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Dot.com to Dot.bomb

The Dot.com companies that began in the 1990s has a very good beginning because it was the introduction of technology and the internet which were new and unexploited. They made good profits because they had many users and members and this gave rise to many companies joining the industry. As the industry grew, new technologies developed and new companies continued joining the field and they had to keep up with the pace of technological advancement. They enjoyed it until the year 2000 when a crash occurred and most companies left the industry probably because they had no business plan and just started the online business because it was marketable. This means that they had no future plans that could guide the growth and innovation of the company. They did not know how to remain competitive in the years to come and how to increase their market share. Most of the companies were rendered bankrupt because the huge sources of funds there were getting from the investors had seized an...

The review of the film "startup.com"

           The documentary narrates the story of a couple of young businesspeople raising capital to startup a company that closes the bridges between the government and the people. The documentary open up with a young stud Khalil quitting his job to join his friends and start up the company. The company name is Govwork, where they hope to bridge the gap between people and the government by helping the government speed up some of their work . The documentary highlights the struggles and the challenges that entrepreneurs go through all the time while trying to start a business. Looking at the struggles that they are facing to start the company, entrepreneurs can mitigate ways in which they can avoid and add up to lead a successful company through this documentary video. The excellent video works highlight real event scenes of how to start a company from scratch and the motivation to never give up on your dreams.             W...

Epic Video

     This video comprises a comprehensive documentary describing the emergence and evolution of the internet over the past two decades. It also discussed the invention of various search engines such as google, the journalism organizations like the New York Times, some social media platforms and the Amazon online store. The video also analyzes briefly the origin and progression of some rivalries between the webs companies for example the one between google and Microsoft, as well as the New York Times.         I think the content provided in the video is implausible with a very brief but informative explanation of the topic. The calm and clear commentary of the video is also incredible and understandable to any viewer who understands the least of English. The commentator also sorts his events according to the years in which they happened perfectly, starting with the earliest events to the latest events. The tenses used by the commentator is also excelle...

Guest Speaker

We had a guest speaker of Brain the other day, and he shared about some interesting news to us and we just had a discussion about how media and technology influences us. One news that I was impressed is that a company can predict whether you are pregnant or not based on what you have bought from Amazon or Walmart (I can ’ t recall). This sounds a bit creepy to me because i won ’ t be that surprised if a girl just walked into a store and bought some diaper. But if just base on what they buy in their daily life, I will be surprised how they predict whether you are pregnant and have a high possibility of getting it right. And when he talked about that if you have more than 20 likes in certain content or images in Facebook, you are targeted. I feel like this might be a bit dangerous because I feel like this should be personal privacy. If you have information about how this people or maybe you can target at someone ’ s precise information, you could sell to companies that rely on this info...

The experience of the Hunt

The experience of the Hunt I would say is incredible but a bit creepy. We were separated to the group and found answers together. After the activity, i felt like technology has connected us. I think that with the development of technology, we are more and more like a global village. All the information can be linked together, just like this group activity, a lot of information is a bit private. For example, find the last name of the professor's second sister. I think this activity is a professor who wants us to know what kind of information the media can bring under the control of people, and even more serious, how the privacy will be exposed.   I think this group activity is very meaningful. When the group discussed it, we even felt that some information was a bit creepy. The network facilitates people's communication activities and connections, but also brings certain drawbacks. On the Internet, freedom of speech is respected, but many lawless elements use this so-called f...

Creating a Simple Website with HTML

           I think this exercise was a great experience because i have never created a website before. I was really confused when I first saw this paper of instruction. The first thing that came out to my mind was to ask for my friend’s help who major in computer science, but I wanted to take a look and give it a try first so I read the instructions of creating a web page very carefully. Then I started to create a web-page by following every step of the instruction. I tried to make it very simple as it can but when I finished my first webpage, it went blank so it wasn’t working. There might be something wrong with the order of the background color but I am not sure how to fix it so I research for tutorial online to see if that can help. I finally made the fifth web-page successfully after I had seen the tutorial on Youtube. I didn’t add background color and marquee order. So it is just a very simple web-page with HTML. Something is better than nothing. I a...

the similarities and differences between traditional postal mail and email.

             I think traditional postal email and email are very similar because they all want to convey information. People used to write in hand and people still do nowadays, however, people started to email since the well development of science and technology. This new communication way has been very popular, even more popular than traditional postal email. The reason is about convenience. Email is way more convenient than traditional postal email. You want to send someone messages and email can have that done in a few seconds while traditional postal email can take up to a few days. This is a major difference, but why would people still use traditional postal email even they know email might be more convenient? This would bring to the another difference. Sometimes a postal email would show you put work into it and show your sincerity. For example, when you want to tell your girlfriend that you travel and everything looks nice, would she be more hap...