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 * Lab 1:**
 * Tutorial # 2-January 13, 2011**

What "digital innovation" do you feel best deserves the title of "revolutionary" and why?

Today’s Digital Innovation and Cultural Transformation Tutorial prompted me with a question regarding what I thought was the most “revolutionary” digital innovation to date. After much reflection, there are many conclusions that I have come to, the main one being that a majority of digital innovations are a product of a simpler idea created or presented by another innovation. This brings me to what “digital innovation” I thought best deserves the title of “revolutionary;” which is //facebook//. Although there have been other social networking sites prior to the explosion of //facebook//, no other could compete with its fast-growing community and ability to present its users with a user-friendly social networking format. Other social networks such as; //Bebo//, //Hi5// and //Netlog//, to name a few, all contained similar formats that allowed users to interact with their peers and view profiles that contained personal information of them online.

//Facebook// however, was ingeniously created by its founders that allowed it to contain various components that resulted in its phenomenal success. Its layout is a prominent factor that contributes to this success, alongside the multiple functions that users are given as they can post or comment on pictures, videos, notes, etc., with the inclusion of tagging their friends in them. These are just some of the features that it is able to offer web 2.0 users around the world. It also serves as a medium that allows a massive communication gap to be bridged as friends and relatives all over the world are given an opportunity to remain connected with their ‘facebook friend’ despite the distance they may face.

An article on //How Stuff Works// by Jonathan Strickland, gives a number of pros to social networks, a majority of which //facebook// accomplishes, such as; connecting with other people, remaining in contact, finding previous acquaintances, allowing networking professionally, organizing events, or even promoting an event/product/service or yourself as an entertainer. Furthermore, //facebook// is indeed a revolutionary digital innovation as it fulfills its duty of making a radical change in web 2.0.

Strickland, Jonathan. "HowStuffWorks "The Pros of Social Networking""//Howstuffworks "Computer"// Web. 13 Jan. 2011.<[]>.
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