This document provides an overview of various internet tools categorized by their main functions of communicating, publishing and sharing, collaborating, creating, researching and learning, and entertaining. It describes the different kinds of tools as hosted, downloadable, or extensions/plugins and how to find them through search engines or Wikipedia. Finally, it lists examples of specific tools for tasks like photo sharing, scheduling, networking, data sharing, presentations, video sharing, and more.

1. Internet Tools You Should Know About a brief survey of what's coming, what's arrived, and why you should care Chris Warren [email_address] x4323

2. General Functions communicating publishing and sharing collaborating creating researching and learning organizing entertaining The boundaries are fuzzy, but most tools have a main focus

3. Kinds of tools There are three main kinds of tools Hosted - "remote" / "in cyberspace" / "in the cloud" Download - installed on your computer Extension/Plugin - changes an existing application on your computer

4. How to find tools: SEARCH GOOGLE "free X" also, "hosted" "tool" "list" SEARCH WIKIPEDIA Some tools various google tools many good ones (docs, calendar, sites,scholar, reader, groups, talk, notebook, images, ...) tagging and crowd filtering (del.icio.us, stumbleupon, furl) audio and video point-to-point (skype, gtalk) web site hosting (wordpress, blogger, google) wiki hosting (wikidot, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_farm)

5. micro-blogging / mind-casting ( twitter , status updates) photo/image sharing ( flickr , wetcanvas) scheduling (google calendar) project management ( unfuddle , basecamp) networking social (facebook) professional (linked in) specialized ( ning ) data sharing / access (swivel) presentation sharing / access ( slideshare ) 3D modeling ( sketchup ) 3D from flat (make3d)

6. video sharing (youtube) feed reader (google, bloglines) maps / GIS (google maps, google earth, MS Live) conferencing (openhuddle,palbee) create diagrams / drawings ( gliffy , drawanywhere) 3D space (second life) surveys (survey monkey, polldaddy, wordpress) source control (SVN, Git) news ( polymeme , digg, reddit) live broadcasting (ustream) content-aware image resizing(demo only)

7. mind mapping (bubbl.us) voice to text (jott) media file conversion (zamzar) make PDFs ( pdfonline , expresspdf) book reviews (goodreads) image manipulation ( gimp , pixlr, aviary(phoenix)) general web sites can also do A LOT many extensions for firefox, IE, and safari https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_Explorer_extensions http://pimpmysafari.com/ What do you want to do...?