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A social bookmarking explanation your mom would understand
If you're reading Download Squad, odds are you know all about Digg, Reddit, Netscape, Furl, and del.icio.us. But if you've ever had trouble explaining to your friends, relatives, and coworkers why it makes more sense to share news/store bookmarks online, this video is for you.
The folks at Common Craft have put together a series of videos explaining complex Web 2.0 using Web -1.0 tools (like paper). One of our favorites Common Craft's RSS in Plain English video.
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The folks at Common Craft have put together a series of videos explaining complex Web 2.0 using Web -1.0 tools (like paper). One of our favorites Common Craft's RSS in Plain English video.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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ahoier said 3:16PM on 8-07-2007
When people ask what myspace or "social networking" are....it's simple:
Back in the late 90s, we had "Geocities", Tripod, etc. other "free web hosts" - for the most part myspace isn't anything really new...I think most people back in the day had atleast one geocities or "homestead" or other free web host somewhere on the net where they would write "posts" or updates on what they are doing, bios, their favorite movies, etc. (get it? lol...same thing as myspace).
The only thing myspace has that geocities didn't, is friends and comments!
Oh but then, some people created "web rings" and bravehost "guestbooks" and then we had friends and comments too :)
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Blog Jones said 6:36PM on 8-07-2007
@ahoier: You didn't watch the video did you?
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