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Moodle
Jing
Adobe Captivate
Articulate
Camtasia Studio
Elgg
Lectora
Udutu
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Modular ObjectOriented Dynamic
Learning Environment
A free and opensource e-learning
software platform,
also known as a
Course Management
System, Learning
Management System,
or Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE).
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Jing is a
screencasting
software, it takes a
picture or video of
the user's computer
screen and uploads
it to the Web, FTP,
computer or
clipboard.
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Adobe Captivate
(formerly RoboDemo)
is an electronic
learning tool for
Microsoft Windows,
and from v.5 Mac OS X
which can be used to
author software
demonstrations,
software simulations,
branched scenarios,
and randomized
quizzes in .swf format.
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Articulate Presenter
makes it easy for
anyone to add
interactivity and
narration to
PowerPoint slides.
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Camtasia Studio is a
screen video capture
software, published
by TechSmith. The
user defines the area
of the screen or the
window that is to be
captured or the
whole screen can be
recorded instead.
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Elgg is open source
social networking
software that creates
online social
environments. It
offers blogging,
microblogging, file
sharing, networking,
groups and a
number of other
features.
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Lectora is authoring
software, developed
by Trivantis
Corporation. It is
used to create online
training courses,
assessments, and
presentations.
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Udutu is an online
authoring tool that
allows you to build
course materials for
the world's first LMS
designed to run on
popular Social
Networks such as
Facebook.
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Adobe Connect
Dimdim
Elluminate
Webex
GoToMeeting/GoToTrain
SecondLife
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Adobe Connect
(formerly Presedia
Publishing System,
Macromedia Breeze,
and Adobe Acrobat
Connect Pro) is used
to create information
and general
presentations, online
training materials, web
conferencing, learning
modules, and user
desktop sharing. The
product is entirely
Adobe Flash based.
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Dimdim provides a
web-based platform
for real-time, richmedia collaboration
and meetings. Dimdim
provides free web
conferencing service
where users can share
desktops, show slides,
collaborate, chat, talk
and broadcast via
webcam.
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Elluminate Live! is a
web conferencing
program that "rents"
out virtual rooms or
vSpaces where
virtual schools and
businesses can hold
classes and
meetings.
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WebEx provides ondemand
collaboration, online
meeting, web
conferencing and
videoconferencing
applications.
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A Web-hosted
service that is a
remote meeting and
desktop sharing
software that
enables the user to
meet with other
computer users,
customers, clients or
colleagues via the
Internet in real-time.
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Second Life is a
virtual world
accessible on the
Internet. A free client
program called the
Viewer enables its
users, called
Residents, to interact
with each other
through avatars.
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Google Docs
Slideshare
PowerPoint
VoiceThread
Prezi
Word
Keynote
OpenOffice
Adobe Acrobat Pro
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Google Docs is a free,
Web-based word
processor,
spreadsheet,
presentation, form,
and data storage
service offered by
Google.
It allows users to
create and edit
documents online
while collaborating in
real-time with other
users.
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SlideShare is an
online slide hosting
service.
Users can upload
files in the following
file formats:
PowerPoint, PDF, or
OpenOffice
presentations.
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Microsoft PowerPoint
is a presentation
program.
Edward Tufte suggests
that PowerPoint slides
prepared for briefing
NASA officials
concerning possible
damage to the Space
Shuttle Columbia
during its final launch
were fatally flawed.
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VoiceThread is a
collaborative,
multimedia slide show
that holds images,
documents, and
videos and allows
people to navigate
slides and leave
comments .
VoiceThread allows
group conversations to
be collected and
shared in one place.
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Prezi is a web-based
presentation application
that uses a single canvas
instead of traditional
slides.
Text, images, videos and
other presentation
objects are placed on
the canvas and grouped
together in frames.
A path through different
objects and frames can
be defined, representing
the order of the
information to be
presented.
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Microsoft Word is a
word processor.
Word has a built-in
spell checker,
thesaurus,
dictionary, Office
Assistant and
utilities for
transferring, copy,
pasting and editing
text, such as
PureText.
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Keynote is a
presentation software
application.
It adds new themes,
transitions and
animations, and the
ability to control the
slideshow with an
iPhone or iPod touch.
Themes allow the user
to keep consistency in
colours and fonts
throughout the
presentation, including
charts, graphs and
tables.
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OpenOffice is an
open-source
application suite
whose main
components are for
word processing,
spreadsheets,
presentations,
graphics, and
databases.
