Is a Virtual Community Really a Community

What is a Virtual Community? Virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially overcome geographical boundaries and political will to pursue common interests or goals. I want to discuss the advantage and disadvantage of Virtual Community. Advantage - Internet communities offer the advantage of instant information exchange, which means we cannot do in a real communities. This allows more people to participate in activities at their home, such as: shopping, paying bills, looking for topical information.

User’s online communities can also access to thousands of thematic discussion groups, where they can form professional relationships and access to information in various categories such as politics, support technical, social activities and entertainment. Disadvantage - Although instantaneous communication means fast access, but this also means that the information posted is not reviewed for accuracy before. Furthermore, Identification of individuals who are kept anonymous so that ordinary people use virtual communities to live a fantasy life under the guise of a human being.

Overall, the world is rethinking human interaction through the use of social networking. So Virtual Community has a lot of fun but also more unstable and complex. In my opinion, Technology is threatening to dominate the life of humanity, and as we increasingly lose "humanity". By causing the illusion that social networks are helping people communicate and connect with each other more easily, in fact we are becoming isolated real-world interactions between people, in the form a virtual-reality space that is essentially nothing more than a simulation of the real world deformities.

Dot.com to Dot.bomb

The collapse of Internet companies (dot.com) is an economic event in the last months of 2000. Dot.com economists are seen as a major financial failure, particularly in the U.S., and they also call is dot.bomb. The dot.com was created starting from 1996. By 1999, many dot.com appear almost daily. Period 1997-1999, all linked to the Internet what are investors hunt. They rushed to buy the dot.com shares without regard to the actual value, ignoring the current losses for the next few years expect to benefit hundreds of times. The fever was stimulated by information from the market forecast, from the securities analyst in information technology (IT) IDC, Gartner, Forester Research, etc. But, not any tech company became a Microsoft as many small investors believe in the promising development of the dot.com.

However, the collapse of the dot.com only a small part of the entire Internet economy, only the pattern online retail B2C (business to consumer) collapsed while the real model  business B2B (business to business) still works well for many companies, large corporations use the Internet to reduce billions in operating costs and serve customers better. The important lesson learned is not to use the Internet to operate a traditional business, but must know how to use the Internet changed the nature of business.

Disintermediation

What is Disintermediation? Based on the definition from Techopedia, "Disintermediation cuts out the middleman. By using the Internet, companies and even manufacturers can deal directly with users or end consumers, which is a significant factor in decreasing the cost of servicing customers. The high market transparency often enables the buyers to pay less as they deal directly with the manufacturer, bypassing the wholesaler and the retailer." In my opinion, can eliminate the intermediary of time, people and distribution channels. By providing customers, partners and employees direct access to information, you can give them full control of the information requested and received. Clearly, if the current ordering procedure of the company include the use of an employee to enter orders, the automation of this process can eliminate human intermediaries.

An interesting fact is that in some cases, the Internet has created the intermediate goods. Mediation is a means of eliminating the middleman: It is an additional mediator to facilitate easier for business. EBay, the online auction house, is an example of intermediate goods. EBay has no products, or goods storage warehouse. Those who want to sell goods to register with eBay. Those who want to buy something on eBay will have to see what items are offered for sale. Without services like eBay, buyers and sellers are very difficult to meet. That's why eBay add for intermediate goods purchasing process.

Why would you NOT by online

This is a very interesting question that I need to answer. So I am going to ask myself, "Why would I NOT by online?" I decide to choose Facebook as a largest online social networking in the world now. There are so many reasons that I want to discuss that I would not using Facebook barely. The first reason is Facebook turn us into an indifferent ones. I often see brothers and sisters, aunts, friends, or even parents on Facebook, Instagram every day and I think that's enough. The second reason is on Facebook, you can "expand" but cannot "go deep" in the relationship. Facebook can bring "large number" of the relationship but its quality is that no one dared to make.

