YOUTUBE & PODCASTING

YouTube and Podcast are very similar to me other than Podcast is a little more personal. I would probably use the YouTube just to watch the old sitcom's that are on it or if someone told me to watch something someone posted. I would use the Podcast to download certain audiobooks or music. So, I really don't have a preference. I would probably use both of them an equal amount of time, just for different things.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Both are great forms of social networking, but to me they are also different in a lot of ways. It really depends on what you would be using them for.

Facebook seems to be more business orientated and a little more formal than MySpace. Facebook is an excellent place to post upcoming events to inform everyone of. A lot of college students use this form of social networking so the know what is going on a the different colleges that their friend are at.

MySpace is a little more laid back and a lot more fun. The social networking in MySpace has a lot of crazy graphics and people go crazy changing the layouts and backgrounds in it. They also post a lot of pictures of events that they attend as slideshows that rotate or flip around so their friend can see them. There is one for minor children that is a lot safer for them than MySpace called Vevo. I would not recommend that minors use MySpace because it is to accessible, even with the new privacies changes.
My preference is MySpace. I just have a lot more fun with it that FaceBook, and even though everyone I know has accounts in both, they use the MySpace the majority of the time.
Below are my links for this lesson.

http://www.myspace.com/stmul8mymind2
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=831086444

Wikis was fun and interesting. I had used Wikipedia before, but that was for research only, which I really didn't find too helpful. Using Wikis for communication purpose of planning events at a Library or etc.. would be great. I would enjoy the BookLovers Wiki though. That one I know I will be giving a second look to.

DEL.ICIO.US & TECHNORATI

Tagging would be very important to people who do a lot of research on subjects that they are interested in. It would be a quick and easy way for them to keep up with all information on the subject without doing a lot of internet searches.

Del.icio.us would be very useful for people who does a lot of research on certain topics and if they know others that would be interested in some of the things they have tagged. It would be very useful and simple to forward the information to them.

Technorati a good place to tag certain links and it is very simple to do. It seems to already have subjects divided in catagories so it would be easy to find subjects and tag them to your blog.

Here are my links to del.icio.us and technorati:

http://del.icio.us/STMUL8MYMIND

http://technorati.com/people/technorati/STMUL8MYMIND