Technology, Society and 2012
We are now two months in the year 2012, it is an election year and we have collective fought off PIPA and SOPA, in many ways there may be a feeling of we won the war. Not so fast we won the fight not the war or battle. We have to be on constant guard because it has not ended and they will not give up without a fight, a mother of a fight.
We are battling a group that wants to control everything in our society from the way we you think to who you love and marry, to what you can and cannot view across the Web. Having access to information is very important, it may mean the difference between making a good decision or a bad one, the bottom line is that it is important to understand what technology is what it can do for you, and how to use technology to your advantage.
This doesn’t mean you have to know technology down to the byte but, you have to understand how to use it so that you can get exactly what you want when you want it.
This blogger of technology has been away from her desk to observe, read, and listening to the national debate on advantage and use of technology, the attempt to severely limit the reach of technology and the change the is occurring right before our very eyes involving technology and society.
Have you ask yourselves the question, “How is technology affect me in my life?” Do you own an” iPhone”, an” iPad”, an “Android”? Do you use a “dropbox” an automatic backup system that places you information into the cloud? What type of camera do you use? Using a video camera? Are you a citizen journalist or looking to become? It doesn’t take much. How many of us use Twitter, Facebook, Tumbler, googleplus, do you text?
When the last time you attended classes and how did you register for them? It doesn’t matter if you were in a Community College of University. Who is tracking all of this information? Of those of you who are in school how many times did you have to go to YouTube to get a better understanding of the subject matter you were studying?
My point is that technology is all around us, maybe you knew that, interesting times.
This blog is in existence because I wanted to help you understand better the technology that is out there and being used by you the consumer. But it is also here to educate you on some of the pitfalls technology can cause as a result of using the technology.
Technology and security is not a new subject, but it is more important than before. If you do not own a computer with internet access where do you go to get it? How do I setup a wireless network and how do I secure it? What is the difference between 3G and 4G or what is VOIP? What about my privacy while on the web? How far can the government go when it comes to my privacy? What were SOPA and PIPA all about? How in the world can I start a business using technology?
Many questions can be asked and we will take the time to answer these questions in my upcoming blogs.
My sabbatical is over and it is time to get back to work.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Cloud Computing
Global Digital Works
Eye on Technology:
Have you ever been listening to the radio and, a commercial comes on talking about for a reasonable monthly fee, you can have an email account that will, they will take care of all email archiving, or they will take care of all file storage, and they take care your file server backup needs. In short we will take care of all of this for a fee.
Folks, this is cloud computing and, it is not just for the medium to large business. This is something that the small business should look into when attempting to cut cost and, as a business owner I believe we all look for ways to cut cost and grow the business. If you are a conscience business owner you are always looking for ways to cut cost. This includes the 1 or 2 person shop.
It is said that it will cut you IT cost.
This article will attempt to demystify what Cloud Computing.
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is defined as:
Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet, (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud computing)
Using servers hosted on the Internet for computational purposes. Cloud computing vendors build Internet accessible data centers and sell computing (wekti.com/glossary/.)
If you are downloading music, buying airline tickets online, participating in a social network, or using hosted e-mail, chances are you are one of more than one billion users already accessing IT Services. That’s Cloud computing!
Why is it important?
Integrating cloud computing into your business can help you:
• Be more responsive to customer needs
• Deploy new services quickly
• Capitalize on a new business model
• Expand or contract Business resources quickly and for less money
• Move your IT resources from a capital to an operating expense on a metered basis
After explaining this lets take this reality one more step. As of writing this article and, continuing my research, what is now a reality is making the desktop part of the cloud computing experience.
What does this mean to the Small business owner on a budget? Or the average user that has a home based business and on a budget?
It means that you can cut the cost of having a tech person on call or billing you for work that can be done for a monthly fee instead of an hourly fee.
It means you may not have to spend any time on your Network system making sure that critical information is backed up in a timely manner and in a safe place.
It means you have what the larger companies have at more than half the cost.
Done right Cloud computing can allow the small business security, virus protection, the backing up of mission critical data that will help the small entities conduct business and tap the new area that will bring in added dollars.
What does Cloud Computing include?
Email, Database Management, Network security, System Backup, Virus Protection, and the storing of Mission critical data created as a result of doing business.
Cloud computing done correctly will help your business grow to the point that you are no longer a small business, without the headaches of Information Technology issues that will occur.
