Friday, 6 June 2014

Topic 11: Web 2.0/3.0


Exercise - select five applications that you have not heard of before from Popular URL's, or the webware awards and describe on your blog page how they could be useful to a business. 

Jamendo.Com – Music Website (http://www.jamendo.com/en/welcome)

Jamendo is an open community of music authors and a music website. It is known as the world's largest digital service for free music. Below is the information about it,
·         Jamendo is based on an economic model that grants free music downloads for web users, and also provides revenue opportunities for artists through commercial uses, via the licensing platform Jamendo PRO which sells licenses for music synchronization and background music.
·         Website is based in Luxembourg and has a community of 1.4 million members.
·         The site is available in 6 languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Polish.
·         The name "Jamendo" is derived from a fusion of two musical terms: "jam session" and "crescendo".
·         Users can listen to MP3 encoded audio files and download in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats. Listening and downloading is free, unlimited and without advertisements.
·         Each user has a personal account in which user enjoys extended features like creating playlists, bookmarking songs and albums, becoming a fan of an artist, sharing on social networks, reviewing tracks or albums, and donating to their favorite artists.
·         Latest version of the website features more promoting abilities. User can search songs by artists or titles and also by tag which are chosen by artists to describe their songs (genre, instrument, etc.). Jamendo is integrated within media players like VLC media player, Songbird, Clementine and Amarok 2.


Style hive-Fashion website: (http://www.stylehive.com/)

Stylehive.com is an online style club for people who live for fashion, design and shopping. It's where you meet your style muses and follow them as they discover and share their latest finds.
Part social-networking club, part pop-culture lab , Stylehive.com is one big ensemble cast of trendsetters creating, discovering and buying the next big thing!
A hip hybrid that connects online style addicts with one another, as well as to their favorite fashion, home goods, and other fun stuff, Stylehive.com has become the go-to address for all things fresh, hip, and now.becasue,
  • Every kind of retailer (from mass to the super-edgy) is here reaching shoppers on a global scale.
  • Artists with new fashion or design creations are introducing themselves and their wares to the public through Stylehive.com, gaining notoriety with customers, and developing mass followings through the intense word-of-mouth buzz the Hive creates.
  • Incredibly cool products discovered by Stylehivers all over the world pop up almost every minute of the day, with top names in retail, and trend spotters in every style field, gushing over their favorite new Stylehive finds.
By Adding Stylehive's style entertainment blog HiveDaily and new lookbook site StyleDiary into the mix we can have an unmatched destination for connecting the people who live for style, and want to share
Another exciting feature about stylehive is that you don't have to join the hive to enjoy it. Casual readers can just browse, search or subscribe to it via RSS. You'll discover and share what you find in the hive by exploring tags, individual people's hives, popular or recent bookmarks, and popular sites in the hive. Or, you can simply check out HiveDaily, which covers what trends our editors are seeing emerge in the Hive.

ZOHO: ONLINE OFFICE SUITE (http://www.zoho.com)

Zoho.com offers a comprehensive suite of award-winning online business, productivity & collaboration applications. Customers use Zoho Applications to run their business processes, manage their information and be more productive while at the office or on the go, without having to worry about expensive or outdated hardware or software.
To date, Zoho.com has launched 25+ online applications — from CRM to Mail, Office Suite, Project Management, Invoicing, Web conferencing and more. Zoho has received numerous awards, including an InfoWorld 2009 "Product of the Year" award, a 2008 PC World "25 Most Innovative Products Award" and a 2007 TechCrunch "Best Enterprise Start-up."
Zoho.com is a division of Zoho Corporation, a privately-held and profitable company. With offices in CA, Austin, Chennai, Yokohama and Beijing, Zoho Corporation serves the technology needs of more than 9 million customers worldwide.


Time tracking: (http://tiktrac.com/)


Tiktrac.com has below amazing features,

·         Tiktrac makes you feel at home when you sign in with a comprehensive dashboard view. Any tasks that you're working on can be edited in place using Ajax, so there's no time lost managing your time.
·         Assign costs to times, using a flexible system that even includes tax calculations.
·         Tiktrac's sheets are incredibly flexible: creating anything from traditional time sheets to expense reports without the headaches of a spreadsheet. You can even Import existing time sheets from your spreadsheets!

·         Unparalleled reporting

·         Improve customer service: Search tasks and generate reports to produce more accurate quotes or invoices.
·         Track staff: Easily see what people are working on; create reports to analyze their performance.
·         Track costs: Keep tabs on clients owing money, see which clients bring in the most money, and create expense reports.
·         Export data as CSV, compatible with Excel or other popular spreadsheet programs. Or even export data with XML.




Data.com-Buy and sell Sales contacts (previously Jigsaw) https://connect.data.com/

Data.com is a dynamic community with connections to millions of B2B decision makers. It's the fastest way to reach the right people, and never waste time hunting down the wrong person again. Features of data.com include,
·         Continuously updated and accurate
·         All contacts complete with title, phone, and business email
·         Every level: staff to C-level




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