dijous, 9 de febrer del 2012

DropBox


Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. that uses cloud storage to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. It was founded in 2007 by MIT graduates Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a Y Combinator startup.

The web link is: www.dropbox.com

If you want to Main page of DropBox, you will se a tutorial video about how use it.


Delicious


Delicious is a web social bookmarking service for storing, sharing and discovering webbookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In late 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million uniqueURLs marker. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

The web link is: www.delicious.com

Twitter

Twitter (or SMS from Internet) is a Web 2.0 and microblogging that leaves to do to the users to post text messages.

Unlike the social networks, Twitter can't add friends between friends, but users can track you want without permission of the user.
This microblogging is the most used of the world, creating sixty five milion of tweets by day. It born in San Francisco, California in 2006, but is under jurisdiction of Delawere state, USA.
Web link: twitter.com

Vimeo


Vimeo  is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos. It was founded by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein in November 2004. They left the company in 2007 and 2008 respectively. 
The name Vimeo was created by co-founder Jake Lodwick and is a play on the word video, inserting the word "me" as a reference to the site's dedication to user-made video and is also an anagram of the word, "movie".



Web link is: www.vimeo.com


This video of Vimeo is a song by Ed Sheeran:



Sildeshare


SlideShare is a Web 2.0 based slide hosting service. Users can upload files privately or publicly in the following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote or OpenOffice presentations. Slide decks can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded on other sites. Launched on October 4, 2006, the website is considered to be similar to YouTube, but for slideshows. 
The website was originally meant to be used for businesses to share slides among employees more easily, but it has since expanded to also become a host of a large number of slides which are uploaded merely to entertain.


Slideshare isn't in spanish, but if it's in English: www.slideshare.net

Scribd

Scribd  is a Web 2.0-based document-sharing website which allows users to post documents of various formats, and embed them into a web page using its iPaper format. 
Scribd was founded by Trip Adler, Tikhon Bernstam, and Jared Fried-man in 2006.






The web link is spanish: es.scribd.com And the English web link is: www.scribd.com

Next we see a Scribd documents posted to my brother:



Prezi

Prezi is a cloud-based (SaaS) presentation software and storytelling tool for exploring and sharing ideas upon a virtual canvas. Prezi is distinguished by its Zooming User Interface (ZUI), which enables users to zoom in and out of their presentation media. Prezi allows users to display and navigate through information within a 2.5D space on the Z-axis.

Prezi is used as platform for bridging linear and non-linear information, and as a tool for both for free-form brainstorming and structured presentation. Text, images, videos and other presentation media are placed upon the canvas, and can be grouped together in frames.

The web link is: www.prezi.com

Now, we see a tutorial about how we use the Microsoft Power Point:



Picasa


Picasa is an application of Google and it's free. We use to post our images of the our computer that we want to upload in Internet because all the world see it.
With Picasa we can add your localitation, to create presentations and collages, to identify faces, to edit the images and many things more insterestings.



Picasa born in California at the beiginning of the present decade until 2004, that google bought the company. Nowadays, Picasa is in thirthy eight languages and since recently Picasa has a version for Mac.
Web link: picasa.google.es

I don't have picasa account because I had very problems when i download the application for my computer. Sorry.