As we know FaceBook is the worldwide phenomenon that has been engulfing the Internet in recent years. More and more people are using this social networking site. This site has become so lucrative that many companies such as Microsoft and Google are offering astronomical money to take over this golden egg. However, the company founder, Mark Zuckerberg has resisted all attempts over a takeover bid. This has certainly been frustrating for companies like Google who are trying to have a share of the pie in almost every industry.
Therefore they have came up with a "FaceBook" under Google. They have named the website "Orkut". This website was set up in USA in 2004 by Orkut Büyükkökten under Google. Since it was set up in USA, when the site was first up, the largest base of users came from USA. As time progressed on the user community shifted to users in Brazil and India. As of April 2010, 48.0% of Orkut's users are from Brazil, followed by India with 39.2% and United States with 2.2%.
Here is a video on how to use Orkut.
Certainly Orkut is no match to the social networking phenomenon that is FaceBook. However it caters to the groups specially in Brazil and India. There has been a lot of issues in FaceBook recently like spam and viruses. While FaceBook is easily the most popular social networking site around, but is it time to turn to a new site?
Monday, March 14, 2011
It is all about YOU
In the past, the only place where we can see our friends' videos is when they send the actual video to you. There is no avenue where the video could be published publicly for everybody. Then came along YouTube.
YouYube made video-sharing easy for everyone. With a simple click, you could upload the videos onto the Internet and share it with everyone else. It is hassle-free and costs next to nothing. Furthermore you could have others to comment about videos. In no time, you could be famous all over the world.
Hence more and more people are publishing videos of themselves online, especially on YouTube. More people are becoming famous because the videos of themselves are being shared online. For example Lim Yu-Chun who become world-wide famous because of his singing at a talent show. He has since been Taiwan's answer to Susan Boyle. Here is a video of his singing.
Therefore YouTube has become an avenue for people to publish their videos online. However YouTube has also become an avenue where people create videos and has developed into a series. For example, the 'Annoying Orange' series. The first video of the Orange's conversation with Apple hit over 50million views. Here is a video of the "Annoying Orange".
In recent years, more and more websites of the similar format to YouTube has sprouted up. I believe this trend will be on the rise, but I believe YouTube will still appeal to the masses, because its easy accessibility and definitely the success cases that has happened on YouTube.
YouYube made video-sharing easy for everyone. With a simple click, you could upload the videos onto the Internet and share it with everyone else. It is hassle-free and costs next to nothing. Furthermore you could have others to comment about videos. In no time, you could be famous all over the world.
Hence more and more people are publishing videos of themselves online, especially on YouTube. More people are becoming famous because the videos of themselves are being shared online. For example Lim Yu-Chun who become world-wide famous because of his singing at a talent show. He has since been Taiwan's answer to Susan Boyle. Here is a video of his singing.
Therefore YouTube has become an avenue for people to publish their videos online. However YouTube has also become an avenue where people create videos and has developed into a series. For example, the 'Annoying Orange' series. The first video of the Orange's conversation with Apple hit over 50million views. Here is a video of the "Annoying Orange".
In recent years, more and more websites of the similar format to YouTube has sprouted up. I believe this trend will be on the rise, but I believe YouTube will still appeal to the masses, because its easy accessibility and definitely the success cases that has happened on YouTube.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
How Times Have Changed
Twenty years ago it was pretty hard to imagine the speed of progress of our technology. No one foresaw we would be able to make purchases at home without leaving our homes, communicating with one another instantly and many other functions of the internet today. We certainly have come a long way from the pre-computer ages of the early 1990s.
However this evolution of the Internet does not stop here. We constantly come up with more and more brilliant ideas which we thought was impossible. When the Internet started up, the information was often one way, there was hardly interaction. That was Web 1.0. With the improvement of technology we have evolved into Web 2.0 and into what we call Web 3.0 today.
What is Web 3.0? To make things simpler, here is a video on what is the difference in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Certainly Web 3.0 is a vast upgrade of what we used to have. Internet becomes more and human-based and more interactive. With technology improving daily we certainly have much more room for improvement. Here is another video on how the future of the Web will probably be.
Personally I feel we definitely can improve on the technology we currently have. With the inventions such as XBox Kinect where games are played virtually, we certainly are moving towards Web 4.0, which I feel will be ourselves being on the Web virtually
However this evolution of the Internet does not stop here. We constantly come up with more and more brilliant ideas which we thought was impossible. When the Internet started up, the information was often one way, there was hardly interaction. That was Web 1.0. With the improvement of technology we have evolved into Web 2.0 and into what we call Web 3.0 today.
What is Web 3.0? To make things simpler, here is a video on what is the difference in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Certainly Web 3.0 is a vast upgrade of what we used to have. Internet becomes more and human-based and more interactive. With technology improving daily we certainly have much more room for improvement. Here is another video on how the future of the Web will probably be.
Personally I feel we definitely can improve on the technology we currently have. With the inventions such as XBox Kinect where games are played virtually, we certainly are moving towards Web 4.0, which I feel will be ourselves being on the Web virtually
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