Youtubes, Google Plus

YouTube is great for a lot of reasons, the least of which is certainly not that it's free. YouTube is a place where you can go to watch a music video you forgot about, learn how to fix your washer/dryer by watching a tutorial, or watch horrible mishaps as they happen to people that aren't you or your loved ones. Anything is possible with YouTube as long as there is a camera or microphone around. I wish it was more popular when I was making all those short films in college that I don't have anymore. We could have just loaded them on to there instead of reusing the same MiniDV tapes.

Google Plus I am still getting used to, but I see a lot of positives from it. I especially like the whole "Circles" business. You can completely separate different groups of people you know. You can keep one side professional and make professional posts and then have another group of friends you can post anything to without worrying about repercussions. Facebook, for instance, doesn't have that kind of stealthiness. Once you've posted it, it's out there for everyone to see.

Content curation is something that would take me some time to get used to. At this point in my life I don't really have much use for it, except perhaps to organize links to recipes. Generally I like to print those out for use in the kitchen, however. In the future when I (knock on wood) have a job as a teacher, I could see the benefits of it for both the teacher and the students. All of those sites are completely different but generally are used to organize information in various ways to simplify life for everyone.