The next reason is Facebook addictive, it is undeniably true. Facebook almost made users that never satisfied and always want more: friends, fame (virtual), like, share, comment, followers, etc. As sticking with Facebook, people are increasingly "hysterical" because of its. Most of the information on Facebook are spam, the status of strangers, and information about events that do not have any practical meaning to your life. Moreover, I really realized that every time I surf Facebook is really wasting my time.

There are a few reasons to discuss why would I NOT by online, in this case is Facebook. These things are come from my opinion. It's up to you.

A Visit From Brian Forth - SITECRAFTING

Again, we had learned so many things from our guest speaker, Brian Forth, who comes from the company SITECRAFTING on Monday July 4th. During one hour of guest speaking, we knew a lot of things about Brian Forth as well as his company. The first thing was that Brian introduced himself. Before he became a CEO of SITECRAFTING, he was in Film or Philosophy from his college major. Brian also mentioned that he wants to become an Elementary School Teacher to teaching fifth grade.

The second thing was Brian talked about his company and what his company is doing now. His company is located at three location such as Tacoma, Spokane, and Olympia. His company basically is Web Design and Web Development which are provided server and products services. They are hired some graphic designer to design and develop his company product to customers. Brian's company also has Data Center and a great service that supporting and taking care customer who got a big problem when server goes down.

The last thing Brian mentioned about SEO. What is SEO? "Search Engine Optimization is the process of improving the visibility of a website on organic ("natural" or un-paid) search engine result pages (SERPs), by incorporating search engine friendly elements into a website." Furthermore, Brian's company is using Drupal and WordPress to design and develop website. Since we did not have enough time, that's why I could not ask any question that related to Mobile Application.

A Visit from Chris Richardson - IID (InternetIdentity)

There was a great thing when we had our guess speakers who from a company that is called Internet Identity. One of our guess speakers was Chris Richardson. During one hour of discussion in class we had been learned a lot of things about their company. Actually, they are basically a network company. I just remembered one thing when they said their company are working with some company like Credits Union. Their company is protecting customer transaction such as phishing, dos, etc.  They also talked about their solution to solve network problems and attacks.

There was another great thing when they showed us a website that is called map.ipviking.com (http://map.ipviking.com/). This website is really cool because we can see the Attack Origins, Attack Targets, Attacks and Attack Types which are included some basic things such as country, service, and port. Since we did not have enough time that's why I really want to ask some questions to them. My concern and questions were related to something such as the problem with information security requirements on computer networks, security problems in the TCP/IP network - security policy for the network TCP/IP, security services like Authentication Service, Peer Entity Authentication, Data Origin Authentication, Access Control Service, Data Confidentiality Service, Data Integrity Service, and more.

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The Machine is (US)ing US

The first thing I want to say is EPIC. What does EPIC stand for? EPIC stands for Evolving Personalized Information Construct. Based on my research, there are so many thing to discuss EPIC such as Googlezon And The Newsmasters, predictions about the future of Google, Amazon and our connectivity, Web 2.0, and more. So I would like to say something about Web on this topic.

As Internet use increases, the web site will have to change to meet the new requirements. The changes on the Internet can be classified into the generation of the Web site.

• Web 1.0: at the beginning the company created the web site as the company's online catalog.
• Web 2.0: when the Internet becomes more sophisticated, more companies are aware of its potential. Managers set the web site reflects the company's issues: relationships with investors, the company's mission and the message of the president of the company.
• Web 3.0: when the company began to understand the potential of the Internet to promote themselves transactions between businesses and between businesses and customers, the web site becomes simpler, faster and collective middle than on the specific needs of individuals visiting the site.
• Web 4.0: the future of the Internet is the fourth generation web site. The 4th generation web site on the same form as the third generation of the web site. Difference between the third and the fourth of web sites are all mostly behind the technology perspective. The 4th generation site is created dynamically and is tightly integrated into the company's operations.

A big thanks to bigthink.com as well as EPIC 2015 to help me get more information to do on this topic.

