The movie about facebook is being launched today and it raises more questions than answers about Mark and his $ Billion dollar creation.

It would be interesting to see what happens next but i don't think it will impact in anyway on the brand facebook. What am i onto...Mark created facebook from a Harvard dorm true (so the world is led to believe) however i rem facebook in my campus days in the US, what started as an IVY network created by a "bunch" of guys grew so much then 'other' colleges were invited and soon the world, how Mark came to own it,i may never know.some guys from MIT tell me mark was always around MIT talking bout facebook but this was not his creation. Its widely known he "stole" the idea from his pals and am told he dint have the depth to create such a sensation..hearsay maybe but i'd say Mark was a naughty boy..lol

@Ric dees

Man, I have spread your "The girl effect - The clock is ticking.mp4" to all my friends and they are liking it.

About Mark, he is not different from Bill Gates who stole Steve Jobs creation and ran with it - Watch "Pirates of Silicon Valley" and you will understand what I mean.

Nokia also raided Ericsson's talented employees to remain afloat. Find out what Nokia was initially making and you will never want to ever buy another Nokia - Nokia by the way are on their death bed courtesy of iphone, Nexus or google android application and blackberry's storm 2.

Technology Thieves eventually die a painful death as it was not their brains that created the marvels of mother nature.

In 1898, Eduard Polón founded Finnish Rubber Works, manufacturer of galoshes - Gumboots - and other rubber products, which later became Nokia's rubber business.[26] At the beginning of the 20th century, Finnish Rubber Works established its factories near the town of Nokia and began using Nokia as its product brand

Cloud computing is a browser based or internet based computer activities such as yahoo and you tube or social network activities like Facebook etc

Is the article online? If so help with the link please.

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The cloud: - that which does not reside on your hard disk or even on the server on second floor. Its that application out there somewhere - you cannot really know where it is physically.

What Surealligator alludes to is good old Web 2.0 (the state of play when content starts being user driven - e..g this forum, blogs, comments on nation.co.ke, uploading files to YouTube, Creating your own content on Facebook, blogs, etc.

@Njunge - yes - the cloud could hurt Microsoft unless it evolves to become a player.

Some examples of traditional apps and those being offered as a "cloud" service for free....

Outlook/Lotus Email .....yahoo, gmail, etc
MS Word - Google Docs

Google wants to evolve its browser into an OS - such that you can buy any machine with not operating system and simply use chrome for every thing - to create docs, access email, access all manner of cloud apps, etc etc....

And Google is not just dominating the space held by Windows XP/etc....but now the operating system on handsets....Android. most device manufacturers are releasing android handsets - again this is because the apps for this op sys are increasing (and will soon overtake apple's i-phone OS)

people, i have heard all this before and i would surely want you to clarify some things before you even dump some of your predictions here.
1) cloud computing is here, but it is not a replacement of the desktop applications we run. Google runs Google Docs free on the internet but people still prefer to use good old office. Cloud computing will only go places if big players like Microsoft moves it.
2) Apple is worth more on the stock exchange than Microsoft that does not mean it makes more money. Apple's business is vastly different than Microsoft's, with most of the company's income coming from consumer hardware products, supported by growing sales of music and software. Microsoft makes the majority of its revenues from licensing deals with PC makers and corporations (market segments where Apple is either weak or doesn't even seek to enter) and, conversely, has repeatedly failed to find much success in the competitive consumer markets Apple has done so well in over the past several years
3)Google will never dominate the OS market since they think they know what the user wants, they don't ask them. Chromimum will fail like Buzz (supposed to compete with facebook and twitter did), google Wave, Orkut e.t.c.


now comes...Statistics.
Which is the most popular Browser? - did I hear Firefox? Wrong. Internet Explorer (although i still use Chrome in 3rd place)
http://marketshare.hitsl...rket-share.aspx?qprid=0

What is the most popular OS? - Windows XP (like google is even a threat)
http://marketshare.hitsl...rket-share.aspx?qprid=8
Considering Macs are only 5% of the market but people sing their praises like they are divine.

on Android, do you know no single Andorid phone beats the Iphone and Nokia is still ahead of the pack in the smartphones business.

My point....nothing changes immediately (only for geeks), we are doing cloud computing apps now but it will be a while before users see the advantage to running an app on the internet and they have I7 processors and tonnes of memory used to run only browser.

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