Eye on Technology:
Have you ever been listening to the radio and, a commercial comes on talking about for a reasonable monthly fee, you can have an email account that will, they will take care of all email archiving, or they will take care of all file storage, and they take care your file server backup needs. In short we will take care of all of this for a fee.
Folks, this is cloud computing and, it is not just for the medium to large business. This is something that the small business should look into when attempting to cut cost and, as a business owner I believe we all look for ways to cut cost and grow the business. If you are a conscience business owner you are always looking for ways to cut cost. This includes the 1 or 2 person shop.
It is said that it will cut you IT cost.
This article will attempt to demystify what Cloud Computing.
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is defined as:
Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet, (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud computing)
Using servers hosted on the Internet for computational purposes. Cloud computing vendors build Internet accessible data centers and sell computing (wekti.com/glossary/.)
If you are downloading music, buying airline tickets online, participating in a social network, or using hosted e-mail, chances are you are one of more than one billion users already accessing IT Services. That’s Cloud computing!
Why is it important?
Integrating cloud computing into your business can help you:
• Be more responsive to customer needs
• Deploy new services quickly
• Capitalize on a new business model
• Expand or contract Business resources quickly and for less money
• Move your IT resources from a capital to an operating expense on a metered basis
After explaining this lets take this reality one more step. As of writing this article and, continuing my research, what is now a reality is making the desktop part of the cloud computing experience.
What does this mean to the Small business owner on a budget? Or the average user that has a home based business and on a budget?
It means that you can cut the cost of having a tech person on call or billing you for work that can be done for a monthly fee instead of an hourly fee.
It means you may not have to spend any time on your Network system making sure that critical information is backed up in a timely manner and in a safe place.
It means you have what the larger companies have at more than half the cost.
Done right Cloud computing can allow the small business security, virus protection, the backing up of mission critical data that will help the small entities conduct business and tap the new area that will bring in added dollars.
What does Cloud Computing include?
Email, Database Management, Network security, System Backup, Virus Protection, and the storing of Mission critical data created as a result of doing business.
Cloud computing done correctly will help your business grow to the point that you are no longer a small business, without the headaches of Information Technology issues that will occur.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Eye on Technology: Google Wave
Google Wave Technology
Have you ever felt as if technology is leaving you behind? That when you finally learn and understand something, you are frustrated by the fact that there is something else you have understand in order to move forward with the product you just learned to use? It is as if you will never complete the task of pushing the stone up the hill only to have it roll back down the hill.
I feel your pain.
If you are a business and have the budget for it, you have a Technology Consultant, or a Tech guy or women. If you are someone that is not a business person but, you are using technology enough to get done what you need to. Then, you probably have a friend that knows about this stuff and, you ask them the questions “How does this work?”, " Why is it not working?”Or “What can I do with this?” While it is nice to have someone around to answer these questions, they may not always be there and, like everyone else you need a resource to give you some direction or answers to your current technology dilemma.
This is the objective of this blog. To give you direction and that it be the resource you need and, can use.
As of now the internet has evolved into what is known as Web 2.0 One of the products I want to explore with you is something that I believe with change the Web and, how we interact with each other. This product is called Google Wave.
You might ask What the Heck is Google Wave? How will it affect me and, what I am doing?
These are good questions that we will attempt to answer.
Google Wave is a communication platform bringing together Chat, Instant Message, Forum, Wiki and, Email. Google Wave is a document (called the wave) that captures the conversation; it allows you to reply to the conversation, have private conversations between selected parties, invite others to the conversation. Those individuals that want to catch-up on what was said earlier will have the ability to find out through utilizing the obtaining the full history of that conversation. You will be able to communicate, share photos, videos and, formatted text. This platform will allow you to have live conversations.
This new platform will allow for conversations to happen in “Real Time”.
Google Wave interacts with Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla; if you are a web designer then you know what this means and how this technology may impact what you do and how you do it.
If this product works the way it is said to work, it will change things and, not just in the Technology world. From live collaboration to Natural language tools, to Social Gadgets, some of us will be in for a shock to the system.
Google is still a developers product but, September 30, 2009 Google Wave is available to a few invited individual much like Gmail in its infancy. The developer community and invited guest are testing this product as we speak
The Product Rollout to the General Public will happen sometime in 2010. Some and including this blogger say that this product maybe a change in the way things are done on the web.
