web2.0 tools

Web2.0 Second Generation Web Development Tools
Web 2.0 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Social Networking
Classmates - http://www.classmates.com/ - Find a friend or high school alumni
Facebook - http://facebook.com - social utility to connect people
Friendster - http://friendster.com - global social network
MySpace - http://myspace.com - community for sharing music, videos, etc.
Orkut - http://orkut.com - Google's free-access social networking service - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut

Collaboration
Google Docs - http://docs.google.com - create and share work online
Google Sites - http://www.google.com/sites - create group websites and wikis
WIKI - http://www.wiki.com/ - website creation tool for interlinked pages   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Wiggio - http://www.wiggio.com/ - group collaboration tool   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiggio
Zoho - http://www.zoho.com/ - productivity and collaboration tools   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoho
Moodle - http://moodle.org/ - open-source community based tools   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle
NING - http://www.ning.com/ - create and join social networks   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ning
Webs - http://webs.com - free webpage making - individual and group sites
Wetpaint - http://www.wetpaint.com/ - free website creation   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetpaint
Voicethread - http://voicethread.com - transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting

GROUPS
Google - http://groups.google.com/
Yahoo - http://groups.yahoo.com/

Photographs, Media and Audio
Animoto - http://animoto.com - video creation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animoto
Bebo - http://bebo.com - share photos, music, blogs, white boards
Flickr - http://flickr.com - photo management and sharing
Imageshack - http://www.imageshack.com/ - working with images
Photobucket - http://photobucket.com/ free image hosting and sharing
Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/ - organize, edit and share photos
Podbean - http://podbean.com - free podcast hosting and social subscribing
Last.FM - http://www.last.fm/ - free music - Internet radio
Stock Photos: istockphotos.com and gettyimages.com
TinyPic - http://tinypic.com/ - upload images and videos
Truveo - http://truveo.com - video search engine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truveo
UStream - http://www.ustream.tv/ - free live video streaming; online broadcasts - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustream.tv
Webshots - http://webshots.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webshots
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/ - free videobroadcasting: tutorials, TV and film clips, etc.

Miscellaneous
Analytics - http://www.google.com/analytics/ - tracking and analyzing web effectiveness
Diigo - http://www.diigo.com/ - web highlighters, sticky notes
Folksonomy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy
Giffy - http://giffy.com - graphics converter
Gliffy - http://www.gliffy.com/ - free web-based diagram software
GoDaddy - http://www.godaddy.com - domain name search tool
Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/ - find scholarly literature - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar
Mahalo - http://www.mahalo.com/ - human powered search and knowledge sharing
Mashup - http://mashup.com - conjoined media - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup
MyLife - http://mylife.com - People search engine
Search and Research - a variety of search and research sites - http://astralsite.com/searching.html
Skype - http://skype.com - free telephone with video capacity - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
Virtual Worlds - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world (see Second Life - http://www.secondlife.com/)

Educating the Net Generation - Diana G. Oblinger, PhD 2005 - http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen

Social Bookmarking and Newsfeeds Tutorial by Julie Hannaford, Director Information Resources & Services
OISE/University of Toronto - http://homespace.oise.utoronto.ca/~hannafo3/RCATSocialBookmarking.ppt

drkarsten@astralsite.com - please send additions/corrections to this resource

Last update, September 2018