Week 8 # 19

It was good to learn about the various internet technologies and websites which are gaining popularity. For this discovery exercise, I went to the short list of the Web 2.0 award winners, and looked at a few of them.

Ma.gnolia- a social bookmarking site. can share bookmarks and tags with other people.There is a ma.gnolia community to share and discuss about bookmarks which makes the social side of social bookmarking work better.

Lulu- Lulu offers free book publishing services. One can easily upload digital files, photos or manuscripts and format it the way they want , so that it can be printed and published by Lulu. Lulu ranks first among the self publishing websites. They even make it possible to get an ISBN for the book, so that it can be made available in stores, libraries etc.

Google maps- I loved it. You can turn the earth with your mouse and also zoom into places by double clicking on it. There is the satellite picture of an area available plus the street map and also the hybrid which could be useful.It was amazing.

I also had a look at Digg. Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web.People can submit images, videos or podcasts to digg. Once submitted, other people can see it and Digg what they like best. The contributions that receive most Diggs are put on the front page, so people can find it easily.