Academic |
| Chalksite |
It's the quickest, simplest route to expanding your classroom onto the internet. Teachers, students and parents have a central point to access grading, assignments and messaging. Chalksite is a total web package designed just for teachers, giving you a personal website and tools you actually need without requiring an IT degree to use them. |
elgg  |
Elgg is a learning environment based around choice, flexibility and openness: a Personal Learning Landscape that places individuals at the centre of their learning. |
| engrade |
Engrade is a free online gradebook that allows teachers to manage their classes online as well as post grades, assignments, attendance, and upcoming homework online for students and parents to see. Engrade is free and easy to use. |
| SchoolTool |
SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence. |
| Schoopy |
Classroom Organizer |
| Windows Live Academic |
Windows Live Academic currently indexes content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas. Academic search enables you to search for peer reviewed journal articles contained in journal publisher portals and on the web in locations like citeseer. |
| wink |
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. |
Audio |
| Odeo |
Odeo is a creative way to record and share audio—and it's free. |
Bookmarks |
| del.icio.us |
del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. Use del.icio.us to: Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, restaurant reviews, and more on del.icio.us and access them from any computer on the web; Share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues; and discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite - they've already done the work of finding it. |
| Diigo |
By combining social bookmarking, clippings, in situ annotation, tagging, full-text search of everything, easy sharing and interactions, Diigo provides a powerful personal tool and a rich social platform. |
| Simpy |
Simpy is a social bookmarking service. With Simpy, you can save, tag and search your own bookmarks and notes or browse and search other users' links and tags. You can be open and share your links with others, or keep them private. |
Calendar |
| 30 Boxes |
Eighty-Three Degrees, Inc.has released a public beta of their new social calendaring application, 30 Boxes. (See below for desktop/webtop). |
| Google Calendar |
With Google Calendar, it's easy to keep track of all your life's important events – birthdays, reunions, little league games, doctor's appointments – all in one place. |
| kiko |
Kiko brings you a great, dead simple calendar you can use right in your web browser. |
Collaboration |
| Gabbly |
Chat about any content on the web by adding 'gabbly.com/' in front of any URL. |
| eSnips |
eSnips is the one place where you can share all your passions; your thoughts, photos, files, stuff you find on the web... and you control who you share it with and how. |
| My Web 2.0 |
My Web 2.0 is a new way to find, save, and share knowledge on the Web. My Web lets you: save favorite web content so you can easily re-find it; connect with others so you can selectively share the sites you save; and benefit from the selected content of a large community of My Web users. |
Database |
| Lazybase |
Lazybase allows anyone to design, create and share a database of whatever they like. |
| MyOwnDB |
Myowndb is a web application with the goal to let you manage your data easily. You can view it as a database with which you get an interface to enter, modify, delete and search data once you've define its structure. |
Desktop (Webtop) |
| 30 Boxes |
Although based upon a calendar, it is also a webtop application making use of newer technologies to give it more of a desktop feel. (Also included above for calendar.) |
Netvibes | Netvibes is your personalized page, you can now modify everything: move modules, add new RSS/ATOM feeds, change the parameters for each module, etc. Your modifications are saved in real-time and you'll find your page when you get back on Netvibes.com. |
| Windows Live |
Windows Live brings the things you care about—your friends, the latest information, your e-mails, powerful search, your PC files, everything—together in one place. |
Documents |
| goowy |
The dashboard is the first view you see when you log into goowy. The dashboard gives you a list of all of the applications inside of goowy as well as the most common commands for those applications. (mail, integrated instant messaging, file storage, calendar, minis, contacts and games) |
| Tagyu |
Tagyu is a hosted service that automates the process of creating document metadata by discovering what keywords, tags, and categories are relevant for a document. Instead of relying on machine learning to understand what a document is about, Tagyu uses human intelligence. Tagyu harnesses the collective wisdom that is already present in your documents to categorize your other text. |
| ThinkFree Office Online |
ThinkFree Online service uses Java technology to allow users to leverage the power of ThinkFree Office from any computer connected to the Internet. Users are able to access Write, Show, and Calc. |
Drawing |
| ajaxSketch |
Great for diagramming, flow charts, free hand drawing, and more. With a similar look and feel to popular drawing programs, you don't need to learn a new interface. Based on Ajax programming techniques, it is a completely web-based program with the quick response of conventional software. |
| Gliffy |
Draw & share diagrams on the web - Beta |
FeedReader |
| Google Reader |
Google Reader helps you keep up with it all by organizing and managing all the content you're interested in. Instead of continuously checking your favorite sites for updates, you can let Google Reader do it for you. |
| NewsAlloy |
News Alloy is FREE service for discovering, reading, and sharing Internet news and information. |
FileManager |
| Backpack |
Gather your ideas, to-dos, notes, photos, and files online. Set email and mobile reminders so you don't forget the little things. Easily collaborate with others. |
| Box.net |
Online file storage. 1GB free |
| DropSend |
DropSend enables you to send files of up to 1GB |
| openomy |
Openomy is an online file system. You can store files on Openomy and access them from any computer. Openomy organizes files and users via tags (as opposed to folders). |
| TotoExpress |
TotoExpress™ is a web-based service that changes the way content producers are able to collaborate, share and deliver their work. It provides an efficient, easy to use, and secure method of sending and receiving large files from your clients via the internet. |
Forms |
| formspring |
The easy way to build, host and process online forms. |
Lists |
| iOutliner |
iOutliner is a powerful way to manage your
tasks, ideas, and projects in structured lists.
