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Technology blogs
The verge is a technological website that covers the
intersection of technology, science, art, and culture. They
publish in a daily basis all type of interaction between science,
art, and culture.
Bits: is a blog from the New York Times that provides reports
the new technology in the business world. It deals with the
improvement that companies make in order to increase either
productivity or quality.
Business Insider is an American business and technology
news website launched in February 2009 and based in New
York City.
Business/Financial blogs
Money crashers: The website strives to educate
individuals in making wise choices about credit and
debt, investing, education, real estate, insurance,
spending, and more.
The big picture: The blog is a compendium of what a professional money manager is
looking at, thinking about, and publishing on. It is designed for a wide audience
ranging from investment professionals to media types to anyone else interested in
investing, markets, and the economy, with a healthy sprinkling of behavioral analysis
and digital media thrown in for good measure.
Entertainment blogs
9GAG operates an online platform and social media website.
Users upload and share user-generated images and videos. It tend
to be funny and probably you will enjoy a good time.
BuzzFeed is the social news and entertainment company. BuzzFeed is
redefining online advertising with its social, content-driven publishing
technology. BuzzFeed provides the most shareable breaking news,
original reporting, entertainment, and video across the social web to its
global audience of more than 200 millions.
Reddit: is an entertainment, social networking, and news website where
registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or
direct links. Registered users can then vote submissions up or down to
organize the posts and determine their position on the site's pages.
Content entries are organized by areas of interest called "subreddits."
To have a better understanding it is fundamental to define google docs. It is a free web
based on office suite, and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to
open and edit word documents, Power point, and Excel files. It also gives you the
benefit of sharing files. I will explain what Google docs are; this tool is extremely
important for people who needs to work together but they are in different regions. It is
also very easy to use since it is pretty much the same as using word from office. I found
this video which explains using examples what is google docs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA
LinkedIn is something that I had never used before; however, I would say that this
webpage is something awesome to get a job or connect with my friends, having some
companies that I consider important in such a way that I can also connect with them to
keep inform If I can apply once I graduate. It is also essential to remark that you can find
anything of your interest. LinkedIn is an outstanding tool for keep in touch with people.
Wordpress is a social network which is different from facebook or instagrams. You can
post photos and also information about anything such as resumes. Word Press is open
source software. Like all open source software, when an upgrade comes out, the details
of that upgrade are made public. Another interesting detail is that we can have
followers, or even like pictures. We can see the profile of friends and which gives a little
bit of entertaining. Nevertheless, all different websites and social media tools are very
important in our daily lives since they keep us in touch with the world around us. It is
very hard to progress if we are missing the help of other people.
Slide share is a tool for uploading different types of presentations such as
PowerPoint presentations. It is very useful because you do not need to
carry with this files what you need is internet. It is very easy to use this
tool and very efficient.