Dot.com to Dot.Bomb

The dot.com to dot.bomb boom presented the 5 stages in which the dot.bomb occurred: 1) innocent beginnings 2) BOOM 3) INSANITY 4) BUST- a lot of people lost a lot of money 5) The crawl back to sanity Each of these steps introducing new challenges that people faced, things are still changing but on an upward slope that will hopefully only get better and help technology prosper. A lot of people lost their trust in technology and the internet when the boom happened but with all the new inventions and new opportunities I think that people will be able to securely take risks and they won't be losing nearly as much as they put in.

What makes a community?

A community is a group of people in a common place with similar admirations, there are lots of different mediums in which a community can take place. From an actual physical community like UW Tacoma Students with a common admiration of UW and getting an education, to an online community such as facebook. In my opinion being a community is being around people who have similar goals, ideals and aspirations as I do. Friends, family, peers and acquaintances can all be participants in our communities; everyone has different ideas of what it may take to create a community and that's okay. Having different ideas presents new and exciting ways to look at things. You don't have to belong to just one community either, people can belong to many different communities and they all add something different to the member of the communities. I think that the idea of a community is changing with the increase in technology and media but that could be a good or bad thing; we shall see as it goes.

StartUp.com

This movie showed the negative outcome that occurs sometimes when people start a new company, although they started out strong and on a positive incline nothing works out perfectly. Kaleil and Tom were perfect examples of why you shouldn't work with people you have friendships with, starting a job adds different pressures to a friendship then there was before and most people can't work through it. What I found most valuable about this movie was the motto they said, 'all day, every day, every way'. It is the perfect example of what companies should be focusing on, trying to be successful in all ways to create something better and to be better.