Jacob Martinko's Page

I have chosen to use LinkedIn.com as my professional web identity because I think that it is the most professional of the sites that I have explored. LinkedIn seems to be strictly professional and will help me develop connections for the future. Although I have not completely explored the site, and do not know everything about it yet, I think that LinkedIn is still the best choice for me to build my professional identity. I think that I am going to try and look for contacts that are directly rel… Continue

Today i also explored the site, Seesmic.com. I have never seen a social networking site such as this one. It is all about blogging and getting your ideas out there, but everything happens on video. You record a video and then post it on seesmic. That is how you send and receive messages and that is how seesmic works.

The only problem for me is that I do not have built-in-camera on my laptop, nor do i have a webcam, and my video camera is home so there is no way for me to participate in the acti… Continue

Today i decided to explore linkedin.com and so far i think that this website is great. Linked in allows for searching of many past colleagues and classmates, much like facebook and many other social networking sites, however linkedin seems to be about professional standards and keeping in touch.

I think that it is great that you can look for connections for potential careers because we all know how important connections are when looking for a job. For this, I understand that this site is strict… Continue

here are all of my web identities so far...add me if you would like to

myspace.com/jmmtink
http://www.youtube.com/user/tinkjr
http://twitter.com/JacobMartinko
linkedin--->search for "Jacob Martinko"
seesmic---> search for "jmmtink"

Today I checked out digg.com. It seems to me like digg is just a way for people to share content that they find on the web with other people who are interested. You can submit anything that you want to. It seems pretty cool and looks like digg is mostly just a blogging site.

In your homepage, you can set which type of stories that you want to see when you log in. Types of stories include movie, political, and sports stories.

Besides submitting stories, you can blog about other people's stories… Continue