Week 12

The lesson on tuesday about cloud computing taught by Dr. Wilkes made alot of sense with the example of his bee web site. It is mind blowing how much technology has changed the way services can be provided in the even the last decade. The video of the bee swarm the Dr. Wilkes made was wild. I don't care how much you pay me, I would never be willing to get in the middle of that swarm yet his kids were frolicking around fearlessly. I guess they're used to it.

Week 11

The crowdsourcing activities we did this week were fascinating. It is crazy to think that we were helping building the information on the internet just by playing mindless little games. The guy from Duke seemed full of great ideas. Who would have thought that you could learn a language for free while translating web pages from english to another language? I feel like I really understandthe concept of crowdsourcing now that we have discussed it thoroughly.

Week 10

This week we heard from Dr. Wilkes' friend who had his own internet marketing company. It doesn't surprise me that he is doing as well as he is, as so many people use the internet to browse goods and services. The importance of advertising for online companies is extreme because of the number of competitors out there. If a company shows up a couple pages down on a google search, they lose business to companies on the first page.