PERSONALIZATION SITES IN 2012
Zite Application zite.com
_With so much information available online today, it's increasingly
difficult and time-consuming to find the content we want. That's
where Zite comes in. Zite evaluates millions of new stories every
day, looking at the type of article, its key attributes and how it
is shared across the web. Zite uses this information to match
stories to your personal interests and then delivers them
automatically to your iPad or iPhone.
Yahoo.com yahoo.com
Best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and social media website and services. It is one of the largest websites in the United States.
Pandora.com/Spotify pandora.com
With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs, artists or genres into Pandora and let the Music Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.
_Spotify is a music streaming service with desktop applications available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Hootsuite/Tweetdeck hootsuite.com tweetdeck.com
_HootSuite is a website and online brand management service, which
publishes to websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare,
MySpace, and WordPress. It is also a Twitter client.
_TweetDeck is a social media dashboard application for management of Twitter and Facebook accounts. Like other Twitter applications it interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles.
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Facebook.com facebook.com
_Facebook is a social network whose mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Millions
of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an
unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about
the people they meet.
Twitter.com twitter.com
_Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the
latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you find interesting. At the heart of Twitter are small bursts of information called Tweets.
Each Tweet is 140 characters long, but don’t let the small size fool
you—you can discover a lot in a little space. You can see photos, videos
and conversations directly in Tweets to get the whole story at a
glance, and all in one place.
Hulu/Netflix hulu.com netflix.com
_Hulu is an online video service that offers a selection of hit shows, clips, movies and
more at Hulu.com, numerous destination sites online, and through our ad-supported
subscription service, Hulu Plus. Hulu's selection of premium programming is provided by
more than 350 content companies.
To use Netflix, consumers sign up for a subscription on the company’s website. For one low monthly price, Netflix members instantly watch unlimited movies and TV shows streaming over the Internet to PCs, Macs and TVs via a wide range of devicesWith more than 23 million streaming members globally, Netflix, Inc.
[Nasdaq: NFLX] is the world's leading Internet subscription service for
enjoying movies and TV shows. _
RSS Feeds
_RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is a family of
web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog
entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.
Google google.com
_Larry Page, Google's co-founder and CEO, once described the “perfect search
engine” as something that “understands exactly what you mean and gives
you back exactly what you want.” Since he spoke those words Google has
grown to offer products beyond search, but the spirit of what he said
remains. With all our technologies—from search to Chrome to Gmail—our
goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to find the information
you need and get the things you need to do done.
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