Melanie Ferreira
Assignment OIS
Opening case: Pinterest
1. Knowledge: Do you consider Pinterest a form of disruptive or sustaining technology?
Disruptive technology is a new way of doing something that initially does not meet the needs of existing customers. This type of technology tends to open new markets and destroy old ones. While, a sustaining technology produces an improved product that customers are eager to buy. This technology provides better, faster and cheaper products on established markets.
I think that Pinterest is a sustaining technology. Indeed, it’s a social network like Facebook or twitter but the system it’s not the same so this website improved the market of the social media.
2. Comprehension:
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All the users can really interact with others, the can talk bout a brand or a product.
The revenue model is based on advertising fees that generate revenue to the company. Pinterest uses images directly linked to the retailers website and uses banner ads too. Pinterest allows retailers to put adds on the website in exchange of money.
4. Analysis: What is open source software and how could Pinterest take advantage of it?
Open source software is software with a source code available free. That’s means that any third party doesn’t have to pay fees to review or modify it. The Web 2.0 counts on that. Users don’t have to pay fees to enter on the website. They can visually communicate without paying anything. Pinterest take advantage of it because people want to share and communicate about their passion, interest of favorite brands. But people will to do that is they had to pay for it. So Pinterest give to them a platform to express them. They are able to drive traffic because it’s free and open source.
5. Synthesis: Create a plan for how a start-up company could take advantage of Web 3.0 and generate the idea for the next great website that is similar to Pinterest.
The web 3.0 is the future generation of the web, the Internet more “intelligent”. The future computer will can understand and analyze relationship. Plus, they will be able to analyze a request like “I want to go to the theater and go after eat
(2) Reliability: since the open source is distributed peer review software and often developed through collaborative that makes it to be more reliability. Also, there are many open source software that have proven to be both reliable and potent over Internet such as DNS, Apache and languages such as HTML and Perl. (3) Good business: open source software gets closest to what the user need because of competition between vendors to involved to make better capability and quality each time to meet the user needs. Thus, that would also help to drive a high return investment for investors on another economic
I could not agree with you more about Pinterest meeting a community where it is and knowing and fulfilling its needs through the wisdom of the crowd. Pinterest is an excellent choice for an elegant organization. Pinterest provided an organizational process or structure that did an excellent job of meeting a community where it is and knowing and fulfilling its needs through the wisdom of the crowd. A personal example I can think of would be when my organization was planning a retirement reception for our president of the community college. It was “beach themed” and very detailed. Pinterest was an excellent source to have while planning such a beautiful beach theme reception. Each department was a part of helping put together this
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If reinvestment in the other platforms is deemed necessary, we may consider allocating from the Pinterest reserve ($1000)
Pinterest announced on Wednesday that it will begin transforming its working environment to become more diverse in terms of gender and race. They plan to begin this by hiring more women and professionals of different cultural and racial backgrounds. Pinterest has been valued at around $11 billion.
The La-Z-Boy Hammary division which launched a campaign contest in 2012 using Pinterest was considered a success. Social media was used to increase consumer and retailer participation by offering $2,00 worth of furniture to a winner that had the most “pins and re-pins” on Pinterest, the
In the textbook Practical Arguments, there are a series of essays over whether or not Wikipedia is an open source website, one of which is: “Anonymous Source is Not the Same as Open Source,” by Randall Stross. This essay discusses how, in its current state, Wikipedia is not an open source website, due to the fact that it does not have a specific supervisor to inspect all the information on the site. Instead, Wikipedia gets its content from thousands of individual, usually anonymous, sources that, together, make up the vast encyclopedia that is Wikipedia. In the essay’s entirety, Wikipedia is debunked as being an open source website, however, Stross does explain how this form of Wikipedia is just a beta test and may soon develop itself into an open source website. Through the use of logos, ethos, and pathos, Stross captures the reader’s attention and thoroughly backs his reasoning of why Wikipedia is not an open source website.
Software has become an integral part of our society. The economic success of our country depends on the success of the software industry. ``Open source ' ' software, software which users are allowed to modify and redistribute, is a very important part of the software industry
In this day and age , it is mainly teenagers and young adults that opt for this personalized approach. Pinterest also have a high amount of teenage and young adult users, but they also possess a larger range of mature people. Pinterest is able to offer more of a variety in their categories with things such as cooking, crafting and gardening. Pinterest doesnt have a larger audience then Tumblr, but it does have a more diverse one as it is easily accessible and not as complicated or personalized as Tumblr. As Pinterest is not as personalized it also attracts more diverse users as it shares no personal information except for a name, while on Tumblr you have the option to share much more information about yourself. Even though they have such a different audience they still possess the same purpose within the
As a whole Pinterest is a sustainable technology. It allows people to draw connections between information when people place pins, and resulting pins create a pool of information. People can post personal pictures and info allowing complete strangers to interact on the web over common ideas. The share ideas break down barriers that in the past would have blocked the connection. while the Pinterest is a powerful piece of technology it is not without its faults, the site has put its users in danger of litigation from copyright infringement where the users have posted photos from protected sites. Most information of value is posted with securities to ensure that sites retain the users and monetary value of access but, Pinterest has taken users with its user-friendly interface. In the end viewers don’t care where the info comes from and that mentality will cause rivalries between the sites to emerge and ultimately the users will suffer. With all its fault Pinterest is still a sustainable technology, and as time passes the users will demanded that they keep the access that they have become accustomed to. The initial barriers of copyrights will become less and less powerful as people gain more and more access because the courts will not have the time to decide the outcomes of these cases with thousands upon thousands being places every second.
such as web 2.0 sites[20], the growing number of internet users, as well as the
WEB 2.0 is a world wide web platform on which a user can access to applications such as blogs, social networking sites.
Microsoft is at the most critical cross-roads of their history today The long-standing leadership they had in operating systems has been successfully challenged with open source client-based and server operating systems including Linux and other distributions. Open source is now the single biggest strategic threat to Microsoft's multibillion-dollar revenue stream (Microsoft Investor Relations, 2012). Secondary threats are emanating from the growing dominance of social media and the exploding growth of Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and other social networks that are challenging their position in collaboration software (Bernoff, Li, 2008). Their recent acquisition of Yammer for over $1B has also given the company a much-needed improvement in collaboration and social media software development (Microsoft Investor Relations, 2012). These aspects of operating system software, collaboration and social media software are showing stable growth and a scalable platform for future growth.
The Web 2.0 not only allow user to retrieve information from the web pages or the Internet it also allows to create a user account or a profile on a site and which will help in increased participation on the website. Web 2.0 or “the Social Web” was an effort to provide and enable individuals from all around the world to participate in content creation and sharing, and to
First and foremost, one of the most notable breakthrough of the Web 2.0 is the improvement in search engines including Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Tim O’ Reiley convincingly stated about the new experiences that Google brought into our life in his article “Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models” rather than providing information though selling an owner product of the older company like Netscape, in the Web 1.0. “Google, by contrast, began its life as a native Web application, never sold or packaged, but delivered as a service, with customers paying, directly or indirectly, for the use of that service. None of the trappings of the old software industry are present.