There are six items within googlewave that lead me to believe that this product will change the web and how we communicate.
Wiki Style Function
GoogleWave allows you to change the message you may send to someone in this respect it works a lot like email but, you should be aware that you can also change the message of anyone within the wave (the current document); you can reorganize the conversation string and, reply to any part of the conversation string. This is called concurrent editing and, will allow individual within the conversation string to reply to, make changes to the same conversation much like you do if you were speaking face to face and, allow collaboration to happen much more easily because it is all in real time. Add video, and photos you have a real way to get things done. Whether is a planning of a birthday party to see who is coming, to working on research for a new product, to a possible live conversation with a political candidate? This changes things in a real way.
Wave Extensions
This Feature allows for 3rd parties to develop apps much like you see working with twitter or facebook. Also, if you involved in a project you will be able to utilize project management tools from within the Wave (Conversation). There are two types of extensions robots and gadgets, what I described earlier are calling a gadget. The robot is an automated smart conversation participant, which can detect keywords. They can respond to those keywords and bring in outside information from services like Friendfeed or Twitter. This feature will allow you to use Google wave as an All-in-one conversation tool.
Drag and drop file uploads
Documents can be quickly shared in the Google wave environment, simply by dragging the file from the desktop or file manager and dropping it in the conversation, photos are shown in an album format and music can be played. All these things are shared very quickly. Using this feature in a file sharing platform, with a project management tool or system. This will allow for the development of project management tool more powerful than anything on the market.
Wave Embeds
You able to place within a Website a Wave (conversation), to customize that site for many purposes. It will be easy to share conversations, and possibly chat rooms or how about changing the way you do customer service using this technology.
Playback
If you are added to the conversation late you are playing catch-up. This feature allows you to just do that Catch-up on what was said so that you can proceed to participate fully in the conversation. Someone can get caught up in a matter of minutes instead of hours, just playback the conversation.
Open source
This product is open sourced which means is this environment will foster innovation because developers will be able to, improve and make changes to code for quick adoption and develop a better product.
You may say this is all good but, if the public does like it because of too many bugs, problems, or causes too many major problems on the network, (enterprise or smaller) then, the product will be useless.
Is Google wave ready to be introduced to the world?
That is something we will all have to wait and see. I for one love the concept and will be watching and learning like everyone else.
I believe Google will be successful.
Please send all comments to GlobalDigiWorks@Gmail.com
Have you ever felt as if technology is leaving you behind? That when you finally learn and understand something, you are frustrated by the fact that there is something else you have understand in order to move forward with the product you just learned to use? It is as if you will never complete the task of pushing the stone up the hill only to have it roll back down the hill.
I feel your pain.
If you are a business and have the budget for it, you have a Technology Consultant, or a Tech guy or women. If you are someone that is not a business person but, you are using technology enough to get done what you need to. Then, you probably have a friend that knows about this stuff and, you ask them the questions “How does this work?”, " Why is it not working?”Or “What can I do with this?” While it is nice to have someone around to answer these questions, they may not always be there and, like everyone else you need a resource to give you some direction or answers to your current technology dilemma.
This is the objective of this blog. To give you direction and that it be the resource you need and, can use.
As of now the internet has evolved into what is known as Web 2.0 One of the products I want to explore with you is something that I believe with change the Web and, how we interact with each other. This product is called Google Wave.
You might ask What the Heck is Google Wave? How will it affect me and, what I am doing?
These are good questions that we will attempt to answer.
Google Wave is a communication platform bringing together Chat, Instant Message, Forum, Wiki and, Email. Google Wave is a document (called the wave) that captures the conversation; it allows you to reply to the conversation, have private conversations between selected parties, invite others to the conversation. Those individuals that want to catch-up on what was said earlier will have the ability to find out through utilizing the obtaining the full history of that conversation. You will be able to communicate, share photos, videos and, formatted text. This platform will allow you to have live conversations.
This new platform will allow for conversations to happen in “Real Time”.
Google Wave interacts with Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla; if you are a web designer then you know what this means and how this technology may impact what you do and how you do it.
If this product works the way it is said to work, it will change things and, not just in the Technology world. From live collaboration to Natural language tools, to Social Gadgets, some of us will be in for a shock to the system.
Google is still a developers product but, September 30, 2009 Google Wave is available to a few invited individual much like Gmail in its infancy. The developer community and invited guest are testing this product as we speak
The Product Rollout to the General Public will happen sometime in 2010. Some and including this blogger say that this product maybe a change in the way things are done on the web.
