Google Universe

Google Translate: Wow, I had no idea that google has this product. From now on every time my 7 year old daughter asks me to translate a french word from one of her books, I am going to use Google Translate.

This is a great product, not only it gives you translation but if you click on "View detailed dictionary" you get images, related phrases, synonyms, usage examples and web definitions.

Google Translate has many languages such as Chinese, Arabic, Icelandic but not all of them has the View detailed dictionary option.

Facebook

For you, is Facebook useful or a time-waster?

In general I do not use facebook, however, the only time I use my facebook account is to keep track of my reading list. My favorite feature of facebook is "Books" application which is a simple reading list application that tracks my current reading list, my to-read list, and books I've already read, and gives me a glance view of my friends' books, too.

Wikipedia

How easy or difficult was to find articles that needed editing? Were the errors you found factual or grammar/spelling?

For this part of the assignment, I edited an article about Calgary Public Library:

I added a link to one of the Calgary Public Library facts (the annual circulation for 2008) which was very easy and took me only few minutes.

Delicious

What are the advantages of storing, sharing, and tagging web content this way? What are the disadvantages?

advantage: To share CPL 's favorites websites with customers.

disadvantage: No structure for the tags: if you don't know the correct tag you might not be able to find the information that you were looking for.