Tools

Collaboration Tools

Kindling (www.kindlingapp.com): an idea management and collaboration tool that allows you and your group to: Submit, collaborate and vote on ideas; Comment on ideas; View ideas by popularity; and Invite users to join the discussion.

GE Whiteboard (www.imaginationcubed.com): Allows you to collaborate with other people and share files in an online whiteboard. Targeted at parents and kids.

Jing (www.jingproject.com): Allow for fast-visual communication that can beshared with others in a variety of locations.

Skrbl (www.skrbl.com): Allows you to collaborate with other people and share files in an online whiteboard.

Voicethread (www.voicethread.com): A collaboration tool that allows users to talk about and share images, documents, and video.

Yugma (www.yugma.com): Allows you to collaborate with other people and share ideas.

Scribd (www.scribd.com): Allows you to publish and share documents.

Social Networking

Twitter (www.twitter.com): a social networking service that allows it users to send and view each others’ messages.

Ning (www.ning.com): a platform that allows you to create a social network. I’m not sure how it’s different from a blog, so I’ll need to research this further.

Pownce (www.pownce.com): software that allows you to create a network and send links, messages, events, and files.

Diigo (www.diigo.com): A social bookmarking website that allows signed users to bookmark and tag web-pages.

Furl (www.furl.net): A social bookmarking tool that makes it easy to save and share webpages.

Chats

Oovoo (www.oovoo.com): free high quality video chat and video conferencing.

Talkshoe (www.talkshoe.com): a website for user-generated live and recorded voice content. Users can host and join live voice discussion groups, radio talk show, conversations, and talk shows.

Skype (www.skype.com): software that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service and to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.

Jott (www.jott.com): free voice to text service. Jott converts your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments.

Other

Songza (www.songza.com): used to create playlists that can be shared on the internet.

Picnik (www.picnik.com): Allows you to edit photos and add special effects.

Mogulus (www.mogulus.com): Allows you to create and publish your on video broadcast.

Screencast-0-Matic (www.screencast-o-matic.com): Allows you a free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install.

Spresent (www.spresent.com): A free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint. Allows users to create and edit high-quality Flash presentations online. You can send presentations via e-mail or publish on your web site or blog.

Animoto (www.animoto.com):  Allows you to create music videos for your images and pictures.

Stumble Upon (www.stumbleupon.com): Helps you discover and share great websites.

Zoho (www.zoho.com): Offers a suite of online web applications geared towards increasing your productivity and offering easy collaboration.

Freepath (www.freepath.com): Freepath is a playlist application that helps you mix and play your rich media assets such as video, photos and music together with your traditional desktop files like PowerPoint, PDFs and Word without having to convert files, embed links or import files.

Nvu (www.download.com/Nvu/3000-2048_4-10412423.html): A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users

TextTheMod (www.textthemob.com): Allows you to collect feedback from your audience

Paint.NET (www.paint.net): free software that allows you to edit images and photos.