digg_id = 'digg-widget-container'; //make this id unique for each widget you put on a single page. digg_description = 1; digg_target = 1;

 

Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.

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Furl

• (from File Uniform Resource Locators) is a free social bookmarking website (furl.net) that allows members to store searchable copies of webpages and share them with others. Every member receives 5 gigabytesof storage space.With your free account from PollDaddy

 

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• you can now create surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles. Find out what your visitors are thinking today. Create your surveys and polls using our custom templates or create your own. Use our in-depth reporting engine to aggregate, print and export your results.

 

Please take a moment to participate in my Emerging Technologies survey.

 

var PDF_surveyID = 'BE39E5C9610DA608'; var PDF_openText = 'View Survey'; View Survey

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Slideshareallows you to upload PowerPoints to your wiki, blog or websites. Upload more than one PowerPoint to create a Slidecast.

 

 

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Gliffy makes it simple to organize your thoughts and share them with family, colleagues, and organizations. When you take your ideas and organize them visually, it's easier for you and others to really understand them. Plus, you can move things around on paper, test different options, and find the right solution.

• Create a floor plan and shift furniture around to find just the right set up.
• Do mind mapping to improve learning, get organized, or boost creativity.
• Set up org charts that others can update themselves.
• Arrange seating charts for events, easily managing complex guest lists.
• Define a process and publish to your team.
• Collaborate on a methodology.
• Publish a diagram to augment class materials.
• Map out an idea in a line drawing. You don't have to be an artist to create good drawings with Gliffy.

Create an endless variety of professional-looking diagrams, drawings, process flows, interfaces, and designs. Check out these examplesto stir your creativity.

 

 

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Use LetterPop to create eye-popping newsletters, actionable presentations, irresistible invitations, beautiful product features, sizzling event summaries, informative club updates, lovely picture collages, and a whole lot more. See all you can do.Check out these examples.

 

 

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What is it?

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

Why use bubbl.us?

Because you can:

• Create colorful mind maps online
• Share and work with friends
• Embed your mind map in your blog or website
• Email and print your mind map
• Save your mind map as an image

 

Examples

 

 

 

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A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. Examples

 

 

 

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Spresent is a free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint. Create and edit high-quality Flash presentations online. You can send presentations via e-mail or publish on your web site or blog. Click on the Gallery to see examples.

 

 

 

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Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service, instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific.

Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available: short codes for the USA, Canada, and India, as well as a UK number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.

 

 

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Google Earth is a virtual globe program that was originally called Earth Viewer and was created by Keyhole, Inc. It maps the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS3D globe. It is available under three different licenses: Google Earth, a free version with limited functionality; Google Earth Plus ($20 per year), which includes additional features; and Google Earth Pro ($400 per year), which is intended for commercial use.

 

 

 

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Google Docs

Create and share your work online * Create, edit and upload quickly Import your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch. * Access and edit from anywhere All you need is a Web browser. Your documents are stored securely online. * Share changes in real time Invite people to your documents and make changes together, at the same time. * **It's free -- you don't pay a nickel