Online Application Tools

Well I’ve tried out a few of the suggested tools from our Week 8 exercise (though I confess to skipping some of them just because of the sheer amount of time it was taking)

I quite liked a few of them (Google Docs and Snipshot), but most of the ones I tried didn’t look all that useful to me.  I guess if I was the type of person who wanted to maintain a visually impressive blog or web page then I would have found sites like fd’s Flickr Toys and RedKid.Net more interesting.  For my purposes I don’t think they would be useful.  Last.fm was a little interesting, but I found the site too confusing – it did not give a good explanation of how it worked.  I think I’ll stick with the radio stations I already have bookmarked.

I like the concept of Google Docs.  I think it could be quite useful to our patrons who use older public machines that don’t have Word installed on them.  I see it being useful too in the public school system where they discourage the kids from bringing in files from home on disks or CD’s in case of virus contamination.  I worry a little about data mining on the part of Google, but I guess you just avoid anything sensitive.

Snipshot was another site I liked.  As a mom I saw the potential right away for how useful it would be to my kids when preparing reports for school, but the same logic applies to reports prepared at work.  I would certainly use it again.

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