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Web 2.0 tools review
Disqus is a worldwide blog comment hosting service for websites and online communities. What that means is it allows website owners to implement a commenting system on their pages. It also comes with moderation tools that allow you to monitor and control the comments and community. It also allows website owners to implement native advertising to easily make money. Disqus is based off the freemium model, being free for the basic functionalities, but requiring monthly payments for more premium functions.
Having used Disqus to comment a number of times on various sites, I give it a 4/5, as it is a overall visually appealing and easy to use system, but lacks any extraordinary features over other comment hosts. Disqus can be found here
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Steam is an online game marketplace created by Valve. It was originally released in September 2003, 13 years ago. It is today known as one of the best digital distribution platforms for its ease of use, incredible variety of games, and great sales. It also allows you to add other gamers to your friends list, allowing you to see when they are online and what they are playing. This allows for people who have never met in real life to meet through different multiplayer games. The only real downside to Steam is its reliance on an internet connection, as all of the games must be downloaded from the store.
I give Steam a 5/5, as it has such a wide variety of games for all gamers, and constant sales on. Steam can be found here Twitch TV is a live-streaming service owned by Amazon that is home to hundreds and thousands of channels made up mostly of gaming, but in the last year the Creative and Music categories have become very popular. On the launch day of Creative, Twitch hosted a nine-day marathon of Bob Ross' The Joy of Painting and due to its popularity Twitch now streams a season of The Joy of Painting every Monday. There are fewer limits on what can be streamed on Twitch compared to YouTube, but still has some limits. The community on Twitch is also much friendlier compared to YouTube. Twitch also allows more direct support to the streamer by letting viewers subsrcibe for $4.99 a month. Subsrcibing gets different privledges based on the channel.
I rate Twitch 5/5 because it's a well made site home to many great channels and streamers, with a much better community than YouTube. Twitch can be found here |
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