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Tracky - The Open Social Collaboration Platform
Tracky is a social collaboration platform that bridges the gap between your personal and professional circles. If you need to get something done or if you're looking to connect with other doers, Tracky is the place. Check out what Tracky's amazing doers are up to. Tracky is all about getting things done.
Free Learning » Blog Archive » Lets CC – Creative Commons Search Engine
http://eng.letscc.net/ There are many ways to search for only Creative Commons-licensed materials, but the new Let’s CC provides one of the most elegant integrated searches for CC materials that I have seen. It allows you to filter by audio, images, rich media or otherwise and searches a large number of sources for reusable material. – SWL
Stich.It - Turning the Web into Stiches!
Turning the Web into Stiches. Simply copy-and-paste a set of links in our text box and click 'Stich It'. We'll convert those links into one short URL for you to share. It's that easy! Learn More
5 Free Animated GIF Creators You Can Use Online
1. LooGix LooGix lets you make GIFs from a minimum of two frames to a maximum of 10.
This is a clever tool, and one that would work well on training courses for example. You provide a URL of the page that you want and then InFocus pulls a copy of it for you to play with. You then highlight the bit that you're interested in and the rest of the page is greyed out. You then have a URL that you can share with other people.
I want to: inFocus.cc
commentto.com is a service that allows you to highlight, bookmark, comment, save, and share your bookmarks and excerpts on any website from anywhere.
I want to: Commentto
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Citelighter Quick Pitch: Citelighter keeps information from multiple web sources in one place. Genius Idea: Making it easy to compile notes — and citations — from multiple web pages.
Citelighter Is Like a Highlighter for the Internet
Just want to quickly share some text between computers without fuss? There used to be a great resource for this called Cl1p.net, but it has closed its doors. However, there are a number of other resources out there that do the same thing. They allow you to create URLs either that you create, or with an address they can provide and you can simply cut and paste your content to your URL and share it with whoever you want. Then you can either delete or forget about the page until next time. So, take a look at these:
I want to: Clip and post resources
Quixey - The Search Engine for Apps
We are the App Search Experts Whether you're searching for apps on your mobile device, browser, desktop or any other platform, we make sure you can always find the tools you need. We'll find you apps for every activity and task imaginable. Just answer one question for us: What do you want to do? A New Type of Search
Wonderpage is a new visual, private & social bookmarking tool, it also serves perfectly as browser start-up page with super sweet bookmark grid display. Check out our main features:
Wonderpage - Visual & Social bookmarking tool
I want to: Buffer - Be Awesome on Social Media
Buffer makes your life easier with a smarter way to schedule tweets. Work out all your tweets at one point in time during the day. Then fill up your Buffer with your tweets and Buffer schedules them for you. Simply keep that Buffer topped up and you will then be tweeting consistently all day round, all week long.There's been a lot of interest in Pinterest recently (sorry, that wasn't intentional), and I've been using it for a while, so I thought I should scribble it. Basically, it's a social bookmarking service, but for pictures. You can create your own folders, 'pin' images into them, view friends images, comment, add them to yours and so on.