Blog 5: Youtube

YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. The name and logo of the company are an allusion to the cathode ray tube, a display device used since the early days of electronic television.

What are the services offered by youtube?
you can upload videos in youtube
you can see many videos in any genre of movie clips, music videos and tutorials videos


How do I sign up for a youtube account?

How are videos categorized in youtube
if you view the video, under it. There are categories in the video.

How do I search for a video?
click the search button

How do I upload videos?

Once you've finished editing your video, made sure it's less than 15 minutes, smaller than 2GB in size, and in an acceptable format, you're ready to upload it.

• Click the Upload link at the top of any YouTube page.
• Click the "Browse" button to browse for the video file you'd like to upload to our site. Select the file you want to upload.
• Click the 'Upload Video' button to start the uploading process.
• As the video file is uploading, enter as much information about your video as possible in the relevant fields (including Title, Description, Tags, and Category). You're not required to provide specific information, but the more information you include, the easier it is for users to find your video!
• Click the 'Save changes' button to save the updates you've made to the video file.

How do I manage my videos?

To make a video, you'll need to have a device that can capture digital movies—this could be a camcorder, digital camera, or even your cell phone! You copy the movies to your computer, and then you can either upload them as-is or edit them with software such as iMovie or Windows Movie Maker to add titles and special effects. For more detailed information, read the Making and Optimizing Your Videos guide.

How do I subscribe (and unsubscribe) to a channel/account?

Subscribe

In order to subscribe:

1. Sign into your account.
2. Go to either a user's channel page, or on the video watch-page, look to the right hand side of any video. You'll see a yellow "Subscribe" button.
3. To subscribe to that user's videos and/or activity, click the yellow button. You'll receive a confirmation that you successfully subscribed to the user.
4. Once you've subscribed, you can customize your subscription options. On the user's channel page (next to their profile icon), you'll see "Edit subscription". When you click "Edit subscription" various subscription options will appear. These include:
   
   
   • Subscribing to all of a user's public activity (uploads, favorites, ratings etc.)
   • Subscribing to only video uploads
   • Unsubscribing from the user


5. Select option(s) that you'd like to see in your subscription updates.
6. Click the "Update" button. You'll now be subscribed to the user uploads/activity.

Unsubscribe

Once you're tired of being subscribed to someone's videos or favorites, there are two ways to unsubscribe.

Look into that person's channel page and click "Unsubscribe" in the upper left.

or

1. Click the "Subscriptions" tab at the very top of any YouTube page and all your subscriptions will be displayed in on the left hand side
2. Choose any subscription, and click the "Unsubscribe" button on the right side of the screen

Other significant features

• Watching Videos
• Sharing Videos
• Organizing Videos
• Searching Videos
• Uploading and Editing Videos
  

Blog 5: Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community created by Ludicorp and later acquired by Yahoo!. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.

What are the services offered by flickr?
image hosting and video hosting. Photo sharing and video sharing

How do I sign up with flickr?
www.flickr.com
then you must have an YAHOO email address to sign up for flickr.

How do I upload pictures?
click the upload your photo

What are tags? How do I tag a picture?
tags, it helps you description and you can share it
click the add button

How do I manage my pictures?
check you profile and click you then click your photostream or photos of you

How do I print pictures from Flickr?

You can print any of your photos on Flickr using "Order prints and more" in the Actions menu on the photo page. If there's a batch of your photos you'd like to print, try using Organize & Create.

You can also make photo books, calendars, and other fun stuff in the Organizer's Print & Create tab. The Organizr makes it easy by letting you filter photos by set, tag, and lots more. After you've selected the ones you want to use, just choose what you’d like to make and you'll be taken to our printing partner Snapfish to customize it.

If you're having trouble deciding which photos to include, throw all the ones you are considering into the batch in the Organizr. When customizing your project over at Snapfish you can always take out any that don't make the cut.

How do I search for a contact? add a contact?
in your home page in flickr. click the YOUR CONTACTS.

How do I create and manage groups?
in you home page . click YOUR GROUPS

Other significant features

When you use Flickr through the Internet browser on your mobile phone, you can do the following:

• Upload photos via email
• Share your photos
• View your contacts’ photos
• View your contacts’ comments
• Explore photos from the Flickr community
• Search for specific photos
• Mark photos as favorites
• Post comments on your contacts’ photos

Blog 5: Twitter

Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service which enables its users to send and read other users' messages called tweets.

Why should I have a twitter account?

Social media networking is the next big thing for most of the people at present. Many believe that this form of socializing is a great option as it enables you to interact with people from all over the world, make new friends, learn heaps and share you views and interests with the people you meet on these sites. Twitter is one such site that has become very popular among the online community. There are quite a number of reasons why you should also have a Twitter account.

How do I create a tweet (post)? Delete a post?
Fill up the "What's happening?" then click the Tweet button.


click the delete button.

How do I reply to a tweet?
click the reply button.

How do I manage my tweets?
go to ur profile then then click the LIST.