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Adobe Acrobat is an
application software
to view, create,
manipulate, print
and manage files in
Portable Document
Format (PDF).
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Wordpress
Blogger
Wikispaces
PBworks
Flash
Edublogs
Wetpaint
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Dreamweaver
Posterous
Etherpad
Google Sites
Scribd
Survey Monkey
TypePad
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WordPress is an open
source Content
Management System
(CMS), often used as
a blog publishing
application.
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Blogger is a blog
publishing service
that allows private or
multi-user blogs
with time-stamped
entries. Generally,
the blogs are hosted
by Google at
subdomains of
blogspot.com.
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Wikispaces is a
hosting service
(sometimes called a
wiki farm)
Private wikis with
advanced features
for businesses, nonprofits and
educators are
available for an
annual fee.
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PBworks (formerly
PBwiki) is a
commercial realtime collaborative
editing (RTCE)
system. The
company's original
name stems from
their belief that
"making a wiki is as
easy as making a
peanut butter
sandwich“.
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Adobe Flash (formerly
Macromedia Flash) is a
multimedia platform
used to add animation,
video, and interactivity
to web pages. Flash is
frequently used for
advertisements and
games. More recently,
it has been positioned
as a tool for "Rich
Internet Applications"
("RIAs").
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An edublog is a kind
of blog written by
someone with a stake
in education.
Examples might
include blogs written
by or for teachers,
blogs maintained for
the purpose of
classroom instruction,
or blogs written about
educational policy.
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Wetpaint is a social
network service and
wiki hosting service
(or wiki farm).
Wetpaint targets nontechnical Internet
users who want to
collaborate online, and
therefore attempts to
include easy to use
features, such as a
three step wiki
creation wizard.
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Adobe Dreamweaver
(formerly Macromedia
Dreamweaver) is a web
development
application.
Recent versions have
incorporated support
for web technologies
such as CSS,
JavaScript, and various
server-side scripting
languages and
frameworks including
ASP, ColdFusion, and
PHP.
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Posterous is a simple
blogging platform
that supports
integrated and
automatic posting to
other social media
tools such as Flickr,
Twitter, and
Facebook, a built-in
Google Analytics
package, and custom
themes.
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EtherPad is a webbased collaborative
real-time editor,
allowing authors to
simultaneously edit a
text document, and
see all of the
participants' edits in
real-time, with the
ability to display each
author's text in their
own colour.
There is also a chat
box in the sidebar to
allow meta
communication.
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Google Sites is a
structured wiki and web
page creation tool
offered by Google as
part of the Google Apps
Productivity suite. It
includes the following
features:
◦ The ability to create full
copies of sites, including
copying from Google Apps
to Sites (and vice versa)
◦ Subscribe (by email) to
changes for individual
pages or the entire site
◦ Native RSS feeds
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Scribd is a
document-sharing
website which allows
users to post
documents of
various formats, and
embed them into a
web page using its
iPaper format.
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SurveyMonkey
enables users to
create their own
Web-based surveys.
An enhanced paid
product and services
are also available.
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TypePad is a
blogging service and
includes additional
features like multiple
author support,
photo albums and
moblogging.
TypePad also
supports a LinkedIn
application that pulls
blog posts into
LinkedIn.
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YouTube
Audacity
flickr
SnagIt
animoto
Adobe Photoshop
Garageband
Glogster
Screenr
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Picasa
TeacherTube
Picnik
ScreenToaster
xtranormal
Adobe Fireworks
iMovie
Movie Maker
Paint.NET
Paintshop Pro
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YouTube is a video-sharing
website on which users can
upload, share, and view videos.
It uses Adobe Flash Video
technology to display a wide
variety of user-generated video
content, including movie clips, TV
clips, and music videos, as well
as amateur content such as video
blogging and short original
videos.
Most of the content on YouTube
has been uploaded by
individuals, although media
corporations including CBS, BBC,
Vevo and other organizations
offer some of their material via
the site, as part of the YouTube
partnership program.
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Audacity is a free
software, crossplatform digital
audio editor and
recording
application. It is
available for
Windows, Mac OS X,
Linux and BSD.
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Flickr is an image hosting
and video hosting website,
web services suite, and
online community created
by Ludicorp and later
acquired by Yahoo!
In addition to being a
popular website for users
to share and embed
personal photographs, the
service is widely used by
bloggers to host images
that they embed in blogs
and social media.