There are six items within googlewave that lead me to believe that this product will change the web and how we communicate.
Wiki Style Function
GoogleWave allows you to change the message you may send to someone in this respect it works a lot like email but, you should be aware that you can also change the message of anyone within the wave (the current document); you can reorganize the conversation string and, reply to any part of the conversation string. This is called concurrent editing and, will allow individual within the conversation string to reply to, make changes to the same conversation much like you do if you were speaking face to face and, allow collaboration to happen much more easily because it is all in real time. Add video, and photos you have a real way to get things done. Whether is a planning of a birthday party to see who is coming, to working on research for a new product, to a possible live conversation with a political candidate? This changes things in a real way.
Wave Extensions
This Feature allows for 3rd parties to develop apps much like you see working with twitter or facebook. Also, if you involved in a project you will be able to utilize project management tools from within the Wave (Conversation). There are two types of extensions robots and gadgets, what I described earlier are calling a gadget. The robot is an automated smart conversation participant, which can detect keywords. They can respond to those keywords and bring in outside information from services like Friendfeed or Twitter. This feature will allow you to use Google wave as an All-in-one conversation tool.
Drag and drop file uploads
Documents can be quickly shared in the Google wave environment, simply by dragging the file from the desktop or file manager and dropping it in the conversation, photos are shown in an album format and music can be played. All these things are shared very quickly. Using this feature in a file sharing platform, with a project management tool or system. This will allow for the development of project management tool more powerful than anything on the market.
Wave Embeds
You able to place within a Website a Wave (conversation), to customize that site for many purposes. It will be easy to share conversations, and possibly chat rooms or how about changing the way you do customer service using this technology.
Playback
If you are added to the conversation late you are playing catch-up. This feature allows you to just do that Catch-up on what was said so that you can proceed to participate fully in the conversation. Someone can get caught up in a matter of minutes instead of hours, just playback the conversation.
Open source
This product is open sourced which means is this environment will foster innovation because developers will be able to, improve and make changes to code for quick adoption and develop a better product.
You may say this is all good but, if the public does like it because of too many bugs, problems, or causes too many major problems on the network, (enterprise or smaller) then, the product will be useless.
Is Google wave ready to be introduced to the world?
That is something we will all have to wait and see. I for one love the concept and will be watching and learning like everyone else.
I believe Google will be successful.
Please send all comments to GlobalDigiWorks@Gmail.com
Thursday, September 10, 2009
The Digital World
Whether you are a Novice or professional, or somewhere in between this blog will talk about things that cover Hardware/ Software problems, Virus protection issues, Systems administration issues, Computer Networking, Backup/Storage issues, and Web site Security Issues.
If you are reading this blog, some of these issues have affected you and your day. Some are easy to fix and some cause you to eat your lunch and maybe dinner over them. Sometimes you dig and dig to find the answer to the problem. This blog is here to make it a little easier to find the answer to your Computer issue.
This Blog will attempt to address the questions that may come up in your attempts to fix a Computer, Website security or Computer networking problem that might cause you to hate life because, your system isn't working properly, I've been there. We will also take a look at the new and wonderful products comming out. Visit this Blog Weekly and let me know your questions or comment on the subject. Email me your comments to me at GlobalDigiWorks@gmail.com
We will be taking a close look at Google Wave which is due to come out on September 30, 2009. This particular product I believe will change how we interact with each other on the Web. and yes I do believe it will change how we blog as well.
I look foward to hearing from you.
If you are reading this blog, some of these issues have affected you and your day. Some are easy to fix and some cause you to eat your lunch and maybe dinner over them. Sometimes you dig and dig to find the answer to the problem. This blog is here to make it a little easier to find the answer to your Computer issue.
This Blog will attempt to address the questions that may come up in your attempts to fix a Computer, Website security or Computer networking problem that might cause you to hate life because, your system isn't working properly, I've been there. We will also take a look at the new and wonderful products comming out. Visit this Blog Weekly and let me know your questions or comment on the subject. Email me your comments to me at GlobalDigiWorks@gmail.com
We will be taking a close look at Google Wave which is due to come out on September 30, 2009. This particular product I believe will change how we interact with each other on the Web. and yes I do believe it will change how we blog as well.
I look foward to hearing from you.
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