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.