Email Vs. Postal Service

Clearly, Email and Postal Service are very important for all people around the world using today. For example, you want to send messages and some pictures to your friends. Remember that you can send to a lot of people; I am not sure that there is limited or unlimited recipient (receiver). The thing I try to mention here that it does not matter that your friends who come from the U.S. or Vietnam. Furthermore, the most important thing is Email is free and fast. In contrast, if you are using Post Service like USPS, you can do the same thing as Email; however, you have to pay your money for the service as well as the time for receiver who will be waiting to get it. That could take one to ten days.

Overall, here is something to think about similarities and differences between Email and Postal Service:

1. The speed: The greatest advantage of sending email is that it is much faster than writing a standard letter. Email will take a few seconds to be delivered, while regular mail can take from one to ten days.
2. Flexibility: The truth is Email is very fast, however, they lack the flexibility of regular mail. For example, I can send and receive packages, magazines, brochures and more via postal delivery but not by electronic mail.
3. Multiple Recipients: the great thing from Email is I can send letters to multiple email recipients within seconds by including their email addresses in the "To:" or "BCC:" boxes. While if I am using Post Service, I will have to pay postage for each letter that I send.
4. Safety: my choice is Postal Service (mail) because computer viruses can sometimes be attached to unsolicited emails that I may receive; they will damage my hard drive and destroy my stored information.

The greatest advantage of sending email is that it is much faster than writing a standard letter.

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The greatest advantage of sending email is that it is much faster than writing a standard letter.

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_6121394_post-office-mail-vs_-email.html

The greatest advantage of sending email is that it is much faster than writing a standard letter.

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_6121394_post-office-mail-vs_-email.html

What do I want out of this class?

My expectation when I am trying to learn something is about Information Technology. I am going to choose HTML5 from Web as the technology that I am gonna to discuss. What is the most advantages of HTML5? HTML5 will change many aspects of life on the Web. It does not replace Flash or Shockwave: Can be used in games at Miniclip.com. This shows how HTML5 influence. However, the redesigned Web and HTML5 allows Web sites basically provide more convenience. HTML5 tags will replace plug-in in the simple things and make the Web more securely and more efficiently.

Another great thing is  HTML5 makes video of Web more beautiful - The HTML5 standard to help developers more easily integrated video with information on the page, provides application programmers to external jQuery and PHP Flash, Silverlight or JavaFX. There are so many advantages of HTML5 to tell. Here is just one of an example from Information Technology.

In addition, the explosion of Information Technology, with the mobile platform technology, cloud, big data trend is forming to develop "smart" in all areas of intelligent infrastructure, smart urban, health and education intelligent. Furthermore, I have been through one week to learn some basic things from Information Technology such as Internet, World Wide Web, TCP/IP, Email, TCP, and so on. Overall, I just want to learn all of thing from Information Technology and apply it to my life and my career, not learn, and then forget.

What is internet? History of world wide web

Sometimes you ask yourself something such as a history of burgers, Pho (Vietnamese Noodle Soup), internet, etc. So I pick the third one - internet. What is internet? "The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide." Why TCP/IP and what does TCP/IP stand for? TCP/IP is a set of networking protocols that allows two or more computers to communicate and basically stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.

Starting from a simple page with links to allow a group of scientists to share data within the laboratory, but in the 20 years since then, it has become an indispensable part of the lives of billions of people. Not to be confused between WWW and internet. They are related to each other but not identical. Internet terminology, launched in 1974, refers to a vast network infrastructure connecting millions of computers. Meanwhile, the WWW is the method to access information through the Internet using web sites.

 Some interesting information about the World Wide Web: 

1. Before choosing the name World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee had planned to use the name later given to the concept that he made: Information Mesh, Mine of Information, or The Information Mine.
2. The first website and first web browser was written on the NeXT computer, the computer company founded by Steve Jobs after Jobs was kicked out of Apple. 
3. The first web browser was written by Lee Berrners with C language, called WorldWideWeb. He took 3 months to complete. This browser only works on NeXT computer platform.