Communication Technology

From Coddeau

Information and Communications Technology - or technologies (ICT) includes all technologies for the manipulation and communication of information.

Contents 1 News 2 Tools 2.1 Privacy 2.2 Linux, Ubuntu 2.3 Android 2.4 Collaborative information management, storage 2.5 RSS feeds technology, push technology 2.6 E-publishing 2.7 Online events, e-conference 2.8 Browsers and offline browsing 2.9 Online annotation, clips, research knowledge management 2.10 Email & contact management 2.11 Social Networking 2.12 File manager, file sharing, downloading 2.13 Publishing & Web Design 2.14 Webhosts 2.15 Printer & PDF 2.16 Calendars 2.17 Media, photos, sounds, TV, streaming, recording 2.18 Security 3 Semantic Web 4 Conflict and Information technology

News

• http://www.tgdaily.com/ ;
• http://arstechnica.com/ ;
• http://pisani.blog.lemonde.fr/ ;
• http://www.netexplorateur.org/ Un forum qui saisit les nouvelles tendances liées à l'internet et au numérique ;
• http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2010/01/learning-tools-directory-2010.html ;
• http://c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/index.html ;
• http://www.pocket-lint.com/
• http://www.webware.com/ ;
• http://www.friedbeef.com/ Everyday tech solutions online. ;
• http://www.makeuseof.com/ tools and tips ;
• http://www.techzilo.com/ Active blog with software tips and explanations ;
• http://www.lifehacker.com/ ;

Tools

http://www.framasoft.net/ Updates on freeware developments ; http://www.filehippo.com/ ;

Ipod

• http://www.podtomac.com/ ;
• Sharepod http://www.getsharepod.com/help/ to copy files from Ipod to computer

Various

• http://vimeo.com/1561578?pg=embed&sec=1561578 add on which allows short commands for many tasks, very good ;
• https://secure.logmein.com/ remote control of the PC ;

Privacy

Search engines for people

• http://www.cvgadget.com/ ;
• http://www.123people.com/ and
• http://pipl.com/ same as previous ;

• http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html to block search engine robots to indexing your site ;

• Ratsit http://www.ratsit.se/ For Sweden, basic data on individuals and companies

Linux, Ubuntu

• http://crunchbang.org/ ubuntu based, can be loaded on memory stick ;
• http://www.ubuntu.com/ ;
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter Updates.
• http://fridge.ubuntu.com/
• http://www.kde.org/ Applications, see also adept installer software

f-spot, rythmbox, ksnapshot, dropbox.

Android

• http://androinica.com/
• http://www.talkandroid.com/

Collaborative information management, storage

http://thinkofit.com/webconf/workspaces.htm#groupware Lists many new collaborative information management systems ; http://www.socialtext.com/ Enterprise wiki ; http://www.friedbeef.com/ Everyday tech solutions online ; http://us.ajax13.com/en/ ; https://sync.live.com/ synchs folders on several computers ; https://www.mesh.com/ synchs across devices too ; http://www.livedrive.com/ Small downloadable programme allows for effortless online synch from an L drive on computer ; http://os.icloud.com/ replicates an operating system online, pretty nifty ; http://www.syncplicity.com/ 2009 site for cloud storage and sharing ; http://www.getdropbox.com/ same as previous ;

https://mozy.com/ 2 Gb free online storage ; http://www.xdrive.com/ aol online storage, closing Jan 2009 ; http://www.carbonite.com/ Not free online storage ; http://www.mediamax.com/ This is formely streamload site now bust ; http://www.diino.com/ ;

https://docs.google.com/ ; http://www.zoho.com/ Free and rich editor ; http://www.buzzword.com/ launched in 2008 Adobe’s Flash-equipped word processor is perhaps visual overkill for word processing ; http://www.thinkfree.com/ ;

• http://www.centraldesktop.com/ Using Microsoft Office on desktop while saving in cloud, syncing and collaborating with others. Payable.
• http://www.offisync.com/ Using Microsoft Office on desktop OR Google Docs and syncing between the two, anc collaborating with others.
• Google in 2010 is working on offering plug-ins for MS Office to offer same funcationality as e.g. offisync.com.

http://www.communitywalk.com/ Creates on annotated maps ; http://www.circavie.com/ Create timelines ; http://www.tumblr.com/ Create blog/online spaces with content ; http://www.37signals.com/ Backpackit for wikistyle collaborative effort, pay ; http://ahren.springnote.com/ online notes, good for shared projects or sites ; http://www.dabbleboard.com/ design space online for collaborative work ; http://busylissy.com/en/ project tool ; http://goalbot.org/ goal communities

http://www.rapidshare.com/ share files up to 200mb online ; http://www.mediafire.com/ ;

• http://flockdraw.com/ collaborative drawing tool

RSS feeds technology, push technology

In 2005 RSS was in its infancy. The concept of “push” versus “search” around information consumption had become very real. 
 
