Before this week's lesson, I'd seen Delicious all over the web, but I'd never bothered to actually type those letters into google.
It wasnt till now that I actually realised how useful it could be and what it could achieve.
People who did realise this were Yahoo and although they realised the potential of delicious two years after it was first released, on 5th December 2005, Yahoo made a great investment.
You may not actually realise how many 'social bookmarking' sites there are on the web, but its closing in 100. But delicious is by far the one leading the way and creating the example.
I currently have only a few bookmarks with Delicious, but I'm sure this will grow due to school and work, and to pages I just find interesting!
The fact that you could share your bookmarks with people of similar interests has made Deliocious as popular as it is.
That is what I believe the best part of it and is why I'm going to stick with Delicious.
Monday, 16 March 2009
Monday, 9 March 2009
Flickr
Flickr started off life as an online game which incorporated sharing photos into it. But little did the creators of flickr know that it would turn out to be as big as it is today.
"Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed," Caterina Fake says, a co-founder of Flickr . "We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things."
The game was never released though and in March 2004, Yahoo bought the company for an undisclosed fee and moved the 11 'Flickr' team members, with its company, from its home country, Canada , to the united States.
Flickr's traffic grew 448% to 3.4 million from December 2004 to December 2005, according to Internet measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings. In the nearly 12 months since Yahoo purchased it, the site went from 250,000 registered users to more than 2 million.
Flickr is such a massive photo base, and has so mnany people using it world-widem, that in the last minute that i have been writing this blog, over 42,000 photos have been updated onto the website. The site has revoulutionised the way we use photo sharing.
"Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed," Caterina Fake says, a co-founder of Flickr . "We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things."
The game was never released though and in March 2004, Yahoo bought the company for an undisclosed fee and moved the 11 'Flickr' team members, with its company, from its home country, Canada , to the united States.
Flickr's traffic grew 448% to 3.4 million from December 2004 to December 2005, according to Internet measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings. In the nearly 12 months since Yahoo purchased it, the site went from 250,000 registered users to more than 2 million.
Flickr is such a massive photo base, and has so mnany people using it world-widem, that in the last minute that i have been writing this blog, over 42,000 photos have been updated onto the website. The site has revoulutionised the way we use photo sharing.
Sunday, 1 March 2009
With over 175 million people all around the world (that's 3% of the world) on facebook, its no wonder that facebook's terms and conditions page is extremely long aswell as all its safety and advice pages.
With this high number of people on facebook it is also no surprise that facebook cannot change a thing about the network without someone starting a group or page against it.
And thats one thing that facebook got wrong. They thought that they could change their terms and conditions page drastically with very few complaints and people skipping to the end and pressing accept (myself included).
What I learnt in the past two lessons is that not many people realise the amount of information that they are putting onto facebook, with some people they are putting ALL of their personal information onto facebook, because they read only one word in facebook's terms and condiyions list: that all of it would be SAFE.
Little did these people know that to be truly safe they would have to manually go into their accounts settings and change it to their level of privacy. I personally only have my email adress and phone number on facebook, but , because of the last two lessons I have had in ICT, I have made sure that only people that I have agreed to be friends with on facebook canm access this information about me.
With this high number of people on facebook it is also no surprise that facebook cannot change a thing about the network without someone starting a group or page against it.
And thats one thing that facebook got wrong. They thought that they could change their terms and conditions page drastically with very few complaints and people skipping to the end and pressing accept (myself included).
What I learnt in the past two lessons is that not many people realise the amount of information that they are putting onto facebook, with some people they are putting ALL of their personal information onto facebook, because they read only one word in facebook's terms and condiyions list: that all of it would be SAFE.
Little did these people know that to be truly safe they would have to manually go into their accounts settings and change it to their level of privacy. I personally only have my email adress and phone number on facebook, but , because of the last two lessons I have had in ICT, I have made sure that only people that I have agreed to be friends with on facebook canm access this information about me.
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