Digital Gift Giving
Amanda Cey | December 18, 2009With Hanukkah here and Christmas around the corner, we’re all scrambling for those last minute gifts. This year, let technology make it easy…
We love these great digital gift ideas for social media lovers from Mashable‘s Barb Dybwad!
The iTunes Store makes it easy to give songs, albums, playlists, audiobooks, music videos, movies, and TV shows to anyone. Or give iTunes Gift Cards and gift certificates and let them choose for themselves.
Dropbox is a cloud storage, sharing and backup option. You can buy a Pro account (100 GB of storage space) for under $20/month. Great for students or anyone trying to keep multiple computers in sync!
3. Flickr Pro
Give the gift of unlimited photo and video uploads, storage and bandwidth with a Flickr Pro account.
A personal favorite, Amazon lets you give gift cards by e-mail, snail mail or printable versions.
The music social network, discovery engine and personalized ratio station allows subscriptions for uninterrupted music streaming…ad free and only $3/month!
6. Steam Gifts
Got a gamer friend? Give the gift of steam. You can purchase games from the popular digital game distribution platform for current or new users. Download Squad can help you pick which game.
Got a non-netflix member friend? Now is the time to convert them! Netflix is the best way to rent movies unlimited by mail. Subscriptions are available from 1 month up to 1 year.
An Evernote subscription allows 500 MB/ month of uploads, broader file type support, syncing, PDF search, premium support and other benefits. Good for an already Evernote user…or not!
9. Audible.com
This would be a great gift for a commuter or anyone else who listens to audio books. You can choose a certain amount or a monthly subscription to various books on tape!
Newegg gift cards may be used toward the purchase of any in Newegg’s vast selection of computers and computer parts, televisions, monitors and other gadgets.
Any other great digital gift ideas? We would love to hear about them!
