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Social Software used at How-To Site

October 25th, 2006 · No Comments

There’s a new site that has just started that creates “how-to” articles and tutorials.  If you write an article, you get the opportunity to rate other articles in that same area.  The rating of the articles is then used when they are listed so you can go to the best rated articles.  The site is called [...]

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Tags: General · Software Tools

Current TV

September 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Again, this is from Scott S.: 
Check this out.  It’s called Current TV.  People upload their videos (yeah, like YouTube), but then people vote and the winners are broadcast on Current TV.  And hey, they PAY for some content.  Sound like a student project?
“Think that traditional news media is missing the mark? Think you can do [...]

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Some Helpful Software Tools

September 22nd, 2006 · 2 Comments

This may be overkill, but have you ever tried the OpenOffice Writer? It’s basically open-source MS Word. It is totally free. http://www.openoffice.org/
These are the components:
Write = Word
Impress= PowerPoint
Math (not in Office) = a formula generator. The math department would love that.
Draw = for flowcharts and the like
Calc = [...]

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Tags: Software Tools