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University to teach students to implement BitTorrent, Web 2.0 in business

torrentfreak.com — With the help of IBM, the University of Arizona will put together a course designed to essentially teach people how to apply Web 2.0 services like BitTorrent, blogs, wiki's and social networks in a business setting.

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anonymoustroll, on 10/12/2007, -22/+6First person to implement unintrusive DRM that can survive bittorrent like distribution mechanism will make a *****-load of money.

Personally, I don't consider Bittorrent to be a member of the "Web v2.0"(tm) club.

1 - it predates the wide spread web v2.0 craptastic circle jerk that is currently in full swing

and

2 - it has very little to do with the web.
- kidhero, on 10/12/2007, -23/+2let me restate your stupidity:
  
  the first person to let their copyrighted material not be secured and be able to be delivered en masse without bandwidth costs will get a lot of money
  
  okay RETARD
  
  maybe you should sign up for the class
- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7"bittorrent has very little to do with the web"
  
  ........?
  
  I'm assuming you ripped that one out of your ass before you even whipped open urban dictionary to see what bittorrent is.
- Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11"........?
  
  I'm assuming you ripped that one out of your ass before you even whipped open urban dictionary to see what bittorrent is."
  
  And I'm assuming you don't know the difference between the web and the net. You can download .torrents from websites. That's about the only way I can relate bittorrent to the web. If I log into someone's FTP, download a torrent, and download a file using that torrent, I have not once touched the web.
- Grimboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I think that the parent has a point. While .torrent files are commonly avaliable over http (the web), AFAIK bittorrent its self actually uses a custom protocol build upon tcp/ip (the internet, the layer *below* http and the web). If everyone suddenly decided to use something other than http (maybe they decide that gopher is better after all), then bittorrent would still work. Fact is, if you want to call bittorrent something you could call it filesharing 2.0, but not web 2.0.
  
  EDIT: Dargh, beaten.
- dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"I'm assuming you ripped that one out of your ass before you even whipped open urban dictionary to see what bittorrent is."
  
  I'm assuming you're an idiot.
mikev, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6Are photoshop tutorials on how to make reflections and gloss also taught?
- RandomGuySteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Only if you intend to use them in a business setting. Which means.. ***** all if I know.
  
  No wait.. it means that your gloss and reflections must reflect the corporate world's commitment to excellence and understanding of issues such as diversity and the big "C" word Community.
  
  Get crackin!
owenejade, on 10/12/2007, -14/+0http://www.francewebcam.fr/
jole, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Well it has to happen eventually. They can't just teach HTML 2.0 in Schools forever.
- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2why are people digging him down? it's actually HTML 4.0, but most universities dont even teach about CSS in their classes.
- Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3"most universities dont even teach about CSS in their classes."
  
  And why would they? In-depth knowledge of CSS is more of a college thing. The University is an ivory tower; the college is a trade school. And CSS is a tool of the web design trade.
- TonyCubed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've dugg him up as he speaks the truth. Have you seen schools these days teaching children how to use Frontpage? It maybe HTML 4.0, but it disgraces the HTML 4 standards, would be no different if it was HTML 1.
- dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@tyr
  
  let me guess, you're in neither.
- dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If your computer science program has a course on html, you should consider transferring to a better school.
- jole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was referring to High Schools btw.
nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Hmm.. Sounds like a marketing ploy to take your money.
Seriously!
Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1and who said web2.0 was dead
tmanka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Ughhh....how is BT web 2.0? This is like saying skype is web 2.0 or IRC is web 2.0....its completely unique technologies...not mash ups of existing technologies.
- Grimboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not to mention that all the things you mentioned aren't even web based.
- musras, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0>"Ughhh....how is BT web 2.0?"
  
  In the way that BT involves a group of people sharing content with other people that they do not necessarily know!
  
  (whether it's "their" content or not is beside the point, erhmm, i think, or does that only make it web 1.9??)
KraftyUA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm not sure that this is completely accurate.
I am an MIS student at the University of Arizona (Taking this course next year...)
The department hasn't mentioned anything about BT when advertising this course to us. I would be surprised if they talked about BT, despite the fact that is might be relevant. There is a very strong push from the Business school to stay away from all illegal downloading and thus BT isn't usually looked kindly upon.

Here the official course description from the UofA website:
"Online social networking and communities have become a big role in how organizations interact within themselves as well as with external partners. Developing a healthy community can lead to new business opportunities, improved customer relations, as well as improved communications to the world. Online social network sites already claim over 300 million members worldwide in public sites that are starting to turn into a new generation of b2b and b2c business collaboration and brokerage sites. This course investigates the technologies, methods and practices towards developing online communities, and how this knowledge and these skills are applied to businesses. The course will involve lectures facilitated by the instructor and corporate representatives. Also incorporated will be experiential exercises and skill development assignments"

As far as the other comments about teaching HTML and CSS. I haven't been able to find any courses for any type of web design at the UofA yet. So this will be the only web design coursed offered on campus, but it is limited to only those who are MIS majors in the Business school.
- Travelsonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"There is a very strong push from the Business school to stay away from all illegal downloading and thus BT isn't usually looked kindly upon. "
  
  Based upon thinking-in-the-box, eh?
  
  While there is a majority that makes up BitTorrent traffic that is illegal (though I do not pull figures out thy ass) - the technology can be and is used legally, is not illegal, and has been implemented before. The effort comes in thinking of a practical way of working in BT technology.
rcran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ya. Because IBM is so 'hip' and 'in' on this web 2.0 scene.
Tawni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's about time the U of A offered something useful. I may actually look into this class.
mepcotterell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, we know that there are legitimate avenues for bittorrent use. Blizzard even uses bittorrent for its patching system.
voxelzenith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sorry to disappoint some folks but there is no mention of BitTorrent anywhere in this class:

http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/rawn/MIS+300+Managing+Online+Communities+course

It sounds like someone made an incorrect assumption.
iamdexter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1BitTorrent should be illegal.

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