Social Networking Explained The Low Tech Tutorial Way.
“This video is for people who wonder why social networking sites are so popular. One reason is because they help to solve a real world problem. www.commoncraft.com/show ”
I just came across this video as I was browsing aroung You Tube. It’s a rather fun and simple “animated” screen shots of a mystery. Yes, Social Networking is still a great mystery to many. Thanks to these guys I hope this helps. But this is a simple, to the point tutorial.Thanks guys.
Just a little heads up to the biggest sporting event in human history- the olympics. This is the largest sporting community on Earth and Beijing has made the largest Olympic Village ever.
There’s another thing unique about it – it is designed to be environmentally friendly and designed to house sixteen thousand atheletes and officials.
All of those apartments will then be renovated and sold off as condominiums to the public. Considering the realtive wealth of the Chinese population in Beijing they’ll likely be snapped up in no time.
Thus far, I have been writing about online communities and their community builder. The last post about an unknown Amazon tribe really got me to thinking about other tribes, and why people are such social creatures. We need to belong for a common cause. It may be for safety, for defense or for offence. It is a strong part of our strategic make up of survival. This is not survival of the fittest, but the survival that the strength of a group provides. One persons inability is made up for by anothers strength. But then, depending on circumstance, the role can easily be reversed.
Here’s John King speaking about cultures (tribes) versus business strategies.
So, being in a social group is tribal and being tribal is a cultural force. Don’t you just love John King’s statement that culture eats strategy for breakfast any day – on the study of why 70% of all business strategies fail. But some people have a contention that up to 90% of all business strategies fail!
But I’m just being picky we know what works best – Culture – Tribes – Communities.
On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 195 kilometers, or 122 miles, and at a relative speed of 34,540 kilometers per hour, or more than 22,000 mph. In contrast to optical cameras, radar does not 'see' surfaces. Instead, it is much more aware of the edges and corners which bounce back the microwave signal it transmits. Smooth surfaces such as those on the station's solar generators or the radiator panels used to dissipate excess heat, unless directly facing the radar antenna, tend to deflect rather than reflect the radar beam, causing these features to appear on the radar image as dark areas. The radar image of the station therefore looks like a dense collection of bright spots from which the outlines of the space station can be clearly identified. The central element on the station, to which all the modules are docked, has a grid structure that presents a multiplicity of reflecting surfaces to the radar beam, making it readily identifiable. This image has a resolution of about one meter (about 39 inches). In other words, objects can be depicted as discrete units--that is, shown separately--provided that they are at least one meter apart. If they are closer together than that, they tend to merge into a single block on a radar image. Since this image was taken, the station has expanded and is more than 90 percent complete, including a full complement of solar arrays. Image Credit: DLR Read More
