CPL 2.0 - Google Universe

I love Google! Google search engine is very user-friendly; it would correct your spelling and help you by suggesting the keywords. It looks like it reads your mind! Having English as a second language and coming from the “Metric world”, it is so convenient to be able to check spelling quickly and convert feet and inches to centimetres. Being able to check currency rate through Google is very convenient too.

Google products that I use, mostly for years, include Gmail, which has been one of my main email accounts and I have always liked it more than any other. Picasa is great for storing pictures online, creating photo albums and sharing them only with people you want them to see (unlike Facebook). I use Google Maps a lot, watch videos on YouTube, sometimes I chat using Talk, I use Documents, etc. I also check News through Google.

I have installed Google Earth on my computer years ago, and I used it a lot at first, but ever since Google added Satellite view to their Maps and especially since Street View became available I hardly use it anymore.

I also installed Google Chrome and tried it out, but I don’t use it regularly.

What do you like about the Google product? What do you dislike? Would you recommend the product to friends and colleagues?

I cannot think about anything I dislike about Google products. In fact, I really love them and I would recommend them to everyone. Beside all other advantages, they are free, too.

CPL 2.0 - Social Networking

Ah, social networking, aka Facebook.

(Apologies to MySpace.)

Although I am not a fan of Facebook at all, on the contrary, I do have an account, like millions of other people. I know it may look hypocritical, but as a person who is trying to keep up with different technology features, I need to explore them myself.

For you, is Facebook useful or a time-waster?

For me, personally, it is totaly time-waster!

I don’t want go on and on with the things that I don’t like about Facebook, because this post would be very long. Let’s just say that there are some people (very few) with whom I am just in contact through FB, and it’s worth it. With some I am in contact through other ways too, and we wouldn't need FB to keep in touch. And, for the rest, I really don’t care what they do in FarmVille, whether they’re tagged in photos, or giving each other a heart, flower, kiss… whatever.

On the other hand, I can’t but remember people who are homebound and not able to be "out and about". I think that in such situations, social networking can be a great help.

CPL 2.0 - Wikipedia :)

I absolutely love Wikipedia!
I’ve been using it for four or five years, and it’s always been a great help. Considering that you know what Wikipedia is and that you wouldn’t use it as the main or only source for your project, it is the best starting point for almost every search. Whenever I need to inform myself quickly and without much trouble, Wikipedia is there to help like nothing else. It is clear, intuitive and usually contains all main information about the subject. I tried editing in Wikipedia; I corrected the article about my home town. It was just a grammatical correction, but I got an idea how it works.

Were you able to find a topic obscure enough that Wikipedia doesn’t cover it? If so, congratulations! If you managed to publish an article, comment on the process.

Believe it or not, I was able to find some topics, usually on different people that weren’t covered, but although I’m a big fan of Wikipedia, I am not brave enough to write an article. I would always assume that there are other people out there who know the subject better than me.

Memories...

I am way behind with CPL 2.0, but instead of doing what I’m supposed to be doing, I am listening to the music and enjoying a white wine (my Dad's favourite) and thinking of my dearest Dad, who passed away this day, two years ago.

Blogs :)

I've been reading other people's blogs whole evening and I have to say that some of those are rather interesting and informative.
The more I read, the more I get ideas what to write about and what to explore.
I find this CPL 2.0 thing to be more fun than I expected.

CPL 2.0 - Delicious

What are the advantages of storing, sharing, and tagging web content this way? What are the disadvantages?

Advantages of Delicious are lots of web sources to choose from, and disadvantages would be that directories like that one are not always user friendly, especially when one is not using it all the time.
P.S.
I am not even sure whether I made a mistake by calling Delicious a directory.

CPL 2.0

What do you hope to learn from CPL 2.0?

Through CPL 2.0 I hope to learn more about RSS and Twitter and also to become much more familiar with blogging.