Friday, June 27, 2008
YouTube
YouTube is so much fun! I could waste a lot of time looking around and watching videos, definitely a great time killer. :)
Problems loading Twitter
Twitter is giving me a bit of a problem loading right now, as in it will not load! From the podcast video about Twitter (by the way, the Common Craft videos are really easy to understand and the guy doesn't have a boring voice), I know that I have used something similar to it in Facebook. Twitter sounds more organized as it only keeps track of what people are doing. When the page will load, I am going to go back and try to set up a Twitter account
Meebo
Wow! Meebo is great! I wish I had known about it/ it was available a few years ago. I have at least 3 instant messenger programs on my laptop just so that I could talk to my friends who used one type of messenger exclusively. In college (the height of my IM career,)typing a paper or completing an assignment while im'ing 3 people on 3 separate im programs meant I had about a gazillion windows open or minimized at a time. Talk about a mess! Meebo is a genius invention!
Wiki's
First of all, I have to say how much I love the way that the word "wiki" sounds. To me it brings to mind this colorful, squiggly line that can be reshaped. Anyway, in reality, wiki's are really useful and have so many uses; I have seen them used in a class book discussion. The kids loved being able to use the wiki to share their opions and comment on what other people said. It also opened up discussion for everyone, including those kids that normally wouldn't talk in class. I haven't personally participated in a Wiki group but after watching the podcast of what a wiki is with the camping example, I can think of several applications for a wiki in my own life, especially when camping with a group of friends.
Tagging
I've seen tagging done before, in Facebook particularly. I have seen tags listed under links on websites and I often wondered what they were but never tried to figure them out either. Now that I know that there is a broader use for them on the web and not just in Facebook photos, I think that I will download the del.icio.us application to my home computer. It seems similar to bookmarks but a little more flexible.
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