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(from website). Express yourself with the art.com Artpad.

(from website). A set of web applications to help you create interactive art. Collage Machine, Mobile, PixelFace, 3-D Twirler, Cubits, Diamonds, Dutch House, PaintBox, Wallovers, RiverRun, SwatchBox, Flow, Jungle, BRUSHster, Still Life

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(from website). BeFunky helps people turn their offline personalities into powerful online visual expressions.

Founded by engineers and cartoonists with a unique desire to integrate art and technology, BeFunky develops digital media tools that let people become instant artists and express themselves creatively without the need for any technical knowledge. Chief among these tools are:

• Cartoonizer - an online application that allows users to turn images and videos into digital paintings, cartoons and comics.
• Uvatar – a digital visual identity tool that takes the avatar concept to an extraordinary new level by letting users create a more accurate digital representation of themselves.

In developing these applications, BeFunky continues to help people all over the globe enhance the look and feel of their blogs, personal websites and profiles on social networking sites

(from website). Build Yourself ... as an animal. Provided by New York Zoos and Aquarium.

Web application to create a comic spanning 3 panels. About 10 characters, various objects and backgrounds.

(from website). Glogster is a revolutionary way of expressing your mood, feelings and ideas, and it goes miles beyond text or video! Creating a Glog lets you express all those things you haven’t been able to describe by words. It opens the door to a whole new world of communication – just choose a background, throw in some shapes and characters from our galleries, add text, your own videos or photos and perhaps a pinch of music and there it is! In just a few minutes, you can make a digital poster, a colorful medley of ideas, reflecting your own special style.

(From website). Think. Create. Animate. Whether you have trouble creating animations or you want to learn about the more advanced features of the application, this page is the place to be!

Flash application that allow you to make your own graffiti-styled logotypes and texts. Simply type in a word and hit Enter and out comes a designed font ready for you to convert into beautiful art. Use an array of various tools to enhance your logotype to make it really special and unique.

This lets you create artistic slideshows out of a set of image. Different styles, transitions, and special effects are available.

(from flyer). Kerpoof provides FREE multimedia software for educators, with no advertising and no hidden costs. You can use Kerpoof from any browser, on any computer with Internet access.

Make a picture, make a movie, make a drawing, make a card, make a story.

LiteBrite.

(from website). Creating photo strips from your photos

(from website). Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. PiZap was created as a tool primarily for social networking users who want to post their images to their favorite social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Friendster, Bebo, miGente, Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Tagged, and many more. PiZap provides a very easy to use photo editor that lets you add photo effects, custom text or speech bubbles, hundreds of original colorful stickers, a full painting program, and much more. PiZap also has built in tools for sending e-cards, downloading your image, embedding your image in any website, or sharing the link directly to your image.

(from website). Combine your photos, videos, audio and text to create stunning multimedia scrapbooks.

(from website). ToonDoo is a wacky way to get creative with comics. You can now create your own comic strips, share them or insert them in your blogs with just a few clicks and drag-n-drops!

(from website). Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

At the time we visited the website, there was a problem with the gallery. Hopefully to be fixed soon.

(from website). [F]irst real word processor for the web. Buzzword makes it easy for you to create a document from any computer on the Web, share it with colleagues, and review and revise it as a team.

Buzzword works on any PC or Macintosh that is connected to the Internet and running Adobe's Flash Player. Buzzword runs from Virtual Ubiquity's secure servers, and your documents are stored there, so they are ... well, ubiquitous: always available on the Web. And always securely private, except from the people you invite to share them.

Collaborative utility for document authoring and review that runs in the web browser.

Not Free. Free trial, with the possibility to author 3 documents. Free to review documents authored by others. Check out the information link for more details.

(from website). "kwout" is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map. To use this service, all you need is to add our bookmarklet to your favorite browser. .

(from website). Draw, Text, Share on our simple & useful whiteboard. Discover easy online collaboration.

