Have you seen offices of Web / Information Technology Companies?

Today, I found this website. It is very interesting. Everybody knows Web companies or Information Technology Companies such as Google, Apple, Yahoo!, eBay, etc. It is Office Snapshots.

So now let me show you some pictures about those companies.

Apple:

FacebooK:

Google:

Yahoo!:

If you want to see more pictures, please go to Office Snapshots.

When your boss appears on Facebook suddenly

A few days ago, I had a chat with my friend who is in Taiwan and tries to find the next work. He said when he had an interview with a company; the company’s manager asked him a question, “Do you use social network services?”; And then, my friend answered “Yes”. That manager asked another question “which website do you user and could I see your profile.”

 

My friend asked me if your present boss wants to see your profile, would you accept this request.

 

This is a very interesting question. According to Facebook (2008), there are around 70 members. Now, most media talk a lot about Facebook. So some managers try to sign up Facebook and want to find someone who is their friend or colleague on the Facebook. Recently, I read some articles related to what should I do, if my boss ask me want to be my friends. This one descried this situation happened. Someone said he will reject this request because he wants have some private after working. The other said maybe he will change his profile, photos, comments, etc, in order to make his Facebook become normal profile.

 

If you have the same situation, what would you do?

 

 

What is your answer?

 

Yes

 

Only Boss

 

Only Co-worker

 

No

FriendFeed – update news from your friends

Blog readers have possibly a long list for their favourite blogs. They have more than twenty blogs. They go to those blogs to find anything is new. This action waste their time. Now people can use this method, RSS Aggregator, such as Google Reader. People can add feed url from each blog, and then, they can use RSS Aggregator to read any new article from blogs as same as checking E-mail. Nowadays, everyone does not only have two or three E-mails, Blogs, and Web Albums, Twitter, etc. A lot of web services are around people’s life. But some services do not support RSS feed service. FriendFeed, this website service launch for users can get any news about their friends.

 

FriendFeed combines majority website services, such as Google Reader, Blog Feed, Flickr, Twitter, etc. Users sign up this website and set their owned services on this website step by step. Every user has particular web url likes mine: http://friendfeed.com/jameshsu. If user’s friends also have this service, user can add them easily.

Microblogging

Today, I want to talk about Microblogging. This one is a new technology in the Web 2.0. It is a form of blogging. People can use other methods to post on their own blogs. Generally one post cannot more than 140 words.

Example 1:

You can see this picture. It shows user can get messages from text messages from their mobile phones when their friends post on their website. Also they can reply to their friend immediately by text message. This one called Facebook status updates.

Example 2:

This is twitter. If we talk about Microblogging, we must talk about twitter. This is a very succeed Microblogging. You can use this one and put it on your own blog, if you blog support Java script.