This document discusses several emerging technologies including Web 2.0, social media platforms like Facebook and Flickr, video sharing with YouTube, email with Gmail, collaborative websites like Wikipedia and wikis, blogs, bookmarking with Delicious, and microblogging with Twitter. It provides brief descriptions of key features and purposes of each technology.

1. Sherry Medlin
OST 284 Emerging Technologies Final
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2. Web 2.0
• The World Wide Web has changed the way
people do business, communication, and
share information with each other.
• Web 2.0 is characterized by interactive
applications that allow users to participate in
contributing, organizing, and creating their
content.
• Friendly to use.

3. Facebook
• Social Media with friends and family.
• Can find long lost friends.
• You can create your on profile to look the way
you would like it to be.

4. Flickr
• You can upload all of your photos and store
them.
• Tags are fun when doing pictures.
• You can also share the photo with friends.

5. YouTube
• It’s a online community Web site so people
can upload videos.
• It allows you to store videos that can also be
embedded into other Web sites.
• When being a member you can watch any
video that has been created.

6. Gmail
• A browser based e-mail application
• Can be installed on a computer
• Can use it for school and work, allows you to
instant message people with the same
account such as Gmail.

7. Wikipedia
• If something is not created than you can ask
for it to be.
• The only way to share is to write the
information in the box and it goes world wide.
• It relies on its contributors to write reviews.

8. Blogs
• Sometimes the layout features don’t work like
you would want them to.
• The permalink can go bad after a time of
updates to that website and its your
responsibility to fix it.
• Most recent article goes first and not the way
you posted it.

9. wikis
• Has multiple authors
• Content can range from articles, documents,
and spreadsheet attachments.
• Web based and people can make edits to the
article and a new version is saved.

10. Delicious
• The bookmarks may expire and when clicking
on the tags you may have to update it.
• Recent bookmarks are what you see first, due
to the updates.
• The organization is nonhierarchical which
allows information to be categorized in an
unlimited number of ways.

11. twitter
• It becomes a unmanageable flood
• Celebrity profiles and not sure if its really
them.
• Full with media news and hashtags.
• Addictive