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Cloud Collaboration & Scheduling

The document discusses using cloud services for collaborating and managing calendars, schedules, tasks, projects, documents, files, photos, presentations and more through web-based applications. It focuses on using Google Calendar which allows creating personal and shared calendars that can be accessed from any device with internet. Other popular calendar applications mentioned include Yahoo, Windows Live and Apple calendars. The document also discusses online scheduling applications like Jiffle that make scheduling meetings easier by integrating with calendars and finding common free times. Tools for task management and planning like iPrioritize that allow creating and sharing to-do lists are also covered.

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Cloud Collaboration & Scheduling

The document discusses using cloud services for collaborating and managing calendars, schedules, tasks, projects, documents, files, photos, presentations and more through web-based applications. It focuses on using Google Calendar which allows creating personal and shared calendars that can be accessed from any device with internet. Other popular calendar applications mentioned include Yahoo, Windows Live and Apple calendars. The document also discusses online scheduling applications like Jiffle that make scheduling meetings easier by integrating with calendars and finding common free times. Tools for task management and planning like iPrioritize that allow creating and sharing to-do lists are also covered.

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Cloud Computing

Using Cloud Services


Using Cloud Services
• Collaborating on Calendars, Schedules, and Task Management
• Collaborating on Event Management
• Collaborating on Contact Management
• Collaborating on Project Management
• Collaborating on Word Processing
• Collaborating on Spreadsheets
• Collaborating on Databases
• Collaborating on Presentations
• Storing and Sharing Files and Other Online Content
• Sharing Digital Photographs
• Controlling It All with Web-Based Desktops

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Collaborating on Calendars, Schedules, and Task Management

• Not that the old-fashioned wall-hanging calendar is dead, it’s just


that it’s a whole lot easier to track appointments and events
electronically; the computer does all the busywork for you.
• The problem with using calendar software (such as Microsoft
Outlook or Windows Calendar) is that all your appointments have
to reside on a single computer.
• Web-based calendars.
– A web-based calendar service stores your calendars on the Internet, where
they can be accessed from any computer that has an Internet connection.
– This lets you check your schedule when you’re on the road, even if your
assistant in the office or your spouse at home has added new appointments
since you left.
– Web-based calendars are also extremely easy to share with other users in
any location, which make them
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• The most popular web-based calendar today, no doubt
due to its association with the web’s most-used search
engine, is Google Calendar (calendar.google.com).
• Google Calendar is free, full featured, and easy to use. It
lets you create both personal and shared calendars,
which makes it ideal for tracking business group, family,
and community schedules.
• Google Calendar is web based, you can use it to create
not only a private calendar for yourself, but also public
calendars for your company or organization.
• Create a public calendar and all employees or
attendees can access it via the web. In addition, special
event invitation features make it easy to invite others to
an event—public or private.
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• Google allows you to create several different
—and different types of—calendars. You can
create one calendar for home, another for
work, and yet another for your son’s soccer
team.
• Then you can view all your calendars from the
same Google Calendar page, with the events
from each calendar color-coded for easy
visibility.

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• Types of calendars can you create with Google
Calendar
– Personal calendars, like your default calendar
– Public calendars, which others can access via the web
– Friends’ calendars, which you import from their Google
Calendar web pages
– Holiday calendars, which add national holidays to a
basic calendar
• Google Calendar integrates smoothly with Google’s
Gmail application.
• Google Calendar can scan your email messages for
dates and times and, with a few clicks of your
mouse, create events based on the content of your
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OTHER SIMILAR CALENDERS
• Yahoo! Calendar
• Windows Live Calendar
• Apple MobileMe Calendar
• AOL Calendar
• Calendar Hub
• Hunt Calendars
• Famundo
• eStudio Calendar
• 30Boxes
• Trumba
• Calendars Net
• Jotlet
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Exploring Online Scheduling Applications

• Experts claim that it takes seven emails or voice


mails to arrange a single meeting; a typical
business person can spend more than 100 hours
each year just scheduling meetings.

