Internet Exercises
1. Set up an account on Twitter.com. Also, download
Tweetdeck, a useful interface for Twitter. Identify and
“follow” people who seem to be sending messages that
are of interest to you. Prepare a report on your experiences.
Evaluate Twitter as a tool for social networking.
2. Visit the LinkedIn page for college graduates:
grads.linkedin.com/. Using the information on this page,
create a LinkedIn account and begin building your
professional network. Search the Internet for additional
tips on using LinkedIn to find jobs and prepare a brief
report on your findings.
3. Using a search engine, find four examples of mashup
applications. Prepare a report describing each one. If
possible, identify the Web site(s) the data is pulled from
to create the application
4. Create an account on delicious.com, the social bookmarking
site. Actively use it to tag and categorize Web
pages that you want to remember for future viewing. Use
the search engine on delicious to find pages that other
users have tagged. Compare the effectiveness of your
searches to similar searches using Google and Yahoo.
5. Using a search engine, identify a list of Web 3.0 companies.
Prepare a brief report that describes three or four
of these firms and specifically identify the characteristics
or capabilities that associate them with the new Semantic
Web described in the chapter.