How do I search for a person/organization to follow?
click the search button at the right side to search for a person/ organization

How do I follow a person/organization?
Just simply check their profiles and then click follow.

How do I 'unfollow' a person/organization?
How do I manage my followers?
Just click the List then create a new one. Its your choice to manage them.

Other significant features

Twitter and it’s features

1. Twitter allows you to send and read other users updates (known as tweets)
2. Twitter messages(tweets) are limited to 140 characters (microblogging)
3. You can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS(text messages), RSS (receive only), emails or a third party application.
4. You can restrict delivery to your circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default).
5. You can use third party application such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, and Feedalizr to send Twitter messages.

Blog 5: Facebook

Facebook - is a social networking website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college.

Why i should get a facebook account?
Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information and other personal information. Communicating with friends and other users can be done through private or public messages or a chat feature. Users can also create and join interest groups and "like pages" , some of which are maintained by organizations as a means of advertising.

How do i register?
you must sign up and fill your name,birthday, age , email address, etc.

How do i add friends? delete friends?
To add friends in facebook, you simply search for them in the search button. If you know their email address, search them using the email address then ADD them as friends. There are also common or mutual friends if you view a profile. you can ADD them too.
To delete friends in facebook, you simply click the "remove from friends" in their profile.

Are any ways I can manage my contacts?
There are many ways to manage your contacts or friends in facebook. You must go to the FRIENDS button, then manage your contacts, create a list for them and group them according to your opinion.

How do I post a shoutout? a picture? video?
you fill up the "what's on your mind" then click the share button. The picture and the video has an icon. you will see it in the picture.

How do I make my profile private - viewable only to my friends?
1. go to account then click it.
2. click the privacy setting
3. your choice to make it a private viewable to friends or everyone.

Other significant features
Chatbox
News Feed
Status Update
Games
Videos
Fan Pages or Like Pages

Blog 3: Google Docs

Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.

Main Features

Google Docs Document

With Google documents, you can easily create, share, and edit documents online. Here are a few specific things you can do:

• Upload Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or plain text documents, create documents from scratch, and download your online ones.
• Edit documents online simultaneously with anyone you choose, and invite others to view them.
• Keep track of who made changes to a document and when, and roll back to any version.
• Publish documents online to the world, as webpages or post documents to your blog.
• Email your documents out as attachments.

Google Docs Spreadsheet

With Google Spreadsheets, you can easily create, share, and edit spreadsheets online. Here are a few specific things you can do:

• Import and export these file types: .xls, .csv, .txt and .ods. You can also export data to a PDF or an HTML file.
• Format your cells and edit formulas so you can calculate results and make your data look the way you want it.
• Chat in real time with others who are editing your spreadsheet.
• Embed a spreadsheet, or a section of a spreadsheet, in your blog or website.

Google Docs Presentation

With Google presentations, you can easily create, share, and edit online presentations. Here are some things you can do with Google presentations:

• Import presentations in .ppt and .pps file types and export your online ones.
• Insert images and videos, and format your slides as you want.
• Allow simultaneous real-time viewing of presentations, online, from remote locations.
• Publish and embed your presentations in a website for the world to view.

Advantages of using Google Docs

• it is online
• fastest and easier way to use MS Office Application
• You don't have to install Microsoft Office Application in your computer
• Present and publish through the web
• Information access control – Each piece of content can be as private or as public as necessary.
• Worker mobility – Access your data from anywhere.
• Continuous innovation – Put the web's rapid pace of innovation
• Smoother information sharing – Improve traditional software with more efficient collaboration

Disadvantage

• The disadvantage is that they will need to set up a google docs account, tied to their email, if they don't already have one.
• Need Internet Access
• Not all application has the full version
• Microsoft Office Application updates its version through the years
  

Blog 1: The Difference

Comparing the blogsites of wordpress and blogger.com.

I suggest to use the blogger.com because i am familiar with it and i used it before.

but then wordpress.com is a good blogsite because it is organize compare to blogger.com

blogger.com has many nice features, and you can edit the layout of your page.

Blog 2: The Search Engines

Search engines provide some popular ways of finding information on the intenet. There is a wide variety of search engines and features. Some search engines are on specific websites, allowing visitors to the site to search for specific words or phrases. Others are broader in scope.

Advantage of using search engines


Basically their are more of advantages and less of disadvantages the advantages include the results come fast and are very quick, your time is saved a lot and the disadvantage are you get totally dependent upon the internet for your searches.

Advantages -
you get what you need easily.
easy, quick access to information

Disadvantages -
you get even what you shouldn't get
you get lazy and depend on the Internet

Advantages:


Variety

1. An Internet search can generate a variety of sources for information. Results from online encyclopedias, news stories, university studies, discussion boards, and even personal blogs can come up in a basic Internet search. This variety allows anyone searching for information to choose the types of sources they would like to use, or to use a variety of sources to gain a greater understanding of a subject.

