COVEN, BRIAN
Period #3
FINAL ESSAY EXAM


1. Describe how a business can use open-source software (Firefox, Open Office, Linux) to increase their productivity. What are the benefits to open-source alternatives? What are the benefits to Microsoft products?

A business can use open-source software to increase their productivity. I think that these programs are faster than Microsoft products and contain much more information. Most microsoft products take a long time to upload certain pages, while a program like Firefox is quick and easy to use.

There are many benefits to using open-source alternatives. One benefit is that the open-source alternatives are free to use. Most microsoft products you must pay for to use while as these open-source programs are easy and no money is paid. Another benefit is these programs are faster and have more information. Microsoft programs tend to be slower than open-source programs for some reason because it is newer information and technology. As a result, open source programs are more valued than Microsoft programs.

There are also benefits to using Microsoft programs. One benefit is that Microsoft contains many different programs. One program is Word, which is used for typing. Another program is Excel, which is used for graphing, categorizing, and calculating. Last, there is Powerpoint, which is used for slide shows and presentations. In conclusion, there are benefits for both open-source software and Microsoft products.

2. How can a small-business utilize Google's services and products to increase their exposure and profits?

Small-businesses can utilize Google's services and products to increas their exposure and profits. One way is by keeping their website updated. Most people tend to visit different websited that are frequently updated because there is new information all the time. Most people don't want to look at the same thing over and over because eventually it will get boring. As a result, if a website is frequently updated, it will attract many viewers and will be very successful.

Another way to use Google's services is by using Google sketchup. Sketchup is a program that allows you to make 3-D models. These 3-D models are used either to have fun designing certain things, designing a new product for a company, or other reasons. The program is fun and easy to use because you can learn about all the icons with a pre-sketchup program, so when you are ready to make the model you know how to use all of the different icons. Sketchup is a great program and is used by many different companies. It is a big success.

There are also different websites that google runs. For example, they run gmail, adwords, and adsense. All of these programs are a big success. Gmail is a site where you can make an account and access information, like aol. Adwords is when you post ads for people to look at and you make money off of the viewers, while making money depending on how many people visit your site. Adsense is a program that gives you ads depending on what you like. In conclusion, google's services are very important and useful so many people use them, giving google plenty of money.

3. Explain the steps in creating a web site from scratch using a program like Dreamweaver from inception to getting the word out after publishing the site online.

Creating a website is very hard work. There are many steps to creating a good website. The way to create a website is by using a program called Dreamweaver. First, you must put information on the website useful to different viewers with detailed information. This will attract the viewers. Next, you must have related pictures pertaining to your information. This is also attention-grabbing to your viewers. Finally you must upload. The way to upload is to go to a program called fireftp. You must open a new file and send the document over to the other file. This is the uploading part. Once you complete these steps it is easy to see online. Don't forget to upload the pictures as well, because they have to be uploaded seperately.

To make a good website there are many key details. First, you must update the page very frequently. Next, you must have relative and attention-grabbing information. This keeps the readers hooked on and will want to visit your page more often. This way also helps with money. Lastly, you must get the word out. To get a lot of viewers, you must post it on a site like google or some important site with many viewers. You could also tell people and send links to people.

In conclusion, there are many ways to make a good website. There are many good websites that you can take a look at to get ideas. You must have an updated site with a lot of important information so viewers will stay on to your page. Good websites means a lot of money so perfect your site to get rich. Your website will always need editing so as long as you keep editing and keeping viewers hooked on, your website will be successful and you will be successful.

THIS IS GOOD BUT A BIT TERSE. PLEASE ADD MORE AS TO HOW TO DESIGN A GOOD PAGE. WHAT MAKES A GOOD WEB SITE?

Barbara's advice for the class of 2007 is that all the good jobs are taken so if you end up with a minumum wage job, don't be upset because it is not your fault. She is very pessimistic because she says that this world is unfair and all the good jobs are taken.


