Monday, March 12, 2012

Poll Analysis 4


Who does not use social network nowadays right? everyone does use them at least heard about them but how many of them are really sure this Social Networking sites is truly safe in the first, are they aware of the consequence of using them. Some would ask what happen to all the pictures that I deleted from Facebook or deactivate their account, what really happen to the info's and are they aware of the treats they can face in the world of social networks. In order to get the information on what the readers of this blog thinks about this particular topic.

A total of 8 people took part in this survey and 5 people thinks that Social Networking is not safe in the first place and they are taking the right measures to ensure their safety, some don't really give their real information and some don't even add random people. A total 3 people is kind of clueless with this whole topic being brought up, as they believe that people who made this social networks must have created certain ways to ensure their safety as user and they don't even care is it safe or not they just want to use it as well blend in with the norms.  

Founder of Friendster



Have you ever know who is the founder of Friendster? Here are some information about the founder-Jonathan Abrams. He was born in a frozen land north of America, and began his career as a software engineer at companies such as Netscape and Nortel. Jonathan holds an Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science from McMaster University, which he received after flunking out of engineering school.


Saturday, March 10, 2012

The tale of twitter begins in 1984

And so begins an interesting account in Vanity Fair of Jack Dorsey , the co-founder of Twitter, and writer of the first-ever tweet. Jack Dorsey born November 19, 1976  is an American software architect and businessman widely known as the creator of Twitter and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. In 2008, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

Friday, March 9, 2012

All Hail Mark Zuckerberg



Born on May 14, 1984 , in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg the co-founded of networking site Facebook, was born into a comfortable and well-educated family. His father, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice attached to the family's home. His mother, Karen, worked worked as a psychiatrist before the birth of the couple's four children, which are Mark, Randi, Donna, and Arielle.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Analysis

In the previous week, we reviewed a few individuals who are influential in terms of the internet. Famous people of internet and a review of their lives is one of our objectives of our blog. Raja Petra Kamarudin was one of the famous people of internet whose profile we reviewed. He is a famous blogger in Malaysia who has gained quite a reputation with the political establishment in Malaysia. Quite famous a blogger he is, very controversial, a frequent visitor of courts of law and jail. Despite all that, he has gone through, he is still doing what he does best and that is blogging. He has a number of followers on the internet and this has made him one of Malaysia’s top bloggers. Next was a short profiling of Robert Cialliau who collaborated with Tim Berners Lee in terms of creating the World Wide Web. We also profiled Robert Tappan Morris one of the founders of computer virus or worms. Our poll question is about whether Apple will be able to keep its grip on the market after the death of Steve Jobs.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Malaysia's famous Blogger Raja Petra

Controversial from the word go, loved and hated in equal measure-Raja Petra is one of Malaysia’s top high profile bloggers. His full name is Raja Petra Kamarudin and he is a Malaysian blogger and chairman of Malaysian Civil Liberties movement and a political activist.

According to Pinah.com, Raja Petra was born in the year 1950 and got his education at Alice Smith school and Malay college Kuala Kangsar and finally at Victoria institution. It is said that at the age of 23, he married his 18year old Marina Lee Binti Abdullah in the year 1973 on the 14th of the month April. She is a book publisher and they are blessed with five children.

Friday, March 2, 2012

The story of Robert Cailliau

In creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners Lee collaborated with Robert Cailliau. His fascination for computers started in 1970 during a CERN project that he was part of in University.

Robert Cialliau was born on the 26th of January the year 1947 in a town called Tongeren in Belgium. He is a graduate of civil engineering with a specialty in electrical and mechanical engineering from Ghent University. He graduated in the year 1969.In the year 1971, he got an MSc in computer, information and control engineering from the University of Michigan.