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Int’l Standard Serial No. - ISSN: 1523-3537 2009-No. 17
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The next disruptive technology?
Wikipedia is not always 100%
right but it gets disruptive
technology pretty well
defining it: "A
disruptive technology
or disruptive innovation
is an innovation that
improves a product or service in
ways that the market does not
expect, typically by being lower
priced or designed for a
different set of consumers."
May of us are familiar with
disruptive technologies like:
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Mini-computers which replaced expensive mainframe computers in the 1970's and early 80's only to be 'disruptively replaced' themselves by cheaper microcomputers (PCs and Macs) in the mid 80's.
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Micro computing which also touched off waves of new disruptions for folks who used typewriters, engaged in traditional publishing, required offset printing, used cash registers in stores, and were involved in film-based photography, just to make a few!
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Television and then the Internet which changed our ideas about how to see movies, broadcast a message, conduct a political campaign, and recently even to share the horror of a country in revolution.
With that perspective we believe the Internet is more-and-more becoming a primary tool to devise and launch new disruptions! A ZDNet article "The Internet devalues everything it touches " (6-20-2009) points the way in suggesting that the Internet is fast becoming the preferred source of processing power for a wide variety of content and applications that are cheaper and more accessible. Consider music, movies, newspapers, advertising, and much much more...
In a recent 'Only with the Internet' story a far-flung group of experts are about to win $1MM after having developed a new algorithm for picking movies of interest to NetFlix members. Their solution improves on the current system by 10%. Their collaboration demonstrates the disruptive force of the Internet by enabling 'Prize Economics' as a practical alternative to 'in-house' research and development. (See the New York Times 6-27-09)
As the economy recovers we
encourage you to look forward
with us to the disruptions ahead
that are actually a 'common
feature' of human
history (Click
è
'Bronze
Age' for a historical update
J
). The Internet is certain
to be fertile ground for many of
them!
Links to aid / avoid your own disruptions...
- PREVENT
DISRUPTIONS... - Mozy is online
BackUp software that we
featured just
last
month, and that many of
our clients use. Best of all
users get up
to 2GB of BackUp FREE, or an
unlimited amount for a few dollars a
month. If you're home PC is
NOT YET backed-up we recommend you
STOP what
you're doing RIGHT NOW,
download and install Mozy backup,
(click è
here).
(You'll actually
get 2.3 GB of space by using this
2SS.Com 'referral link' and in the
future you'll be able to get more
space by referring others as well.)
- NO DISRUPTION! -
Internet Explorer
8.0?
We say YES! The move from IE 6
to IE 7 was a BIG one, but we've
tested IE 8 'OK' and found only a
modest changes. If you've been
holding back from upgrading we
encourage you to proceed. Or
let us know and we can assist you
online or on-site. (You can
get IE 8.0 via 'Windows Update'
or by clicking
è
here).
- GOOD DISRUPTION?
- Google has announced a potentially
important feature for it's annual
$50
subscription
to
Google Apps. It's the
ability of 'Google
Apps Sync' (ç
Click for more info.) to keep
the Outlook file on your PC
synchronized with Google's
applications for E-mail (e.g. GMail),
Calendar and Contacts.
Reviewers suggest that it still
needs some work, but the use of
Google Apps instead of the much more
expensive Microsoft Exchange
disruption is here and coming fast!
- AVOID MINOR
DISRUPTIONS - At 2SS.Com we are
users of a simple program called
RoboForm that's very
popular. It simply runs on
your PC to remember and apply
passwords and complete forms any
time you encounter them so the minor
disruptions they pose to your real
objective are minimized. You
can try RoboForm free for 30 days
with limited functionality
thereafter (Click
è
here), but it's well worth the
$29.95 registration fee (click
è
here) if you spend much time
logging on and filling in!
- NO FILE
DISRUPTION? - We encourage our
clients to routinely defragment
their PCs and many use the the
tool built into Windows XP at [Start]
è [Programs]
è [Accessories]
è [System
Tools] è
[Disk Defragmenter].
Some use the 'Speed Disk'
tool included in SystemWorks.
But to schedule automatically and
then forget defragmentation the best
software is
DisKeeper. Clients that have
standardized on it and rarely need
to attend to defragmentation.
Pricing is a concern, with a new
copy of the 2009 version over $100,
but we have addressed this by
acquiring older versions (e.g. 9
and 10) for about $35 via eBay
and we recommend this as a
cost-effective way to spend no time
and have 'NO FILE DISRUPTION'
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