This document discusses three different technologies: Zamzar, which allows file format conversion and uploading; Facebook, a social network that started for college students and expanded for general use; and Twitter, a social network for exchanging short messages about what users are doing with followers and following groups.

1. SLIDESHARE.NET
Hot Technologies #7, chapter 5

2. Zamzar.com
• A Web-based service, which allows you to
upload files and convert them to an
alternative format that you specify. Once files
have been converted, you are ready to upload
them to your blog host, a podcast
application, or a Web server.

3. FACEBOOK
• Facebook started as a tool for college students
to connect with each other and has expanded
to allow anyone to locate and communicate
with friends. General Information Website
facebook.com
Blog
blog.facebook.com
Twitter @facebook
Category Consumer Web
Employees 1,000
Founded 2/04
Description: Social network

4. TWITTER
• Twitter is a way for people in their office to keep in touch with
each other by exchanging short messages about what they
were doing. Twitter is an online application for creating a
social network in which you interact by sending and receiving
short messages from two groups of people: people from
whom you receive messages, known as your following, and
people who receive messages from you, known as your
followers.