Take-home midterm exam.

2. The site title: Sleakdeals

3. A description of the site: It’s a website which people can share good deal.

4. What makes the site unique: This website was founded in 1999. I think Slickdeals.net is unique because it is a free, user-driven deal sharing site with a mission to provide consumers a place to collaborate and share information in order to make the best shopping decisions. Users can communicate and find various shopping tools through this forum.

5. Summary of the degree of effectiveness: I think this website is effectiveness because the deals are rated and vetted all by users. After deals are posted, users can determine the deals by voting thumbs up or down. Also the website help user to check the deal if it is valid deal in case. When you visit the website, you can either see the top hot deal on the first page or search good deal by category or key words. This website provide an efficiently way to find good deal.

2. The site title:PPT

3. A description of the site: PTT Bulletin Board System (PTT, telnet://ptt.cc) is a terminal-based bulletin board system based in Taiwan. PTT provides a quick, instantaneous, free of charge, and open online forum community.

4. What makes the site unique: PTT is the largest BBS in the world with more than 1.5 million registered users. During peak hours, there are over 150,000 users online. It has over 200,000 boards with a huge number of topics, and more than 40,000 articles and 1 million comments are posted every day.

PTT apply an article commendation and criticism scheme as its article rating and commenting system. PTT is the first Chinese-language BBS to use such a system. Under this system, users can evaluate an article by giving it a “push”, adding a point, or a “boo”, subtracting a point. Users can give comments as well. The forums are subdivided into boards and named by a string of alphanumeric characters. These boards can be searched by popularity. They can also be added to a user's list of favorite boards.

5. Summary of the degree of effectiveness: Technically, the idea of PTT is not belong to web 2.0; however, it has the same purpose of web 2.0. PTT gives a very good idea of being a forum. For example, there is a board called “gossip” which users post news or issues and give comments. Due to PTT has huge numbers of members, sometimes some users have experiences of that news or issue, they will share their experience with others. By using users’ curious of gossip might be the reason why this board has top rating on the PTT. I think PTT can be determined as high degree effectiveness by checking the high commendations. The higher commendation the more reliability the post is.

2. The site title: Picasa

3. A description of the site: Picasa is a program of image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website.

4. What makes the site unique: Like all other web albums, users can share photos by uploading photos. It often compares to Flickr and similar sites. You can also give comments on it or tags. The unique trait of Picasa is it has its program. When users upload photos from memory card to computer, they can edit photo by using program then upload photo to Picasa web album through Picasa program. It also integrates with other Google functions. You can share photos by using blogger or find the place in photo on Google map such as geotagging. All you need to do is apply an account and take the benefit from Google services.

5. Summary of the degree of effectiveness: Picasa is very effective because it is not only a photo sharing website, it comes with multiple purposes. After I post photos on it, I can read comments from others and use RSS tracking the feedback. Generally, Picasa can be the typical web album of web 2.0.