Thursday, February 19, 2009

What's new about SocialText? (No Offence)

To be honest, I didn't quite follow Eugene's speech last Thursday. He's a cool and fun speaker. Only I'm still so novice in Web 2.0...

I watched videos of "How to use SocialText Wiki" and also "SocialText in Youtube".
1. I am kind of confused that is SocialText an individual workspace with a self-owned server, or its a sub workshop of Wiki? For me, SocialText has a layout similar to iGoogle and functions as Wiki.
2. The dragging of text and pictures in SocialText is interesting and actually I just tried it out. I only did it before in Mac Word 08.

Anyway, the interface of SocialText is very concise and neat, not that entertaining and fancy like iGoogle and weaving a romantic story in groups is fun, also~

2 comments:

  1. Well, there's differences between Wiki and SocialText. Ethan showed in today's class that revisions of a certain post can be compared to see the change. That's cool. I guess story writers would like that so that they can track the revisions of their stories.

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  2. I was thinking he same, SocialText seems like a nice service but I don't know how one to justify the expense and use as an operational cost to their business. There is already competition from Share Point and DocuShare
    After messing with SocialText for a while, I found out some really cool features, though.

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