A low-cost alternative in lighting stands that can hold a total of 16 PAR cans! Includes two tripod base lighting stands with three section shafts and T-bars. T-bars hold four par cans each. Also includes two 5' truss sections, holding four par cans each, for a total of 16 par cans...
9ft. black aluminum/steel constructed tripod.Features:- Single T-bar with support bars and hanging bolts.- Folds up for easy transport- Highly recommended for pin sports and par cans.- T-bar width is 36" with 0...
LED-fitted strip fixture. The unit can be controlled via four DMX channels, multiple modes accessible via the control panel, or an optional LED-FS1 controller
Features:
? 4-channel DMX-512 LED linear wash light
? Blackout/static/dimmer/strobe
? Static colors and RGB color mixing with or without DMX controller
? Built-in automated programs via master/slave or DMX
? Built-in sound active programs via master/slave or DMX
? Linkable with COLORbank LED and COLORbank LED 2
? Additional power output: max 32 units @ 120V (see manual for details)
? Additional slave output allows for color-changing runway effect (up to 31 units)
? OPTIONAL CONTROLLERS
? COLORstrip Foot Controller (LED-FS1)
Kowa 60mm High Performance Spotting Scopes 602 TSN-600 Series
ZipShot Tripod HD
The Evolution of Social Media
As Jon Stewart said, the Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. And the way people pass those notes along has changed drastically snce the Internet first became common in the late 1990s. The proliferation of social media sites and the exponential growth in the web design industry has changed the way the public views the Internet in a very short time.
Technology grows exponentially and the Internet is not an exception. The way we interact with the Internet evolves with the services available to us. Ten years ago anyone with a rudimentary understanding of HTML could have instant access to a custom personal website and could share everything from their hobbies and interests to personal photos with the online public. Personal websites are a treasure trove of day to day life and interaction between hundreds of thousands internet users.
Social media began its rudimentary stages on free websites such as Geocities. Members with common interests could join webrings to help promote their particular site and to direct interested users to similar sites with different content. Webrings were the beginning phase of both social media marketing and search engine optimization. Their continued influence can be seen today on social media sites such as Facebook through the use of groups to help connect users through a common interest in a concept, a brand or a political agenda.
So where has the personal website gone? The basic answer is simply that users have been outfoxed by source code. HTML and CSS are both very simple codes easily learned by most internet users. Free website sites such as Geocities also gave users with absolutely no design knowledge the option to use online web development software to share their thoughts and hobbies with others. Web design has had a very swift sophistication curve and now most websites are designed by professional designers who have been highly trained in their fields. Weekend web designers are few and far between and many users now lack the skills to create websites on par with professionally created websites.
Early websites gave users free reign over all of their content. Usersr could embed midi files in their websites to play music in all pages with content. Flashing and moving content could also be added. In the late 90s when Geocities first started, many users were working with slower modems and many users were working on 28.8 and 56.6 kb modems. Sites could quickly become overwhelming for many people’s systems and large sites quickly became anathema to the internet community.
Private domains and personal websites peaked somewhere around 2003 and 2004. There were many beauitfully designed and maintained sites and an online domain and forum culture dominated. 2003 saw the conception of the first grand scale social media site, Myspace.com. Myspace offered users an online space with more structure than websites as well as an ability to link in immediately with other users. The site retained many characteristics of existing personal webpages with the ability to imbed music and customize the page. Myspace’s popularity peaked in 2006 and wained with the introduction of Facebook.
Facebook started as a social networking site for students at Harvard University. Started in 2004 it was initially offered only to Harvard students and after more than half the campus was using Facebook the company quickly launched a high school networking portion of the site. In 2006 right when Myspace was enjoying its dominance as the premier social netoworking site on the Internet, Facebook opened its applications to the general public. Myspace faced much criticism regarding it's customization aspects, many of which the casual viewer found irritating. Facebook's standardization took away that irritation and with its previously private status offered a sense of exclusivity to users.
Facebook is currently the most popular networking site on the Internet but its popularity has plateaued. The social media industry is primed for a new takeover. Twitter offers users the chance to update their friends and followers through short, 140 character messages. It lacks the complex interpersonal dynamic seen on Facebook and while it is widely used, it has also been criticized for leading users into navel gazing or self-centredness. Twitter is a complimentary site to Facebook but is unlikely to overtake Facebook in the social media trend.
Yahoo's closing of Geocities was not a surprise. Yahoo restructured Geocities when they bought it and took away the social media aspecet of neighbourhoods. All Geocities users before Yahoo’s acquisition built their sites in neighbourhoods. Users in WallStreet, for example, were expected to have websites that dealt with business and finance. While all users in that neighbourhood didn’t necessarily have a site focused on the material, there was a social media aspect built into the neighbourhood design. With the cancellation of the neighbourhoods, Geocities became like any other free website provider such as Tripod.com or Angelfire.com. Yahoo has never reported on the finances of Geocities but among other web development companies it is suspected that Yahoo never made money with Geocities and may have lost a substantial amount of money in the acquisition of Geocities.
Users are no longer interested in learning the complicated coding required for websites and social media provides users with the ability to project themselves instantly on the web while using a transparent and easy to use platform. The real loss in the closing of Geocities was the removal of all the sites from the web. Some remain in archival sites like Archive.org and Archive Team. Geocities and other free web hosting sites represent a unique time in history. It was the first time that information and publicity were really democratized. Winston Churchill famously said, “History is written by the victors.” For the first time, free websites gave the everyday person the chance to write their own history and put it up on the web for everyone’s view. It started the trend towards today’s social media and gave people a chance to leave their footprint for others to view. Geocities was a great service and it will be missed. But the web is growing and changing and several years from now we may be saying the same thing about Myspace, Facebook or another social media network that has yet to take the world by storm. Time goes fast on the Internet and the story is changing as we speak. Geocities closed without much fanfare on October 26, 2009. The personal website as we know it died with Geocities.
About the Author
Donna Venzi is Business Development Manager for PrestonWhite Companies, a marketing firm dedicated to fostering small business and emerging artists in their local communities. She joins PrestonWhite Companies from a background in finance, customer relations and academia. She is interested in corporate responsibility and green technology.
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