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SnagIt is a screenshot program that
operates under the Windows
operating system. It is distributed by
TechSmith, who also distribute
Camtasia Studio, and was first
launched in 1990.
SnagIt replaces the native Print Screen
function with additional features. It
contains most features needed by
technical writers (for example,
scrolling page screenshots and
automatic 'trim edges' function).
Newer versions also allow batch
capture of embedded items such as
links, pictures, and multimedia. The
user can set parameters and keyboard
shortcuts to capture particular types
of data, which are stored in a folder
called "Catalog" by default.
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Animoto is a web
application that produces
videos from user-selected
photos, video clips and
music.
Animoto analyzes the
provided photos, video
clips and music, using
them to generate a video
similar to a trailer.
According to the website,
the song is analyzed,
producing a unique video
every time. The site also
claims that no two videos
are ever the same.
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Adobe Photoshop is a graphics
editing program developed and
published by Adobe Systems
Incorporated.
Photoshop has ties with other Adobe
software for media editing, animation,
and authoring.
Photoshop's popularity means that
the .PSD format is widely used, and it
is supported to some extent by most
competing software. The .PSD file
format can be exported to and from
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere
Pro, and After Effects, to make
professional standard DVDs and
provide non-linear editing and special
effects services, such as backgrounds,
textures, and so on, for television,
film, and the Web. Photoshop is a
pixel-based image editor, unlike
programs such as Macromedia
FreeHand (now defunct), Adobe
Illustrator, Inkscape or CorelDraw,
which are vector-based image editors.
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GarageBand is a
software application
that allows users to
create music or
podcasts.
It is developed by
Apple Inc. as a part of
the iLife software
package.
It’s features include;
Audio Recording,
Virtual software
instruments, MIDI
editing, and Music
lessons
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Glogster is a social network
that allows users to create
free interactive posters, or
glogs.
The glog, short for graphical
blog, is an interactive
multimedia image.
It looks like a poster, but
readers can interact with the
content.
Glogster provides an
environment to design
interactive posters. The user
inserts text, images, photos,
audio (MP3), videos, special
effects and other elements
into their glogs to generate a
multimedia online creation.
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Screenr is a web-based
screencasting tool that
allows you to quickly
create screencasts.
Free and web-based,
there is no software to
download, unlike Jing,
which Screenr is very
similar to.
Videos are limited to 5
minutes and Screenr will
host your videos,
providing you embed
code to put the videos
where you want.
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Picasa is an image
organizer and image
viewer for organizing
and editing digital
photos, plus an
integrated photosharing website,
originally created by
Idealab and owned by
Google since 2004.
"Picasa" is a blend of the
name of famed Spanish
painter Pablo Picasso;
the phrase mi casa for
"my house", and "pic" for
pictures (personalized
art).
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TeacherTube is a video
sharing website similar to,
and based on, YouTube.
It is designed to allow
those in the educational
industry, particularly
teachers, to share
educational resources such
as video, audio,
documents, photos,
groups and blogs.
The site contains a mixture
of classroom teaching
resources and others
designed to aid teacher
training.
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Picnik is an online photo
editing service.
Currently it can import
photos natively from
Facebook, Myspace, Picasa
Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo
Image search and also
offers options to upload
from a computer or to
upload from a website.
Picnik has a partnership
with Flickr that includes a
less feature-rich version of
Picnik built into Flickr as a
default photo editor.
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ScreenToaster is a free webbased screen recorder designed
to capture screen activity in realtime to rapidly create and share
tutorials, demos, training,
lectures and more.
To watch videos : Just click on a
video to launch the player.
To record videos : Click on "Start
recording" or "Record", start
recording using the shortcuts or
via the recorder.
You can add audio and an embed
webcam while you are recording.
When finished, add subtitles,
choose your thumbnail, describe
and tag your video so other users
can easily find your screencasts.
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Xtranormal is a simple but
versatile moviemaking
system that runs entirely in
your browser.
Text-to-Movie (TTM) gives
you a choice of a dozen
"showpaks," which consist
of a setting and your
choice of one or two
"actors" (in this case
animated avatars).
All you do is write a script,
then drag various "action
icons" into the script for
things like camera angles,
facial expressions,
gestures, and animations.
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Adobe Fireworks (formerly
Macromedia Fireworks) is a
bitmap and vector graphics
editor.
