Speaker: Sree Sreenivasan

1) Get connected

  • LinkedIn - becomes useful at 60 connections.  Fill it out your profile completely.  Personalize your requests when you want to make a new connection with someone. The “people you know” feature it much better than on Facebook.
  • Facebook - if you friend students, only let them see your limited profile
  • Twitter - most people here are “twitter skeptics”…we don’t dismiss email because it has one or two cranks - we found a utility for it. http://bit.ly/twitterideas
  • FriendFeed

2) Better Browsing

  • GetFirefox.com
  • Camino
  • Flock

3) Open source/free software

4) Photoshop Alternatives

  • SnipShot.com
  • Picnik.com
  • Photoshop Express
  • Jumpcut.com

5) Citizen broadcasting

  • BlogTalkRadio.com
  • Mogulus.com
  • LiveVideo.com
  • Qik.com 

6) Non-citizen broadcasting

  • Hulu.com

7) A new kind of video camera

  • TheFlip.com
  • FlipTheMedia.com

8) Consumers take over

  • GetHuman.com
  • Consumerist.com

9) Gizmos, please

  • Yahoo SmartSort
  • Shopper.com

10) Your money

  • Finance.yahoo.com
  • Expensr
  • Mint
  • Wesabe
  • PriceProtectr

11) Take care of your health

  • RevolutionHealth.com
  • WebMD’s Symptom Checker

12) Walk a mile in my wife’s shoes

  • Apple.com/ipod/nike

13) Cloud computing

  • Docs.google.com
  • Zoho.com
  • BuzzWord.com

14) Keep better track of everything

  • Google.com/alerts
  • Yahoo.com/alerts

15) RSS, please

  • Google Reader
  • MyYahoo

16) Be a real estate voyeur

  • Zillow.com
  • Trulia.com

17) Travel ideas

  • TripIt
  • Dopplr
  • Kayak

18) New cooking options

  • Cookin’ With Google
  • RecipeZaar.com

19)Find music you like

  • Pandora.com
  • Jango.com
  • Yes.com

20) Just log off!

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