Google Living Stories

1. The difference is that Living Stories gives all views and opinion of the concept.
2. I believe the bias will be reduced because it makes it easy for people to get all of the different views on each topic. They are then able to piece together what tends to be the same and the discrepancies and make a happy middle.
3. I could not personally think of any good ideas to add to this. Possibly a discussion board could be used or more links.

Screencast Project

Here's my screencast on Show Skiing!

BLACK FRIDAY!

The best shopping day of the year for me started at three in the morning. We did not need a lot this year, so we started our joureney at JC Pennys which opened at four am. We started there, taking advantage of the deals on cookware and other clothing articles. We then went to Sears, who opened at five am, and Meijers. The deals this year were not as good as in previous years due to the fact that there have been really good sales for the last couple of months.

I personally would not want to shop online. The deals are usually not as good and you do not get to have the experience. It is fun for my mom, my brother, and I to get up early and go shopping. I t is funny to watch all the people who are freaking out and fighting.

Last year we tried to go to Walmart and it was insane. We ended up leaving and did not buy what we wanted because it was INSANE! The people were fighting over everything and you could not even move the store was soooo packed. Black Friday is a fun tradition that many continue to participate in each year. With some stores now offering online shopping, maybe next year I consider doing my shopping online.

Advantages of Cloud Computing

• Cubetree: is a service that can make documents support comments. (http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/11/enterprise-20-cubetree-and-the.php)
• DocVerse: multiple people can edit the same documents online. This makes is simple to share documents. (http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/11/in-google-docs-you-can.php)
  
• SocialCalc: gives users the ability to collaborate across a number of spreadsheets. (http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/10/socialcalc-comes-out-of-beta-m.php)
  
• Indicee: combine data from different business systems, files and spreadsheets to create and share reports in minutes.(http://www.indicee.com/)
• Nimbus: is an open source toolkit that allows you to turn your cluster into an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (http://workspace.globus.org/)
  
• Eucalyptus: it is an open source software infrastructure for implementing on-premise cloud computing using an organization's own information technology infrastructure, without modification, special-purpose hardware or reconfiguration. (http://www.eucalyptus.com/products/tour/)
  

Social Bookmarking

• Social bookmarking is a way to share and manage your bookmarks with others
  
• Anyone can use social bookmarking
  
• you can sign up for a free account and start tagging your own websites that you find interesting and search other people's bookmarks
  
• This is significant because you can share your bookmarks with others and find useful websites to help you in your field of interest
  
• all of your bookmarks are stored online, you can access your bookmarks from any computer with internet access.
• It is easy to find a wealth of information when you look at bookmarks from your peers who are researching similar information.
• Some of the downsides are that it can be overwhelming
  
• Benefits include the ability to access your bookmarks from more than one computer, the ability to organize your bookmarks with keywords, and the ability to access others bookmarks, too.
• Delicious was my favorite because it was the simplest. I also tried diigo and simply.
  

I have already made my power point so now i already have movie maker. I will record my voice at home using the script that i have already written. Then i will lay the recording over the slide show and compress it into a move.

Screencast

• CamStudio- this software is able to record audio and screen activity. It can be used to create videos for demonstrations or tutorials. You can use it to make videos for just about any purpose. this software is free to use and compatible with almost every computer. http://camstudio.org/

• Wink - is also a tutorial and presentation creation software. This software is geared toward creating tutorials for MS-Word, Excel, Etc.. Using this program you can capture screenshots and add boxes and buttons. It is higly effective tool and easy to use. This software is also free. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

• Screencast-O-matic - This software is also free and easy to use. It is used to create video of your screen and then you can upload to any hosting site. The maximum length of these cast can only be 15 minutes though. http://screencast-o-matic.com/
  

Microsoft Office Alternatives

1. Corel WordPerfect Office X4 - has one-click PDF, HTML, and XML publishing, includes redaction and password-protection, and supports 60 file formats. It can create polished documents, turn complex spreadsheets into charts and graphs that are easy to read. it can also present slideshows, proposals, demonstrations, and interactive reports. It can be shared with many other computers programs with little or no distortions from virtually any source.(http://reviews.cnet.com/office-suites/corel-wordperfect-x4/4505-3524_7-32938021.html?tag=rb_shell;rb_mtx)
2. StarOffice 8 - it provides basic productivity tools and has a couple extra programs such as a drawing program. Many people prefer staroffice because it is very easy to use, many consider it more efficient. (http://reviews.cnet.com/1990-3524_7-5140428-1.html)
3. OpenOffice 2 - is a free of charge office software source for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in several languages and works on most computer. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.(http://why.openoffice.org/)
4. Apple iWork '08 - Apple has added the spreadsheet application Numbers which is much like Microsoft Excel. With the release of the numbers program apple users can now stick to this much less expensive option.the downfall is that Microsoft Office 2007 is not compatible with the apple program. (http://reviews.cnet.com/presentation/apple-iwork-08/4505-3525_7-32564562.html?tag=rb_shell;rb_mtx)
5. IBM Lotus Symphony (Windows) - consists of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications. IBM's Documents, Presentations, and Spreadsheets are foils to Microsoft's Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. (http://reviews.cnet.com/office-suites/ibm-lotus-symphony-windows/4505-3524_7-32624740.html?tag=rb_shell;rb_mtx)