Youtube – the most well known video hosting platform on the web.

It does has some accessibility options in the form of closed caption / subtitles, enlarge the video / screen. It doesn’t have any zoom / magnify controls. However, the devices used to access this type of content from desktop to mobile devices, tend to have the accessibility options built into the operating system / web browser.

You can create playlists but not download any videos directly via the site. The licence type can be standard or a creative commons as we have looked at in previous posts. This can be found under the description and will state if it has a Creative Commons license or not.

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Copyright can be legally a tricky subject and there is a lot of misunderstanding around the laws, especially with regards to fair usage – e.g if you were to use copyrighted material in a review of the subject to illustrate a point or for parody purposes.

The Mountain below has the following copyrights:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

“mountain” by barnyz is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

This Dam image below has the following copyright:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

“Hoover Dam 2005” by stevencko is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Wikimedia hosts a lot more Wiki’s than their headliner Wikipedia.

I’m familiar with Wikimedia through, Wikipedia but also Mediawiki, which organisations, groups and individuals can use to create their own Wikis on their hosted platform for free!

However, there are other Wiki’s out there:

Wikisource – Free library
Wikimedia Commons – illustrations, photos, drawings, video and music
Wikiversity – learning resources
wikivoyage – travel guide

And many more!

I can see google hangouts being good for importune join as you please group discussions, where individuals join and leave on the fly. Its not quite on the same level as dedicate webinair software, such as GoToMeeting for the presentation aspect but less “organisation required” as a Skype / Teams meeting. Google Hangouts seems to sit in between. It could be argued, that Google Hangouts is ok at a few things but not really good in one area, which can be a dangerous place to be as a service.

Facebook groups are handy for events, its one of Facebook’s features which have yet to be replaced in some form by other services. It allows one central place where information can be posted about a particular event and individuals will receive notification (if turned on) when updates and messages affect them.

I have recently arranged a Stag Do using Facebook groups and this has been 10 times easier than using any other social media or messaging service.

I explored Tweetdeck, it became clear quite quickly this type of tool is invaluable from a business / organisation level. The ability to schedule tweets and have multiple accounts linked up from the one interface ups the efficiency and automation and means your brand can stay relevant across time zones without a member of Staff having to be a night owl to cater for your customers on the other side of the world!

I reflected upon the Gender options with online forms and websites, recently as until the past few years, it was never in the forefront of my mind the complex issue surrounding this.

In more recent times, through individuals in organizations I work with, I notice this is beginning to apply to email signatures, with appropriate pronouns attached. At present, there is no default option to include this field within mainstream email services, such as Microsoft’s Office 365 with the creation of a custom field. I predict we could see more tech companies bringing in pronoun fields as standard where appropriate.

After reading articles relating to the rise in Emoji use over the years and the diversity and representation with Emoji’s, it seems obvious individuals have been pining for a better representation of themselves within the apps they use to communicate. With the creation of Bitmoji this filled the gap and I remember the Surge of Bitmoji’s from the people I contact on a regular basis.

It looks like mobile operating software developers (iOS) have caught onto this with the release of Memoji.

Which Moji will win out, only time will tell!

Upon checking up on what my mobile device was sharing, it was interesting to see how many non-navigational apps request to access your location! The majority of mine were set to Never and ones which do have access are only while Using The App.

It raises the question of why location data and others is required for almost all apps, is it for our convenience, or is it part of a bigger data arms race between app developers / technology companies. Just because its possible to access and record this type of data doesn’t mean you should, if its out with the remit of the app’s useful funtionality which was marketed to the consumer.