Brandon/Lynnette
Jiffle.com: an online service that dramatically accelerates the process of scheduling meetings. Jiffle's patent-pending technology allows you to selectively share your Outlook calendar with your contacts and eliminate the time-consuming back-and-forth process (seven e-mails/voicemails on average) required to set up meetings with your colleagues and clients.
CommentedOn.com: keeps track of all the comments you leave in your internet travels
Particls.com: tracks your bookmarked sites for changes; it then updates you. It will also allow you to input important key words or phrases to give you automatic alerts when newly posted items are available on the topics. Particls will also rank your keywords and bookmarks in order of importance.
Wufoo.com: Creates forms for use on webpages. You use a graphical interface, and it creates the code. When users complete the form, it gets sent to your Wufoo account…the account can be configured to automatically send completed forms to your e-mail account.
L8r.com: Allows you to sync the website’s service with your e-mail. You can compose e-mails to send up to five years later. Great for birthday greetings, annual announcements, etc.
By: Kelly Mollenhauer & Gloria Ellenbaum
IMAGELOOP –photos
Creates digital slideshows from your uploaded images that can be shared with friends or “everyone” according to your choice. It also turns pdf and powerpoint files into slideshows as well. You can customize the look, transitions, “skins” and colors of everything you create. You can also control who views your slideshows, and who can comment on them.
I BEAT YOU: Challenge the World - fun
Start a challenge or vote for your favorite competitor.
Everything can be a competition, for people who can’t get enough winning, from “That celebrity baby could be mine”, to “That’s what she said jokes”.
TEAM SNAP – games
Manage and organize sports team schedules and availability
Keep track of scores and statistics from your games according to players and whole team
Track payments for weekly, monthly or yearly fees
Allows team members to sign up to bring refreshments
Post important information before the big game
Post team photos online and display your team LOGO as well.
ZLANGO - communication
Uses picture icons known as clipart to replace words. Create e-cards and emails as well as text messages to send to your friends with only images, no words.
PANRAVEN – communication
A way of digital storytelling. Upload photos, access library for graphics, share with friends, access the storytelling community within the site.
http://www.openBottles.com/
OpenBottles is a social site to share reviews on wines and wineries, create an online wine cellar or make a wishlist of wines to try.
http://notebook.zoho.com/
Zoho Notebook allows you to create an online notebook where you can place all different types of media.
http://pollpub.com/
PollPub allows you to create polls that can then be embedded into websites. By returning to your account, you can see the results of your poll.
http://flashcardfriends.com/welcome.php
Flashcard Friends allows you to create flashcards and search other user-created flashcards to study online for different subjects.
https://browsershots.org/
Browsershots Allows you to quickly view your webpage on four different operating systems and the multitude of browsers used within each one.
http://lib.rario.us/
This site allows you to catalog your media collection, whether it be books, DVDs, CDs... This allows you greater flexibility with your collection.
http://bubbl.us/edit.php
This site allows you to brainstorm online. You can: create colorful mind maps online, share and work with friends, mmbed your mind map in your blog or website, email and print your mind map, and save your mind map as an image.
http://www.mapwing.com/
Mapwing makes it easy to build, share, and explore virtual tours. Use Mapwing to turn your digital photos into virtual tours that include interactive maps, images, and comments. Then, share your virtual tours with friends, clients, or the entire world. Begin creating your own virtual tours for Free.
http://www.lookybook.com
Allows you to search by author, illustrator, subject or genre and preview books to purchase.
http://www.skype.com/
Ability to make calls from your computer to other computers or phones.
It is free to other Skype users.
pbwiki http://pbwiki.com/
This is a wiki site that caters to business and educators. The creation interface is very easy and you can see revisions to each page.
This site also provides specific downloadable instructions that are geared towards teachers (how to create a calendar, how to create a collaborative classroom, how to engage students with a chatroom, student safety).
Answertips from Answers.com http://www.answers.com/main/answertips.jsp
This is a small piece of programming code that can be added to any website. This widget allows for someone who is browsing your website to double click on any word and trigger a pop-up bubble that shows definitions of the word.
YAKiToMe! http://www.yakitome.com/
YaKiToMe is a website that converts a text file (word document, pdf, etc), RSS feeds, or typed text to speech. You can choose the language of the speech, different voices, different speeds, and different output formats (mp3 or wav). Files can be saved locally for use on portable media devices.
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net
Slideshare is an online community for slide based presentations. You can create an account or just view presentations that have been created by others. It allows for the uploading and sharing files that can be tagged and made private or public. You can also sync sound to your presentation.
skrbl: http://www.skrbl.com
skrbl is a web based interactive whiteboard. It allows you to draw, text, scribble and share on the web. It allows multiple users to create or communicate on the web with a basic sign up or subscription which of course offers more features. There is even a widget that can be added for free to existing web pages.