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Wikipedia, "a free online encyclopedia. Wikipedia lets anyone pen an article or edit an existing article from the comfort of their own home. The website offers 198 free encyclopedias, each one in a different language. The largest encyclopedia is the English-language version at 400,000 entries, but twenty encyclopedias have more than 10,000 entries”. http://what-is-what.com/what_is/wikipedia.html Wik are powerful tools that allow anyone to edit a web page using a web browser. Wiki is one of the leading technologies for innovation and learning. For example, with Wiki anyone can create an account with a user name and password and can register on the site and can create an article for magazine. Also Wik can help the user to create a flashy personal website. It is also the perfect tool for MySpace addicts that want to improve their profile or post custom animated commentary to their friends. In Wik you can also create an online C.V which was a very easy tool to use, it had great templates and very basic.

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A forum is community meeting place for open discussion of different topics. The main purpose is to give a part where anyone can work together with questions, answers and discussions on a given topic. Forum: This was used to put information on new technologies and any information related to social technology. It was a place where most of the discussions took place and students said their own opinions and put articles and links. This will help the user to find out new information every week. “There are exactly thousands and thousands of topical forums online. Each forum usually states the topic and tries to keep the discussions on topic. However, this can often vary from forum to forum”. http://askbobrankin.com/what_is_youtube.html Forum will make the user to be part of communicating group within it and also exposed them to new topic they have never thought of or hear about from the news.

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Photo-sharing sites such as Flickr are an example of content-based social networking services, in which groups and comments are based around photo’s, or picture profile. Flickr is an online application that allows everyone to manage and share photos. Anyone can use Flicker to upload images and allows you to write title, describe, and tag. This also can use to create a video using images giving information about University life and what to expect. It enables you to use sound and texts. “You can share photos with the entire community of Flickr users or securely and privately share them with the Flickr users who are your friends and family. In return, your contacts—friends or family—can share their photos with you and leave comments about your photos". http://www.commoncraft.com/photosharing Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Also anyone can share their family photos and Show off their favourite photos and videos to the world.

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YouTube is "an online public communications site. The site allows for registered users to upload and have available for the public their videos for viewing. Anyone who goes to the site can view the videos that are posted on this site”. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-internet-forum.htm Youtube. Youtube allows Individuals to create videos or photo slideshows that provide some practical and essential data. Readers can share educational materials such in varies ways online, via video and photos, and music, and recently Apple.com has introduced ipad on youtube. Other examples of content-based communities include YouTube.com for video sharing in which the content is generated by software that monitors and represents the music that users listen to.

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"A chat room is a Web site, part of a Web site, or part of an online service such as America Online, that provides a venue for communities of users with a common interest to communicate in real time". http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci541370,00.html A chat room is similar with the Forums and allows anyone to post messages and to discussion any topics they want. User can register for the chat room of their choice, and user can choose a user name and password, and log into a particular room. To use the chat room the user need to type a message into a text box, and the message is almost straight away noticeable in the large communal message area and other users will quickly respond.