Documentation:Social Web Tools/Media Sharing

Media Sharing

Description:

Sites that allow users to share any type of media with other people that they know or publicly on the Internet. All forms of media including photos, songs and even video can be shared between two people using these content sharing technologies.

Examples:

• Youtube
• Odeo
• Photobucket
• Flickr

Uses:

These technologies are used for uploading videos, images and music to various websites that are available on the Internet and these allow people to share these types of media with their friends, family or anyone that they choose online.

UBC In Practice:

• UBC's group on Flickr
• LEAP: Photos submitted to LEAP's group on Flickr by students for use on LEAP site.
• Digital Tattoo Project: screencasts on Digital Tattoo YouTube channel
• 2007 Engineering Physics 253

Learn More:

• How You Tube Changes the Way We Think - Wired Magazine (2008)

• Common Craft Videos on You Tube: Social Media