Open Source + Cloud

Open source is a means that helps “promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details.” There are many advantages of open source such as, “Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities.”
The open-source also helps “differing approaches in production.” In other words, the open source model is a way to centralization in production and the way products are produces. “Peer production” is the major factor leading to usage of the open-source strategy because developers and producers would get the chance to enhance products they want to work on by getting the documentations with no cost. As it is explained online, “In general, this suggests that the original work involves a great deal of time, money, and effort. However, the cost of reproducing the work is very low, so that additional users may be added at zero or near zero cost — this is referred to as the marginal cost of a product. At this point, it is necessary to consider a copyright.”
“Simply put, cloud computing is a set of pooled computing resources delivered over the Internet. The cloud delivers a hosting environment that doesn't limit an application to a specific set of resources. Depending on the platform, an application can scale dynamically and increase its share of resources on-the-fly.”
“Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network.” There are many advantages of open cloud computing including:
- “ Improve interoperability
- Lower adoption costs for technology
- Increase development consistency and predictability.”



Used Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/is-an-open-source-cloud-smackdown-coming-013260.php

"Social Networks Go to Work"

The article, Social Networks Go to Work, briefly notifies us about the importance of social networking in business and how it affects business in a variety of ways. Using “Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube”, the article explains that there are a high number of employees, businessmen, and organizations go into the market.
The most visited sites for personal reasons are “LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Digg”, the article states. The business people use these social networks for arranging meetings, meeting and knowing about colleagues, and doing research.
Yet, malware is a highly-risky security issue using social networks. It is so broad on twitter and expands itself to other social networks. To solve this problem, as the article claims, “companies [must] have corporate policies for network monitoring.” To solve this, many managers have applied a “unified communications suite.” Indeed, “FaceTime Communications” provides tools to such problems.
lvinpress.com, the most trusted independent Kurdish news agency and indeed the most popular, uses social networking for their business. Using Facebook, lvinpress.com, expands its news on the web in a blink of an eye. I see its articles on social networks a hundred times per night, from peoples and other news agencies to pages. These people highly rely on lvinpress.com to get their most-up-to-date news and events published. Lvinpress.com managers expanded their activity on Facebook, and, through this, they advertise for their high quality printed-magazines, Lvin, Lvin Buniyad, and Lvin Science. Of course, that is why their printed-work sales, compare to other printed newspapers and magazines in Iraqi Kurdistan, is very high and they can easily drive the political parties and their leaders up the wall. They simply try to be the most-read news agency on the web as well on paper backed with a huge support of advertising the agency performs for other companies and businesses. I assume that it is a unique example for a perfect usage of social networking.

American Youths Compare to Iraqis

In a survey, as a journalist, Judy Woodruff talked to young people aged between 16 to 25 years old Americans. She is trying to understand about how the young generation thinks in the U.S. Growing in an age with no Cold War yet marked with terrorism, the young Americans see the world much different compare to previous generations and they have much wider information toward the world. Seeing the world, the younger generation is utterly different in terms of having more information about the world and what is going on around the world generally. Politics, war, and economical changes were discussed too. However, race is given a broader attention since, given specific data, the documentary mentions the U.S. as a multi ethnic consisting Hispanic, African, Latinos, and Asian. There are two young girls brought to the studio to discuss race-related matters. And, as they unveil the truth about how they first met and how they behave each another, we can clearly understand that race, unlike the past, is no longer a matter in the U.S.
- Well, comparing the Iraqi youths with those who interviewed in the documentary is a fatal mistake since race, ethnicity, religion and many other obstacles have covered the sight of Iraqi youths! I cannot see any similarities in between since race and ethnicity matter in creating new relationships have reached the peak. Yet, it terms of learning, Iraqis are, too, interested in learn and expand their horizon.
- The differences are clear. No using technology compare to American youths, Iraqis are totally different. Ability in creating new relationships is also another problem because Iraqi youths are not capable in such a thing that easy as American youths are.
- Well, technological instruments can be the major product helping Iraqi youths to be more productive. All the kinds of banking system, cell phone system, credit card system, and the Internet access can be really helpful services helping them be better citizens. We, as Iraqi youths, are far far behind to be a competitive market force down the line. Yet, having Western-like educational institutions, AUIS, for example, can be a leading factor helping us to understand the world to a better scale.