In class we were assigned different world wide web functions you can use. My classmates and I were all told to create presentations for the class. I will be comparing a few for this blog post.
Social Bookmarking:
Andrew chose StumbleU
Users can organize, store, and share links, but it is not file sharing
It became very popular after it was sold to ebay.com
Create lists of interest and StumpleUpon will find links related to those interests
A lot of Pros and Cons to it, sometimes you get undesirable pages and a little hard to organize.
Nathan-Digg
Social media is shared. Web news become accessible. You can follow anything you want, that interests you. Its digg because you almost dig up the stories you want to see.
Pros: narrow searches, many options and variety
Issues: there are a lot of ads.
The one chosen by Andrew actually allowed you to include your interests, but I don't know if Nathan's did that.
List Creation:
Iona- Listamatic
You can make a list, but maybe a lot of people don't want to use lists.
You can include business listings, share information on a list or make a general list
Alex-
Google Places
Many people use it to put their favorite places. It's easy to sync with Google's other apps such as Maps and Voice.
It allows people to use the Google application and it increases access to your list.
You can choose what information you want to put in.
It seemed that Alex's webtool was simply for listing places as opposed to many different list types like the one Iona used.
World Cloud:
William- Google docs.. William unfourtanetly did not follow instructions.
Marcellus-TagCrowd
(A little upset I had the same website)
You can't RSS or see how many words you used.
It allows the user to see how often each word is being used.
Allow you to edit html after you copy it.
Matthew- tocloud.com
He gave a good explanation of word clouds. This allows you to hyperlink . It is more asthetically pleasing manner than all the words together, the words with higher frequency are in bigger letters.
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