SPECIAL: Links for Supervisor Meeting 4/17/2007

* Google on your phone: Did you know you could send a text message from your cellphone to 46645 (GOOGL) and receive weather, driving directions, movie times, local restaurants, dictionary, trivia answers, etc. See http://www.google.com/sms

* “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

* So what is Web 2.0? Think web applications that get better the more they are used. Tim O’Reilly originally coined the term in 2004: “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2

* Did you know 59% of all public web servers run open source software? See http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

* Picture: 5MB Hard Disk in 1956 http://www.popular-pics.com/pictures.aspx?photoid=422


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