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The online scheduling application
• This web-based app takes much of the pain out of scheduling
meetings, for both large and small groups.
• The typical app requires all users to enter their individual calendars
before hand.
• When you schedule a meeting, the app checks attendees’ schedules
for the first available free time for all. The app then generates
automated email messages to inform attendees of the meeting
request (and the designated time), followed by automatic
confirmation emails when attendees accept the invitation.
• Professionals who schedule appointments with their clients—
doctors, lawyers, hairdressers, and the like—face similar scheduling
challenges. For this purpose, separate web-based appointment
scheduling applications exist.
• These apps function similarly to traditional meeting schedulers, but
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Jiffle
• web-based solutions for meeting scheduling.
• which schedules meetings, appointments ,and the like for the
enterprise environment.
• To track employees’ free time, it synchronizes seamlessly with
both Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar.
• It also offers its own Jiffle Calendar application.
• Jiffle allows the originating user to mark available time slots on
his calendar, and then share them with proposed attendees via a
Jiffle-generated email invitation.
• These attendees view the invitation, log in to the Jiffle website,
and then select their preferred time slots from the ones proposed.
• Based on these responses, Jiffle picks the best time for the
meeting and notifies all attendees via an automatic confirmation
email.
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• For smaller companies, Jiffle is free for up to
10 meeting confirmations per month. For
larger companies, Jiffle Plus, Jiffle Pro, and
Jiffle Corporate plans are available.

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Other scheduling application

• Presdo
• Diarised
• Windows Live Events
• Schedulebook: The company’s three offerings are
– Schedulebook Professionals,
• which is a business-oriented schedule/calendar/planning application
– Schedulebook Office,
• which schedules the use of any shared resource, such as company meeting
rooms or even vacation homes
– Schedulebook Aviation,
• which is used by the aviation industry to schedule aircraft, flight training,
and similar services
• Acuity Scheduling
• AppointmentQuest
• hitAppoint
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Exploring Online Planning and Task
Management
• Planning and task applications let us manage
everything from simple to-do lists to complex group
tasks, all over the Internet and collaboratively with
other users.

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iPrioritize
• iPrioritize (www.iprioritize.com) is a good basic
to-do list manager.
• Sharing to-do lists is important for families,
community groups, and businesses.
• Your to-do list might be as simple as a grocery
list or as complex as a list of activities for a
community program or business project.

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• authorized users can create a new to-do list,
• add items to the list,
• prioritize tasks by dragging them up and down
the list, and
• mark items complete when finished.
• As it is Web based, anyone can access their
lists anytime and anyplace.
• When you have a list, you can print it out,
email it to someone else, subscribe to
changes in the list via RSS, and even view lists
on your mobile phone.
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A simple web-based to-do list from iPrioritize

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Other scheduling applications
• Bla-Bla List
• Hiveminder
• Remember the MilkTa-da List
• Tudu List
• TaskTHIS
• Vitalist
• TracksLife
• HiTask
• Zoho Planner
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Collaborating on Event
Management
Understanding Event management
Applications
• The more full-featured apps include management of
everything from pre-event marketing to post-event
analysis.
– Event Planning and Workflow Management
• ability not just to track individual tasks in a to-do list fashion,
but also benefit from sophisticated workflow management.
• you need to know which tasks need to be completed before
later tasks can be started; you need to know who’s doing what,
and be alerted to any tasks that are unstaffed or understaffed.
• In other words, you need the planning and workflow
management functionality to continue into the event itself, so
that you can manage your staff in an efficient and effective
manner.
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• Event Marketing
– event management applications include modules
to help you market your event.
– For example, many apps offer web-based email
marketing, which lets you promote your event via
targeted email messages.
– Other apps help you create your own event
website (on their cloud computers), which also
helps to promote your event.
• Event Calendar
– an online calendar that displays all the happenings
within your overall event.

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• Facilities Scheduling
– this module ties into the event host’s systems,
giving you complete power over room or hall
scheduling.
• Advance Registration
– most event management apps include a web-
based registration module, where attendees can
sign up (and, in most cases, pay) for the event.
Attendee information is entered into a web form,
and that data is then stored on the application
provider’s cloud servers.

