Socialcam

Socialcam

Socialcam is a mobile social video for iPhone and Android, that was launched March 7, 2011. It allows users to capture and share videos online and on mobile, as well as via Facebook and other social newworks.By July 2012, the application passed 16 million downloads and was acquired by Autodest for $60 million.Socialcam was founded by Michael Seibel, Ammon Bartram, and Guillaume Luccisano and is located in San Francisco, CA.

Functionality

Socialcam was well known for the following functionality: applying filters to video, applying themes and soundtracks to video, and smooth integration with Facebook.Socialcam's eventual goal is to replace the default camera app on all smartphones.

Brands on Socialcam

A large number of brands use Socialcam to engage their social media audiences with video content including: Brooklyn Nets, Lipton Iced Tea, New York Jets, Sierra Mist, and General Electric.A complete list of Socialcam brands can be found on its brand leaderboard 

Criticism

Socialcam's popularity on Facebook suddenly increased in the spring of 2012, via unusually aggressive actions to induce contacts to join. It was criticized as "invasive" and a "bully" by many reviewers, for sharing what users were viewing without them realizing that that would happen.This also led to questions about whether Facebook was playing favorites with what content gets featured. In response to criticism, Socialcam quickly made a number of changes to make its sharing functionality easier to understand.

Facebook

Facebook 

Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellowHarvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League,and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States,corporations,and by September 2006,to everyone of age 13 and older to make a group with a valid email address.

Facemash

Facemash, the Facebook’s predecessor, opened on October 28, 2003.Initially, the website was invented by a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, and three of his classmates – Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. Zuckerberg wrote the software for the Facemash website when he was in his second year of college. The website was set up as a type of “hot or not” game for Harvard students. The website allowed visitors to compare two student pictures side-by-side and let them choose who was “hot” and who was “not”..... That night, Mark Zuckerberg wrote the following blog entries.

Computer Network

Computer Network

Definition - What does Computer Network mean?

       A computer network is a group of computer systems and other computing hardware devices that are linked together through communication channels to facilitate communication and resource-sharing among a wide range of users. Networks are commonly categorized based on their characteristics.

Local Area Network (LAN)

Definition - What does Local Area Network (LAN) mean?
       A local area network (LAN) is a computer network within a small geographical area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, office building or group of buildings.
       A LAN is composed of inter-connected workstations and personal computers which are each capable of accessing and sharing data and devices, such as printers, scanners and data storage devices, anywhere on the LAN. LANs are characterized by higher communication and data transfer rates and the lack of any need for leased communication lines.

Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)

Definition - What does Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) mean?
       A metropolitan area network (MAN) is similar to a local area network (LAN) but spans an entire city or campus. MANs are formed by connecting multiple LANs. Thus, MANs are larger than LANs but smaller than wide area networks (WAN).
       MANs are extremely efficient and provide fast communication via high-speed carriers, such as fiber optic cables.

Wide Area Network (WAN)

Definition - What does Wide Area Network (WAN) mean?
       A wide area network (WAN) is a network that exists over a large-scale geographical area. A WAN connects different smaller networks, including local area networks (LAN) and metro area networks (MAN). This ensures that computers and users in one location can communicate with computers and users in other locations. WAN implementation can be done either with the help of the public transmission system or a private network.

Network Topology

Definition - What does Network Topology mean?
       Network topology is the interconnected pattern of network elements. A network topology may be physical, mapping hardware configuration, or logical, mapping the path that the data must take in order to travel around the network.
       There are many identified topologies but they are not strict, which means that any of them can be combined. However, each topology has a different standard and may use different hardware methods so they are not interchangeable.