Twitter May 26, 2010

I'm not a big fan of twitting, but I do see some advantages (like sharing breaking news about the library). I don't think we should be limited to business news only. I would appreciate being informed about intertainment issues or something similar. It can be used to quickly share information with people interested in contests, bookclubs etc. It can help build relationships with customers, co-workers in other branches etc.

LibraryThing 05/19/2010

LibraryThing is an amazing online service, a sort of Facebook for people who like books. I have been using it for more than a year now. I can share my library with others, and meet people with similar tastes. The experience is like walking into someone's home and looking at their collection of books. I have extensively used it with some of my regular customers, especially those who ask me what I'm reading at the moment.

Online Productivity Tools. May 12, 2010

1. Online Productivity Tools really make our life easier.
The Calender is great, because it can syncronize my calender at work with my personal one.
2. I really liked Google docs (presetation tools are great). I also played with family budget spreadsheet, read a comment about "a 502 error on the spreadsheet". It doesn't threaten my budget, but it means that one should be really careful about calculating errors.
3. I'm not quite sure that all free online tools eventually will replace MS Office or alike because we have to be careful about our privacy. In any technological progress we always deal with advantages and disadvantages, and one of the disadvantages is our privacy.

Flickr, You Tube

Both Web sites are very friendly. I have been constantly using You Tube, especially for entertainment issues.
Flickr is something new, and very fasinating. It is an amazing photografic community with sharing at its heart. Searching for 'night images' on topic and groups gave me different results. Everyone explods showed 74,571 members and 678, 675 photoes, while group searching result was more modest. But it was fun.

RSS April 28, 2010

RSS is another good tool to play with. I didn't have any problem in adding a feed to my Bloglines using the second way. It was very easy and not time consuming. I didn't have patience with the first method, because I always try to find the easiest way. And actually YAHOO (which I use at home) sindicates the most visited websites for me (I used the term customized). I'm a subsriber to Good Reads, so book review sindication is very helpful.

Google Universe April 21, 2010

Google Universal April 21, 2010 1. Amazing how little I've used Google before (I thought I did know it very well, probably as well as many others, because we used it on an every day basis). My favourite Google product is Google translate. The phrase "then the next speaker took the floor" was translated into Russian absolutely correctly (normally figurative expressions are the most difficult ones to translate). I would certainly recommend it to my friends. 2. Aardvark is another one that can be recommended to use, especially for travel tips. The answer to my question came in a few seconds. 3. Google Chrom is very easy to use if you are looking for interesting books, magazines etc. 4. I didn't quite like Script Converter because phonetic equivalent in the desired script doesn't always convey the exact title of the website or it's difficult to read it. (Again I'm speaking about conversion from English into Russian. The Reverse conversion is even more difficult).

Facebook 04/14/2010

On the one hand it's good to socialize with your friend, especially if they live in different counties. It was good to see pictures of my friends and friends of their friends, but I'm concerned about my privacy. And even though I put as little information as I could I don't feel secure.

Wikipedia

What is the smallest primate?

Wikipedia reads:

The smallest primate is the Mouse Lemur, Microcebus murinus. Males and females both weigh about 60 grams (about 2 ounces).

The article was edited:

The smallest true primate ( excluding tree shrews, which are normally classified separately) is the pygmy mouse lemur (Microcebus myoxinus,) dicovered in the deciduous forests of western Madagascar in 1993. It has a head-and-body length of about 2.4 in (62 mm), and a tail length of 5.4 in (136 mm), and an average weight of 1.1. oz (30.6g)

CPL2.0delicious

That was a great idea to play with the delicious, I feel more comfortable in using it on an every day basis.

CPL2.0 What I hope to learn

By undertaking the assignments I hope to become comfortable with the usage of new Hi-Tech