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By: Ini Esenyie Melissa Richard Web resources: Travel, Study, Tweet, and Video

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By: Ini Esenyie Melissa Richard

Web resources: Travel, Study, Tweet, and Video

Skype•Skype is a useful website because it allows long distance friends, family members to communicate through video chat for free

BlogsBlogs are an outlet for people to post their

opinions, daily happenings, and other thoughts, as well as respond to other people’s posts.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-blogs.htm

•This unique site enables travelers to search and compare flights, cars, hotels, and vacations.

•This is different from other sites because it conveniently displays the prices of other sites, so the searcher can see them all at once, rather than individually searching through each site.

http://www.kayak.com/

This site alleviates difficulties deciding what to bid on the bidding site, priceline.com. Bidding for Travel is a forum for users to disclose what bids they had posted and won, helping users to make informed decisions for easier travel.

Bidding for Travel

www.biddingfortravel.com

StudyStack•StudyStack takes online flashcards to a whole new level. •The site automatically creates many other activities based on the data from your flashcards. •These activities have two main benefits.• The first is that studying won't be so boring. So without even realizing it you'll naturally study more. •The second benefit is that by reviewing the data in several different formats, you'll end up memorizing the information better as your brain makes several different connections with the data.

Zillow•An online real estate database that was founded in 2005 by Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Expedia.• The website uses a proprietary algorithm called the "Zestimate" to appraise property values based on undisclosed factors.

Twitter•Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. •Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page• they are delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers.

Sleeping in Airports•Why spend money on a night in the airport hotel when an inflatable raft on the airport floor is free•Sure, it may sound a little cheap and degrading at first, but its truly not•Airport sleeping is no longer just for the cheap young backpacker