Highrise

Highrise is an innovative Web 2.0 application that allows users to keep track of anything in their business, including leads, contacts, and deals. With Highrise, you can save notes about your contacts on anything from phone conversations to emails. You can review this information before calling them or before scheduling appointments with them.

Highrise is a useful application in the workspace because it is used to keep people organized and it provides an easy way to remember important information needed for clients. This is easily implemented in business, specifically my future business of being a software developer, because clients are the main source of revenue for the business. A client management solution is definitely helpful to stay on top of the competition by providing a truly personal experience. Also, with larger offices, there may be far too many clients to recall any information but with a personalized website like Highrise, it is easy for anyone in the office to pull up information and quickly figure out what the status of ongoing projects, contacts, etc. is and get that information to the client quickly, accurately, and effectively.

Resource: http://www.highrisehq.com/why, http://www.highrisehq.com/tour

Delicious

Delicious is one of the premier social bookmarking websites. Social bookmarking is a new type of technology that allows users to collaborate on website bookmarks rather than just have their own private website bookmarks. This allows people to tag each link that they find useful and share it with the world.

There are many times in the 21^st century that we find the need to go online for information. With Delicious, it is incredible easy to search tags for educational topics. For example, a student in a history class might want to look through general information about the American Revolution. With Delicious, they are immediately given information about many relevant links on the web and how many other people on Delicious found it useful. Additionally, you can also organize all of your educational links on the website for easy access anywhere in the world, on any computer.

Resource: http://delicious.com/help/learn

Facebook Mobile

Facebook Mobile is an innovative mobile application used by many people to connect with their friends and family on the go. This application allows people to update their statuses, upload photos, browse information posted on the popular website by friends, and view their friend’s profiles while on the go.

This application is very useful in everyday life, especially as more and more people join the popular social networking website. You can use this application to keep in touch with friends, send a quick message if you need them when voice communication isn’t appropriate, or just when you want to browse information about a friend. You can also share vacation or everyday photos as it happens without needing access to a computer, which means you get to quickly share photos of your day or vacation as it happens.

Resource: http://www.facebook.com/mobile/