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How Well Do You Know How to Use the Net to Share Content? By Damon Curry Maryland Newsline Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 Many Web sites allow users to upload their own media for other users to see and comment on. Some sites are specialized toward one type of creative content - images, video or audio - while others allow users to post multiple types of media. See how well you know popular sites: 1. What popular site that allows users to post video has the catch phrase "Broadcast Yourself"? MySpace YouTube Facebook Google Video 2. Many sites allow users to post audio that they've created. Which of the following does not support audio uploads? MySpace purevolume Facebook radio.blog.club 3. Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, but Google also has its own video Web site. So why did Google buy YouTube? Google hopes to merge its video service with YouTube. YouTube has been trying to sell the site to Google since its creation, and Google finally caved. YouTube stockholders petitioned the company's owners to sell the site to a major corporation. Google believes YouTube will help it become a lucrative marketing hub as viewers and advertisers migrate from television to the Web. 4. Some sites provide information about a user's habits. Which site shows individual users' music listening trends? YouTube Facebook Last.fm iTunes.com 5. Music and videos aren't the only popular shared content. Which of the following allows users to upload lots of art and photos? deviantART images.google.com MySpace Art.com 6. Which of the following does not have the ability to share creative writing samples? deviantART YouTube Writing.com MySpace 7. Users can create personal profiles on many networking Web sites. Which site limits users as to which profiles they can see based on their "network"? MySpace Facebook LiveJournal Blogger 8. Which of the following blogging services allows users to host their blog on their own server? MySpace WordPress Xanga LiveJournal Copyright © 2006 University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism Top of Page | Home Page