The Dogs of War: Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft

All three of these companies are worth billion sof dollars and are without a doubt the biggest companies on the internet. Whats the most astonishing though is how fast Google how risen among the rank sof Apple and Microsoft which are both companies decades old. Google at the moment is the most important company on the web.
What's at stake? Nothing less than the future. Microsoft wants computing to continue to be tied to the desktop—three screens and a cloud, as Ballmer is fond of saying. For Apple, it's all about closed information appliances with lots of third-party apps, computers anybody can use. And for Google, all roads lead to the internet, and the internet is synonymous with Google.

Red Herrings

Red herring is a term used by business leaders to describe concerns that he or she has when implementing ESSP's like I described in my last post. These leaders usually have a consistsnet set of concerns about the negative things that could happen with this implementation. Two ceoncerns are: fears that people won't use the newly available ESSP's and the fear that they will. The latter eventually will trump the first and take precedence. The business leader asks questions like: What if employees use their internal blogs to post hate speech or pornography, or to harass a coworker? What if blogs are used to denigrate the company itself, air dirty laundry, or talk how misguided its leadership and strategy are?
If the information on these platforms really is valuable, won’t it be harvested by spies and sold to the highest bidder?
Don’t these technologies make it easier to leak secrets to the outside world?
What if unhappy customers use our community site to air grievances, and to talk loudly and often about our lousy products or Kafkaesque customer service?
What if a supplier uses our site to complain about how we never pay on time?
These are very common questions as to why ESSP's for most company's never get off the ground.

Emergent Social Software Platforms (ESSP)

Emergent Social Software Platforms are social sites like facebook, myspace, blogs, and discussion forums where people come to shares comments and ideas about many different things. Millions of people use these sites everyday. I am one of these people as I am writing this blog post right now. ESSP's can be great for business' to get in touch with it's customers. The company can use a discussion forum to talk about products or services that the company provides. The business will be able to gain valuable feedback on improvements or likes.

Neural-Network Technology Moves into the Mainstream

Just as I described in my previous post. The brain learns from experience, and that is the general goal of neural-network technology, which is generally thought to be the next major advancement in the computing industry.

Neural Networks

Whats that?!?! A neural network can be described as a system kind of like the inner workings of a humna body. Just like a human brain, a neural network processes information and learns by examples. Neural networks are configured for specific applications such as pattern recognition and data classification through a learning process.