Peer mentoring

Travis dropped out of the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998 to help create an organization called Scour Inc. Scour Inc is a multimedia search engine and a peer-to-peer sharing service. Interestingly, according to P.J Huffstutter, in his article “Scour Files for Bankruptcy Protection, written on October 13th, 2000, in the Los Angeles Times, Scour Inc. declared bankruptcy in 2000 due to numerous lawsuits around…

We accept rides from strangers, get random people to complete mundane tasks for us and allow people we’ve never met to stay in our homes. Indeed, the sharing economy – peer-to-peer transactions conducted via the Internet and smartphones has changed how people arrange car rides, find vacation, pick up their laundry and more . We no longer think it taboo to get into cars with strangers, request someone to pick up our groceries or share our personal property with people we’ve never met. But how…

discussions in courts. Nowadays, music downloading and peer-to-peer file-sharing are practices that have increased in giant steps as a result of the emerging technologies. The constant innovation of the websites and software has impacted the music and video industry in a way that thousands of norms and regulations have been created in order to protect others’ works, and prevent copyright infringement. The recording industry blames peer-to-peer file sharing for declining music sales and has…

A Reading Response of “Free TV: File-Sharing and the Value of Television” by Michael Z. Newman Topic: The topic of Newman’s (2012) article presents the ever-changing value of TV shows as a public and private commercial enterprise. Modern TV shows have become private commercial property of TV networks, but the availability of “pirated” TV shows in P2P file-sharing networks has decreased their value. Ironically, the success of P2P file sharing has legitimized TV as a new “negotiation” of value in…

transience of consumption in the music industry Introduction In recent decades,the form of sales in the music industry has shifted enormously. Since the market in the music industry was at the top of its earnings in the late 90’s, the major music major companies have experienced a decline in revenue. The revolution of the Internet and the emergence of file-sharing with companies such as Napster and Torrent may contribute to this result. It seems like newly emerged platforms will not bring…

The Internet is a revolutionary tool that assists individuals with simple and complex tasks and makes communication efficient. The Internet allows individuals to distribute data including peer-to-peer file sharing. Peer-to-peer file sharing is the sharing of digital media through the Internet. When an individual searches for digital media files through p2p software, they are given many options to choose from and download straight to their computer. Although file sharing is convenient and a lot…

business can reach its customers and suppliers from virtually anywhere. They can use social media to stay in contact with their customers. What are some of the business benefits and management challenges of client/server networks? Network computing? Peer-to-peer…

iCloud lets you save all your work to all you apple devices and lets you share the work. All file sharing, P2P, and bittorrent are all related. Both file sharing and P2P are used to download files. To avoid copyright copyright you should remove any peer to peer programs installed on your computer. Bittorrent is sharing work over the internet. Bittorrent is the most used protocol to download big files. For example, Movies, large films, and so on. Some colleges use BitTorrent to distribute large…

Traditional mentoring, such as that which occurs in the previously mentioned organizations, does not specify age or familial requirements when pairing mentors to mentees. Although not necessarily a bad thing, the lack of emphasis placed on “non-familial” relationships, I believe, is of note. As the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring suggests, a study they conducted reports that “non-familial mentors seemed to have an even…

As everyone talks about how amazing the Technology Management Program is at UCSB, I could not agree more and now fully understand what they mean and thoroughly enjoy these classes. I am excited to be able to apply our TMP 111 speaker’s ideas and advice to my day to day life in the present as well as influencing my decisions and choices for the rest of my life. The thing I enjoyed most about the speakers were their ability to relate back to us college students, and provide a realistic example…