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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags tools & internet

07 December 2006

MultiSubmit beta >> One bookmark, so many possibilities

by 4 others
trying out a new way to submit bookmarks to various bookmarking sites

03 December 2006

EVERYTHING 2.0: KNOWLEDGE 2.0

by 1 other
links to knowledge sharing or knowledge management site; larger site is most comprehensive listing of web2.0 sites I have seen, organized into many categories; blogger is from Netherlands

01 December 2006

Digital Web Magazine

by 33 others
see Nov. 27 06 and earlier, "The Rise of Flash Video" by Tom Green; many articles of interest to both designers and theorists in this ejournal

AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web

by 1 other
narrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"

[debates] A Concise Lexicon of / for the Digital Commons

by Raqs Media Collective / September 2001; keywords not usually used by folks in literature and film, yet they will want to enter the fora where these ideas have a formative influence

27 November 2006

SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards

March 06; useful discursive comparison by judges of top contenders in each of many categories, which rhetorically can be used to teach students how to write about the Internet; sizeable honorable mention lists

Google Help : Web Search Features

If you click on About Google on its home page, you can get to this page which lists the multiple services Google offers, an amazing array.

Google Page Creator

by 4 others
google tool for helping a person create their own web page and store it free online; very simple interface

Office 2.0 Database

by 41 others
Oct 06 list of numerous web2.0 apps related to office functions, plus links to reviews of them, when available.Effort to have all apps be on web and not desktop, including photo, sound, and video editing, web publishing, drawing.

ShopWiki

by 2 others
"ShopWiki actively crawls more than 180,000 online stores to ensure you’ll find the products you want at the best prices." For a class looking at web2.0 apps, it's the kind of thing students would enjoy playing with.

pixer.us :: online photo editor

by 18 others
I have not tried it yet but am interested in the arrival of word processing, video editing, and photo editing tools to the web. This one has an intuitive interface.

INTERNET TREASURES OR VERY USEFUL LINKS... AND FREE TOOLS

by 10 others
Portal with wide variety of categories; most useful are the evaluative and descriptive annotations for each entry, so you can see how the possible "consumer opinion," for example, sites vary. Place to find free reference tools.

Free Fax • Free Internet Faxing

by 8 others
send a free fax within the USA and Canada, PDF or Word files, maximum two per day or $1.99 per fax for more; I have not used it yet but it sounds promising

Last.fm – The Social Music Revolution

by 177 others
a web2.0 radio listening site; you can see others' tastes and perhaps pick up some tips from them; like Pandora, it learns your tastes

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed

by 4 others
a librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006

Google Help : Cheat Sheet

by 32 others
one page of tips to remind you of search protocols on Google

24 November 2006

Specialty Search Engines

* Answers * Computer * Domain * Financial * Government * Invisible Web * Legal * Mailing Lists * Medical * Newsgroups * Science * Shopping * Travel Search Engines • others

Writing Demonstrations

interactive demonstrations of Conducting Electronic Searches; useful both for the information contained and as a demo of web design and writing instructional media in a library context; the larger site is a resource for writers.