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calendars
The topography of the Web 2.0 is vast and varied. Here is a closer look at four mountain ranges
that continue to rise to towering heights.
Calendars help you celebrate and display with your work within a daily ritual. Calendars feature relatively large images—twelve of them plus one for the cover. You can mir- ror the different seasons in your selection. Or you can build subtle narratives, just as you do in making a slide show. Some calendar templates let you insert tiny photos or draw- ings onto specific days—a nice way to anticipate someone’s birthday.
social networks
unbusiness cards
Facebook, the current king of social networking services, started out as a finely tuned mechanism for connecting college students. Today anyone can join. Facebook tries to be the best of breed, with easy-to-use tools and an open developer platform that allows others to add functionality.
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You don’t need to be a captain of industry to make good use of a business card. Actually, you can show how smart a business person you are by scoring your cards for free!
A free online printing service provided a template
(left) with a yellow dotted line for “safety” cutoff (all important items inside it), a red line to show the edges of the actual cards, and a black line for “bleed” (if a design element were to go to the edge of the card). The designer started out with nine different layouts, of which three are sampled here (middle). The finished cards (right) carry the same aesthetic of this online learning
While the vast majority of interpersonal relationships are purely social, at times even the most informal, entertain- ment-based networks spawn serious sorts of social agency and political action.
The thickness of card stock is one of the distinguishing features of cards. Another is the traditional size of 2 x 31⁄2 inches. If you use your home printer, you may not be able to duplicate the thick, raised type of a professionally printed business card, but you can make up for it with color and design.
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Jamie Kruse using 4cover4.com.
Here is a family tradition that rivals any photo album. With calendars, you share your pictures throughout the year. Emmy Podunovich
Mention the term social networking these days, and most people think of MySpace and Facebook, two Web-based networks that connect friends (virtual or face-to-face) and give users ways to interact (chat, instant messaging, e-mail, voice, file sharing, blogging, discussion groups). Here’s a little bit about each.
SOCIAL NETWORKS, WEB SITES, BLOGS, AND WIKIS
A social network is a virtual community of individuals who share a common interest. Those who build these things speak of nodes (individual units within the network) and ties (the source of the relationships between people).
MySpace emerged first as the most popular social net- working service. It evolved to highlight music and bands. Perhaps it was a little too open; ultimately its interface and frivolity drove away those users who wanted a little less noise in their signal.