OPLIN 4Cast #100: The top social networking tools, learning tools, online tools, tech gadgets
This milestone edition will be packed full of numbers. Wait! We promise it won’t be boring. The intent is to show that social networking isn’t going away. It will also show you some useful learning sites, cool online tools, and some top tech gadgets that you simply must have.
1. While we hate to keep going on and on about the social networks…
- Did you know that according to Wikipedia, MySpace gains 230,000 new registrations per day? Time to give it a try? Go to MySpace.
- Five Best Instant Messengers (Lifehacker)
- Youth-Oriented Virtual Worlds now 100+ live online or developing (Smart Mobs)
- Total Twitter Messages = 3 million per day. How many of your users contribute to that number? End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers (Tech Crunch)
2. You want answers?
- Try ResourseShelf, where many dedicated librarians and researchers share the results of their web searches. Type anything into their search box to retrieve FREE, reliable information.
- A new unit of measure: “The wikipedia” = 100 million hours of thought (Granite Geek)
- There are now more than 100 million active Websites. How can our users even begin to find usable, reliable content? Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point? (Tech Crunch)
- FixYa, a user-generated Web site for product care support, is set to announce an effort that brings Best Buy customers and the Geek Squad together to swap real-world solutions to common technical problems. It’s social networking meets tech support. It already has 30,000 contributors. Best Buy buys into tech support 2.0 (Webware)
3. Online tools – are there ever enough?
- 200+ Free Must-See WordPress Themes (iLibrarian)
- Membership is free for a library of up to 200 books on LibraryThing.
- Browse and share your digital photos in 3D Stacks with PicMe. The first 200 are free. (LifeHacker)
- Of the 300 finalists, only the best could be named “The 100 Top Web Apps for 2008”. (Webware)
4. And now, the cool tech gadgets
- 25 low-cost ultraportables (Liliputing)
- The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever (Fosfor Gadgets)
- Top 9 Tech Gadgets For Increasing Productivity (About.com)
- Why your car is cooler than your PC – Top 10 Hi-Tech Devices in your car to expect (World Auto News)
