Life Cycle Stage of Digital Media

I believe that digital media is in the Bowling Alley stage of the life cycle. Because there are always new technologies emerging, customers are usually pragmatic buyers until the product has been labeled reliable. Dial-up internet service, for example, is still being used by 34 million people in the United States according to the research firm IDC. This resource can also be located in the following URL: http://tech.msn.com/products/article.aspx?cp-documentid=877517&page=3
Despite the many advantages that cable and DSL offers, many US citizens still resort to dial-up. The bowling alley stage reminds me of the lag where new technologies are invented, but are not created as a standard until the market has matured. This usually occurs due to many top competitors arguing that their product should become the standard, but there is also the consumer influence. Ideally, a consumer would like to walk into an electronics store and purchase a product that would be compatible with the majority of their electronics at home. Creating a standard would be the perfect response to this demand. Digital media will be in the bowling alley stage until its corresponding technology has been established, and some type of standard is created where digital media will be utilized.

Uploading Slides to Chameleon

It seems that not many applications support the default pptx file extension from Microsoft Office 2007 including the Chameleon website. I had to convert the file to an earlier version to upload my slides. During my visit to the website, I noticed that I couldn't preview my slides nor previously downloaded slides. I think that if the preview function worked properly, it would make the site much more enjoyable as many users like to screen images prior to downloading the full size image. Also, my files took extremely long to upload. Maybe it's their server or maybe it's time for me to subscribe to FTTH. 5Mbps upload speed for the win!

Digital Media Affecting Fiber Optics

Increased digital media is a benefactor when fiber optic cables or networks are utilized. Fiber optics and digital media complement each other. With higher demand for real-time video, the need for fiber optics support will significantly increase.
The trend that customers tend to follow is the desire of a bundled service with all fees and expenses being consolidated into one bill. Because of this very reason, major telecommunications companies resort to the "Triple Play" service where cable, voice, and internet are merged into one service propagating through one medium (fiber optics). Fiber optics tremendously increases bandwidth that seem unrealistic. Verizon offers up to 30Mbps download speed and 5Mbps upload speed. 30Mbps is more than enough bandwidth which will open the floodgates for digital media to flourish.

SJlibrary Research Results

Because my topic is still fairly new, finding articles was somewhat difficult. I discovered more players involved in my industry that I missed in my previous research. I found more detailed industry trends and facts that provided great insight. There are many approaches to implementing fiber optic infrastructures and the main influences driving important decisions were directly related to fiber optics expensive investments.
The quality difference between public search engines versus the library databases were significantly different with the latter being far superior. In addition, most of the information on public search engines were very similar to each other; whereas, the library databases had very distinct articles. The library databases has much more detailed information. The accuracy and credibility from renowned publishers offers assurance for readers as well.

Using delicious and blogger.com

I searched for information using delicious. I typed in relevant/search terms, selected delicious in the drop down menu, and then clicked the search button. I was unsure if this was the only way I can choose articles (in other words, were the article hits from the delicious search engine the only ones I can use for my industry research). After installing the delicious toolbar button, bookmarking was a breeze.

As for blooger.com, I was confused at the initial login and blog creation. I did not know what was going to show up as the actual blog title. After logging in, I just edited everything in the settings tab to my likings. Overall, blogger.com has a very nice and simple user interface.