In 2010 the Internet has undergone a major evolution. The real-time information RSS was so astute at delivering (primarily, blog feeds) is now gained through conversations, and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch, being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and Facebook dominate real-time information flow. Today RSS is the enabling technology – the infrastructure, the delivery system. RSS is a means to an end, not a consumer experience in and of itself. As a result, RSS aggregator usage has slowed significantly.

• http://www.bloglines.com bought by ask.com in 2005. Discontinued in 2010, but revived.
• http://www.google.com/reader/
• Google Scholar Alarms

• topix
• alertnet

E-publishing

• Adobe blogs digital publishing http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/
• 2010 response to Ipad http://www.i4u.com/38325/5-tablets-could-beat-ipad-and-why-they-may-not Toshiba, Samsung, Asus, Viewsonic, Notion Ink.
• Kindle, Sony E-reader.

Online events, e-conference

• Eventbrite http://www.eventbrite.com/ ;
• DimDim https://estore.dimdim.com/ Free online meetings.
• Doodle http://doodle.com/ to schedule events

Browsers and offline browsing

• http://www.lunascape.tv/ triple browser ;
• Chrome ;
• Firefox ;
• Internet Explorer ;
• Safari ;
• Maxthon ;
• Opera and Opera Mini.

• http://www.httrack.com/ Offline browsing. Open source. Works well.
• http://www.offline-commander.com/downloads.shtml Offline browsing. Limited free version.

Online annotation, clips, research knowledge management

• http://www.jkn.com/ To annotate within websites ;
• http://www.evernote.com/ clips from web saved easily ;
• http://clipmarks.com/ your own and others' clips ;
• http://www.zotero.org/

• http://www.scribblemaps.com Make notes and routes on Google maps.
• Endnote

Email & contact management

http://www.guerrillamail.com/ is disposable mail ; https://www.roam4free.ie/store.asp checks cheaper phone calls abroad; http://www.grandcentral.com/ can reroute phone numbers ; https://www.plaxo.com/ ; http://wink.com/ Social website people search ; http://www.soocial.com/ 2008 aggregator of contacts ; http://www.zenbe.com/ 2009 see mail's from multiple online accounts in one place ; http://www.mailstore.com/en/ store mail online ; http://www.sightspeed.com/ videoconferencing ;

Social Networking

Look out for aggregators, and techniques that can bring social networks into other areas of the web like http://www.power.com/ aggegates Hi5 Myspace Orkut and perhaps Facebook ; Rickard Eriksson " Vad jag hoppas är att precis som vi för många år sedan fick en standard för hur man skickar e-post runt om i världen, så skulle jag vilja se något liknande inom sociala medier. Någon standard så att man kunde umgås socialt på nätet och ha alla sina vänner samlade utan att det behöver vara en enda stor global sajt som har hand allt om allting."

Early 90s

• BBS elektroniska anslagstavlor

95

• Classmates http://www.classmates.com/
• Craigslist http://london.craigslist.co.uk/

96

• Stajl Plejs av Rickard Eriksson med diskussionsforum och personliga hemsidor med gästböcker och dagböcker. Övergick till Lunarstorm 2000

97

• Sixdegrees.com (closes 2000) http://www.sixapart.com/

98

• Care2 http://www.care2.com/
• Xanga

99

• Livejournal http://www.livejournal.com/
• BlackPlanet
• AsianAvenue

2000

• MiGente
• Mixi (Japan)
• Lunarstorm (Sverige, stängdes Augusti 2010)

01

• Cyworld
• Ryze
• Stumbleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com/
• Meetup.com

02

• Friendster http://www.friendster.com/
• Fotolog
• Plaxo
• MyLife

03

• Skyblog
• Couchsurfing http://www.couchsurfing.org/
• Myspace http://www.myspace.com/
• Tribe.net
• Last.FM
• Hi5 http://www.hi5.com
• Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/
• Open BC/Xing
• Netlog (Europe)
• MyHeritage

04

• Flickr http://www.flickr.com/
• Piczo
• Mixi
• Facebook http://www.facebook.com (Universities, For everyone 2006) - http://www.seppukoo.com in order to 'commit virtual suicide' from facebook.
• Dodgeball
• Care2
• Orkut http://www.orkut.com/ (largest following in Brazil)
• Dogster
• Multiply
• ASmallWorld http://www.asmallworld.net/
• Catser
• Hyves
• Yelp
• Taringa (Argentina)
• Basecamp

