I am in group 2.
Our group answer for 1st question is at
From ZOHO: http://naveengente.wiki.zoho.com/Learning-unit-8-NAVEENGENTE.html
From Wetpaint: http://dhazimihalis.wetpaint.com/
I’ll be going to use MS word 03/07 for the time being, because I used to it, in future I may use ZOHO because I felt like it is a bit easy to use.
Comparison of facebook, ning, LinkedIn, pownce and friendfeed Facebook: Facebook is like we can add any number of members or friends under different categories like co-workers, classmates, etc. all we need is just a valid email id. We will have options like to keep our information secret or public, we can add members based on our preferences like our school, our place, our work place, company, common interests, and so on., we can even delete our contacts if we don’t want to have them on our list. We can see our friends updates like photos which are shared or the ones which we have the access. We can sell or purchase items locally, we can create event lists, and share it with our friends, and we even have stumbleupon on the Facebook.
Ning: Ning is an organized link where we can create groups, and invite people to join them, we can control whom to join the group, share the opinion on something, discuss about something, debate, fallow discussions step by step, create different groups and continue on different topics paralleley, we can customize our own page, how it looks, etc. we can even add gadgets like radio or some other gadgets like that. We can share photos and videos with our friends.
Linkdin: Linkdin is a professional network group; it’s more like formal like used by many professionals, I mean like a manager to pick some talented persons for his work, a person to pick someone for his company as employee, and so on. It is more like telling our self like a profile and different people look at it in different manner, like if you are an employee you can look for an employer and if you are an employer you can look for some suitable employees by their qualifications. We can even run discussions to find different opinions of different people on the topic. We can even look for jobs.
Pownce: Pownce we can group friends under different banners. We can post notes, share files and send events and plans. We can add friends from other friend’s lists and from some common networks. Many of other features are same as of the other social networking site which discussed above. Friendfeed: The main thing in Friendfeed is that we can know what our friends are browsing and if we have anything to pick up from those sites. We have an extra option like we can add some services like face book stumble upon, Google talk (gtalk), twitter, etc., we can fallow our friends on these networks and can know what they are doing by their posts, we can even know what they are doing on all the networks we added.
Finally, my conclusion is, it is hard for me to decide what to go with, because every social network discussed above has their own plus points. If we talk about Linkdin it is best for professional life, Ning has versatile options which help us more, and easy to use, Friendsfeed is strong at knowing all the updates at a place, Facebook is a more fun kind of stuff. So it is very hard for me to choose one from them, if I have to choose one from them I’ll go for Ning, because of its huge options to use from.
Here are all my links for bogs and other stuff.
My email id for LinkdIn is naveengante@gmail.com
http://pownce.com/naveengente/
http://friendfeed.com/naveengente
