RECIPE SHARING - MYDISH
www.mydish.co.uk
Launched in 2008, MyDish is a Dragon's Den business, that received backing from Deborah Meaden and, three years on, is going great guns. The site aims to help visitors find easy homemade recipes, store their own favourite recipies, share recipes with friends and family and create shopping lists and personalised recipe calendars. With this resource at our disposal those prized family recipes can be easily shared and saved securely for future generations.
PHOTO SHARING - FLICKR
www.flickr.com
This is one of the most popular photo sharing sites out there, allowing users to securely and privately share photos and videos with friends and family across the world in an easy, hassle-free fashion. By uploading your photos and videos to Flickr, you can organise your media via collaboration with friends and family, who can add comments, notes and tags. The site is also used by professional photographers.
MUSIC SHARING - SPOTIFY
www.spotify.com
Spotify offers a fantastic sharing service that allows users to copy the link of a playlist of track and drop it into an email or social website like Facebook or Twitter. Visitors can also now share music with their Facebook friends inside Spotify, and view their published playlists making music sharing a breeze - even if Spotify is starting to charge for the privilege.
DOCUMENT SHARING - GOOGLE DOCS
docs.google.com
Once you've signed up to Google Docs, you'll wonder how on earth you coped before. The service allows you to create and share your work online and access your documents, including spreadsheets, presentations, surveys and more from anywhere in the world, providing you have internet access and a computer. One of the best bits about it is that multiple users, operating from different locations, can work on the same document at the same time, without causing any muddles.
BOOK SHARING - BOOKHOPPER
www.bookhopper.com
Book sharing via the mail is facilitated at this free-to-use site, which lets you share and request books within your national boundaries. Add the books that you no longer want to My Bookshelf and browse the collection to request books from other 'Hoppers.' The more books you offer, the more you can take. Books are divided into a huge variety of categories covering everything from Food & Drink to Religion & Spirituality. You can also browse by 'Hopper' to see what's on their individual bookshelf.
LOCATION SHARING - FOURSQUARE
foursquare.com
Whatever city you may be in, Foursquare can help make the experience richer. A social network based on location, it works by allowing users to 'check in' via smartphone app or SMS and share their location with friends. Friends in the same area can then get tips on what to do. Meanwhile, users can bookmark information about venues that they want to visit while collecting points and virtual badges for those that they do.
ART SHARING - MYDRAWINGS
www.mydrawings.me
What parent isn't proud of their child's art work? Now you can store and share all their drawings in one place online with the help of MyDrawings. A great resource for parents, schools and nurseries, the site let you easily scan and upload work to create online galleries, afterwhich you can share your child's work with family and friends, completely free of charge. There is even a facility for purchasing prints of the drawing or painting and regular competitions are run on the site for mini-Picassos in the making.
VIDEO SHARING - VIMEO
vimeo.com
This community-driven video sharing site lets users browse via an ever-changing catalogue of videos, share videos with communities that have similar interests and participate in fun video projects with other members or start their own. Videos are generally of an excellent quality and there’s even a video school for people keen to improve their skills.
Emily Jenkinson
10th May 2011