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Guest Speaker, round 2. BEGIN!

This week we were visited by the guest speaker by the name of Shadrach White. Now, to begin with, this was a much better experience than the last guest speaker. Shadrach talked a bit about cloud technology before he began the bit of information on himself. He seemed knowledgeable in the area, and was able to answer a good bit of questions. Oh, and did I forget to mention? He is the CEO/Founder of CloudPWR, with their major product being the service of Airlift. This service is for government agency's to partner up with Airlift, and have an account and everything made quickly for them. Their site offers great security, which Shadrach went into more detail on the amount of security levels that they take, including hiring outside sources to try to enter their systems to find any weak areas. That level and attention to detail for security is something that is not seen, or not shown, often for most companies. With cloud computing, so many people having access to information, security nee...

govWorks.Fail

So, Startup.com is a documentary of the start up, running, and the eventual downfall of a website made by a group of friends to cash in on website boom. The main founders, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman, were very different, money-hungry businessmen. They put an INSANE amount of effort and time in this project, especially since this documentary is of the company across the span of such a short amount of time, believe it was about a year or so. To be honest, to even get a business plan and the base plans can take time, some do not even complete that process in less than a year. What these guys did is, and was, very impressive. They traveled all across the United States, and Kaleil even met with former president Bill Clinton, in which he promptly gave him a business card. These people seem very, very aggressive though. They often let emotion get in the way of business, or was too focused on personally looking good that everything else didn't matter. From the beginning, seeing the...