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• Payment Processing
– Collecting payment for your advance and onsite registrants is
a key part of the event management experience.
• Travel Management
– If you’re running a real “hands-on” event, you might want to
consider offering travel services to select attendees.
• Housing Management
– More common is a housing management module that helps
match event attendees with available rooms at your event
hotel.
• Onsite Registration
– Your attendees sign up (and probably pay) for your event in
advance. But when they arrive on opening day, you need to
sign them in, print out badges, provide a welcoming packet,
and so forth.
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• Contact Management
– Using the master database of event guests, you can provide
contact management services to help attendees get in touch
with one another.
• Budget Management
– Running an event is an expensive and complex undertaking;
your overall budget includes hundreds of individual expense
items.
• Post-Event Reporting and Analysis
– Some apps even let you send and process attendee surveys,
which can provide valuable feedback from those who were
there.
– Look for a reporting module that lets you see at a glance how
you performed to plan in a number of areas, not all of them
financial.

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Exploring Event Management Applications

• 123Signup
– claims to be one of the largest event management
applications, having processed more than 1,500
events, registered nearly a half million attendees,
and handled more than a million individual
transactions.
– The company offers four different applications:
• Event Manager,
• Association Manager,
• Training Manager, and
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• Member Directory.
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• The application handles a combination of front-
office and back-office tasks.
• Front-office tasks include defining and marketing
events, automatically generating informational
web pages and registration forms, and marketing
your event via targeted email messages.
• Back-office tasks include event registration, badge
printing, payment collection, and database
management.
• The program even provides real-time reports on
registrations, attendance, collections, and other
key factors.
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Few more Event Management
Applications
• Acteva
• Conference.com
• Cvent
• Event Wax
• Eventsbot
• RegOnline
• Setdot
• Tendenci
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Collaborating on Contact
Management
Understanding Contact Management and
CRM
• Contact management is the act of storing information
about friends, family, and business colleagues for easy
retrieval at a later date.
• We’re talking names, street addresses, email addresses,
phone numbers, and the like, stored in some sort of
computer file
• Web-based contact management applications enable you
to access your contact information from any computer
connected to the Internet. Instead of storing personal
contacts on your home PC and work contacts on your
office computer, you store all your contacts in the cloud,
where they can be accessed
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• CRM software not only stores customer contact
information, it also stores and analyzes all data relating
to a particular customer, and then uses that data to help
you determine how best to relate with that customer.
• For example, you can use a CRM program to discover
which customers order the most from your company—
and then trigger regular phone calls or emails to those
customers.
• Or you can use CRM to find out which customers have
the most contact with your technical support
department, and then ward off future support calls by
proactively sending out support info or scheduling a
special support seminar.

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Exploring Contact Management and CRM
Applications
• Salesforce.com
– The most popular web-based contact management/CRM
available today is offered by Salesforce.com
(www.salesforce.com).
– The company offers several different cloud services:
– Salesforce.com, a software-as-a-service CRM application
designed for sales, marketing, customer service, and other uses
– Force.com, a platform-as-a-service application designed for
developers who want to design or customize their own sales
force apps
– AppExchange, an online marketplace of add-on software for
Salesforce.com, developed by independent companies

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• The company offers a hosted collection of on-demand business
applications that include the following:
• Sales Force Automation,
– which includes activity management, channel and territory management,
forecasting, mobile access, email templates, and real-time analytics that
help companies increase sales productivity and grow revenues
• Service & Support,
– a customer service solution for enterprise call centers Partners, a partner
relationship management application that enables collaboration and
partnership with channel partners
• Marketing,
– which includes tools to execute, manage, and analyze the results of
multichannel marketing campaigns

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• Content,
– which enables companies to share documents and other content
across the organization
• Ideas,
– which helps a company build online communities with their
customers, partners, and employees
• Analytics,
– which offers real-time reporting, calculations, and dashboards to help
improve decision making and resource allocation

