Week 8. Thing 19

I explored many of the award winning Web 2.0 sites. I first explored the travel site called Kayak (www.kayak.com ). I liked the site because it showed numerous pictures of the hotels you were interested in visiting. You could choose hotels using the star rating. The site included flight costs and populat trip ideas. I really liked the popular trip ideas. It included ideas such as U.S. scenic drives, adventure trips and camping trips to name a few of the many ideas. This is a great site for planning vacations. The next site I explored was Eventful- www.eventful.com. I can see myself using this site at my job. We get questions about events in the area so this site will be helpful. You can put in a location and there is a list of about 30 categories to click on to get information. For example,you can click on sports and you will get a list of sporting events in the area. You can track and share events at the site. There is a link for calendars where you can bring up different events thoughtout the United States. There is also a popular calendar tags link. The last site I looked at was Lulu(www.lulu.com). You can publish and sell your books on this site. You can set a price and do the marketing. You can also pulish all different types of media such as calendars, and cd's just to name a few types of media. I enjoyed exploring some of the award winning 2.0 sites and look forward to going back to explore some additional sites in the future.