Web 2.0 Review

Eduardo Castillo

Spring 2015

Financial Blogs

The Reformed Broker by Joshua Brown, a financial adviser at Ritholz, Brown weaves together markets news, politics, pop culture and finance. He avoids giving financial advice or steering his readers toward particular investments. Instead, he offers up a “running commentary” of his market-related insights and points you to other content around the Web.

The Big Picture is run by Barry Ritholtz, who left the law profession for finance, and was among the few who saw the housing implosion and derivatives mess well before it hit.

Pragmatic Capitalism is often touted on Twitter. It was founded in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis and is run by Cullen Roche, founder of Orcam Financial Group, a financial services advisory firm.

Technology Blogs

www.lifehacker.com Lifehackers' motto says it all: "Don't live to geek, geek to live." This blog offers timesavers of just about every stripe, from Firefox shortcuts to tips from the "Getting things done" faithful.

blogs.ittoolbox.comIT Toolbox has a number of "in the trenches" IT pros who talk about technology and management issues. There are specialist blogs dealing with security, databases and project management, among other subjects. It's a versatile site.

http://gizmodo.comGizmodo's got the scoop on all the latest toys and cool and wacky inventions -- from high-def TVs and coffee makers to booze belts and USB drives. You've got to love a site that publishes photos of a solar-powered bathing suit. Yeah, they also blog about serious technology news too.

Enterteiment Blogs

Flavorpill A terrific weekly guide to less-mainstream music, art shows, readings, performance pieces, parties and happenings. These guys are smart (not smarmy), plugged in, and have taste, a good sense of humor and an even better sense of fun.

Oh My Rockness An invaluable source of concert information for New York City indie-music fans, the Oh My Rockness weekly email (and website) is divided into two parts: the best shows in town, big and small, over the next seven days; the best just-booked shows, and when tickets to said shows go on sale.

Racked What Eater does for the best New York City restaurant blogs, Racked does for New York City shopping, with dozens of posts a day on all things retail: store openings and closings, unannounced deals and sales, what's new and hot in NYC's most desirable clothing and shoe establishments. The writing is fun and lively, the news and information often priceless.

2. web-based collaboration tools

OneDrive: It is a famous collaboration tool from Microsoft company. It provides different services such as free cloud storage, office online tool to create or modify any book, presentation, or document online. Moreover, you can save your pictures, music, or any other files you want to take to every place. Also, you can share these files with other people for downloading your files, or modifying them simutanuisly.

3. Linkedin

Linkedin is a really useful tool to connect with important people that can help you to improve your professional experience. This web site you have many tools to facilitate the way you present your personal information in an attractive and organized ways such as a Resume with your skills, courses, honors & awards. Also, you can see if someone have seen your profile.

4. Create a blog (WordPress)