Management Information SystemWEB 2.0 Review By Lilliam Arauz

Chap. 4: Enabling Commerce Using the InternetChap. 5: Enhancing Collaboration using Web 2.0

TECHNOLOGY BLOGS

Founded in 1991, formerly on CompuServe and Prodigy, ZDNet reports on a variety of tech news. ZDNet also features product reviews, software downloads and tons of news and analysis on tech businesses and issues. The information provided by this webpage is very important because, for example, by providing product reviews, the visitors can buy more carefully and do not get disappointed. Also, it provides important information about the most recent tech issues and business for people to keep up with what is going on in the tech world.

If you’re looking for what’s next, look no further. Om Malik’s creation has grown into one of the largest blogs worldwide, and it’s all due to focusing on what’s new. News and analysis on Web 2.0, technologies and startups, social media, gaming — you name it, GigaOM has it covered. That’s what happens when you have a team of 12 technology-obsessed writers (six of which have authored over 100 posts each).

Updated constantly, and nearly always entertaining, Mashable takes the worlds of Twitter, Facebook, entertainment, news, and everything else techies are talking about and, well, mashes it up into the kind of blog casserole we just can’t get enough of.

BUSINESS / FINANCIAL BLOGS

“Suria Investment Newsletter (SINLetter) is a free stock investment newsletter that explores various ideas and opportunities ranging from the importance of asset allocation to investing in water each month.”

The thinking man's finance blog it is not. But if you are looking for all manner of business and economic news, as well as Wall Street gossip and what's hot on the Web, Business Insider is the best place to go. Business Insider, which is headed by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget, does a good job of picking its stories. A recent photo gallery of what hotels look like in brochures versus what they look like in person was a lot of fun and very helpful.

The site is packed with consumer advice, and that's why WalletPop, which launched in 2008, has quickly become one of the most popular personal-finance sites on the Web. Recent posts include tips on household expenses you can do without (air purifier), where to shop for a wedding dress and video on whether cats or dogs are the more economical pets (cats).

Entertainment Blogs

Launched in 2005, TMZ’s meteoric rise followed its exclusive on two of the biggest stories in entertainment: Mel Gibson’s DUI arrest and subsequent encounter with law enforcement, and Michael Richards’ ill-fated trip to the Laugh Factory. TMZ also broke the news of the breakup of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline’s marriage. TMZ altered the entertainment news landscape by changing the way the public gets its news

Eonline is the most popular entertainment news source, providing us with information about almost everything that deals with the entertainment world. Being one of the fastest-growing, most influential properties on the Internet, Eonline reaches more than 28 million unique users per month in the U.S. alone across its digital platforms.

IMDb (Internet Movie Database) is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. IMDb  is the #1 movie website in the world with a combined web and mobile audience of more than 160 million unique monthly visitors. It offers a searchable database of more than 130 million data items including more than 2 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and more than 4 million cast and crew members.

Google Docs A Google doc is a very useful web-based collaboration tool. It

allowed me to edit my documents and save them directly to my drive. This prevents me of losing my documents if my computer

breaks up, and I forget to save it on a USB. Also, this tool ends with the barriers of geography. Even though my classmates are not in

the same place in which I am, I can do or edit a paper in team using this tool. My team and I will be able to edit the paper at the same

time, and we will be able to see the different changes and comments that the others are doing. Also, this tool allows me to convert my work to different formats like .docx, .pdf, .odt, .rtf, .txt

o .html. Finally, using Google docs, I can save all the different drafts that I could made along the path because it did not have a limited

space.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn

As a student, one of the main advantages that I found from using LinkedIn is the professional connections that you can create using it. By connecting with professionals I build a very serious network of people where I can release news and other important aspect of my business. Moreover, while using LinkedIn I can find job postings where companies are hiring people in my position. Finally, by using LinkedIn I can increase my social networking with various people across the globe. In this way, I can start my own company page where other news or announcement can be posted

WORDPRESS.COM

WordPress

First at all, it is important to describe what is WordPress, this is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. Moreover, it is probably the easiest and most powerful blogging in existence today. However, people often make the mistake of classifying WordPress as just a blogging platform. Although that used to be true in the past, WordPress has evolved through out the years into a versatile content management system or CMS. While you can still use WordPress to create a simple blog, now it also allows you to create fully functional websites and mobile applications. The best part about WordPress is that it’s easy to use and flexible enough for just about anything. That’s the main reason why WordPress has grown so much in popularity. According to a recent survey, WordPress powers 22.5% of all websites on the internet.

WordPress is a very useful tool specially for companies who want to publish on the web. Additionally, it encompasses very famous blogs, news outlet, music sites, among others; also, WordPress is the most used blog for celebrities and companies. For instance, famous blogs like Mashable and TechCrunch are both on WordPress. News outlets like The New York Times’ blogs and CNN’s on-air personality blogs all use WordPress as well.

If you have ever curious about who uses WordPress, head on over to the WordPress site showcase and you for sure will be impressed by the number of well known sites and famous people that use WordPress to power their websites. One of the reasons might be because WordPress is 100% free