Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Week 9: Podcasts, Video & ebooks

Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts and videos.

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Some Popular Websites that allow users to upload and share videos are..

1. YouTube.com
2. Google Videos
3. Yahoo Videos

Finally all is done..Wooho0O!!

Week 8: Online Applications & Tools



This is a really good online service for people who are most on the go, and doesn't have access to a usb saving device like memory flash drives. It simply means they just need to register with Google Docs and they can start saving thier work virtually online. Now How Cool Is That?

Week 7: Social Networking


I love this part of the week. Because I am a member myself to a social networking site called "Friendster".

Check Out My Own Profile..


Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati



In the Delicious bookmark search, I found out that there is a short video for Quick Tips on how to use Delicious on your iPhone.



"Huge thanks to Tom Merritt at CNET who created this video." I hope this is a useful tool for all of you current and future iPhone users!




The delicious bookmark web-site are useful. As a librarian, we may share the news or other things with other staff members. The following graphic cartoon is the one I find in the delicious bookmark web-site.




Then I explore the Technorati, the leading search tool and authority for blogs.

"Technorati is a real-time search engine that is the largest source of fresh information about the global and local conversations going on all across the Web. Technorati allows you to find out what people are saying about you, your company, your products, your competitors, your politics and, other areas of interest, on the Internet in real time. "

quote from " http://www.technorati.com/help/blogging101.html "



Week 5: Wikis


Wiki means quick in Hawaiian.

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content (excluding blocked users), using a simplified markup language.Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis.Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".

"Wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast"."Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication. "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is", but this is a backronym.




Discovery Exercise:

  1. SJCPL Subject Guides – a pathfinder wiki developed by the St. Joseph County Public Library system
  2. Book Lovers Wiki - developed by the Princeton Public Library
  3. Library Success: A best practices wiki
  4. Other library wiki examples
  5. PB Wiki Tour - Find out how this collaborative tool can be used
  6. PBWiki Video Gallery - Short videos of PBwiki features
  7. PB Wiki Tips

Week 4: Photos & Images


Phone, iPod, Internet, and more..

Introducing iPhone 3G. With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one — a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser. iPhone 3G. It redefines what a mobile phone can do — again.



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