05

• Youtube http://www.youtube.com/
• Xanga
• Yahoo! 360
• Cyworld (China)
• Ning http://www.ning.com/ social network for interests
• Bebo http://www.bebo.com/ (largest following in Britain)
• Gather.com
• Renren (China)

06

• Mychurch http://www.mychurch.org/
• QQ
• Windows Live Spaces
• Twitter http://twitter.com/
• Cafe Mom
• Nasza-Klasa
• Odnoklassniki
• Vkontakte http://vkontakte.ru/

07

• Tumblr
• Ravelry

08

• Kaixin001
• Yammer
• Plurk

09

• Foursquare http://foursquare.com/ For the phone to locate friends in neighbourhood

10

• Google Buzz
• http://www.sittinginatree.co.uk/

• Internations http://www.internations.org/ For Expatriates
• Beautiful People http://www.beautifulpeople.com/ ;

http://www.bigfoot.com/ Used to be email forwarding service (2000) now media company ; http://www.lycos.com/ old hybernating email service from 1990s ; http://geocities.yahoo.com/ 1990s service that is disappearing 2009 taken up by yahoo ;

http://www.skuku.com roaming for local phone calls via voip ; http://www.jajah.com/ ; http://www.vonage.com ; http://www.raketu.com/ ;

File manager, file sharing, downloading

http://www.ghisler.com/ Total Commander file manager ; http://www.limewire.com/ file sharing ; http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ download manager ; winRAR ; Winzip ; emule filesharing ;

Publishing & Web Design

See Print & Web Design.

Webhosts

http://www.slicehost.com/why-slicehost/ ; http://www.mediatemple.net/ ;

Printer & PDF

http://www.printeranywhere.com/ ; http://www.cutepdf.com/ To make pdf files ; http://www.framasoft.net/rubrique392.html various software, including for merging pdf files ; http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/ ; http://www.elcomsoft.com/apdfpr.html removes PDF restrictions ; Foxit Reader ;

Word processing http://www.jarte.com/ free downloadable programme ;

Calendars

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/google-calendar/geek-to-live--sync-google-calendar-and-gmail-contacts-to-your-desktop-251279.php ; http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/index.html Download page and installation instructions. ; http://www.syncmycal.com/index.htm. Unfortunately you have to pay for it to get the good stuff. But, I am able to have my smart phone, outlook calendar, and Google calendar in sync easily. ; http://oggsync.com/ ; http://pocketmod.com/ A4 sheet that becomes pocket calendar ; http://www.calgoo.com/ offline access and sync with google calendar ;

Media, photos, sounds, TV, streaming, recording

• Screen toaster http://www.screentoaster.com/ record the computer screen in small movie.

• Picnik http://www.picnik.com/ Online photo editing ;
• Livestation http://www.livestation.com/ Streaming BBC etc. ;

• Total Recorder http://www.highcriteria.com/ ;
• http://www.nowsmart.com/ Simple Audio recorder software, limited to 3 minutes without paying. Saves in mp3 ;
• Roxio Easy Media burner from Sonic Solutions ;
• Max http://sbooth.org/Max/ Max rips CDs to high-quality formats including FLAC.
• Mediamonkey rips to FLAC and other formats and reads all formats.
• FLAC frontend http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html restores to lossless WAV file from e.g. FLAC.
• Exact Audio Copy http://www.digital-world.de/artikel/_Downloads/1253089/exact_audio_copy_099_prebeta_5_international/1 professional but free quality ripping to FLAC and restores to e.g. WAV.
• NCH Software http://www.nch.com.au/ free audio file converter from e.g. FLAC to mp3. Sound and audio recorder, sound editor, mixer, LP converter etc. are not great quality.
• Dvddecrypter http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/

Security

http://free.avg.com/ ; http://www.free-av.com/ free anti-virus ; http://www.roboform.com/ password protection ; http://www.ccleaner.com/ ; http://www.truecrypt.org/ Provides encrypted drive ; autorun ;

• http://www.dban.org/ boot disk that wipes the hard disks

Semantic Web

http://www.webcontent.fr/ ; http://www.freebase.com/ Free shared database of world's knowledge. Inchoate. Semantic web ; http://dbpedia.org/docs/ One attempt at structuring wikipedia information semantically ; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki ; http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/tags/tags.pdf Structure of collaborative tagging systems ; http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1683 Article on semantic wikis for humanitarian actors ; http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Main_Page Semantic mediawiki community ; http://semantic.nodix.net/ Acceptable blog on semantic web ; http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/different_appro_1.html Article on Freebase ; http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ Mash up tool ;

Conflict and Information technology

See Humanitarian Action.