Online collaborations

Online collaboration lets a group of people work together in real-time over the Internet. Those engaged in online collaboration can work together on word processor documents, Power Point presentations and even for brainstorming, all without needing to be in the same room at the same time.

Wikipedia has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet. It is a free, collaborative, multilingual Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles (over 3.8 million in English alone) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. Wikipedia allows people to collaborate facts and information and enable the whole world to access this information. There are pro's and con's to Wikipedia, because the information that people enter on there can be made up and manipulated and not always be the truth.

Social network sites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn in the consumer space as well as many enterprise social software vendors) display a chronological list of human-readable content fragments that describe actions taken by people and applications. For example, in Facebook this capability is referred to as a News Stream. Typically, an activity stream lists status updates from the people in your social graph as well as from applications you have given permission to publish into your stream. That permission might be direct, or indirect (e.g., a “like” gesture results in a subscription subsequent updates).

As Technology is rapidly expanding it means that people today are constantly involved in social networking, being able to upload pictures on the spot and update blogs and tweets on the go. This is all accessable on all smart phones, ipads and all other devices with internet access.

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media

Photos and videos can be accessed from Flickr without the need to register an account but an account must be made in order to upload content onto the website. Registering an account also allows users to create a profile page containing photos and videos that the user has uploaded and also grants the ability to add another Flickr user as a contact.

Flikr is widely used by designers as it has image protection nobody can save your pictures from this site.

BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is a proprietary Internet-based instant messenger application included on BlackBerry devices which allows messaging between BlackBerry users. It was developed by developer of the Blackberry: Research In Motion (RIM). Messages sent via Blackberry Messenger are sent over the Internet and use the BlackBerry PIN system, so communication is only possible between two BlackBerry devices.

Bbm was first known as a business phone, it was mainly used to organise meetings being able to contact and messenger contacts sending image data and creating groups it was a smartphone which has become widely popular now not only with business's but with everyone around the world, having a free messenger where ever and when ever has become the latest craze.