Posted by 2courtneyb on November 15, 2009 at 6:28pm
Today in CWI we continued watching the video. Tomorrow is our Asia map test. Bruns is starting from the middle of the alphabet and going from there for who will go first. At the end of today he said we might be able to start with volunteers that want to get the test over with.6. What was the importance of Netscape going public on 8-9-95?This was a huge flattener. Huge breakthrough from Netscape that brought the internet alive. Netscape triggered the .com boom. This was the browser everyone used in 1995. Netscape brought the internet alive. Before 1995 the internet was not available to everyone. Netscape made sure the internet was available to everyone. They didn’t want a big company to take it over. Netscape was a huge historic event.7. What is outsourcing/offshoring and why are many Americans opposed to it?Outsourcing is is built around Y2K. Offshoring is when China joins the Wind Trade Organization8. Give two examples of “open-sourcing”.New form of collaboration and innovation – people collaborating on the same thing to undercut another.9. What does Friedman mean by “informing”?It’s his name for goggle and search.10. What are the “steroids” according to Friedman?They are wireless voice over the internet and file sharing.
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