Yahoo Pipes 1

I used Yahoo Pipes to get a feed from the ESPN website for headlines. I then attached a filter to it so that all article containing the words 'giants' or ' patriots'. Its published for everyone to use and just block out the Super Bowl media overload, link is below and enjoy.

Yahoo Pipe for ESPN Super Bowl Blackout

The Big Switch

There are five Talking points that Nicholas Carr is going over in his presentation on Cloud Computing

1.Henry Burdens Water wheel

2.Main Frame

3.20% utilization  

4.Google Data Center 

5. The low cost of computing is creating a boom for virtualization

1. Cloud computing is increasing at a rapid pace just as the manufacturing industry did, that means having to create your own reliable source of power to keep your service going 24/7
2. Mainframe computing was not usable by most of management and most  workers within a company, it was centralized in a location
3. Today's privately owned and used data centers by big corporations are only being using 20% of its capacity
4. Cloud computing is a new resource for business and as such is going to a huge boom of computing center construction, Google is building centers that are sustainable by them-self with their own power source 
5. With the low cost of computing today companies are able to virtualize just about anything that they 

Internet vs. Telegraph

Similarities

1.     Both allow for long range communication in a matter of moments in what could takes days if one were to travel by foot or try to communicate by mail.

2.     They both have their messages encoded for transmission and both have to have their messages decoded upon reception. The electric telegraph has the Morse code and the internet has binary code

3.     Both have  fostered transcontinental trade and helped make the world a smaller place in terms of communication

Differences

1.     The internet allows for point-to-many communication, this means that one person is able to reach multiple people in a transmission. The electric telegraph is a point-to-point form of telecommunication; this means that it is communication from one telegraph to another telegraph.

2.     The internet allows for users to communicate in more than one form of transmission. With the internet you can use audio, video, and text to send your message out. It also allows people to access that information at any point in time.

3.     The internet is also a storage medium for information where as the telegraph is just a transmission tool to send out information, once it was sent out it was up to both parties to keep a log the transmissions and there was no way of being able to check and see if the transmissions took place until a reply was received.

Interesting Fact about the Electric Telegraph

•  In the 1866 Western Union bought the last two competitors in the industry to become the first business monopoly in the United States.