My Review of del.icio.us (first encounter)

Delicious is a tool that's been around for a while now and is recognized as one of the leading platforms for social bookmarking. You can use it to discover, share and organize important links so you always know where to find them again later. Delicious being a social bookmarking site allows a user to save their Internet bookmarks online instead of saving bookmarks to your computer's web browser, you are saving them to the web and can access them anywhere with an Internet connection. Any link you find around the web that you think is worth saving, you can do with Delicious. The platform makes it easy to do that by offering a range of web tools that help you save new links with a click of your mouse.

 

 

 

 

The bookmarklet, for example, is something you can add to your browser. When you come across a great page online that you want to save to Delicious, just click that button. And what’s neat is you can also get Delicious browser extensions for Google Chrome and Firefox.

My Review of Flickr (first encounter)

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Flickr is a popular photo sharing and hosting service with advanced and powerful features. It supports an active and engaged community where people share and explore each other's photos. You can share and host hundreds of your own pictures on Flickr for free.

Flickr makes putting your photos and videos on it simple, and gives you plenty of options for customizing the information about them.  Add "tags" and a description to make your photos easier to find and enjoy, or make them private if you want to admire them by yourself.  With 1000 gigabytes of memory storage, you'll almost never run out of space for your photos and videos! You can also do other cool things such as reserves full-size images and EXIF data, attractive interface, large photo-sharing community, Geo-tagging, people tagging, keyword tagging, Online photo editing and Traffic stats.

OpenOffice Vs Microsoft Office

The last open source software I chose to review was OpenOffice. I did so because I had no idea that it existed. Although our school offers MS OFFICE for free, I’ve had a few situations blocks when my software wasn’t responding and I had to look for online word processors to finish my homework. I recently came into a problem with my MS Excel not opening and I almost missed the deadline of my second job. I had to use my MacGyver skills to turn in my work. But with Open Office by Apache I now have a secure backup plan that works just as good as Microsoft Office Suits. The fact that Open Office offers the same programs as Microsoft with the same functionality makes Open Office a wonderful choice. The Open Office Writer looks so much like Microsoft Word I don’t even miss Word. Unlike Mozilla Firefox and Audacity, this open source software seems to be neck and neck with its predecessor competitor. 

Audacity Vs. Pro Tools

Second I chose to download Audacity. I did so because while watching the CNET Insider Secrets video I saw that Audacity is a free version of Pro Tools which I have used a lot in the past. So, I decided to check it out. After recording some audio and attempting to edit it I found the same option tools available. And everything that came to my mind to do was possible. The only difference to me was the familiarity of the look. When working with Pro Tools I feel comfortable knowing that artist around the world use the same software. I guess Audacity would be perfect for the independent artist or some looking to cut down on their budget.

Mozilla Firefox Vs. Internet Explorer

Over the next three post I will be reviewing some Open Source Software and comparing it to commonly used or sold software. First I chose to download Mozilla Firefox since I have heard of it but never used it and because it reminds me of cheese sticks. When opening Firefox, it kind of reminds me of Web 1.0 at first. I think I may be stuck to Internet Explorer and the elaborate MSN.com homepage. But of course, this open source software browser can be just as functional as any other browser. I guess the problem would come in when it came to being able to or not being able to manipulate the code.

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2.0 Here We Go

"SolutionWatch"

And just like that I’m back, and this is a two-part assignment and as you’ve guessed this post will be on the second blog that I visited. For the second blog review I wanted to venture towards the end of the list so I chose to visit SolutionWatch posted by Brian Benzinger coming in at number 10. I feel that although there is a huge difference between the two blogs, they both serve an important purpose. I feel like SolutionWatch is a more relaxed, neat and clam blog. It isn’t as busy as TechCrunch and is not too much to take in. There was a post that I thought was very interesting about “L8r”, which is a service that lets users create an email and have it delivered at a specific time in the future. I think that is a very useful idea that I had no clue about and it can be used in different ways and for different reasons.

"TechCrunch"

Hello everyone, this is my very first blog as well as post and it is a part of my class assignment. So I will be starting this post off with a review of another blogger’s blog. The blog that I chose was from the list of The Top Ten Blogs Following Web 2.0, by Brian Wynne Williams. I chose to review Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch at number 1 on the list. This blog gave me a good idea of what my blog would eventually look like or could look like. The total layout helped me to understand and see things a whole lot clearer. What really stands out about the blog more than the information that its providing is the frequency of the post that are being made. It seems to be at least one post every hour and even cycles of every 14 minutes. The blog itself was very informative and especially if you are into technology. I really enjoyed visiting that blog. I liked seeing the post about Samsung “Could this be the end of Samsung’s smartphone reign”, because it a HOT topic and it was posted only 2 hours before I visited.