It was originally developed, using
parts of xRes, by Macromedia,
which Adobe acquired in 2005,
and aimed at web designers (with
features such as: slices, the
ability to add hotspots etc.) for
rapidly creating website
prototypes and application
interfaces.
It is designed to integrate easily
with other former Macromedia
products, such as Dreamweaver
and Flash. It is available as a
standalone product or bundled
with Adobe Creative Suite.
Previous versions were bundled
with Macromedia Studio.
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iMovie is a proprietary video
editing software application
which allows Mac, iPod Touch 4th
generation and iPhone 4 users to
edit their own home movies.
iMovie imports video footage to
the Mac using either the FireWire
interface on most MiniDV format
digital video cameras, the USB
port, or by importing the files
from a hard drive.
From there, the user can edit the
video clips, add titles, and add
music. Effects include basic
colour correction and video
enhancement tools, and
transitions such as fade-in, fadeout, and slides.
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Paint.NET is a
proprietary freeware
raster graphics editing
program for Microsoft
Windows, developed on
the .NET Framework.
Paint.NET has evolved
from a simple
replacement for the
Microsoft Paint program,
which is included with
Windows, into a
powerful editor with
support for layers,
blending, transparency,
and plugins.
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Paint Shop Pro (PSP) is
a vector graphics
editor for computers
running on Microsoft
Windows.
PSP functionality can
be extended by
Photoshop-compatible
plugins.
They are listed in the
'Effects' menu, below
the built-in effects.
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Windows Movie Maker is a video
creating/editing software,
included in Microsoft Windows
Me, XP, and Vista.
It contains features such as
effects, transitions, titles/credits,
audio track, timeline narration,
and Auto Movie.
New effects and transitions can
be made and existing ones can
be modified using XML code.
Windows Movie Maker is also a
basic audio track editing
program.
It can apply basic effects to audio
tracks such as fade in or fade
out. The audio tracks can then be
exported in the form of a sound
file instead of a video file.
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Skype
Gmail
Outlook
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Skype allows users to
make voice calls over
the Internet. Skype
has also become
popular for its
additional features
which include instant
messaging, file
transfer, and video
conferencing.
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Gmail is a free,
advertisingsupported webmail,
POP3, and IMAP
service provided by
Google.
Gmail has a searchoriented interface
and a "conversation
view" similar to an
Internet forum.
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Microsoft Outlook is
a personal
information
manager, although
often used mainly as
an e-mail
application, it also
includes a calendar,
task manager,
contact manager,
note taking, a
journal and web
browsing.
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Twitter
Tweetdeck
Cirip
Yammer
Edmodo
Twhirl
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Twitter offers a
social networking
and microblogging
service, enabling its
users to send and
read other users'
messages called
tweets. Tweets are
text-based posts of
up to 140 characters
displayed on the
user's profile page.
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TweetDeck is an
application for Twitter,
Facebook, LinkedIn,
Google Buzz,
Foursquare, and
MySpace.
Like other Twitter
applications it
interfaces with the
Twitter API to allow
users to send and
receive tweets and
view profiles.
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Allows you to share in
140 characters with
collaborators. Send
messages online/via
SMS/mobile/other
applications Embed
images, audio/live video
clips, presentations, files
You can create polls and
quizzes. Answer
online/SMS.
Public/private groups for
projects, courses, events
- messages can be also
imported from
twitter/blogs
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Yammer is an social
network service, unlike
Twitter, which is used
for broadcasting
messages to the
public, Yammer is
used for private
communication within
organizations or
between
organizational
members and predesignated groups,
making it an example
of enterprise social
software.
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Edmodo is a private
social platform for
students and
teachers to share
ideas, files, events
and assignments.
It is like Facebook
for Schools.
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twhirl is a social
software desktop
client, connects to
multiple Twitter,
laconi.ca, Friendfeed
and Seesmic Video
accounts.
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Delicious
Wikipedia
diigo
Wordle
Google Calendar
Bubbl.us
Google Maps
MindMeister
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Delicious (formerly
del.icio.us, pronounced
"delicious") is a social
bookmarking web service
for storing, sharing, and
discovering web
bookmarks.
Delicious uses a nonhierarchical classification
system in which users can
tag each of their
bookmarks with freely
chosen index terms
(generating a kind of
folksonomy).
A combined view of
everyone's bookmarks with
a given tag is available.
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Wikipedia is a free,
web-based,
collaborative,
multilingual
encyclopedia project
with millions of
articles written
collaboratively by
volunteers around
the world.
