Posts Tagged with ‘instruction’

First Business App for Facebook Further Alienates College Crowd

Triston McIntyre

As I am just escaping the undergraduate college community, I tend to consider myself something of a Facebook expert. That isn't to say I consider myself an industry analyst or anything like that; as Facebook is as necessary an element of each college student's life as the infamous Cup-O-Noodles, I would probably best label my relationship to Facebook currently "Recovering Facebook Expert."
That being said, I'm intrigued to some degree or another by the direction Facebook applications [...]

SuTree - Video Instruction Upgrade

Phil Butler

About 6 months ago an interesting site was launched called SuTree. The initial offering was a simple listing of instructional videos. Since then the site has received good reviews and lots of feedback, both positive and negatively constructive. SuTree is still a fairly early development in perhaps the most important Web 2.0 venue - education. This aspect of the Web has been woefully underdeveloped, and I actually root for any development aimed at tackling the immense task of aggregating knowledge. [...]

Livemocha: A Social Language Learning Experience

Paul Glazowski

Last month, I had published on Profy an article about an online language instruction service, dubbed Mango Languages. I thought it thoroughly enjoyable, and basically said as much in the Oct 18 piece.
About a week after the write-up went live, I received an email from Wendy Laxton, a community manager for another Web-based entity, also language-centric, called Livemocha. Wendy asked for my thoughts on the website of which she is a part.
And after giving Livemocha a brief look, and mulling [...]

Rouxbe.com - The Recipe to Better Cooking

killerStartups.com

Want to create some new dishes and improve your cooking skills? Rouxbe provides professional quality videos that show you step-by-step how to cook a variety of different recipes. All of the recipes are from professional chefs, but they focus only on the food and how it?s prepared.
If you want some more detail on the food you are thinking of cooking, there?s extra information that comes along with the recipe, which might include where it came from, or tips on [...]