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I’ve tried to write this post 3 times now, but each time the page hangs up when I try to insert a link.  So screw links for this page, I’m just going to drop them in-text and force you to copy and paste.

This is supposed to be about apps, and I found some good apps that I like recently.  Both of them come from Go2Web2.0:

http://www.go2web20.net/

The first is a cloud service called ZumoDrive (www.zumodrive.com) where you can install this app on your machine and it will provide a direct connect to a cloud where you can store documents for access from any machine.  A friend and I often talk about how this is where technology is going.  The idea that I have physical media that I have to take from place to place is become (easier to do and) more antiquated.  It also forces a computer to have a hard drive of reasonable size and an OS that must have things installed on it.  Instead (as my friend asserts) we need to push for more secure clouds and smaller (i.e. less expensive) computers that do specific things (browse the web, edit a word document, play a video) by pulling files from the internet and editing them.  That way we don’t need to have local hard-drives and each machine can be suited to what it does rather than being a super machine.

I also found a site called BubbleComment which allows you film a small comment about a webpage and then send it as a link to someone.  This seems like a god-send for a design class where you tell people to go find some web-pages/pictures that you like and then comment on them.  Or even run an art class where you have people go find art that they like and then comment on that.  I performed an example of that here.

http://www.bubblecomment.com/id/i725

Hopefully you can see that.