Nowadays, almost everybody is a user of a social network or web application. Almost everyone has an account or more in the Internet for different purposes: keep in touch, share information, pictures, aggregate content, etc. These are some of the most popular ones and seem a must, at least for some people:
“FriendFeed is a real-time feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS/ Atom feed.” This tool helps you find and collect relevant information on the Web. It was created by Google. It has about one million visitors each month.
Seesmic is a web application that was created at first to make video loadings easier. It was created by the French Loic Le Meur. Now, has another use which is to aggregate content from from other social networks like twitter.
“WordPress is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for basic content management. It has many features including a user-friendly workflow, a rich plugin architecture, and an advanced templating system.” It was produced by Matt Mullenweg and first appeared in the year 2203. Right now, it has over 200 million users. WordPress has atemplating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themesthat can be installed and switched between. It got a prize in 2007 (Packt Open Source CMS Award) and another one in the past 2009 (best Open Source CMS Award).
Flikr is place in the Web which enables you to share pictures and videos with your friends. It is very popular, hosting over 4 million images, and has its own behavior regulations. It was created by Ludicorp, a Canadian company that launched it in 2004. “Early versions of Flickr focused on a multiuser chat room called FlickrLive with real-time photo exchange capabilities. There was also an emphasis on collecting images found on the web rather than photographs taken by users. The successive evolutions focused more on the uploading and filing backend for individual users and the chat room was buried in the site map. It was eventually dropped as Flickr’s backend systems evolved away from the Game Neverending’s codebase.” It offers Free accounts and Pro accounts: which have different policies and different capacities of uploading photos.
- Seesmic. (2010, January 7). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:04, January 24, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seesmic&oldid=336469410
- FriendFeed. (2010, January 2). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:03, January 24, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FriendFeed&oldid=335435429
- Flickr. (2010, January 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:03, January 24, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flickr&oldid=338376583
- WordPress. (2010, January 21). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:04, January 24, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WordPress&oldid=339077773