Precision

2. Search engines do have the ability to provide refined or more precise results. Putting quotations marks around a set of words will bring up results with the exact same words, excluding others. Some search engines, such as Google or Yahoo, enable you to specify the type of web sources to be searched. Being able to search more precisely allows you to cut down on the amount of information generated by your search.
   
   Search engines within a website allow you to search information only on that website, filtering out information from other web sources and giving more precision in a user's search for information.

Organization

3. Internet search engines help to organize the Internet and individual websites. Search engines aid in organizing the vast amount of information that can sometimes be scattered in various places on the same web page into an organized list that can be used more easily.

Read more: The Advantages of Using Search Engines | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_6120742_advantages-using-search-engines.html#ixzz0yvyvKvWE


Comparison and Contrast of search engines and meta search engines

Though there are dozens of useful meta search engines, InfoSpace is the industry gorilla, operating the four arguably best known and most heavily used properties.

Dogpile and Metacrawler are the two best known InfoSpace meta search engines. Less well known is that InfoSpace purchased the Excite and Webcrawler properties when Excite failed, and quietly re-engineered their back ends as meta search engines.

A key component of InfoSpace's new focus is still "monetization," but the company has also refocused on two other core goals: To improve quality of results and to improve the performance of the search engines.

As part of this process, InfoSpace has cut deals with Fast, Google and Inktomi to include results from their sites in addition to the paid listings provided by Overture, FindWhat, Ah-Ha, and other results from LookSmart, About, Ask Jeeves, SearchHippo, the Open Directory Project, and InfoSpace's own directories.

Query analysis has also been improved. The engines first try to determine whether the user is looking for commercial or non-commercial results, according to Tasha Irvine, InfoSpace product unit manager, search.

When to Use Search Engine Databases:

Search engines are the best tools to use when you are looking for very specific information or when your research topic has many facets. Usually when you need information on a very detailed or multifaceted subject, a search engine will give you not only more information, but also the most precise and up-to- date information possible. Even though most of the major search engine databases attempt to index the entire Web, each one has a different way of determining which pages are most relevant to your search request. In one database, a relevant document may be fiftieth on the list; in another database, that document may be first. In order to retrieve the most relevant documents, you should become familiar with many search engines and their features.

Invisible Web. Traditionally refers to the information available through eways or search interfaces that is not accessible by the search engines’ robots. It is a huge part of the Internet content, including library catalogues, bibliographic and alphanumeric databases or even some repositories of documents. During last years some engines, specially Google, has made a great effort to index these records and in fact several databases are more or less covered in their systems (i.e. PubMed is partially indexed by Google). Our ranking do not consider the Invisible or Deep Web and we encourage transforming it in crawler friendly information.

How to Find the Invisible Web

Simply think "databases" and keep your eyes open. You can find searchable databases containing invisible web pages in the course of routine searching in most general web directories. Of particular value in academic research are:

• ipl2
• Infomine

Use Google and other search engines to locate searchable databases by searching a subject term and the word "database". If the database uses the word database in its own pages, you are likely to find it in Google. The word "database" is also useful in searching a topic in the Google Directory or the Yahoo! directory, because they sometimes use the term to describe searchable databases in their listings.

Examples:

plane crash database

languages database

toxic chemicals database

Remember that the Invisible Web exists. In addition to what you find in search engine results (including Google Scholar) and most web directories, there are other gold mines you have to search directly. This includes all of the licensed article, magazine, reference, news archives, and other research resources that libraries and some industries buy for those authorized to use them.

Why isn't everything visible?

There are still some hurdles search engine crawlers cannot leap. Here are some examples of material that remains hidden from general search engines:

• The Contents of Searchable Databases. When you search in a library catalog, article database, statistical database, etc., the results are generated "on the fly" in answer to your search. Because the crawler programs cannot type or think, they cannot enter passwords on a login screen or keywords in a search box. Thus, these databases must be searched separately.
  
  
  • A special case: Google Scholar is part of the public or visible web. It contains citations to journal articles and other publications, with links to publishers or other sources where one can try to access the full text of the items. This is convenient, but results in Google Scholar are only a small fraction of all the scholarly publications that exist online. Much more - including most of the full text - is available through article databases that are part of the invisible web. The UC Berkeley Library subscribes to over 200 of these, accessible to our students, faculty, staff, and on-campus visitors through our Find Articles page.


• Excluded Pages. Search engine companies exclude some types of pages by policy, to avoid cluttering their databases with unwanted content.
  
  
  • Dynamically generated pages of little value beyond single use. Think of the billions of possible web pages generated by searches for books in library catalogs, public-record databases, etc. Each of these is created in response to a specific need. Search engines do not want all these pages in their web databases, since they generally are not of broad interest.
  
  
  • Pages deliberately excluded by their owners. A web page creator who does not want his/her page showing up in search engines can insert special "meta tags" that will not display on the screen, but will cause most search engines' crawlers to avoid the page.

source: http://library.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html