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Salesforce .com

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Some popular web-based CRM solution
• bConnections
• BigContacts
• eStudio Contact Manager
• Highrise
• Apple MobileMe Contacts
• MyEvents
• Plaxo
• People Matrix
• PipelineDeals
• SalesBoom
• SalesJunction.com
• SalesNexus
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Collaborating on Project
Management
Exploring Project Management
Applications
• Traditional project management software helps
project managers and team members organize and
track all the various tasks in a project.
• The software is used for scheduling, budget
management, and resource-allocation components.
• Web-based project management applications do all
this online, with a centralized project file accessible
to all team members.
• This enables improved communication and
collaboration between members of the project team.
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@task
• The web-based project management program known as
@task (www.attask.com) offers a variety of traditional
projection management functions.
• The application includes an
– interactive drag-and-drop Gantt chart
– critical path analysis,
– project milestones,
– planned/projected/ estimated comparisons,
– resource scheduling,
– issue management, and
– calendar views for project tasks.
• Tasks can even be managed remotely via a special
software widget for Apple’s
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iPhone.
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Drag and drop Gantt chart in @task

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Other web based project management
applications
• AceProject
• Basecamp
• Copper Project
• eStudio TaskTracker
• Project Drive
• Vertabase
• Wrike
• Zoho Projects
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THE ADVANTAGES OF MANAGING PROJECTS ONLINE

• A web-based application lets participants from different


locations access the same master project files.
• When the master project is housed in the cloud, there
are no issues with maintaining the right versions of files
for all users, or with synchronizing files among
computers to make sure they’re all up-to-date.
• Users can access files from any Internet-connected
computer using any web browser.
• Cloud project management services also let smaller
companies tap into more powerful applications.

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Collaborating on Word
Processing
• Web-based word processors, in contrast, are
hosted in the cloud, not on your hard drive—
as are the documents you create with these
applications.
• And these web-based applications mimic the
key features of Microsoft Word, so you don’t
give up much in the way of functionality.

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Google Docs
• Google Docs (docs.google.com) is the most
popular web-based word processor available
today. Docs is actually a suite of applications
that also includes Google Spreadsheets and
Google Presentations; the Docs part of the
Docs suite is the actual word processing
application.
• Like all things Google, the Google Docs
interface is clean and, most important, it works
well without imposing a steep learning curve.
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• Basic formatting is easy enough to do, storage
space for your documents is generous, and
sharing/collaboration version control is a snap
to do.
• You can also use Google Docs to work on files
you’ve previously created in your regular word
processing program—including Microsoft
Word. Just click the Upload button to display
the Upload a File page. Browse for the file you
want to upload, and then click the Upload File
button.

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• Google Docs is a good full featured web-based
word processor.
• Collaboration is easy, and you have the option
of working on your documents offline if you
like. And, although some competing
applications may offer greater formatting
flexibility, none have near the installed base of
users that Google Docs has.

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Other web based word processors
• Adobe Buzzword
• ajaxWrite
• Docly
• Glide Write
• iNetWord
• Kbdocs
• Peepel WebWriter
• ThinkFree Write
• WriteBoard
• Zoho Writer
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Collaborating on
Spreadsheets
Exploring Web-Based Spreadsheets
• Google Spreadsheets
– Google Spreadsheets was Google’s first application
in the cloud office suite first known as Google Docs
& Spreadsheets and now just known as Google
Docs.
– (It’s also the only app in the suite that Google
developed in-house.) As befit its longevity, Google
Spreadsheets is Google’s most sophisticated web-
based application.

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• The first thing to note is that Google Spreadsheets uses a
tabbed interface and that the workspace changes slightly
depending on which tab (Edit, Sort, Formulas, or Revisions)
you select. Each tab in a Google spreadsheet has its own
toolbar of options, specific to that toolbar’s function:
• Edit.
– This tab displays a toolbar full of editing and formatting options,
• Sort.
– This tab displays an abbreviated toolbar of sort-related options.
• Formulas.
– This tab displays a Range Names button, which you can use to
name a range of cells..
• Revisions.
– This final tab displays a pull-down list of the various versions of
the current file.
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• latest version of Google Spreadsheets contains much
functionality lacking in the original release.
• For example, Google Spreadsheets now contains a
raft of formulas and functions, almost as many as
available with Excel; it also lets you create multiple
pages within a single spreadsheet file.
• You also can create charts from your spreadsheet
data.
• Google Spreadsheets is one of the most full-featured
web-based spreadsheet applications available today,
matching Excel almost feature to feature.
• It’s an ideal choice for both beginning and advanced
spreadsheet users.
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Few other web based spread sheets

