Thursday, 26 May 2011

WEB 2.0

Exercise - select five applications that you have not heard of before from Popular URL's Web 2.0 awards or the webware awards and describe on your blog page how they could be useful to a business.
* http://www.wufoo.com/
This website is an way for business to create form easliy and quickly. This website also collects data that clients entre when filling out these online forms.
This is very useful to an organisation as it will reduce production time, therefore reducing human resources which will then reduce employment costs. Not only does using this service reduce a lot of things it helps to improve the speed inwhich business' receive information.

* http://www.hulu.com/
This is a video site that is provided from NBC, Universal and Fox Entertainment groups. This site allows veiwers to what ful lenght movies and TV shows on their computers. Youtube is one of its mean competitors however Hulu comes directly from these larger entertainment companys and not from the users of this service. Hulu has a policy in place where content on the site expires after it has been on there for a set amount of time. This site could be useful to very large organisations as they may be able to produce advertisment that will be played during these Tv shows and movies.

* http://www.dimdim.com/
This is a website that would help in the business world to set up meetings without having to travel interstate, or overseas. This website hopes to make conferencing between business' and between business' and potential investors more time efficient.

* http://www.etsy.com/
This site is like an ebay like art store, in the meaning that you are able to purchase someones goods at a lower cost than in a store.
This is a great website for small business' or not known artists to get their homemade works sold to the public.
This website is very bright and easy to use that it helps to attract potential customers to it.
http://elizabethgilhome.blogspot.com/2011/05/week-11-tutorial-questions-25511.html

* http://www.about.com/
About.com is a website that provides users with pages and pages of imformation on how to do things and why things are the way they are. About.com can be useful to companys if they wish to find the answers on a specific topic, they could also place a how to for their own organisation on this website.
http://leishysblogs.blogspot.com/

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