Computer Technology Blog: April 2007

Microblogging & The Facebook

Admin April 12, 2007 Add Comment

Microblogging & The Facebook

Microblogging presence in Indonesia is still new. Use of this site is not as famous as Facebook. However, if your site Twitter or Plurk will not compete with Facebook? Blogging Network explains that there are fundamental differences between Microblogging with Facebook. "Microblogging” are closed. That is, the network created between the user microblogging narrower than Facebook.

If a community becomes too large, the discussion not focused. Relationships that focus can be created because of the similarity in user interest in a matter of microblogging. On development, Twitter does not just write into the event status, but is also used to distribute links to the sites that are considered interesting. In addition, the term is known as Twitter or follows the people. We follow someone because the person is interested in.. There is value here.

Different case if we use Facebook. With this site we can get a friend as much as possible from anywhere. However, we have become a friend on Facebook, we will not be actively in touch with the people of that. In the end we are only dealing with people who are already known or that and only that.

So, who the winner? It all depends on your needs. If you have ambition to get as many friends, Facebook is the right choice. However, if you find a network that

communication and better quality, Micro Blogger is a solution.

Facebook

Community is very general, too many features. Usually used to that and only that. We sent an application that is often not important in Facebook. Despite our many friends in Facebook, the most frequently associated with our certain people.

Microblogging

Recommended that focus only on a short status update. Network of focus, a few members but the quality of communication that occurred. On the growth of Twitter becomes a means to share a link to the site. The proximity of the same interest and against an issue. Chatting going on in Twitter the withdrawal occurs on a forum. In its development, Microblogging is a communication tool that may replace SMS.

Ubuntu Will NOT Be Next

Admin April 01, 2007 Add Comment

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Ubuntu Will NOT Be Next

Xandros and Linspire recently followed Novell and drank the Koolaid. Possibly because those two are known for ease of use (like Ubuntu), possibly because Ubuntu is popular, there have been whispers that Ubuntu is next. Ubuntu is not next. The SABDFL has decided to clear up the rumours. Canonical is not talking to Microsoft about patent deals, except to say "no." Mark makes it clear that as long as Microsoft cannot substantiate any claims, there will be no negotiations. I suppose this means that if Microsoft were to tell us all what they want to have fixed, he'd be willing to work on clearing up the violations or, as I would like to see happen, work on stripping Microsoft of those patents (the stupid, obvious ones).

He goes on to say that he would like (as, I think, many of us would like) to see Microsoft's talk of interoperability become a reality. He suggests a few things, the gist of which involve Microsoft learning to conform to standards instead of making up their own. Not to burst his bubble, but the W3C has been trying that for years. Opera is still the most standards-compliant browser (despite lacking Microsoft's extensive resources), and Internet Explorer is still the least standards-compliant browser. They may have made an attempt to get closer to standards with IE7, but really, the thousands of programmers they have couldn't do it? The millions of dollars Microsoft has couldn't hire programmers who could do it? No, much more likely is that Microsoft considers standards-compliance to be very very low-priority. Vendor lock-in by making as many things proprietary as possible is a very high priority to them. Thats seems hard to achieve on a browser at first glance, but when you consider all of the sites which use broken code to display correctly on IE and end up breaking on Firefox, there end up being a lot of people who won't switch to good browsers because their favorite website uses bad code and "doesn't work" on standards-compliant browsers. Similarly, the harder they make it for OOo to open Microsoft Office documents, the harder it becomes for people to use OOo (unless everyone they know uses it too), and then the more copies of Microsoft Office they can sell.