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Web Resources. CSC101-03 Stefanie Riccio Santagio Steele Chris Pond. Blogs. Blogs are a type of website or a part of a website that is maintained by a person who updates regularly. This individual can update with text, description of events, graphics, and video.
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Web Resources CSC101-03 Stefanie Riccio Santagio Steele Chris Pond
Blogs • Blogs are a type of website or a part of a website that is maintained by a person who updates regularly. • This individual can update with text, description of events, graphics, and video. • Blogs are known for being interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and interact with other users. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog ) http://www.ktcu.tcu.edu/images/blogspot_icon.png
Skype • Skype is an online application, allowing users to make calls over the Internet. • Calls to other Skype users are free, while calls to landlines or cell phones are costly. • Skype is relatively known for its instant messaging, file transfer, and its video conferencing through webcams. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype ) http://www.softsailor.com/downloads/20793-download-skype-4-2-0-155-free.html
Twitter • Twitter is a social networking site that allows users to send 140 character ‘tweets’ on their profile page. • An user can also follow people, receiving their tweets and be followed by other users. • A user can tweet other people in conversation and even upload pictures for their followers to view. • Twitter is known for its group of celebrities who tweet, such as Ashton Kutcherand Lady Gaga. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) http://shiftingcareers.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/how-twitter-can-help-at-work/
White papers Is an authoritative report or guide that often addresses issues and how to solve them. White papers are used to educate readers and help people make decisions. They are often used in politics, business, and technical fields. In commercial use, the term has also come to refer to documents used by businesses as a marketing or sales tool
Sleeping in Airports Some tips on what are the best airports or some of the worst airports to sleep at. Why spend money on a night in the airport hotel when an inflatable raft on the airport floor is free? Sure, it may sound a little cheap and degrading at first, but read-on and you'll soon discover a travel community, that for almost 14 years has been sharing their airport sleeping experiences and travel advice with fellow airport sleepers around the world. Airport sleeping is no longer just for the cheap young backpacker. Nowadays, you'll find travelers of all ages and income brackets stretched out on airport floors around the world.
Priceline Priceline.com gives leisure travelers the inside track to the best travel deals and discounts around.With our exclusive deal search technology and negotiating power, priceline consistently delivers more ways to save on discount airline tickets, cheap hotel rooms, car rentals, vacation packages and cruises than anyone else.
Google Talk • Google Talk is a free Windows web-based application for instant messaging and voice over internet protocol • With google talk you can send friends and family quick texts and thoughts, and also see what they are up to and if they are around • You can send and receive pictures and other files • Can talk to friends free from long distant from your pc and also talk to more than one person at a time • http://www.google.com/talk/about.html
Google Talk Google Talk (GTalk) is a no-charge Windows web-based application for instant messaging and voice over internet protocol (VOIP) client offered by Google INC. The first beta version of the program was released on August 24, 2005.
Kayak Kayak.com is a travel search engine website based in the United States. Founded in 2004, it aggregates information from hundreds of other travel sites and helps users book flights, hotels, cruises, and rental cars. Kayak combines results from online travel agencies, consolidators such as Orbitz, and other sources such as large hotel chains.
Kayak • Kayak is a travel search engine which helps you find exactly what you want and what your looking for • After choosing what you want it brings you to the site to make your purchase • Helps you find flights,hotles,cruises, and rental cars • Also helps you find the best and lastest prices for travel • http://www.kayak.com/?gclid=CKjJrtfH9aMCFVw65QodNGKB3A&kw=kayak&ci=803-527-2209&brand=kayak
Delicious • Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which where you can save all your bookmarks that you find online. You can share them with other people, and then see what other people are bookmarking • Also can see what are the popular bookmarks being saved at that point and time within many areas of interest • Delicious keeps all the bookmarks you save in one place so that you wont loose them. • http://www.delicious.com/