• EditGrid
• eXpresso
• Glide Crunch
• Num Sum
• Peepel WebSheet
• Sheetster
• ThinkFree Calc
• Zoho Sheet
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Collaborating on Databases
Exploring Web-Based Databases
• In the desktop computing world, the leading
database program today is Microsoft Access.
• none of the major database software
developers currently provide web-based
database applications. Instead, you have to
turn to a handful of start-up companies (and
one big established name) for your online
database needs.

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Blist
• One of the newest entrants in the web-based
database market is Blist (www.blist.com).
• Blist is a relatively easy-to-use database
designed for nontechnical businesspeople; in
fact, the company bills it as something of a
cross between a spreadsheet and database
program.

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• Despite its ease of use, Blist provides some
robust database management and reporting
capabilities. You can make your data
completely public or share it with designated
users.
• Databases can be read-only, or users can have
the option of adding new records or deleting
old ones.

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Few more web-based databases
• Cebase
• Dabble DB
• Lazybase
• MyWebDB
• QuickBase
• TeamDesk
• Trackvia
• Zoho Creator
• Zoho DB & Reports
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Collaborating on
Presentations
• Users from multiple locations can access the
presentation directly from any Internet- connected
computer, making it easy to assemble a
presentation via group collaboration.
• This is becoming an essential feature, as more and
more presentations for large organizations are
created by multiple people from different
departments or disciplines.
• Most web-based presentation programs even let
you import your existing PowerPoint presentations.
This is great if you’ve already created a presentation
or template that you want to reuse in the future;
you can then give your existing presentation from
the web.
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Evaluating Web-Based Presentation Applications

• BrinkPad
– BrinkPad (www.brinkpad.com) is a Java applet that
works inside any web browser. It lets you create, save,
and publish your presentations and slide shows on the
web. It also lets others share and collaborate on your
presentations
– But it doesn’t offer much in the way of predesigned
templates, offers no slide transition effects, and doesn’t
include charting or table tools. You do get rudimentary
drawing tools, however, which enable you to mix
illustrations, text, and imported digital pictures. So
BrinkPad’s limited functionality means that it’s not yet a
satisfactory replacement
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Other web based presentation applications

• Empressr
• Google Presentations
• Preezo
• Presentation Engine
• PreZentit
• SlideRocket
• ThinkFree Show
• Thumbstacks
• Zoho Show
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Storing and Sharing Files
and Other Online Content
What Is Cloud Storage?
• The servers used for cloud storage are typically hosted
by third-party companies who operate large data
centers.
• When you subscribe to a cloud storage service, you
lease storage capacity from the cloud storage service.
• You then have access to the contracted amount of
storage space, which you access via the Internet. What
you see looks like a single server or hard disk, but it’s
really just a virtual server.
• A Cloud storage service might offer multiple petabytes
of storage.
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• The best-known cloud storage service today is
probably Amazon.com’s Simple Storage
Service (S3).
• Cloud storage is also offers by many other
companies, with services either planned or
rumored from IBM, Google, and EMC.

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Evaluating Online File-Storage and -Sharing
Services
• Amazon S3
– The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides
unlimited online storage. You access your stored
data via a simple web interface. S3 launched in
March 2006, making it one of the most established
online storage services in today’s market.
– Amazon charges fees for the amount of data
stored and for the bandwidth used in uploading
and downloading that data.

