Ask a Singaporean cow: January 2009

Saturday, January 31, 2009

2000 friends on FB/Friendster < 2 good friends

The negative connotations of the title don't do any justice to all those networking sites just lurking around in the Net. Still they deserve special mention on this blog.

1. MySpace 2. Friendster 3. Facebook

There are a great deal of social news sites on the internet, sometimes too many. Most of them are dormant and are no longer active, largely because they were poorly marketed and hence, never had an active community of users in the first place.

For instance, this webpage has a list of over 380 social news sites. Most of them are a waste of your time: they are riddled with spam or are so ill-promoted that they’ll never attract a critical mass of viewers or social news participants.

You don’t have a lot of time on your hands. You want a community that gives you fresh news on topics you care about. You want something that sends prospects and traffic while branding your website or business. You want a social news site with a long term returns on investment.

Personally I'd rather stick to just FB.

Yes, 2 real life great friends beat 200000000 "friends" on FB.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Web browsers, Web pages, Web sites, Web Everything...

To the everyday person, a web browser is the furthest that they are exposed to.

To others, a web browser is like simplified chinese, nowhere near the extent of difficulty and jargon they are familiar with.

To me, the web browser is a crucial part of my life. Without it, i would not be able to search for information i need, understand the otherwise absurdly foreign language or even translate anything.

Domain Names and the transition from IP numbers to text form addresses sure help simplify everything.

Uses of Internet.

Brief Summary of what the Internet is all about.

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite(TCP/IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies.

The Internet carries various information resources and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and the inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW).

Inter - Intra net.

1. Internet = Public

Intranet = Private.

2. Internet > Intranet.

Taken off another blog which gives greater in-depth to the difference,

http://sharepointthegreat.blogspot.com/2009/01/internet-site-vs-intranet-site.html

What is the difference between an Internet and an intranet site?

An intranet (or internal network), though hosted on a Web site, can only be accessed by people who are members of a specific network. They need to have a login and password that was assigned to them when they were added to the site by the site administrator. The intranet is commonly used as an internal tool for giving employees access to company information. Content is driven by business relevance, business rules and has increasingly become a common tool in larger organizations. An intranet is becoming more and more the preferred method for employees to interact with each other and the central departments in an organization, whether or not the organization has a Web presence.

An internet site is a normal site that anyone on the internet can access (e.g., www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, etc.). You can set up a site for your company that can be accessed by anyone without any user name and password. The internet is used for public presence and a primary marketing tool managed typically by web programmers and a system administrator.