game is so popular that Japanese people make some stupid TV game like this :
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But Larry Downes have write the 12 principles of a killer application :
RESHAPING THE LANDSCAPE
1. Outsource to the customer.
2. Cannibalize your markets.
3. Treat each customer as a market segment of one.
4. Create communities of values.
BUILDING NEW CONNECTIONS
5. Replace rude interfaces with learning interfaces.
6. Ensure continuity for the customer, not yourself.
7. Give away as much information as you can.
8. Structure every transaction as a joint venture.
REDEFINING THE INTERIOR
9. Treat your assets as liabilities.
10.Destroy your value chain.
11. Manage innovation as a portfolio of options.
12. Hire the children.
I will explain all this principles in others posts and give you some examples
