Web Resources
By: Chelsea Cortright
Ashley Mancini
Derrick Cox
Jamall Smith
Becca esposito
Shared Calendars
• A free online organizer
and mobile app that
helps you manage the
family schedule, organize
shopping lists and to do
lists, and capture favorite
memories—all in one
place. Especially designed
for busy families, this is
accessible from any
computer, mobile phone
or tablet.
Blogs
• A blog is simply an area
for you to use as a
journal where you can
talk about anything
you'd like to. You can
open it up so that
others can make
comments on your
entries, or keep it
closed off. It is a fun
way to keep track of
your daily thoughts, as
well as to make your
opinions known.
White papers
• A white paper is an authoritative
report or guide that helps solve a
problem. White papers are used to
educate readers and help people
make decisions, and are often
requested and used in politics,
policy, 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. Policy makers frequently
request white papers from
universities or academic personnel
to assist policy developers with
expert opinions or relevant research.
Podcasts
• A podcast (or nonstreamed webcast) is a
series of digital media
files (either audio or
video) that are released
episodically and often
downloaded through
web syndication. The
word replaced webcast
in common use with the
success of the iPod and
its role in the rising
popularity and
innovation of web
feeds.
Webcasts
• A webcast is a media
presentation distributed
over the Internet using
streaming media
technology to distribute a
single content source to
many simultaneous
listeners/viewers. A
webcast may either be
distributed live or on
demand. Essentially,
webcasting is
“broadcasting” over the
Internet.
Skype
• Skype is a software
application that allows
users to make voice calls
over the Internet. Calls to
other users within the
Skype service are free,
while calls to both
traditional landline
telephones and mobile
phones can be made for a
fee using a debit-based
user account system.
Google Talk
Text chat:
• Instant messages: share
quick thoughts in real time
• Status updates: see if
friends are around and
what they are up to
• File transfer: instantly send
and receive files, pictures,
and more
Voice chat:
• Free long distance: make
PC-to-PC calls to people
anywhere in the world
• Audio conferencing: talk to
multiple people at once
• Gmail integration: chat
with your friends on Gmail
Delicious
• Delicious is a social
bookmarking service
that allows users to
tag, save, manage and
share web pages from
a centralized source.
With emphasis on the
power of the
community, Delicious
greatly improves how
people discover,
remember and share
on the Internet.
Twitter
• Twitter is an online social
networking and micro
blogging service that
enables its users to send
and read text-based posts
of up to 140 characters,
informally known as
"tweets."
Study stack
• Find flashcards to study
or create your own
flashcards.
• Study flashcards or use
the other activities such
as matching,
crosswords, hangman,
scrambled word, or bug
chase.
• Study flashcards
anytime/anywhere by
printing your flashcards
or by using a flashcard
app.
Woozy
• Whoozy is a search engine
focused on people and
companies. It’s an
aggregater of sorts
gathering information from
search engines, photo
sharing sites and video
sites. The information
gathered is targeted to
your input and will return
profiles, videos, blogs
press releases etc. relevant
to your subject.
Zillow
• Zillow.com is an online
real estate database that
was founded in 2005 by
Rich Barton and Lloyd
Frink, former Microsoft
executives and founders
of Microsoft spinoff
Expedia. The website
uses a proprietary
algorithm called the
"Zestimate" to appraise
property values based
on undisclosed factors.
Sleeping in Airports
• 1. Always Have a Backup
Plan
• Expect your flight to be
cancelled and be
prepared
• Be Safe
• Bring something
comfortable to sit on
• Get there early
• Scope it out
• It's sometimes better to
arrive than depart
• Dress for the occasion
Bidding for Travel
• BiddingForTravel.com's
primary goal is to
promote informed
bidding when using
priceline.com's (US)
travel products.
Priceline
• Priceline.com (NASDAQ:
PCLN) is a company and a
commercial website that
helps users obtain
discount rates for travelrelated purchases such as
airline tickets and hotel
stays. The company is not
a direct supplier of these
services; instead it
facilitates the provision of
travel services by its
suppliers to its customers.
It is headquartered in
Norwalk, Connecticut,
United States.
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 Orbits, and other
sources such as large
hotel chains.
Citation
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priceline
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcats
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcast
• http://www.sleepinginairports.net/
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