Show:
Disney
Computers
Pay Pal
AJAX
The Flat World Emerges
100
What states are Disney Land and Disney World in?
Florida and California
100
When the "walls went down" what did PC and Netscape browser allow people to do?
Allowed people to connect with others as it never had before.
100
What is Pay Pal?
a money transfer system
100
What is the new way of coding called?
AJAX
100
What are the first three events that caused the flattening of the world to emerge? (according to flattener #3)
falling of the walls, opening of the windows, and the rise of the PC
200
Who is the CEO of Wild Brain?
Scott Hyten
200
List five things that people wanted to do from half a world away. (Hint: Internet)
shape things, design things, create things, sell things, buy things, keep track of inventories, do somebody elses taxes, read somebody elses x-rays
200
When was Pay Pal founded, and what was its role?
1998, to facilitate customer to customer transactions
200
What does AJAX provide?
easy access to richer and more sophisticated web based business that you can use to run a whole company online at a very low cost
200
When was the genesis of the flattening of the world?
mid to late 1990s
300
What is the name of the studio that produces films and cartoons for Disney and other major studios?
Wild Brain
300
What was the first breakthrough in work flow?
The combination of the PC and email
300
What did ecommerce-guide.com say about pay pal?
anyone using Pay Pal within e-mail, can send money to anyone else with an email, even if they do not have a Pay Pal.
300
What is the process of running a business online?
Keeping track of inventory, staying in touch with coustomers, recruiting project management, product development, scheduling, budgeting, and human resources.
300
When would the elements of the new platform fully emerge?
ONLY in the 2000s
400
What is the name of the cartoon series that Disney Channel was working on when the author showed up to meet with Hyten.
Higglytown Heroes
400
Describe the process in which the work flow consisted of before the diffusion of computers and the internet.
Consisted of the sales department taking your order on paper over the phone, walking it over to your shipping department, which shipped the product...Etc
400
What are the three ways that Pay Pal can accept money from the purchaser?
charging the credit card for any transaction, debiting a checking account for any payment, deducting payments from a Pay Pal account established with a personal check.
400
What online source is AJAX compared to?
Amazon.com
400
What did the people feel in the mid to late 1990s?
something big was going to change
500
How many episodes and stars are involved in the making of Higglytown heros
26 episodes, 50 stars
500
What was the great leap foward for PC?
It gave everyone in the office a chance to create and minipulate digital content (words, data, pictures) at their finger tips.
500
Who Adopted Pay Pal and why?
eBay, it enabled the buyer to pay the sell very easily.
500
What does AJAX allow you to do?
over the internet all the word data and bussiness processing you would normally do on a PC
500
Who is the IBM strategist?
Joel Cawley