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 SPE542TEAMTWO __Facebook Definition__ Facebook was founded in Februrary 4, 2004 (RW) Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. 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. (RW) One of the pros of this social networking site is that you can keep in touch with hundreds, even thousands of people you know, or have yet to meet. It is wonderful for getting to know more about a person when you don't have the time to physically stay connected. (RW) I am a relative newcomer to Facebook (12/08). When I joined I had lots of free time and it was kind of fun to "see" people I haven't seen in many years. After several months, my workload increased and my available time dwindled. When I finally went back on Facebook, I had hundreds of requests for friends, emails, etc. Sifting through these names from the past made me consider whether I need to rekindle a friendship made at sleep-away camp over 30 years ago? Hmmm. I guess it comes down to where you are at this point in your life. (RW)

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__**LibraryThing**__ LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. It is free up to 200 books. Beyond two hundred books it is $10.00 per year or $25.00 for lifetime. (HS)

LibraryThing was created by Tim Spalding, a web developer and web publisher based in Portland, Maine. Tim also runs [|www.isidore-of-seville.com] and [|www.ancientlibrary.com]. Since becoming a "real" business in May 2006, LibraryThing now employs a number of talented people. (HS)

As a kindergarten teacher I have quite a large classroom library. I began using [|www.LibraryThing.com] recently and have found that it is the easiest site to use. I hope to have my entire collection of books logged by the end of the school year.

To get started click here [] or here s a short video on how to use LibraryThing.

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__Del.icio.us __

Delicious is an extension of Yahoo that provides free social bookmarking services.The term social bookmarking comes from the two basic utlities of this service - "bookmarking" means using tags to organize, label and remember websites and "social" refers to the ability to share and add bookmarks with other users. (ES)

Del.icio.us, as it was originally named, was founded by Joshua Schachter in Nov. 2003. It was purchased by Yahoo in Dec. 2005.While Yahoo was attempting to release a new version of Delicious, Joshua Schachter resigned in 2008. Subsequent improvements have been made to the service in 2009.(ES)

How to use Delicious? - Users install a programing add-on that provides a sidebar, which is similar to the "favorites" sidebar that most people are familiar with. You locate web addresses, "tag" them with a name or series of names (Delicious provides helpful tag suggestions) and then you can share these with other users. New features enable you to share bookmarks via tweets, e-mail or on the Delicious website. Also available areFlickr thumnails and audio files that are playable on the bookmark lists. These bookmarks take the place of folders that many of us use currently.(ES)

If you want to learn more about Delicious, they have their own blog, user forum and support page. Although they had step by step instructions to begin the bookmark progress, I still found it took me a few tries to do it correctly! Once I learned how to "tag" my bookmarks, things moved along smoothly. I would like to share some of these with you, so please sign up for Delicious! For educators who want to share websites and even audiofiles and images, this will be a great tool. Delicious is a convenient way to search, file, organize and share web pages.(ES)

Pros - easy to install and use Cons - tags need to be easily recognized Available on any computer Icons for Delicious look similar at first Bookmarks are saved if your computer crashes Ability to share good websites with others Sidebar is highly visible and mutliple ways of searching and saving You do not have to repeat searches for favorite links!

__Twitter__ With in the pass couple of years I have been hearing a lot about this technology tool called twitter. I notice it became the buz word during the election period and amongst celebrities. Before doing my research on twitter I away thought of it as being similar to a reality show that is being written. Twitter is actually a service for friend, family and coworkers, to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People write short updates often called “tweets”. It’s a great place for keeping people informed on what you are up to without the need to spend a lot of time crafting an entire post on the subject. For example if you just want to say what’s up and leave it at that the twitter is your site to use. Twitter is also known as an instant messaging or social messaging tool. Twitter was create March 2006 as a side project and has now basically taken over the world. Tweets are a text based posting and consists of 140 words or fewer in length. A tweet can be received on a phone or your email. One draw back is you can not edit a post on twitter once it has posted. Some of the pros and cons about twitter that I have seen and heard of are its ability to promote or discredit many marketing products. An example, is with the movie industry. Tweeting can make or break a movie box office because as soon as customers leave a movie theater they immediately begin to tweet friends, relatives, or coworkers to tell them if the movies was great or not worth watching. With the cost of movies so high, people are grateful to know if a movie is worth watching or not. I believe not only Movie Theater is experiencing this phenomenon but every marketable product such as restaurants, malls, plays etc are being affected.

I signed up for a twitter account and it was exciting to follow so many interesting people. Did you know that Oprah went to visit Phylicia Rashad ( the lady that played the mother on the Cosby show)? She also went to see Nelson Mendela ( former president of South Africa). Paula Abdul is doing well after American Idol. She went to visit her mother today. I like this quote from one of my new friends, “women are like a bag of tea. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water” (WZV)

__Flickr__ Flickr is a website where you are able to upload your photos and then do a variety of things with your photo. Flickr provides five different ways to upload your photos to make it as easy as possible for all users.

Once your photos are online, you can play with them. If someone in the picture has red eye, you can get rid of it in a second. You can crop photos and even add effects. Flickr also has an organization feature so that you know what pictures are where. If you have changed a bunch of pictures to be funny looking, you can create an albums of pictures that you messed around with. There is actually two layers or organizing pictures. One is known as sets and the other is collections. Sets are basically photo albums and collections organize the sets.

Flickr is like an online community of photographers. You can share your photos with the world if you choose to do so. There are groups that you can join, and they center around common interests. However, you do not have to share your photos if you do not want to. You may set your pricvicy to your liking. There is no need to worry about your material being stolen because flickr has taken steps to ensure that your copyrights are protected.

Finally you can use Flickr to create new things. If you went on a road trip with your friends you can put your pictures on an actual map so that people know exactly where this picture took place. You can use it to make cards, calenders and a bunch of other things. It could be a fun tool if you are into this sort of thing. (BJ)