You know Linus Torvalds, I’m sure many are familiar with him, programmer from Finland. Great doing the coding is very evident, linux is one of the resulted of the ‘cold hand’. Here are some reasons why Linus became very famous:

1. Providing free handiwork. Unlike his senior, Bill and Jobs, Linus prefers to share his work to the public free of charge. Very quickly so that his name famous in the programming world.

2. Linus have infinite community. This is the effect of his willingness to share his works to the community, so the impact on the number of communities that recognize and support the Linus to keep exist.

3. Humble. Linus never openly boasted that his work is the greatest and perfect. Yet rather than competitors, linux is more secure and virus free.

4. Not hostile to the different communities. Linus rarely refuse to be invited by the IT community in the world, even if community ‘kicked’ him. With polite and full of tranquility, Linus can regulate the stability of emotions and circumstances. This fact makes it look dignified and mature.

5. Love the penguin. Penguin is used as the Linux mascot originated from a Linus who chased penguins at a zoo. Linus was idea to suggest penguin as a linux mascot. Then if people see pinguin, they are associated by linux. Then they are imagine a Linus face

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What’s your facebook account? Do you often get questions from your friend? Yup, facebook is a social networking site that fenomenal. With a total of hundreds of million users, Facebook into social networking sites become the most attractive people all over the world.

One born of a creative young man, Mark Zuckerberg, that is the name of the founder of facebook. Starting from simple ideas to ‘unify’ friends from Harvard University, and facebook quickly expand their network to different corners of the world, including to you.

And this is some of the reasons why facebook can successfully compete in the market social networking sites:

1. ‘Good looking’ layouts. We look at Facebook a clean and a smooth color choices make this social networking site to become more like views.

2. Ad placement is good, so ‘not visible’ it is an ad.

3. Allow the developer to develop additional applications. Many applications of third parties that are created by developers, developers outside the team facebook. And it makes a user more options to create a facebook they become more powerful.

4. Ease of communication in two directions, such as update status, response comments, and chat is very easy to do.

5. Embrace all the needs in a social networking service (upload photos, comment, chat, status updates, etc.)

Any others?