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Web 1.0 was the information web. Web 2.0 is the “interactive web”. The user has became the creator of content, and interaction is prime. They’re set up for folks who do not have specialized web skills – they’re user friendly. Several cool Web 2.0 apps and sites were shared at our June 24th M2M session. Here are some of them.
Delicious.com, a social bookmarking site. Create yourself a free account, then use it to save and access your bookmarks anytime you are on the internet, or find the bookmarks of other delicious.com users based on tags or keywords they give their finds. Your bookmarks are shared unless you choose to make them private. Jody Yamamoto, who teaches at KCC showed us how to create tag bundles for grouping your tags, sending your finds to another user’s inbox, and creating a network or Subscribing so links automatically come to your delicious account. Download a handout from drop.io/hmaus_maclearn.
Jing www.jingproject.com answered Marcy Katz’s need to see videos of her grandchildren without bloating her email account. Jing is the answer – it captures either stills that can be labeled and marked, or up to 5 min high quality videos of an area of your screen you draw out. Click Share and it automatically uploads to Screencast.com. You are given a URL which you save and share to view your image or movie. You can immediately paste it into a chat or email, sharing it instantly. Cool! Watch their intro tutorial, very easy.
Dropbox and ZumoDrive are file storage and sharing services. They work similarly in many respects – both give you up to 2 GB of space, place a button on your Desktop toolbar once installed, allow you to drag and drop files and folders into your cloud account either right on your computer or via their website. You can then set your other computers and devices to access documents you uploaded to your cloud, and with the hybrid feature, docs on your computer.
Though primarily to access your own files, you can also share a folder or file with others. ZumoDrive has a mobile app, Supersize Me. You can stream your iTunes library from your computer, saving iPhone/iPad space. Reviews put these two apps pretty much neck and neck with DropBox being a little more stable and ZumoDrive conserving your storage space better and streaming music. Your choice. As an alternative to email attachments, thumb drives and CDs/DVDs, these hybrid cloud storage is a good alternative. Of course each has a “premium” for money version but try the freebies first. Not everything worked the way these tutorials said they would, but check them out and see how they work. Tutorials Zumodrive Tutorials: Dropbox
Drop.io.com is another fire storage/sharing site that can be expanded to a community with live chat, an email address, RSS feed and customizable layouts for each user. Go to dropio.com and type a name for your site. Create an administrator account if you want to customize it and you’re set. You set your guests privileges – add, delete or view and download only.
Click the Add button, locate a file on your computer and click Upload. As administrator you can also delete items. That’s it. Anyone who goes to the site can download, or your can set access by document. Each “drop” can only hold 100 MB of stuff, but you can have as many free drops as you like. Visit http://drop.io/hmaus_maclearn page and download any of the handouts we’ve posted for you. Create yourself a free drop.io site and try it out! Tutorial
Shortcut Tips of the day: While on any web page, to enter a URL (web address) to go to a new page, just press Cmd-L and start typing. The web address box is automatically highlighted and what you type replaces what was there. Just press return and off you go.
You can also type search words into the URL box and press return instead of clicking back into the Google or Bin box to search. Neat! Mahalo Gregg Kamei for the tip!
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