Fellow graduates,
Congratulations. You have finally reached this amazing day. You have worked your butts off and now it is over. Soon you will all be going to college and get degrees, soon to get jobs and make lots of money. I am very proud of you. Now, some of you will be going to outstanding colleges, like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. You students are obviously the smartest ones in the school. We also have a few athletes getting scholarships for sports, like in baseball, football, and basketball. Now just because some of the students are going to community colleges and other colleges doesn't mean that you are not smart. It just means that they are too smart. Everybody that goes to college is smart, so keep your head held high, because if you work hard enough, you will be very successful with a great, high paying job and a great family. Now, for those of you going to the outstanding colleges, you should be very honored and proud. You have accomplished something that most people can't do. All of you will probably become doctors, lawyers, and other great jobs with high paying. Don't be fooled into thinking that you are the smartest and start to become lazy. That is how you don't become successful. You must keep up your academics or else you will end up out of college making minumum wage and becoming a bum. You must continue to work hard. The harder you work, the more successful you will be. Trust me. Don't stop working hard. In the end, while you are working for a great wage and have a great job, you will find that it was all well worth it. In conclusion, successful means hard working and happy. If you don't work hard, you will regret that decision for the rest of your life. Thank you and good luck seniors.

Now when you search you'll get both digitized book results as well as records for millions of other books that still just exist in the analog world. I think people will still be reading books in 10 years because new books are being written every day and many reliable and useful stories are in books. I currently read one hour a day online and one hour a day offline.

Product placement is paid advertising. Martha Stewart practices product placement by advertising a new product. She charges $10,000 to mention a product on the air. This is not hurting her ratings, but it is helping her ratings. Certain viewers might turn on Martha Stewart to hear her advertise a new product for 30 seconds. I think product placement is a good tool because it gets everybody's attention.

This situation is similar in that the digital information today that drives our world and powers our economy is in many ways more susceptible to loss than the papyrus and parchment at Alexandria. An estimated 44 percent of Web sites that existed in 1998 vanished without a trace within just one year. The average life span of a Web site is only 44 to 75 days.
The Library of Congress has in its care millions of printed works, some on stone or animal skin that have survived for centuries. The challenges underlying digital preservation led Congress in 2000 to appropriate $100 million for the Library of Congress to lead the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. The American Government should invest money in this program because it is a good program and preserves important sites.

People should stick with windows if they are hardcore gamers, you need a proprietary software, you work in the book/printing industry, or your hardware is not supported. Three compelling ways to migrate to linux are that it is free, there is free speech, and it has great features that windows doesn't have. Here is a link to a page about linux.

1. What are Internet cookies?
Internet cookies are short pieces of data used by web servers to help
identify web users.
2. What are packets?
Packets are bytes that carry information to their destination.
3. What route do packets take over the Internet?
They are sent to the best available route, which might be taken by all the other
packets in the message to make the network more efficient.
4. What is a 404 error on the web?
It is an HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but either the server could not find what was requested, or it was configured not to fulfill the request and not reveal the reason why.

5. What is 'e-commerce'?
Electronic commerce consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.

6. What is the difference between ebay and craigslist?
When you search for craigslist, you type in an area and it shows different products available in that area. When you look for something on ebay, you don't know where it is coming from.
7. What is SSL?
Secure Sockets Layer
8. What are the two major ways for home users to connect to the Internet via a high speed connection?
DSL and Broadband are the ways to connect to the Internet via a high speed connection.
9. What is a T-1 line?
A T-1 line means that the phone company has brought a fiber optic line into your office.

1. What are Internet cookies?
Internet cookies are short pieces of data used by web servers to help
identify web users.
2. What are packets?
Packets are bytes that carry information to their destination.
3. What route do packets take over the Internet?
They are sent to the best available route, which might be taken by all the other
packets in the message to make the network more efficient.
4. What is a 404 error on the web?
It is an HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but either the server could not find what was requested, or it was configured not to fulfill the request and not reveal the reason why.

