Wiki assignment partI

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. LinkedIn had more than 80 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Quantcast reports Linkedin has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally.  The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection.  LinkedIn also allows users to research companies with which they may be interested in working. When typing the name of a given company in the search box, statistics about the company are provided. These may include the ratio of female to male employees, the percentage of the most common titles/positions held within the company, the location of the company's headquarters and offices, or a list of present and former employees. 


http://www.linkedin.com/

Wendy Owens
BTE 410

Yelp.com

http://yelp.com/ is a social networking, user review, and local search web site that is operated by Yelp, Inc.  Yelp has about 31 million monthly visitors.  This is a popular website.  Yelp provides online local search capabilities for its visitors.  A typical serch includes what the user is seeking and the location from which is to be performed, entered as a specific address, neighborhood, city/state combination, or zip code.  Each business listing result contains a 5-point rating, reviews from other site visitors, and details such as the business address, hours, accessiblity, and parking.  This is a very helpful website to me and businesses.  If I want to travel to another state or a business need to send someone to another state, they could go to yelp.com and find out the best restaurant, hotels, parking and etc.

Slide

http://slide.com/ is a software that allows users to display slides using a computer during a presentation.  These slides are often incorporated into a slideshow and used as a visual tool to enhance the presentation.  Slides can be controlled by the presenter.  Users presenting with slide software are allowed to manipulate text and images on the slides and use the slideshow feature to present their information.  Slideshow is used by many different companies.  I used slideshow is was very easy to use, for now on I rather use slideshow instead of Microsoft Powerpoint.

Academic Earth

http://academicearth.org/ is a website launched March 24, 2009, by Richard Ludlow which offers free online video from universities such as UC Berkley, UCLA, and Harvard.  On this website you can search the different subjects through the different university and pick the best lecture.  This is very useful to me because I could listen to lectures and learn information that I did not know. I think it would also be very useful to bussinesses.

Google Maps

Google Maps is a basic web mapping service application and technology provvided by Google.  Once it was named Google Local.  It is free for non-commercial use, that powers many map based serves, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, and maps embedded on their party. To use google maps I had to type http://maps.google.com/.  I think it would  be very useful to businesses, if they were taking a trip to another state or city, they could find the different routes, and also few live traffic.  It is also useful to me as a student.  I think this a good source to use when you are traveling some where else.

Google Latitude

Google Latitude lets uses to manually turn on and off the tracking software; thus gives users choice when they should be or should not be seen.  It also lets users to choose the people who should be able to locate them.  http://google/latitude.com uses global positioning system, wifi, and cell tower location data to find/track/locate people.  It is amazing how you can use this website to find people or let people locate you.  I thing this can be very dangerous too, if you have someone out to get you and they can track you down by using google latitude.  It would be helpful for certain businesses but me as a student I probably wouldn't use goolge latitude again.

Linkedin

http://linkedin.com/ is the world's largest professional network with over 80 million members and growing rapidly.  LinkedIn connects to your trusted contacts and helps you exchange knowledge, ideas, and opportunities with a broader network of professionals.  LinkedIn gives you the keys to controlling your online identity.  Have you Googled yourself lately?  You never know what may come up.  LinkedIn profile rise to the tope of search results, letting you control the first impression people get when serching for you online.  I enjoyed usinge LindedIn, it was very useful and helpful in locating coworker, friends and family.  I could also invite people to join.