Week 7: Social Networking

Facebook:
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.

Bebo:
On Bebo you can do all of the following plus more!
explore
Hottest bands, sexiest celebs and fresh new videos.
Show me what's hot
share
Your one-stop-shop for Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Delicious, Twitter, AIM, AOL Mail, Google Mail and Yahoo! Mail updates.
Keep track of friends on other social sites from one place.

I think both of the sites are definitely aimed at 20 somethings and under

Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati in Del.icio.us

Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to associate keywords with online content.
Technorati tagging, is a social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to categorize your bookmarks.

Wikis

Another site that the ordinary reader can find and contribute good reading material for other like minded readers. Seems to be a large variety of topics.

Could be used as a rss feed on our next reads site.

Public Libraries could set up a Wiki as Princeton Library has and patrons could publish their own reviews on books they have read from our libraries.

Rollyo

I have explored Rollyo, created an account for myself. Then I created a search roll, Added my search roll to my blog, containing my favourite subjects recipes, books etc.
Once again this took some time to create as internet access was so slow.
I am still convinced that 'blogging' will never be my favoured form of communication.

My favourite books

Library Thing

Library Thing Week 3
I haven't had much time today to really look at this site, so I will have a better look at this site later and see how I can use it.
My link to my "Library Thing" catalogue is:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/mcnana

Image generators

I played around with some image generators and found this one that I liked in FD FlickerToys which creates customized jigsaw puzzles from your photographs.

Now if I am to really tell the truth!!! Nerida showed me how to this and I have now commandeered her as my trainer.

But did enjoy this exercise as Nerida made it 'dead easy'.

this completes week 4