Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
I’m taking a look today at Twitter, a popular online service similar to the “status box” implemented by Facebook. Twitter gives users the opportunity to post small updates on their life via a personal RSS feed.
Here’s the basics. Once you’ve signed up for a twitter account you’ve got your own personal little twitter [...]
Tags: blog, Blogging, Social Networking, status, tweet, twitter
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
I’m writing this post because, frankly, I’m a sucker for technology and I needed to share this brilliant tool for viewing photos online.
PicLens is what’s know as an “Immersive slideshow”. It allows you to experience photos in a very multi-dimensional way.
It is a web browser plugin that provides interactive full-screen slideshows of online images. The [...]
Tags: 3D, Browser, Photos, PicLens, Pictures, Slideshow, Viewzi
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Fragmented online life? This may help. friendfeed is the biggest of a new type of internet service, the social aggregator.
The problem friendfeed solves is: people have multiple sites, services and blogs and they need one place where this stream of content can be consolidated. If RSS feeds take all the new content from your fav [...]
Tags: friendfeed, RSS, social aggregator, social glue, social thing
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Feedburner is a web 2.0 news feed management system. Founded in 2004, Feedburner provides tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web masters to provide unique RSS feeds. Google purchased Feedburner in 2007 for 100 million, and subsequently eliminated the fees on many of Feedburners pay programs. An interview with Dick Costolo, prompted [...]
Tags: feedburner
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Mr. Sean Parker has done quite well for himself. This man takes credit for co-founding Napster and also founding Plaxo which is an online address book, networking tool, and communication facilator. The innovative element of this free service is it’s ability to automatically update all contact information which means you can ditch those [...]
Tags: address book, napster, plaxo
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I personally think that craigslist is much easier to use than eBay. I experience craigslist sell tool, because I had to sell a lots of staff for my boss, and I have found that listing my items through craigslist have gave better results. One of the features that I like in craigslist is that you [...]
Tags: craigslist, ebaY
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Pageonce defines itself as the first “personal internet assistant.” Everytime people go to their computers, they generally start out by checking a myriad of different sites. (The weather, stock prices, facebook, checking accounts, and the most recent political news, for example). Pageonce tries to simplify this process by allowing the user to see all those [...]
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Well perhaps not quite; Youtube is, however, opening the doors for the transfer of valuable and helpful information. A series of “educational” videos were posted in the past year on how to deal with children with autism and other special cases. Youtube can also prove to be helpful with news clips, political videos, and even [...]
Tags: YouTube
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Both of these websites can be used to sell possessions on-line, but the important question is which one is better to use for the seller of goods? The reason most people sell items on the Internet is because it is often easier than selling something to a consignment store and there are more opportunities [...]
Tags: craigslist, ebaY
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
These last 2 weeks our class has blogged on YouTube. Here is what we came up with…
Hunter told us how to use YouTube to promote a business in: YouTube: How to sell yourself
Liam confessed to never rating a video in: YouTube: One Big Nerdy Group-Hug
Francisco on: YouTube making the Job Search more efficient…
Evolution of [...]
Tags: YouTube
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