New and Emerging Technologies Listing
With Annotations and Explanations or Brief Descriptions
Last Updated: May 4, 2009, by David Peter
Social Technologies
• Ning (http://ning.com) – Social networking site, group discussions forums,
moderator/administrator roles, member roles.
• Facebook (http://facebook.com) – Individual pages and group/organization pages. Create
groups of “friends.” Various applications for enhancing social connections between friends.
Upload and share photo albums, tag pictures in photo albums for easy of search.
• Google Groups (http://groups.google.com) – Online discussion forums.
• Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) – Blogging software site. Create and publish blogs online.
Create collaborative blogs, create blog specific roles based on user.
• Tagging (http://delicious.com) – Save URL’s or bookmarks. Tag bookmarks with user created
terms. Organize bookmarks by tags. Web-based. Access URL’s with internet access. Can
download saved URL’s or bookmarks.
• Twitter (http://twitter.com) – Web-based and smart phone or device based application. Provide
140 character (including spaces) updates to “followers.”
• TwitPic (http://twitpic.com/) – Web-based and smart phone or device based application to
share pictures with Twitter account. Upload pictures, tag pictures, search by tag or keyword.
• Friendfeed (http://friendfeed.com) – Aggregator for Twitter and delicious. Provides single point
or single stream of feeds/updates from twitter and delicious.
• TinyChat (http://www.tinychat.com/) – Web-based chat client.
Networking Technologies
• Delicious (http://delicious.com) – Save URL’s or bookmarks. Tag bookmarks with user created
terms. Organize bookmarks by tags. Web-based. Access URL’s with internet access. Can
download saved URL’s or bookmarks. Share URL’s or bookmarks with others in networks or with
fans.
• RSS Readers (http://reader.google.com) – Aggregator of RSS or ATOM feeds. Settings to provide
summary of web-based articles, set number of articles in feed, set feed update frequency.
• YouTube (http://youtube.com) – Create playlist of videos, multiple playlists. Share playlists with
others.
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• Ning (http://ning.com) – Social networking site, group discussions forums,
moderator/administrator roles, member roles. Focus on creating community or network
organized around specific or shared topic.
• Facebook (http://facebook.com) – Individual pages and group/organization pages. Create
groups of “friends.” Various applications for enhancing social connections between friends.
Comment on pages or “wall.”
• Webnotes (http://webnotes.net) – Create annotations on and for web pages. User based
annotations, highlights. Create pages and folders around topics. Share page annotations. Create
“report” or PDF of webnote page. Web based application with browser extension (Firefox).
• Google Groups (http://groups.google.com) – Online discussion forums.
• Twitter (http://twitter.com) – Web-based and smart phone or device based application. Provide
140 character (including spaces) updates to “followers.”
• TwitPic (http://twitpic.com/) – Web-based and smart phone or device based application to
share pictures with Twitter account. Upload pictures, tag pictures, search by tag or keyword.
• TaskBarn (http://www.taskbarn.com/) – Web-based task management, project management
application. Add and assign “tasks” to members, receive and update task status.
Collaborative Technologies
• Delicious (http://delicious.com) – Save URL’s or bookmarks. Tag bookmarks with user created
terms. Organize bookmarks by tags. Web-based. Access URL’s with internet access. Can
download saved URL’s or bookmarks. Share URL’s or bookmarks with others in networks or with
fans.
• Wikis (http://pbwiki.com) – Web-based wiki application. Create multiple wikis. Create pages,
update pages, link to pages and media. Manage access.
• Wikispaces (http://www.wikispaces.com/) – Web-based wiki application. Create multiple wikis.
Create pages, update pages, link to pages and media. Manage access.
• Google Documents (http://docs.google.com) – Web and browser based document folder.
Upload files (Word document, PowerPoint presentation, Excel spreadsheets) to application. Edit
files using GUI. Share files, monitor access, revert to previous version.
• Ning (http://ning.com) – Social networking site, group discussions forums,
moderator/administrator roles, member roles. Focus on creating community or network
organized around specific or shared topic. Collaborative and shared spaces.
• Google Sites (http://sites.google.com) – Web-based wiki application. Create multiple wikis.
Create pages, update pages, link to pages and media. Manage access.
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• Webnotes (http://webnotes.net) – Create annotations on and for web pages. User based
annotations, highlights. Create pages and folders around topics. Share page annotations. Create
“report” or PDF of webnote page. Web based application with browser extension (Firefox).
• Diigo (http://diigo.com) – Create and annotate web pages using web-based, browser based
application. Web based application with browser extension (Firefox).
• Loosestitch (http://loosestitch.com) – Online web based collaborative space. Upload or create
outline file, share with collaborators, track changes.
• DoingText (http://doingtext.com/) – Online web based collaborative space. Upload or create
text file, share with collaborators, track changes.
• EssayMap (http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/essaymap/) – Create web-based essay
outline. Print map/outline.
• SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net/) – Upload, share presentations. Tag presentations with
keywords, description. Allow presentations to be downloaded. Comment on presentations,
number of views of presentations.
Other Technologies
• Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/) – Web-based application. Creates word “cloud” to visually
present concepts using key words.
• EverNote (http://evernote.com/) – Web based and client based application. Create notes, tag
notes, import and export notes. Add images, audio and video recordings to notes. Thin client
available for different operating systems, smart phone or mobile phones. Plug in available for
Firefox browser. Synchronize accounts.
• SimplyBox (http://simplybox.com/) – Create annotations of web pages. Thumbnails of web
pages with user supplied annotations. Share with individuals.
• Bubbl.us (http://bubbl.us/) – Online concept mapping web site.
• TokBox (http://www.tokbox.com/) – Create video and audio messages, email attachments.
Need web camera and headset or web camera with integrated microphone.
• Jing (http://www.jingproject.com/) –Create, share video of screen applications. Client version
for local machine, upload to “cloud” and share URL.
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