Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Web Services

About
-This post is about web services and what they do. There is a brief description about what web services do for you, and also a couple of other web services listed at the bottom.


I think Indicee and all the other web services out there is a good way to help individuals finally organize their work. It adds a new dimension to correcting and adding things to papers or special presentations. These programs let you do things, that others wont let you do, like collaborating with other people and making edits while offline.


-Joyant: Offer infrastructure as a service and sofware as a service

-Rackspace: Lets customers host their own websites and rent servers

Monday, November 9, 2009

Social Bookmarking

About
-This post is pretty self explanitory. This post was all about social bookmarking. All someone has to do is ready through the questions and answers and they can instantly understand what social bookmarking is.


1. What is Social Bookmarking?
Answer: It is way for Internet users to share, organize, search and managed bookmarks of web resources.

2. Who is using social bookmarking services?
Answer: Teachers, Students, Peers, Friends

3. Why is it significant?
Answer: Its easier to use and to store the websites that you go to. Also it makes it easier to share with friends or peers.

4. Where is it going?
Answer: Its becoming more and more popular and becoming the new era of bookmarking

5. How does it work?
Answer: Search your favorite website, save it as a bookmark and organize your list how you want it. Then share it with others.

6. How can it be used by teachers and students?
Answer: Teachers can share bookmarks they find school related websites, and students can also do the same thing.

7. What are the downsides?
Answer: Others can see what you bookmark

8. What are the benifits?
Answer: The bookmarks are saved for long periods of time, you can share them with friends easily, its organized

3 Websites

-Delicious

-Digg

-Twitter