Friday, March 20, 2009

Browsers - Do I have the time??

I use IE so I am limited as to the browser add on I
can install.

I decided to install StumbleUpon and it is very interesting.
You outline a profile and every time you click the
StumbleUpon button a webpage is displayed. I
really like some of them; you can choose whether you
save a link or not and the software fine tunes
your profile based on your decisions.

But I could spend hours looking at great websites,
some I can say are work related I suppose. This is
a very tempting time waster with just enough "work"
justification to draw you in.

It takes up to 14 days to get unentangled from this
website! Also it adds yet another toolbar, soon
there won't be any space left for actual pages of content!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Social Networking time!

I have had a Facebook account for over a year but rarely
look at it

I have asked Fangmin to be my friend as he is the Group
Leader for me.

I have about 8 friends which is fine! I am a member of the
Library Group but I think there is a group or network for
Ryerson Faculty but I can't seem to find it.

I will have look at some of the other Social Networking
products on the list but I don't think this is really for me!

Google ++

Google docs is great - I was in the middle of editing a document
with a librarian at York University when I found out about this
and this made it much easier than sending e-mail versions back
and forth.

I will certainly make use of this in the future.

I have used Google Maps a lot but had not explored all the
features so it was good to learn more

And Google Earth is wonderful - especially with all the extras
people are adding