(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

Requires Director plugin

(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.

(from website). We set out to create a better way to read on-line; our goal was to make something different, engaging, intelligent and digital. The concept was born, as many good ideas are, on a crumpled cocktail napkin late one evening in 2006, and we’ve been working to build it ever since. Our intent: build an experience that is simultaneously a book group, a computer, and a book. `

Provides audio and video content in the form of news feeds. The playable content is searchable thanks to the use of speech-to-text technologies.

(from website). Wikivid creates video-courses made up of links to free video tutorials from around the web. During our "alpha" stage, content is limited to software tutorials only, but the vision is to add video uploads and more. Add your own video links, edit existing pages, learn, & enjoy!

Wiki-based open content dictionary

(from website). SchoolForge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for education. We advocate the use of open texts and lessons, open curricula, free software and open source in education.

(from website).Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom.

But what really makes Clusty unique is what happens after you search. Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, our search engine groups similar results together into clusters.

Search engine that returns not only matching results, but also a visual map of the keywords associated with the search we ran.

A free online service to organise your academic papers

(from website). coRank is the place where you can create or visit pages where you can add whatever things you find interesting on the web, and do all sorts of things once they're added

Easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.

Learning management system to manage e-learning and blended learning programmes.

eLearning Community 2.0 is a place for knowledge providers to create, host, promote, and manage their information content. It is also a site for knowledge seekers to enrich their knowledge through online learning, sharing and socializing to make new friends without boundaries.

HotChalk is for teachers, students and parents from grades 12 and below. Teachers can use HotChalk to manage their coursework, collaborate with their students, and communicate with parents. Students can organize their work online in a centralized location. Parents can stay current with their child's schoolwork and their teachers.

Web service

Classroom Organizer, School Websites & Educational Games.
Social Networking & Learning Management System for schools

Free webservice to help you learn, teach, collaborate. Very nice look and feel. Greate ease of use. Let you easily add media and create quizzes and assigments.

"Access thousands of lessons or use our tools to create and control access to your own courses, collaborate with colleagues and much more.". Minimal abilities to manage a group of users.

Free online Assessement tools: create, set, mark and analyse assessments for free.

Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more. Discover modify and share assessments. Set work for the whole class with a few mouseclicks. Mark automatically

Appears to be some kind of notebook or note taking tool. Impossible to find clear information on the website itself. Based on a google search, this seems to be used as a place where you keep all your school related work. By setting up a Timetable, you get a notebook for each project where you can keep notes specific to that task, be it an exam or just the class in general.

(from website). With Thinkature, you can create a collaborative workspace and invite coworkers, friends, and colleagues to join you in just seconds. Once inside your workspace, you can communicate by chatting, drawing, creating cards, and adding content from around the Internet. It's all synchronous, too - no need to hit reload or get an editing lock.

"Dimdim provides a web meeting service that is free to consumers and extremely easy to use, as there is no software to download or maintain.""

(from press release). Aims to combine Social Networking and Innovative Instructional Tools. BrainHoney harnesses the power of social networking to create an open learning community in which participants worldwide can instruct and learn from one another.

[From website]. eBoard is an easy to use, yet powerful, web site hosting solution used by schools around the world.

Increase communication and collaboration and integrate technology into the classroom by posting links, photos, pod casts, streaming video, and other digital content in just minutes.

Not Free. Free 30 days trial period.

(From website). EdTechTalk is a community of educators interested in discussing and learning about the uses of educational technology. We webcast several live shows each week. During shows, listeners can use any common media player (i.e. Windows Media Player, Real Player, or iTunes) to listen to the discussion and use the chat room to make comments and ask questions.

Teach. Learn. Resources. Community

(from website). Free educational community for language learners and teachers to find a language partner for a language exchange. The language partner is someone who speaks the language you study as their native language and is studying your native language. The partners then meet online to help each other practice and learn a foreign language.

(from website). MyGLife was designed to help youth 13 and older: Learn internet media technology and game-development skills; Hone professional and life skills; Experience positive virtual communication with other communities; and Foster social change

An online community for learners of a foreign language. Platform where language learners gather together to teach and learn from each other and practice speaking with a native speaker -- without paying for it.

Social Networking

(from website). Sclipo is a social learning network. Sclipo offers a revolutionary way to learn online by integrating rich educational applications - such as video and webcam - into a true social network platform.

Coming soon. Appears to be a web-service for communities of learners.