Simple to use and customizable to the way
you work and best of all its completely free. |
| Ta-Da Lists |
Simple, sharable to-do and other types of lists. |
Miscellaneous |
| coComment |
coComment is a service to simplify of one of the most painful and ineffective processes on the Web: blog commenting. coComment is free, and will help you keep track of the comments and conversations you and others are making on blogs. |
| dropcash |
dropcash is a simple way to organize a fundraiser. Are you raising money for a charity, a trip overseas, a family gift for mom, or to pay off a surprise hosting bill? Dropcash lets you set up a page so everyone can follow your progress as you near your goal. |
| Flock |
The browser for you and your friends - Beta |
| GahooYoogle |
Search Google & Yahoo at the same time. |
| Orangoo |
This little application lets you spell correct from any system or computer that has Internet access. |
| SuprGlu |
Do you already use services like del.icio.us, flickr, blogger, typepad, etc? SuprGlu is a new way to gather all your content from those sites. |
| Webaroo |
Search the web when you are not connected. |
| Widgetbox |
Widgetbox is a service of PostApp, Inc. PostApp's mission is to give everyone the power to assemble, share and integrate everything that's good on the web. |
News |
| digg |
Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do. |
| Rojo |
Rojo means "RSS with mojo." That's our secret ingredient for creating the best RSS feed reader on the web and so you can discover and read news and blogs as efficiently as possible. |
| tech.memeorandum |
tech.memeorandum offers you a window into this new world of news, focusing on technology, particularly tech business news and innovations in computing and the Internet. It auto-generates a news summary every 5 minutes, drawing on experts and pundits, insiders and outsiders, media professionals and amateur bloggers. |
| Technorati |
Technorati is the authority on what's going on in the world of weblogs. |
Organizer |
| AirSet |
AirSet puts you in control of your complicated life. Using a web browser or mobile phone, you can manage family, work, and social group schedules and communications. |
| Zoho Planner |
Zoho Planner is an online organizer to Plan & Organize yourself. Create your own space on the web, Organize yourself by creating new tasks & marking completed, Quickly post your thoughts as blogs, Interact with people. |
Photos |
| flickr |
Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals: 1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them. 2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photo |
| riya |
Riya is more than photo search. Our goal is to help you find every photo of yourself on the web. We want to help you recover every moment, every place you’ve been and all of the people you’ve met along the way. |
Polls |
| Zoho Polls |
Use Zoho Polls to narrow down your choices and get opinion from others. Its 100% free. |
Presentation |
| S5 |
S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible |
| SlideShare |
Upload your slides, share with a link, embed in a blog, discover interesting slideshows, tag, comment and have fun. |
| Thumbstacks |
Thumbstacks.com, a new site for making and sharing presentations on the web. |
| Vyew |
Vyew is a free browser-based conferencing and always-on collaboration platform that provides instant visual communication without the need for client downloads or installations. (limited to 20 participants) |
| Zoho Show |
Zoho Show is an online tool to create, edit, publish, and show presentations. It's web-based. So, you don't need to download or install anything. All you need is a browser (Firefox 1.0 + or IE 6.0+ or Mozilla) and internet connection. |
Project |
| BasecampHQ |
Basecamp is a unique project collaboration tool. Projects don't fail from a lack of charts, graphs, or reports, they fail from a lack of communication and collaboration. Basecamp makes it simple to communicate and collaborate on projects. |
| voo2do |
advanced task and priority management for busy, ambitious individuals. |
Spreadsheet |
| ajaxXLS viewer |
ajaxXLS 0.5 viewer, a web-based viewer application with a look and feel similar to Microsoft Excel. With one click you can easily open any .xls file in just a few seconds. The interactivity and responsiveness provided by AJAX programming allows you to enjoy the power and utility of a spreadsheet without the cost of conventional software. |
| Num Sum |
Easy, sharable web spreadsheets |
| Zoho Sheet |
You can create, store, access and manage your spreadsheets online. |
Video |
| eyespot |
Shoot, Mix, and Share your Video.
Use the eyespot Mixer to edit and combine your videos, music and photos online! Share your video and mixes with the world for Free. |
| YouTube |
Founded in February 2005, by early commerce pioneers of PayPal, YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. Prior to YouTube, there was no easy way for individuals to share video on |
Weblog |
| TypePad |
A powerful, hosted weblogging service. |
| WordPress |
WordPress.com is an easy and powerful way to start blogging. |
Wiki |
| JotSpot |
JotSpot was founded in 2004 as the first company to provide an application wiki. |
| PBwiki |
PBwiki is the world's largest consumer wiki farm. Wikis are simple Web pages that let you collaborate with others. |
| stikipad |
StikiPad is a hosted wiki solution (What's a Wiki?) that gives you an easy way to organize your information and share information with others. We run completely in your browser with no downloads and easy administration, letting you take your StikiPad wherever you have access to the Internet. |
Word Processor |
| ajaxWrite |
The look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform. Try ajaxWrite today, and experience first-hand how AJAX applications are changing the way the web works, and redefining the software industry. |
| Writeboard |
Writeboards are sharable, web-based text documents that let you save every edit, roll back to any version, and easily compare changes. Use Writeboard to write solo or collaborate with others. |
| writely |
The Web Word Processor |
| Zoho Writer |
New! online tool to create a document, edit in your way, and share with anyone… |
