Getting Connected

Get Connected - Part I
Web based email – good for sending large files, back up mail system etc
www.Gmail.com
www.Hotmail.com
www.yahoo.com

Get Connected – Part II
Instant Messenger: Next – because email is quite passé – you need to get an Instant messenger account.
MSN: http://get.live.com/messenger/overview [Asia favourite]
Yahoo: http://messenger.yahoo.com/  
AOL IM: www.aim.com/ [US favourite]
Skype - www.skype.com

Download a messenger for your blackberry. Useful if your office is on a plane. I use Verichat www.verichat.com

Create an Identity - Part I
www.WeeMe.com (for IM)
www.meegos.com/ (for IM)
www.secondlife.com

Create an Identity - Part II
www.Myspace.com
www.spaces.live.com
www.blogger.com


Turn-up the volume – Part I
Upgrade your browser These browsers are better than IE. They have cool features like “voice browsing”, mouse click gestures, inbuilt RSS feeds and lots of other plug-ins.
www.firefox.com + https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/recommended/
www.opera.com + http://www.opera.com/docs/plugins/

Start using your bookmarks to organise useful sites, and sites to recommend to your clients
Join up with http://del.icio.us/ that is designed for that purpose and to share other people’s lists

Turn-up the volume – Part II
Must visit sites
www.wikipedia.com
www.Googleearth.com
www.picassa.com
www.Secondlife.com
www.ebay.com (start bidding)
www.flickr.com
www.youtube.com
www.itunes.com
www.photomosaic.com
www.liveplasma.com
www.brightcove.com
www.amazon.com
www.download.com

Buzz tracking – what are people saying?
www.icebreaker.com
www.technorati.com/
www.blogpulse.com
www.googlealert.com

What are people Searching for?
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist.html
http://buzz.yahoo.com/overall/

Viral / fun sites
http://b3ta.com/
http://viral.lycos.co.uk/
http://www.rathergood.com/
http://www.viralbank.com/frameset.php
http://www.kontraband.com/index.asp


Agency / creative showcases:
www.scene7.com/demos/index.asp
www.flashtalking.com
www.eyeblaster.com
www.creativeshowcase.net
www.gizmodo.com/

Digital Info/News
www.internetworldstats.com (Online stats)
www.trendwatching.com
www.adage.com
www.marketingvox.com
www.womma.com
www.iab.net