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Other Online File-Storage and -Sharing
Services
• Egnyte
• ElephantDrive
• Microsoft Office Live Workspace
• Mosso
• myDataBus
• Nirvanix
• steekR
• Windows Live SkyDrive
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Exploring Online Bookmarking Services
• This type of service lets you share your notes and favorite
websites with your friends and colleagues—or with yourself, if
you’re on another computer.
• It works like this. You visit a website you like and decide you want
to bookmark it or share it with others. Because bookmarks and
favorites work only on a single computer, you instead save the
site (and any notes you have about it) to an online bookmarking
site. This saves your bookmark and notes to the cloud; you can
then email the link to friends, or access it yourself at a later time.
• So-called notebook sites work in much the same fashion, but
with random text notes you may take on any subject. Just upload
your notes to the site, and then access them or share them via
the web.
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BlinkList
• BlinkList (www.blinklist.com) is an easy-to-use
bookmarking site. When you sign up for the (free)
service, you install a small applet in your web browser.
• This applet adds a Blink This Site link to your browser’s
favorites list. Click this link when you find a site you
want to save; this displays the Blinking dialog box.
Enter any notes you have about the site, and then
click the Blink button. (You can also use this dialog box
to send a link to the site to friends and family.) The
site now appears on your BlinkList My List page, along
with all the other sites you’ve “blinked.”

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Other Online Bookmarking Services

• ClipClip
• Clipmarks
• del.icio.us
• Feedmarker
• SharedCopy
• Tagseasy
• Yahoo! MyWeb

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Sharing Digital
Photographs
Exploring Online Photo-Editing Applications

• Edit your digital photos.


• While you don’t have quite the number of
options you do with most desktop photo
editing software, you do get all the basics. You
can crop and rotate your photos, color correct
them, fix the red-eye problem, adjust contrast
and brightness, and even combine multiple
photos into a photo collage.

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Adobe Photoshop Express
• first web-based photo-editing application.
• Adobe lets you store up to 2GB of photos. And, like many
other web-based photo editors, Photoshop Express is
integrated with Flickr, so you can upload your edited
photos to the Flickr site with a minimum of fuss and
muss.
• The Photoshop Express editing window
– Basics.
• Crop, rotate, auto correct, exposure, red-eye removal, touchup (a blur
effect to remove scratches and blemishes), and color saturation control
– Tuning.
• White balance, highlight, fill light, sharpen, and soft focus
– Effects.
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Other Online Photo-Editing Applications

• FotoFlexer
• Picnik
• Picture2Life
• Preloadr
• Phixr
• Pixenate
• Snipshot

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Exploring Photo-Sharing Communities

• Editing your photos with a web-based


application is convenient; you can do your
editing from any computer, no software
installation necessary. Even more convenient
is the ability to share your photos with others
through the cloud, via web-based photo-
sharing communities

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Apple MobileMe Gallery
• One interesting part of Apple’s new MobileMe
suite of web-based applications is the
MobileMe Gallery (www.me.com).
• You can upload photos from your computer or
iPhone to the MobileMe Gallery, which can
then be viewed by anyone you invite.
• It’s a great way to get photos on and off your
iPhone, and view photos when you’re on the
go.
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Few Other Photo-Sharing Communities
• dotPhoto
• DPHOTO
• Flickr
• Fotki
• MyPhotoAlbum
• Photobucket
• Picasa Web Albums
• Pixagogo
• PictureTrail
• SmugMug
• WebShots
• Zenfolio
• Zoto
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Controlling It All with
Web-Based Desktops
Web-based desktop
• A web-based desktop, or web top, is essentially a
virtual computer desktop displayed inside your web
browser, delivered over any Internet connection. A
web desktop has a graphical user interface (GUI) like
Windows or the Mac OS, and often comes complete
with one or more productivity applications.
• The web top and all its apps, as well as your
personal preferences for how the desktop looks, are
stored in the cloud, and you access it over the web.

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ajaxWindows
• One of the most fully developed web desktops is
ajaxWindows (www.ajaxwindows. com). This
webtop integrates several key applications,
including ajaxWrite, ajaxSketch, and ajaxPresent.

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Other web based desktops
• Deskjump
• Desktoptwo
• eyeOS
• g.ho.st
• Glide
• Nivio
• StartForce
• YouOS
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