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Diigo is a social
bookmarking
website which allows
signed-up users to
bookmark and tag
web-pages.
Additionally, it
allows users to
highlight any part of
a webpage and
attach sticky notes to
specific highlights or
to a whole page.
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Wordle is a tool for
generating “word
clouds” from text
that you provide.
The clouds give
greater prominence
to words that appear
more frequently in
the source text.
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Google Calendar is a
free timemanagement web
application.
Events are stored
online, meaning that
the calendar can be
viewed from any
location that has
Internet access.
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Bubbl.us is a free
web application that
lets you create mind
maps online, and
share and work with
friends on them.
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Google Maps
(formerly Google
Local) is a web
mapping service
application.
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MindMeister is online
mind mapping
software.
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Ning
Facebook
Google Apps
LinkedIn
Sharepoint
Basecamp
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Ning is an online
platform for people
to create their own
social networks.
It allows people to
create their own
social networks
around specific
interests with their
own visual design,
choice of features
and member data.
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Facebook is a social
network service.
Users may create a
personal profile, add
other users as
friends and
exchange messages,
including automatic
notifications when
they update their
profile.
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Google Apps provides
independently
customizable versions
of several Google
products under a
custom domain name.
It features several Web
applications with
similar functionality to
traditional office
suites, including:
Gmail, Google Groups,
Google Calendar, Talk,
Docs and Sites.
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LinkedIn is a
business-oriented
social networking
site.
The purpose of the
site is to allow
registered users to
maintain a list of
contact details of
people they know
and trust in
business.
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Microsoft SharePoint
is a family of
software products
for collaboration, file
sharing and web
publishing.
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Basecamp is a webbased projectmanagement tool.
It offers to-do lists,
wiki-style webbased text
documents,
milestone
management, file
sharing, time
tracking, and a
messaging system.
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Google Reader
Google Search
Firefox
iGoogle
Evernote
iTunes/iTunes U
Dropbox
Google Earth
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Netvibes
Mindmanager
Mindjet
Google Chrome
Bloglines
Friendfeed
Pageflakes
Freemind
Google Alerts
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Google Reader is a Web-based
aggregator, capable of reading
Atom and RSS feeds online or
offline.
Features of Google Reader as of
2010 include:
◦ a front page that lets you see new
items at a glance
◦ import and export subscription lists
as an OPML file
◦ keyboard shortcuts for main
functions
◦ choice between list view or expanded
view for item viewing (showing either
just the story title or including a
description, respectively)
◦ automatic marking of items as read
as they are scrolled past (expanded
view only)
◦ search in all feeds, across all updates
from subscriptions
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Google Search or Google Web
Search is a web search engine
owned by Google Inc. and is the
most-used search engine on the
Web.
The main purpose of Google
Search is to hunt for text in
webpages, as opposed to other
data, such as with Google Image
Search.
Google Search provides at least
22 special features beyond the
original word-search capability these include synonyms, weather
forecasts, time zones, stock
quotes, maps, earthquake data,
movie showtimes, airports, home
listings, and sports scores.
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Mozilla Firefox is a free and open
source web browser descended
from the Mozilla Application Suite
and managed by Mozilla
Corporation.
To display web pages, Firefox
uses the Gecko layout engine,
which implements most current
web standards in addition to
several features which are
intended to anticipate likely
additions to the standards.
The latest Firefox features
include tabbed browsing, spell
checking, incremental find, live
bookmarking, a download
manager, private browsing,
location-aware browsing (also
known as "geolocation") based
exclusively on a Google service.
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iGoogle (formerly
Google Personalized
Homepage and Google
IG), a service of
Google, is a
customizable Ajaxbased startpage or
personal web portal.
Its features include the
capability to add web
feeds and Google
Gadgets (similar to
those available on
Google Desktop).
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Evernote is a suite of software
and services designed for
notetaking and archiving
available in a paid version or
a more restricted,
advertising-supported, "free"
version.
A "note" can be a piece of
formattable text, a full
webpage or webpage excerpt,
a photograph, a voice memo,
or a handwritten "ink" note.
Notes can also have file
attachments. Notes can then
be sorted into folders,
tagged, annotated, edited,
given comments, and
searched.
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iTunes is a proprietary digital
media player application,
used for playing and
organizing digital music and
video files.
