SherWeb

Dear “anonymous SherWeb employee”,

Santa notices that you are being true to yourself by sending him yet another endless letter in which you keep bragging year after year about how brilliant your employer is. I’m seriously wondering if you’re not overstepping it! When I think of it, I have the feeling you are trying to compete with me. After all, you keep extolling the virtues of sharing and collaboration, and you do offer services for a song.
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Open source software developers must tread with caution when developing in America, land of the lawsuit.  Taking what’s already been created, adding to it, improving upon it, and in turn sharing it with a world wide community is what has allowed open source innovations to become “arguably the single most influential body of software around the world.”  But it has also left many open to attacks from those who would claim the process by which they invented a software is theirs and theirs alone. 
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Ever since YouTube hit the scene, online video has skyrocketed in popularity and become a household pastime for both young and old. Many websites and software companies have attempted to develop models that allow broadcasters to share their content online. Companies like Netflix, iTunes and many others succeeded in the process. But then, with all these choices available, people began to get picky. They were no longer happy watching television on their small computer screens. They wanted more.
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Microsoft’s XBOX 360 motion-detecting system, Kinect, apparently isn’t just for games. At least, that’s what some clever hackers seem to be demonstrating. With some of the highly innovative ways the Kinect is being adapted, gesture-control is making the sci-fi world of Minority Report an approaching reality.
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