Note: This case study was completed for assessment item 3, INB347 Semester 1, 2011. WordPress.com is a hosted blogging platform based on the open source WordPress system. It is designed to allow users to sign up and create their own blog. Users can choose from a completely free version, or pay for upgrades to add [...]
Overview WordPress.com is a hosted blogging platform based on the open source WordPress platform. It is designed to allow users to sign up and create their own blog. Users can choose from free or paid versions, with added functionality available on the paid platform, including the ability to use custom designs and to register and [...]
Overview Founded in 1999 (n.d.) SourceForge was one of the first hosted solutions providing a collaborative software development management system that incorporates version control through a web based interface. It is a fantastic example of a web application that makes use of the perpetual beta concept because of the irony behind it. SourceForge is a [...]
Overview Yahoo! Pipes is a composition tool that was released in February 2007 (n.d.) designed to aggregate, manipulate and mashup data from around the internet (n.d). In short, you can pull in all sorts of data using all sorts of inputs, both user input or from a web source. It then uses a patching style [...]
Guvera takes a different approach to providing music to consumers for free whilst also being legal. This is done by allowing advertisers to pay for the music instead of consumers. Overview Guvera matches brands to consumers and provides a brand oriented channel for the consumer to download or stream music through. The company behind the [...]
Stack Exchange is a network of question and answer websites on a range of topics. Currently there are 46 websites in the network ranging from programming to mechanical to gaming to cooking. Overview The concept behind Stack Exchange is that each website in the network is a combination or synthesis of a blog, a wiki, [...]
My parents have been having an issue with the internet at their place for a while now. I’ve just had a chance to look at it and it is quite suspicious. Randomly when a Google search was performed, when you clicked the links you would be redirected to sites that you were not expecting, primarily [...]
Something else I got this Christmas is an Apple Magic Mouse. This is the latest generation of mouse from Apple, and it is an absolutely fantastic device! Just turn on Bluetooth on my Mac, turn on the mouse, tell the Mac to find Bluetooth devices, it straight away detects the mouse and pairing is just [...]
I’m a Seventh Day Adventist, not a Jehovah’s Witness, Mormon or anything else, yet so many people don’t seem to know the difference. That’s fine, I’m happy to explain what I believe. It just frustrates me a bit when I’m having a conversation with someone and I get told something along the lines of “So [...]
Google Chrome, the most recent browser to join the fray. Is Chrome just a browser though? I have to say I don’t think so. The release of Chrome reinforces my views that Google are directly targeting the operating system and integrated applications market. Be warned that the below is entirely my thoughts and theories based [...]