More research on this causes a few words of warning. The person behind this is a serial entrepreneur... but with enterprises never lasting more than 9 months. The launch had been announced for April 2007. Some of these enterprises were about "producing hypnotic audio tapes". This superschool initiative was born out of the founder's total lack of belief in the current education system. In his own words "The dream is to built a online community-driven world school that gives all people on earth all education they need to reach their full potetial in life - free!" (spelling mistakes in the original text).

Not free. This is a for-profit organisation.

Create artworks together with others from all around the world!

(from website). In Twinity you can create your virtual self, meet real people and make new friends. Create your own apartment or build your dream home anywhere in the world. Drop in on your friends and go out and have fun!`

(Beta)

(from website). Diigo (dee'go) is about "Social Annotation". By combining social bookmarking, clippings, in situ annotation, tagging, full-text search, easy sharing and interactions, Diigo offers a powerful personal tool and a rich social platform for knowledge users, and in the process, turns the entire web into a writable, participatory and interactive media.

The social annotation service introduced by Diigo allows users to add highlights and sticky notes, in situ, on any web page they read. Imagine a giant transparency overlaying on top of all the web pages. Users can write on the transparency as they wish, as private notes or public comments. And they can read public comments on the transparency left by other readers of the same page, and hear their "two cents" and interact with them.

Multiply gives you an easy way to share all kinds of digital media, including photos, blogs, videos, music and more, all in one convenient place: your own personal web site. With Multiply, you can share and discuss your stuff with everyone in your "social network," and also be alerted whenever they have something new.

Web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos that are fully customized orchestrations of user-selected images and music.

Video sharing. Web-service specifically for the video blogger. The site invite you to post your thoughts, both in text and in video journal posts. Multiple ways exist to transfer videos onto blip.tv. Apple users can record right from their Web browser, using their built-in or iSight Camera. It is also possible to record and post video clips from any video-capable cell phone.

Podcasting service. Online community to host, create and broadcast your podcasts to family, friends and the world

Not Free. One-off set up charge.

MP3s and Audio channels. Podcasts, music, and more. Listen, download, subscribe.

Podcast Portal. Create, Find, Share Podcasts. Tools and services that enable anyone to easily find, create, distribute, promote and listen to both audio and video podcasts.

Basic services free. Revenue driving services for a fee.

Similar to you tube, let you publish your video online. Specifically targeted at teachers. TeacherTube accepts support files in the .doc, .ppt, .pdf, .rtf, .txt, .csv, .xls, .mp3, .wav, .kmz, .swf and .zip file

(fom website). Jaiku is a way to connect with friends by sharing short messages called Jaikus. You can create your own activities streams and follow your friends. An activity stream is a log of everyday things as they happen: your status messages, recommendations, events you're attending, photos you've taken - anything you post directly to Jaiku or add using Web feeds. We offer a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing your activities with them on the Web, IM, and SMS.

Plugoo enables you to chat directly from your Instant Messenger with any visitor of your blog or personal webpage. (from website).

Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.

Web widget

YackPack connects group members with live talk and voice messages. No installation needed.

Web widget

Create personal and community maps. Show the map on your blog or website. Add photos, videos, comments, more

Web Widget

Simple, free online-mapping. Create a high-quality online map in a few seconds. Embed a map on your page in any size or format. Allow readers to plot comments & photos on maps. Upload your data in CSV format. Download your data in KML format. Map data from Wikipedia and Google Local Search. Display the weather forecast for US locations

Web Widget

Individual polling modules. Let you create a personal buzzbite for postign to your webpage blog or email.

Web widget

PollDaddy is an online tool, which allows you to create free polls and place them on your website, blog, MySpace, hi5, Friendster or Xanga account or anywhere online that you can paste a bit of JavaScript or Flash!

Web widget

(from website). At MyStudiyo you can create interactive quiz content for your website or blog quickly and easily. Simply add your own content to our DIY (Do-It-Yourself) quiz templates and create a customized quiz for your audience. After you’ve created your quiz, copy and paste a few lines of HTML into your website and you’re ready to go!

Provides a simple way to add dynamic content to your web pages. You organize your content in advance and the content will then automatically rotate based on your criteria, either by specified dates or randomly.

Comes with a Shared Content Library where you can find ready-to-use content that others have created using this tool.

Web widget

Group conversations around images, docs and videos.

Voice recording, animated doodling, comment moderation and privacy control. Easy to add audio and recordings onto graphic content.

Web widget

[From website]. Locate all site visitors. Fast. Free.

Let you follow your friends around the web.