Everywhere you turn your head now on the web, you see content labeled as Web 2.0. What exactly Web 2.0 is, cannot be defined as simple, but free and easy sharing are part of it for sure. Attempts to create easy, free information sharing environments were more or less of a success over the years but the way I see it, this is the direction user-sharing is going to.

I’m talking about Tubes, a software that allows you to easily share files in a secured manner. All you have to do is to download the installation pack, and the software (that runs on a .NET framework) will allow you to share content freely with who you want. In order to choose with whom you share content you use the so called ‘tubes’. Create a tube, upload content and invite friends, it’s really simple!

You can upload as much as 2GB of data per tube, and then easily synchronize the online content with your offline folder. I know it all sounds as a big commercial but the functions it provides are great and simple, just the way I like them. Sure there are some drawbacks such my concern for privacy and security given the fact that all the files shared by the ‘tube’ users are replicated on each computer.

All in all Tubes is an interesting software you might want to check out, even if you won’t be using it all day long, it just might do the trick in some situation when you quickly need to share data.

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“Web 2.0″. You hear it everywhere, from blogs and websites to TV shows and newspaper articles. Wikipedia describes it as refering to “perceived or proposed second generation of Internet-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.” To simplify it a bit, it represents what we are experiencing nowadays all over the Internet: blogs, widgets, social networking websites, and so on.

Throughout the change of the internet one thing has apparently remained the same: the way we search for information. And one name imediately pops up as an ever-changing company that seems to lead the way in this area: Google. But, as Google expands, it appears that its “Default” function hasn’t changed much. The logos have come and gone, but the way we use Google’s search engine has basically remained the same over the years. I’m not saying this as a bad thing, though, but there are cases when Google’s apparent “rigidity” makes its presence known. With SEO techniques have enabled websites to deceive users in some cases, by offering illusions to be shown in the search engine, you can waste up to hours chasing the information that you need. One short example is the one that almost anyone has encountered in Google: you type in your search, and the first answers are websites that have little or nothing to do with what you typed (even pornographic websites). Read the rest of this entry »

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