Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Wk. 8 Thing 19: Web 2.0 Awards

I explored the Web 2.0 Awards site and found it interesting. One site that I liked was Yelp, a reviews site for restaurants, store and services located in different cities. I looked around the New York City portion and was impressed at the variety of stores it listed. It'll probably be useful next time I visit NYC or if I am going to a city I have never been to before. I have also heard about the Pandora music site from a friend and would like to try it out sometime. Based on the songs or artists you enter it will create a radio station with selections of similar music.

The site that I worked on the most was Netvibes.com. You can create your own home page that you sign in with a password and design it with feeds, photos, videos, a calendar etc. Netvibes has an extensive list of newsfeeds on different subjects and from a variety of sources. You can preview them before adding them to your site. The site is quite user friendly. The widgets that make up the page (feeds, search, calendar, notes etc.) are easy to choose, edit, move and delete. I enjoyed creating my page. There are enough options for one to be able to really personalize it with your interests. It is neat to have a bunch of updated information presented all at your fingertips. I think it is more reader friendly than bloglines. I was glad you only needed to give an e-mail address and a password to get started...no other information.

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