5. What is 'e-commerce'?
Electronic commerce consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.

6. What is the difference between ebay and craigslist?
When you search for craigslist, you type in an area and it shows different products available in that area. When you look for something on ebay, you don't know where it is coming from.
7. What is SSL?
Secure Sockets Layer
8. What are the two major ways for home users to connect to the Internet via a high speed connection?
DSL and Broadband are the ways to connect to the Internet via a high speed connection.
9. What is a T-1 line?
A T-1 line means that the phone company has brought a fiber optic line into your office.

Essay Questions

1. Describe how a business can use open-source software (Firefox, Open Office, Linux) to increase their productivity. What are the benefits to open-source alternatives? What are the benefits to Microsoft products?

A business can use open-source software to increase their productivity because it is easier to use and contains more information and is faster than Internet Explorer and other slow and not containing information. These open-source software is also free. Using Microsoft products probably would be better and faster because they cost
money and the more expensive it is the more information and skills it should contain
than something that is free.

2. How can a small-business utilize Google's services and products to increase their exposure and profits?

They can keep their website updated very often because more people will visit it if it is updated quickly and more information every day. Also, some companies can use sketchup to make a new business plan design. They can use Excel for different
financial work and Powerpoint if they must make slide shows. There is also the most obvious source, which is word, which is used to type documents and other important information.

3. Explain the steps in creating a web site from scratch using a program like Dreamweaver from inception to getting the word out after publishing the site online.

First, you must design your page. Next you must upload the file using Fireftp.
You will be given a website so you upload the information and pictures and you must send them over to a new open file. To get the word out, you would probably put in on a source(example: google) that everybody looks at and keep your website updated to get many viewers who are interested in your products. The viewers will tell their friends and before you know it your site will be at the top of the list for viewers daily.

1. Anyone can edit these pages and save the changes.
2. Web 2.0 is a set of principles and practices that tie together different sites that
demonstrate the same principles.
3. A social network is a social structure made of nodes that are tied by one or more
specific relations.
4. Intermix Media owns myspace.com
5. You submit stories for people to read on different topics.
6. They are looking for different jobs.
7. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol.
8. HTTP meansa client-server protocol by which two computers can communicate over a
TCP/IP connection.
9. SWF files allow people to see flash drives on the internet.
10. DOC is the file extension for microsoft word files.
11. WMA is the file extension for microsoft excel files.
12. In Word, you can only type. In Excel, you can categorize and make flowcharts and
organize the page into different columns.
13. PPS is the file extension for microsoft powerpoint.
14. In google documents you can add collaborators for anyone to see your work online.
15. Linux is an operating system. It is the main alternative for proprietary Unix
and Microsoft Operating Systems.
16. Linux is free to download and edit while microsoft windows is very expensive.
17. Adwords is a website that allows you look at different ads and even post an ad
for everybody to see.
18. To profit from adsense, you would need to post many ads and get calls from
different people about jobs.

1. Google founded in September 1998
Microsoft was founded in 1975
Yahoo was founded in February 1994
2. The founder of Google: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Microsoft: Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Yahoo: David Filo and Jerry Yang
3. Revenue of Google: 10,604.92
Microsoft: 44,282.00
Yahoo: 6,425.68
4. .NET is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information, people, systems,
and devices through software.
5. PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set.

6. Yahoo purchased flickr.com
7. Cerebrus purchased chrysler
8. A private equity company means that you can only access the company if you are
a shareholder, and a public corporation means that anybody can access it even if
you aren't a shareholder.
9. Revenue is money coming in to a company.
10. A share of stock means you own a part of the company.
11. Alcoa mines aluminum.
12. GE is general electric.
13. A CEO sets the direction and is responsible for failure and success.
14. A CFO handles the company's financial problems.
15. NYSE is the New York Stock Exchange.
NASDAQ is National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
16. The board of directors controls the company and makes decisions.
17. IPO is initial public offering