The document discusses Erin Wilborn's favorite and least favorite emerging technologies. For favorites, Erin enjoys Twitter for socializing without drama, likes using Google Docs for easy document sharing, enjoyed playing Wordle and its potential for creative expression, and finds Sumopaint and Wolfram Alpha useful creative and information tools. For least favorites, Erin finds Delicious, Blogger, Google Reader, Newseum, and Flickr complicated or not well-suited to her interests and needs.

1. OST 284 Emerging
Technologies Final Exam
by Erin Wilborn

2. Favorite
Technologies:
Twitter
• I like Twitter because it’s
a great place to socialize
without the friend drama
on Facebook.
• It’s a nice way to just
follow people and see
what they are up to
without interaction if you
so choose.
• I like just being able to
follow people and not
having people follow me.
It’s so much easier to be
myself without worrying
about who is looking.

3. Google
Docs
• I love Google Docs
because it is so easy to
share documents.
• This wasn’t the first time
using it, but I was glad to
again because the whole
concept is so useful and
fun.
• I can definitely see
myself using Google Docs
in the future as an
Administrative Assistant.

4. Wordle
• Wordle was so much fun
to use. I’m an artistic
person, so I can
definitely see it’s
potential.
• I would love to make
shirts with Wordle. I can
see so many possibilities
with different themes
and different purposes.
• I like to read, I like
words, I like crafts and
art. All these things are
combined in Wordle and
that’s why I will be using
it again.

5. Sumopaint
• Sumopaint is one of my
new favorite sites. I’m
always looking for artistic
outlets and this site is
awesome.
• Creating designs is so
easy and fun to do. I can
spend hours working
with all the different
types of techniques.
• I would love to be able to
use this site in the future
for work. Possibly
creating a company
design for a logo.

6. Wolfram
Alpha
• I like Wolfram Alpha
because it’s so easy to
look up any information
• It gives so much
information about one
topic, in one place, that it
beats Google by a long
shot.
• I can use this for
unlimited searches for
future companies and
anything else I need.

7. Least Favorite Technologies:
Delicious
• Delicious is alright for what it is
but I just don’t care for social
bookmarking.
• The whole process just seems
too complicated for me and I
would much rather stick to the
old way of bookmarking that I
know.
• I also don’t like the social aspect
of Delicious. You can see what
other people have tagged, but I
would just as well keep my
bookmarks to myself.

8. Blogger
• Blogger is great for those who
like sharing information online,
but that’s just not for me.
• I found it difficult to get things
the way I wanted on my blog
page.
• I didn’t like the limited choices
on design or layouts either. In
some areas it offered too much
and in others, not enough.

9. Google
Reader
• Google Reader is too
complicated for me to handle. I
never understood the feed
reader applications.
• Not only did I not understand
how it works, but the application
didn’t interest me anyway.
• I don’t really care for getting
notifications about new posts
and such. I don’t follow that
many things, so Google Reader
is just a program that I don’t
see myself using in the future.

10. Newseum
• I can see that Newseum is a fine
source for the news, but I don’t
follow the news very much, so
the site really has no use for
me.
• The navigation around the page
also seems a little hard to
follow.
• It would also be nice to have a
translation for those papers in
different languages available.

11. Flickr
• I didn’t like Flickr because it was
frustrating at times, especially
when finding the geotag.
• Flickr is also a social network,
which means that your pictures
can be seen by anyone.
• I don’t see myself using Flickr
very much either because I
don’t take a lot of pictures.