"Enabling Commerce Using Internet & Enhancing Collaboration using Web 2.0"

Chapter 4 & Chapter 5

Blogs

• A blog is sometimes referred to as an online personal journal. It is a site designated for an individual to write about his/her daily experiences, to illicit thoughts and often allowing readers to offer their comments. The term is a shortened form of “weblog”.

• The 3 most important types of blogs are: Technology, Business/Finance and Entertainment

Technology Blogs• Engadget

Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronic. Engadget is a multilingual technology blog network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics.

•www.engadget.com

• GizmodoGizmodo's got the exclusive on all the latest toys and cool and wacky inventions, from high definition TVs and coffee makers to booze belts and USB drives. It is a site that publishes photos of a solar-powered bathing suit. They also blog about serious technology news too.

www.gizmodo.com

• TechDirtTechDirt is a newsy, "tell it like it is" blog that frequently features debates on the hot issues in the Internet and computer fields. Personally I adore this blog because scandals are a specialty, but simplicity is its stamp.

http://www.techdirt.com/

Business Blogs• Quora

Quora is a question and answer blog where experts actually take the time to seriously answer your questions. You can follow topics like startups and entrepreneurship and people like Fred Wilson or Mark Zuckerberg. Answers get voted up by the community so that only the best ones shine.

www.quora.com

• LinkedInLinkedIn curates articles based on your professional profile and your social connectionscurates articles that are fitting for your industry and that people in that industry are sharing. As such, it's a good source of entrepreneurship and business news all in one place

Web-based collaboration tools

• Site: http://www.badblue.com/helpxls.htm • BadBlue is an easy, secure way to share Excel

spreadsheets over the web or even a local area network (LAN), using nothing more than a browser.

BadBlue offers different tools such as home, product, news, help, download, about, etc. to any question or doubt we could have on the site.

You can get started quickly and easily by reviewing the FAQ, below. It will step you through set-up, usage, and even advanced topics. And our illustrated tutorials make it easier than ever.

• The main reason why this site is so effective and easy to manage is because the tools that appear on it are essential and well defined, also it has a lot of illustrated tutorials explained step by step, so you can rarely get lost.

Chapter 5 Resume (wordpress)