The application is also an
interface to manage the
contents on Apple's iPod and
iPhone lines, as well as the
iPad.
iTunes can connect to the
iTunes Store via the Internet
to purchase and download
music, music videos,
television shows, iPod games,
audiobooks, eBooks,
podcasts, feature length films
and movie rentals.
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Dropbox is a Web-based file
hosting service operated by
Dropbox, Inc. which uses
cloud computing to enable
users to store and share files
and folders with others across
the Internet using file
synchronization.
Dropbox offers a relatively
large number of user clients
across a variety of desktop
and mobile operating
systems.
Dropbox uses the Freemium
financial model and its free
service provides 2 GB of free
online storage.
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Google Earth is a virtual
globe, map and
geographical
information program
that was originally called
EarthViewer 3D, and was
created by Keyhole, Inc,
a company acquired by
Google in 2004.
It maps the Earth by the
superimposition of
images obtained from
satellite imagery, aerial
photography and GIS 3D
globe.
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Netvibes is a personalized dashboard
publishing platform for the Web
including digital life management,
widget distribution services and brand
observation rooms.
Netvibes is also a multi-lingual Ajaxbased personalized start page or
personal web portal much like My
Yahoo!, iGoogle.
It is organized into tabs, with each tab
containing user-defined modules.
Built-in Netvibes modules include an
RSS/Atom feed reader, local weather
forecasts, a calendar supporting iCal,
bookmarks, notes, to-do lists,
multiple searches, support for POP3,
IMAP4 email as well as several
webmail providers including Gmail,
Hotmail, and AOL Mail, Box.net web
storage, Delicious, Meebo, Flickr
photos, podcast support with a built
in audio player, and several others.
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MindManager, formerly called
MindMan is a commercial mind
mapping software application
developed by Mindjet
Corporation.
Mind maps created in
MindManager are based on the
mind mapping method by Tony
Buzan.
Files created in the most recent
versions are compatible with both
Windows and Apple platforms.
Features include support for
manual and automatic task
management, filters, an open API,
and RSS support. MindManager
also provides integration with
Microsoft Office applications such
as Outlook and Excel.
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Google Chrome is a web
browser developed by
Google that uses the
WebKit layout engine and
application framework.
The name is derived from
the graphical user interface
frame, or "chrome", of web
browsers.
In September 2008, Google
released a large portion of
Chrome's source code,
including its V8 JavaScript
engine, as an open source
project entitled Chromium.
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Bloglines is a web-based
news aggregator for
reading syndicated feeds
using the RSS and Atom
formats.
Bloglines offers an
application
programming interface
that can be used to write
software that can read
feeds, search its
database of feed entries,
and ping the service
when a blog has been
updated.
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Bloglines is a web-based
news aggregator for
reading syndicated feeds
using the RSS and Atom
formats.
Bloglines offers an
application
programming interface
that can be used to write
software that can read
feeds, search its
database of feed entries,
and ping the service
when a blog has been
updated.
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FriendFeed is a real-time feed
aggregator that consolidates the
updates from social media and
social networking websites, social
bookmarking websites, blogs and
micro-blogging updates, as well
as any other type of RSS/ Atom
feed.
It is possible to use this stream of
information to create customized
feeds to share, as well as
originate new posts-discussions,
(and comment) with friends.
The goal of FriendFeed according
to their website is to make
content on the Web more relevant
and useful by using existing
social network as a tool for
discovering interesting
information.
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Pageflakes is an Ajax-based
startpage or personal web
portal similar to Netvibes, and
iGoogle.
The site is organized into
tabs, each tab containing
user-selected modules called
Flakes.
Each Flake varies in content;
information such as
RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar,
Notes, Web search, weather
forecast, del.icio.us
bookmarks, Flickr photos,
social networking tools like
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter,
email and user-created
modules.
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FreeMind is a free mind
mapping application
written in Java. FreeMind is
licensed under the GNU
General Public License.
As with other mind
mapping software
packages, FreeMind allows
the user to edit a
hierarchical set of ideas
around a central concept.
The non-linear approach
assists in brainstorming
new outlines and projects
as ideas are added around
the mind map.
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Google Alerts is a content
monitoring service that
automatically notifies users
when new content from news,
web, blogs, video and/or
discussion groups matches a
set of search terms selected
by the user and stored by the
Google Alerts service.
Notifications can be sent by
email, as a web feed or
displayed on the users
iGoogle page.
Google Alerts only provides
content from Google's own
search engine.