(from website). Wetpaint powers free wiki websites that are available to anyone and easy to use. In fact, that’s one of the many things that sets Wetpaint apart from other wikis on the web. Creating a Wetpaint wiki is as simple as 1-2-3, so anyone can start a free wiki website they can then share with their family, friends, and the friends they haven’t even met...yet

The Calamity Game is a Flash sandbox where you can set up scenes that unfold based on simple laws of physics acting on a rag doll. These scenes can be shared with the community of Calamity Game users, who can view the scene you have created and then build upon it. There is no objective to Calamity Game; you can't do anything wrong. Calamity Game is as boundless as your imagination.

Play, create, share games online.

Make Games. Make Friends. Have Fun.
Let you easily and rapidly create tile-based games, with an avatar running around on a map, encountering special items and enemies.

(from website). FlauntR is an online photo editor and effects software.

Use floorplanner to create and share interactive floorplans. Point-and-click and drag-and-drop tools. Possibility to rearrange the plan as often as you want. Options to save, send, print, or place them on your own website.

Online Image Editing Application. FotoFlexer features advanced retouch, coloring, distortion, resizing and morph tools.

(adapted from website). Offers an advanced image editing and management tools for free and in an easy to use and professional package that goes where you go.

(from website). Sumopaint is a free image editing software that gives you the opportunity to create, open, and edit images online. The final image can be saved to your account online or to your local computer.

(from website). Widgenie empowers everyone, from bloggers to business people, to quickly visualize data and share it in many different ways. Now you can publish data in the places you already know and love, places like iGoogle, Facebook, WordPress, and even your own website. We combine all the power of an enterprise-level business intelligence platform and provide it in a convenient Web 2.0 widget. [...] With just a quick rub of the lamp, all your data can easily be visualized and shared with everyone who needs it. Best of all, you can do it all by yourself! And it's free!

(from website). Mix videos, photos, and music. Share your mixes by email or blog. Mix your videos with other videos on eyespot.

[From website]. Create, edit and share cool, interactive Web content without any design, development or programming skills.

(from website). TVnima is an online Realtime 3D application that allows anyone to create a TV news program using their personal media (photos, images, videos). You can add a voice and import media, choose your camera angles and presenter gestures in just a few clicks.

(From website). With Lovely Charts's extremely simple and intuitive drag'n drop drawing mechanism, you'll be able to focus on what really matters. You won't have to draw boxes and arrows, you won't have to worry about what symbol to use.

MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions.

Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map - and see each other's changes as they happen. Using integrated Skype calls, they can throw around new ideas and put them down on "paper" at the same time.

(from website). Wridea is an online idea management and collaboration service which is developed for anyone who is interested in managing their ideas on an innovative service with their friends.

(from website). Free service that lets you share, embed and discover presentations and slide shows online. You can upload your presentation documents in a variety of formats such as powerpoint, pdf, openoffice odp, etc. If you need to add narration or sound effect to your presentation, you can upload an audio file and have the option to synchronize the audio with your slides using our online easy-to-use sync tool. Once a presentation is made, you will have the choice to either publicly share with everyone or only share it within a small private group. You will also be able to find out how users are viewing your plick, for example, how much time people stayed on each slide. User feedbacks and statistics like this will help you to improve your presentation making skills.

Web-service for sharing documents, images, presentations and more.

Not Free. On the one hand, various plans are available (see pricing page (www.screencast.com)). On the other hand, this is tightly tied up to a commercial product for creating presentations.

Create and collaborate using instant online whiteboards with web application Scriblink. To get started, head to their homepage for an instant whiteboard space. From there you can invite friends by grabbing your whiteboard's URL or sending an email. Once they join you, you can chat or phone conference (phone conferencing doesn't seem to be complete) with your fellow collaborators. Scriblink is a very simple implementation of the online whiteboard, but its screen sharing seems fairly real-time, which is always a plus.

(from website). Let you record a sketch, optionally with your voice speaking. Any sketch can then be embedded on your blog/ homepage for people to play-back, and you can also point people to your sketchcast channel here (or let them subscribe to your sketchcast RSS feed).

SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.

Slideroll™ is a photo slideshow maker that you can use to create slide shows with your photos. Publish your slideshows on the internet, put them on MySpace or YouTube, and e-mail them to friends.