by Jenny Kapp in world wide web , wikipedia , software , podcasts , Internet , free stuff , digital photos , budget
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Achieving world domination with your computer would be a lot easier if you could view YouTube videos.
In October 2008 I wrote a post about not being able to view YouTube videos properly. Lots of people have since stumbled across that entry and have asked for further advice on making YouTube and Adobe’s Flash Player play nicely.
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Web 2.0 stuff to make going back to school a little less painless.
The best part of going back to school each year for me surprisingly wasn't the thought of getting a great education or of doing loads of homework or even of putting in my weekly tuckshop order. It was always the realization that Mum would let me buy a new pencil case - one of those ones where you cut out the cardboard letters and shove them into the little plastic pockets at the front. (I actually bought one of those pencil cases for myself again last year - old habits die hard : ))
Impress your friends with your advanced Web 2.0 skills. Learn how to edit in Wikipedia with Web2Go’s step-by-step guide.
I love learning new acronyms. A couple of weeks ago when I tagged along to the Australian Film Television and Radio School’s free GameJam ’08 event, I learned a new one – UGC. It stands for User Generated Content. If there’s one feature that distinguishes Web 2.0 from the first generation of the World Wide Web it has to be UGC. One of the most well known examples of UGC on the Web today is Wikipedia.
Cast your mind back to the eighties (or before) when doing a school project meant going to the newsagent and buying one of those fold out school project posters on various riveting topics like ‘Spiders’, ‘Sharks and Stingrays’ or ‘Flags of the World’ or worse still, braving layers of dust so that you could check up the answers in the Encyclopaedia Britanica.
