Transition from Blogging to SNS

Recently I rarely wrote any posting in blog. The reason is clear that SNS(Social Network Service) pervasively comes to life and it changes everything how I deal with new information and my opinion on it. This transformative trend began about couple of years ago. I have many friends in Facebook, sharing things from everyday life to high-tech business issues. As though adaptive movement always keeps its promise to make a change the lifestyle, social movement came in that familiar way.

SNS is shaking the tract of business. Some subordinate keywords emerged. Social game, social shopping, social ERP and other *social* things around. And new business opportunity arises while those social keywords being entrenched.

Also there’s a chance for the items strengthen the movement. For example, dating site would move to social dating or auction might go with social commerce like Groupon and LivingSocial. Zynga, the social game company in Facebook, is now bigger than most other game companies. The power is immense.

What a tragedy for services drained by SNS. The thing to learn is, no business lasts forever.

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The Irrationals

We all are the irrationals. Are’t you? Let me check.

Suppose that you heard a news from a friend that new iPad3 design and specs are leaked. At first you may wonder it’s true or not because you know that iPad2 launch day was just a couple of weeks ago. After a while another friend tells you the same story, and then it becomes a fact. You’ll soon enter “iPad3″ into Google search bar. The point is, just 2 or more friends make you believe something.

We trust search result from Google or Wikipedia. Is that trustworthy? Many resources are on the stage but not guaranteed. And we, the irrationals, use the information for doing business. By abusing this trait maliciously, one guy can agitate the herd as the internet connects all over the world.

One good example of this is, so called, social engineering. Although the security system is completely safe technically, human is not perfect. If somebody exploits the vulnerable point of that guy who organizes the system, hacking done.

Ignoring irrational tendency is more risky than accepting the weakness. And I think being irrational is a part of risk management.

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Checking Out the Browser and the Version

In Javascript, browser information can be acquired from navigator.userAgent property. And it’d rather make them clear what the values are. The following table represents the list of navigator.userAgent value from each browser (and the version).

Some of them might be differ from yours as they come from my laptop. For example, the value of IE8 involves .NET notations. That’s because I’ve installed .NET platform version 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0. Thus, please don’t care about it.

Browser navigator.userAgent
Internet Explorer 8 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Internet Explorer 7 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Firefox 3.6 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12
Chrome 9.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13
Safari 5.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; ko-KR) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4
Opera 11.0 Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; ko) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01
Android Browser
(Motorola XT720)
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2.1; en-us; XT720 Build/STSKT_N_79.33.50R) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

Although there are more browsers, I think major browsers are already dealt.

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