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A Journal for Exploring New Internet Frontiers.
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The toolbox is your source for tools and applications for social media, computing, and networking. Each is rated by the web2themag.com Editorial Board using criteria established by industry experts. The stars indicate overall value as determined by the web2themag.com Editorial Board.
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Concept: Collective Intelligence. Blogger is a tool for individuals who wish to publish their thoughts, ideas and other content, particularly for the purpose of having others contribute to the topic in a public forum. Sharing, adding to the body of thought, and learning from one another are key reasons to blog. Blogger provides unlimited storage space, traffic, number of blogs. Integrated into Blogger are Picasa, Hello, and Google AdSense. Server space is provided by Google. |
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BLOG — Blogger and Blogspot |
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Category Index Blogs, Cloud, Microblogs, Ratings, Social Bookmarking, Social Networks, Social Pictures and Videos, Wikis, 3DVR. |
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Concept: Web as Platform, Collaboration. Google Docs is an office suite that is used from a browser. Information is stored on the web and the web does most of the computing. Access the cloud at anytime from anywhere, from almost any type of device to work on your documents, spreadsheets, presentations and forms. Share your documents and spreadsheets with your designated team for collaboration, enhancements, editing, and meetings. Publish directly to Blogger.
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Watch and share your original videos worldwide over the Internet with YouTube. You can easily upload your clips and make them available through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email. You can also keep your video private (viewable by you and 25 selected friends). YouTube offers user channels and creation tools. As part of Google’s suite of applications, YouTube videos appear in Google searches and delivers the biggest audience for your video. |
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A short message system, Twitter enables users to send 140 character (or less) messages (tweets) to those who are “following” them, a Twitter friends list. Users also receive the “tweets” of every one they are following. Search for your favorite people, follow them, and know what they are doing minute-by-minute. Ask for information or opinion and get an immediate response from all who are following you. |
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MICROBLOG — Twitter |
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Create your Second Life avatar in your own image or in an image you have always wished for. After visiting Orientation Island to learn how to walk, talk, fly, build, buy, teleport and more, you begin your Second Life. Your account comes with some money to start with. Lindens are the currency on Second Life, which are convertible to dollars and other currencies. An active money market lets you buy Lindens to build your own place on Second Life and acquire an inventory of wonderful goods. Talk in text or audio, stream music or video, meet people form all over the world. |
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Concept: Community. Digg is a location where people collectively determine the value of content. News, videos, images are submitted to Digg, where they are immediately displayed in “Upcoming Stories” and where other members of Digg can find them and, if they like them, Digg them. Other people who view the content provide ratings. Content with enough Diggs is promoted to the front page. Content is commented upon by users. |
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Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. Delicious emphasizes community to enable new ways of discovering web sites from others and keeping track of them. Delicious also enables you to easily share your bookmarked web pages with others. Your bookmarks are also available to you over the Internet from any place at any time on any computer. |
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SOCIAL BOOKMARKING — Delicious (De.licio.us) |
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Concept: Community/Collaboration. Facebook gives people power to connect with others across the globe and openly share. Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. Users maintain a profile, have friends, networks and an Inbox. Facebook applications include photos, notes, groups, events and posted items along with a myriad of third-party applications. |
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Concept: Collective intelligence. The Wikipedia project is a user written, multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers. Visitors write articles that cover existing knowledge. Articles can be edited by anyone. Substandard or disputed information is subject to removal. Over 1500 administrators with special powers ensure that behavior conforms to guidelines and policies. Wikipedia is built on open source wiki software which is available, at no cost, to anyone who wants to serve a wiki for any purpose. |
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WIKIS — Wikipedia |
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