Blockbuster now exists as a streaming site and an on-demand service of Dish Network. Edge Connect peering needs an active connection on the Equinix or Megaport cloud connect Exchange, a BGP Autonomous System Number, customer IP addresses for BGP peering, and network devices that run BGP and 802.1Q tagging. Social networking sites are allowing us to reconnect with long lost friends, raise money and awareness for charities, get involved in politics (or, maybe more often, get into political arguments), share experiences and widen our real-world network of friends and acquaintances. Those friends and fans become “Muses,” and the new songs they like become recommendations for you. They usually allow you to post text statuses, cloud connected audio links, images or videos that are either accessible by anyone with access to the site or only to private groups of friends. There are e-reader apps, like Kindle, Stanza and Apple’s iBooks, through which you can order and read digital books on your mobile device or computer.

Some even allow you to bypass downloads and read your books in the cloud connected audio. E-Readers like the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Kobo Glo have taken a chunk out of the market for paper books. There are other major streaming sites, including Hulu and Amazon Instant Video; video sharing site YouTube; TV channel sites such as HBO Go and Watch ABC; services that allow you to rent movies and TV shows, such as Google Play, iTunes and Vudu; and Redbox, which offers both online streaming and DVD rentals at special vending-machine-like kiosks. Social networking sites facilitate social interaction and information sharing among friends, acquaintances or even strangers over the Internet. Music has gone through a similar shift, with CDs being supplanted over time by digital downloads, starting with the inception of MP3 compression and music sharing (or pirating) sites like Napster, then moving to paid digital downloads from sites like iTunes and Google Play and now unlimited music streaming through services such as Pandora and Spotify.

Streaming services, including Netflix and Amazon, are starting to develop and offer their own original programming, too. Here are 10 disruptive technologies that many people are now using on a regular basis. But now that so many people carry smartphones and have tablets, the dedicated e-readers themselves are not necessary for switching to e-books. Smartphones also have the added bonus of allowing us to quickly share our photos and videos on social networking sites, and there are even photo editing apps so you can tweak and retouch your image before you upload it. Social networking is reportedly also altering journalism. Social sites are becoming the main avenues of communication for some of us, or at least the ones on which we spend the most time. They are beginning to replace a great many things we formerly used all the time, and are introducing us to services that never existed before. Sending digital messages from computer to computer began over ARPANET, the beginning of our modern Internet, in the early 1970s. The average person didn’t gain access until the 1990s or later.

They might cause disruption by being cheap or simple enough for mass adoption, and then, as is the case with most computing devices, they grow faster, more powerful and better over time. There are also dedicated streaming set-top boxes, like the Roku, which allows you to download more than a thousand streaming apps, including most of the major players plus a lot of small niche channels. They can also be used for word processing and accessing business related sites on the road, although their small screens and slower processors don’t make them ideal for some business uses. The term disruptive innovation was brought into the lexicon by Clayton M. Christensen in his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” in the context of businesses adopting technologies that eventually completely surpass or replace previous technologies, possibly harming whichever business backed the wrong technology. The architecture brings cloud connected audio, video, and web collaboration together on a unified platform through cloud connected audio technology. A disruptive technology is something new that disrupts an industry, and quite often completely changes the way we all do things. Phone apps let you check email, play games, surf the net, create text documents, access product reviews, find directions and identify music that is playing at your location, among a great many other things.