I was uploading my images to Photobucket when I saw a headline linked to Photobucket’s blog. Apparently Myspace has restricted their users from using videos which are hosted at Photobucket. Thus, all videos that previously hosted in Photobucket will not shown in Myspace website anymore.
I have tried to search for Myspace official press release regarding this matter, but I couldn’t find any page on Myspace website that state the restriction of using videos hosted at Photobucket.
Personally I think this is strange, considering Photobucket is the most dominant image hosting provider in Myspace. Although the images is not restricted, but implementing restriction without any clear explanation will render you as being arrogant. Will disabling these videos will trigger mass user migrations to other social networking sites? Is Myspace testing its users’ loyalti?
Whatever Myspace’s intention, it’s a bad move. The recent growth of many websites that touted themselves as Web 2.0 (basically website with social networking functionality) might provide alternatives for Myspace users. There is a reason why it is called social networking/online community. I think the community won’t like the idea of having host which suddenly implement restrictions without giving any clear-cut explanations. When your host does not play nice, it’s time to pack your bags and move to somewhere else better. Even though if MySpace eventually gives in and permit videos from PhotoBucket, are you sure they won’t do it again? Especially when this time they can get away without being punished?
In case you wonder, the last few days I’ve been busy doing projects on dotnetnuke. I did not really have much time to update this blog. So today everything has been sorted out, and I regain my breathing space to update this blog =).
Okay, a few days back Mr. Ramon Padilla wrote an article at TechRepublic looking at the career progress in IT. He thinks that the current practice in the workplace will put you, either in the “I” category, or the “T” category. He defines the “I” category as an employee with understanding the needs and goals of the business side, whilst the “T” category as an employee with a good handle on the nitty-gritty of technology.
Although I am not disagree with him, I think that the classification only applies–most of the time– in medium/big companies. If you happen to work for startup companies, believe me, both your “I” and “T” skills definitely will be put in test. I happen to know a good friend who works as the Business Consultant, Designer/System Analyst, Developer, Debugger, all in one package. Contrary to another friend which works as a Test Engineer and responsible mainly for creating test-cases for the Application.
So let’s identify jobs that are related to IT and try to assess which one is dominant, the “I” or the “T”
I know there are many other jobs related to IT such as Helpdesk Staff, Test Engineer, QA QC, Web Designer, Graphics Designer. Which none of them I ever professionally work as, and I better not risked myself bad-mouthing a profession. These jobs are related to how the IT Infrastructure are implemented in a particular company. For best practice of IT Infrastructure implementation please refer to Information Technology Infrastructure Library.
If you want to share about your profession, and help me to complete the list, please elaborate it in a comment and I will be delighted to incorporate it here. You could also mailed it to me at sodeve@sodeve.net
I want to be an IT Manager, Should I go the “I” or the “T” way?
From my experience, to climb up the leadership ladder the “I” plays more important factor than the “T”. If we analyse IT Managers from their background, the ones from “T” category most of the time were promoted because they have better understanding on “I” aspects than the rest of his/her peers. On the other hand, it is quite common to have IT Manager with lesser “T” knowledge than his/her staffs. Remember Dilbert?
My Two Cents: if we want to climb up the leadership ladder, make sure we brush up your “T” skills to somewhat acceptable level, before we upgrade our “I” skill. This way we can become a manager, without having disgruntled staffs that think our hair is somewhat pointy.
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or refers to a high “I” or high “T” skill
or 
refers to a average “I” or average “T” skill or 
refers to a low “I” or low “T” skill
