MapMash... A cool tool!

Wow a cool new web 2.0 tool I found is http://mapmash.googlepages.com/. It has several features but my all time new favorite mapmash uses the best of citysearch restaurants paired with google maps. It shows you the locations of the best restaurants in your city! Cool! There are also mapmashes showing predictions for electoral votes, best places to shop, transit maps, news maps and so much more. This is a really cool site to waste time on or use to narrow your search for a new restaurant!

Thing # 18

I enjoyed exploring the online productivity tools. I explored Google docs I created and saved a document that I will use from my school. I can see how when collaborating on projects these would be very useful. You can edit, create, access the documents from any computer. That would be a huge benefit during a collaborative project. However, most of the time I use the programs that I already have on my computer as I am more familiar with them and can quickly create my documents. But it is nice to know that this option exists especially as we all start our graduate program and will have many collaborative projects to create.

Thing #7

While checking out the cool Google tools, I came across Google Notebook. It allows you to store clippings, text, images and links in a Google Notebook. The advantage is that you can create notebooks, organize your notes and even publish your notebook online for others to view. It is also accessable anywhere with your Google Accounts login. Therefore I would not have carry my notebook with me. You can get access from any computer, you can even get access from your phone. This is a tool that would enable me to grab precious minutes and put them to good use while waiting on appointments. I can definitely see me using this to organize my research during grad school.