So I was going to write about something but I didn't have the time at the time so I shall write about it now. What is it you ask? Well, it's about a presentation that we watched a few weeks ago in class. It was the day we had an assignment due and I'm really too lazy to look it up right now, but it was a video on a guy with a really entertaining presentation style who talked about how he was frustrated that you have to keep putting in your new user name and password at every different site that you go to and that he wished that there were a place to just fill out one big page of information and they could all just use that.
I found that entertaining as we had just been doing all of the filling out and such and I continued to use this blog and my life went on until I realized....
Google already does that! We're using it right now! Agh! I felt like an idiot that it didn't occur to me sooner and it made me kinda suprised.
So the guy had talked about how no one had really pulled off the running several things successfully through one password and user name and I'll agree that scenario applies here, but they are working on linking things together. Here's some of the ways that I've noticed:
- google, using one user name and password, can log you into:
blogspot (duh), google reader (again duh), and a number of applications (all google related, but that's their point i think) including but not limited to a personal calendar, photo sharing, mail, videos, maps, shopping and more
- there's also an iGoogle that is a personalized page for you after you log in that includes all of the things you're interested in, like music, movies, sports, news, humor, and displays widgets that have to do with all of those things. mine has youtube, several news sites, a comic strip, the weather for where I am, a tv guide, photos of celebrity sitings, sports stats, and flixster movies ratings
- this brings me to google linking you to all kinds of sites, not neccessarily logging you in, but being able to, once you've specified that they can and entered your separate user names and passwords to give permission, link lots of your different sites together to update each other. I've linked my Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google (which includes all the stuff in google) all together and now if I favorite a video on youtube it will show up as an update in my twitter and facebook so that I can share the information with my friends without having to go to each site and do them individually and it even adds a link so others can watch too!
The discovery that I made is turning out to be quite wonderful and I'm pretty sure that it's all generally new seeing as blogspot didn't require you to have a gmail account before or a google user name and password until recently and I know that you couldn't link facebook to everything when I started using it... So, in the words of my wonderful friend Missa (and I'm pretty sure they're from something somewhere... but still relevant) it's New, it's HIP, it's HOT, it's NOW!
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