Initial Ping Thoughts: half a thumbs up

Ping is good but needs to be rapidly iterated.  People rag on Facebook all the time but they have one things going for them.  They keep putting out new features and tweaking things. 

Apple can't afford to have a "social network" that is updated once every year.  It is not a software package now.  It is Apple's most visible service yet. .Mac is notorious for staggnation.  I hope Ping does not follow suite. 

And so without further waiting.  My Ping reactions. 

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Lovely.  I really do hope that this becomes awesome.
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Collaboration Tools = Education

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I am in the midst of a crazy project in my Information Systems class at the moment.  It is the 3rd day of school and I have not stopped working on homework yet.  But as I was working I had a realization.  

We do everything in teams at the Marriott School of Business.  If one of us doesn't get it was ask the other and then ask other teams.  

Traditional education has looked down on team work as "cheating" but that is how it is in the real world.  Everyone at your company is (or at least should be) on the same team. You can ask and get help and solve problems.  The more education becomes like this, the better and faster I think we can learn. 
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ISYS! or Information Systems First Day

Today I started my real major.  Like for reals.  I am now an official Information Systems student and I have the bag to prove it.  

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We already have homework, which is to be expected.  The Junior Core is notoriously hard. 

Here’s what I learned. 

-Systems Analysis is understanding and specifying what a system should accomplish.  I thought analysis was just trouble shooting but it is much more. 

-System Boundary is the separation between the system and its environment that inputs and outputs need to cross. 

I can’t help it. When I think of systems I think of the cartoon Reboot that I used to watch with it’s boundaries, and inputs and outputs and users.  

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One thing that also stood out to me is that back in the old days, ever business needed a sales guy.  You have to sell things to make money and survive.  Now, every business needs an Information Systems guy. You can’t survive now without a website, internal web apps, systems and automation.  Everyone else has them, you need to use them or get left behind. 

All in all, I am excited to be jumping into my real major.  
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