Does Your Web Site Give You Flexibility, Control and Freedom?

Does Your Web Site Give You Flexibility, Control and Freedom?
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Flexibility, control and freedom are three of the biggest business needs for web sites, yet, so many senior managers do not know how to achieve this unless they design their own web site with the expertise of their own web development team. If your organisation is not in a position to hire it’s own design team then be sure know what to ask for to obtain the flexibility to have your web site reflect the feel of your business, to have control over who develops the site and implements updates, upgrades and other changes for you as well as the freedom to adapt your web site’s capability to meet your business’ developing use of technology.

When you look at your list of developers there are some important questions to ask about the production of web sites and the contractual agreements that are associated with them. Perhaps, today, the most important question to ask is how much of their work is based around open source technologies and who retains ownership over any works that are not based on open source technologies.

Open Source is a term used in the Information Technology industry to describe products or ‘code’ that has been licensed in a manner that allows the free use, modification and, usually, also permits re-release under the same license conditions (though this is not obligatory). One of the most thorough Open Source licenses is the Gnu Public License or GPL. Many very well known web development products are licensed …

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The Facebook Experience When You’re Going Through MySpace

Life throws new exciting technology at a person everyday. Some of this technology can cost up to 100`s of dollars and some of it is free. There are two technology trends that have hit our youth and even some of our adults with a growing trend that caught on and may never be stopped.

It is called social networking. There are many types of the main two that have caught on and are more popular is Facebook and MySpace Some people will even tell you that if you do not have one or the other you are nobody. It is considered to be that serious for some.

These networks provide a life line between family and friends in that you are chatting for free with no sign-up fees or monthly expenses. It is a way to keep in touch with all the people you love near and far and especially internationally. It is a way for people to chat, post pictures, find past friends and even use web cams. There are even virtual communities that can be joined just for fun.

Facebook is privately owned by Facebook, Inc. It was founded in Cambridge Massachusetts by Mark Zuckerberg along with Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while being students at Harvard University where it grew into an enormous social website. It started out at as a chatting for free site for only Harvard University students. As of 2008 it had revenue of 300 million with a total of …

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