Weekly Status

This week has been a big week. We have finished several projects that we have been working on.

Gotta Geta Party is a new website that we just finished up. This site provides the customer with the ability to set up their event and email the guests about that event. This site also takes it one step further. Event providers, caterers, videographers, photographers and any one else that provides services to the event planning community can sign up for free. When the customer creates their event they will see a list of the providers in their area that they can contact about the event.

Hopefully when setting up your major event this site will be the only resource you need in order to get everything organized and planned out.

The next major accomplishment is the release of a new weekly series on youtube called RANDOM WIKI WEDNESDAY. This is a fun youtube series put on by our head developer. He goes on wikipedia and clicks on the random article link and he presents that information for you in a video. The effects that we are learning are the key to this concept and we hope to be able to use this knowledge in other projects. Green screening, video production editing and so forth. The web with its interactive development is heading in the direction of being more video based. So the information you convey on your site not only needs to be textual but graphical and with these new skills Level 566 will be prepared to provide you with those services.

Why do we Destroy instead of Build

This week there have been pleny of headlines about riots in Vancouver and now the hacking of sites. Why is the new fun thing to do is to destroy instead of build? I do not understand this mentality.

In celebration or in depression we should focus on building stuff up instead of tearing it down. Don’t get me wrong. Hackers have actually provided a very valuable service to the security industry. Without the hackers breaking in alot of the security tools we have in place would not be needed. But in the same sense why wouldn’t you want to spend your time working on the side to build up security and try to be better than the hackers. In other words instead of trying to figure out a way to break something that someone has built try to discover something new that no one has built and make it. That to me is more of a challenge and shows way more skill.

Hackers are like movie critics. They tell people how much they suck but yet produce nothing. It is very easy to tell someone that I don’t like your stuff, but it takes way more guts to put your work out there for people to view.

Hackers and their community need to realize that it is cooler, more productive, and challenging to create instead of destroy. Build something cool that can’t be hacked and I will be impressed, destroying something that someone else has built is nothing more than childish.