In a lot beginners for websites, there seems to be a question that many people have of whether to start a blog or a content-management system. I personally don't like CMS systems because they require you to know quite a bit of html and css if you want it to look a certain way, although you can pay to get people to professionally do them for you. I guess CMS typically have a higher potential for growth because people generally would rather visit a "normal" website as opposed to a blog.
That being said, I find it a lot easier to post on blogs. It's like writing in a diary, quick, and easy. With CMS's you have to constantly fiddle around with some pretty annoying things. You will literally waste dozens and dozens of hours if you do not know what you are doing, and I'm all about efficiency. I've learned the hard way in the past that time efficiency is probably one of the most important things you'll ever need.
CMS's like Joomla, Drupal, Mambo are all good if you have a group of people submitting articles. Otherwise, I would say blogging is better because of the user-friendly interface that makes publishing a sinch, which in turn makes it much more likely you'll be spending the time writing as opposed to figuring out the miriads of things that would occupy your time inefficiently. If I really wanted a true website, I'd probably try to find someone to design it for me, instead of spending all that time pulling my hair out with a CMS.
Comparing Wordpress to Blogger, I really give the advantage to Blogger/Blogspot when it comes to user interface. They make the site and menu very easy to use and clean to look at which makes everything a lot more inviting. Wordpress is more powerful, but I don't really need much more than a fast and easy blogging system. Perhaps later on, when I, for some reason, have some need to use a more sophisticated product then I will use it.
Showing posts with label Internet and Tech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet and Tech. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Microsoft Joining Facebook = Megatron
So in the news is that Microsoft wants to buy 5% of Facebook. 5% might not seem like much to you, until you take into account that Microsoft has valued Facebook at a net book value of $10 billion. Yes, that's not a typo. Five percent of that would be an astonishing $500 million.
Is it worth it? I guess it is. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of Facebook, I have to admit it has a lot of people on there who go on atleast once a week, and even more for the college crowd. People who never even got into social communities are even logging into Facebook just so they can tell people they have an account.
The advantage of these online communities is that once a person registers, they are more likely to stay than compared to other websites where users feel little sense of commitment to them. For advertising purposes, Facebook could probably make billions.
I still find that amount to be ridiculously high. Facebook turned down a $1 billion buy-out from Yahoo last year. This happened right after Google purchased Youtube for $1.6 billion.
The problem with Facebook is that I think it will always target a very young crowd. People will not grow old with it. Teens and young adults like to occupy their time chatting back and forth, but I find that older people are too busy with their lives and raising kids and getting their mortgages paid that it becomes to cumbersome to log on to see what your friends are doing this weekend.
Personally, if I was Bill Gates (ha!) I would use his billions of dollars to try to beat Facebook at their own game. All you'd have to do is start a similar community and attach it with Hotmail or MSN. He would certainly have enough capital, but I get the sense that in his older years, he's less competitive, willing to give away much of his money to 3rd world countries. I guess when you can buy everything and have that much power, you start to reflect on how you can give it all back to the under-priveledged. Kudos for that.
Is it worth it? I guess it is. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of Facebook, I have to admit it has a lot of people on there who go on atleast once a week, and even more for the college crowd. People who never even got into social communities are even logging into Facebook just so they can tell people they have an account.
The advantage of these online communities is that once a person registers, they are more likely to stay than compared to other websites where users feel little sense of commitment to them. For advertising purposes, Facebook could probably make billions.
I still find that amount to be ridiculously high. Facebook turned down a $1 billion buy-out from Yahoo last year. This happened right after Google purchased Youtube for $1.6 billion.
The problem with Facebook is that I think it will always target a very young crowd. People will not grow old with it. Teens and young adults like to occupy their time chatting back and forth, but I find that older people are too busy with their lives and raising kids and getting their mortgages paid that it becomes to cumbersome to log on to see what your friends are doing this weekend.
Personally, if I was Bill Gates (ha!) I would use his billions of dollars to try to beat Facebook at their own game. All you'd have to do is start a similar community and attach it with Hotmail or MSN. He would certainly have enough capital, but I get the sense that in his older years, he's less competitive, willing to give away much of his money to 3rd world countries. I guess when you can buy everything and have that much power, you start to reflect on how you can give it all back to the under-priveledged. Kudos for that.
Monday, September 24, 2007
My First Post
Hi, I really like this platform. A lot of people recommended wordpress over blogger, but this seems as good as anything. It's free, clean looking, very user friendly (anyone without any computer skills can use this), and fast to set up. I hope to use this blog to not only inform people of what my thoughts are, but used to keep track of my own progress for myself in the many goals that I am sure to have...
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