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Google Apps Education Edition Google Apps Education Edition is a broad IT solution that schools can use to bring communication and collaboration tools to the entire academic community for free. Google manages all the technology details, so you can focus your time, energy and budgets on teaching your kids. Students, teachers and staff can share ideas more quickly and get things done more effectively when they have access to the same powerful communication and sharing tools. Google Apps Education Edition lets tech administrators provide email, sharable online calendars, instant messaging tools and even a dedicated website to faculty, students and staff for free. There's no hardware or software to install or maintain, since everything is delivered through a standard web browser -- anytime, from anyplace.

Google Scholar is a freely-accessible Web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

Google Scholar is a Web site used to search for scholarly literature. If you are on the UCF network, Google Scholar will automatically search for UCF Resources for Full Text SFX@UCF. We encourage you to check out the preferences area of Google Scholar as well as search from some topics of interest to you.

Check out the developer preview at Google I/O Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.

Google Thinking of creating a website? Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages.

# The average number of LinkedIn connections for people who work at Google is forty-seven. # The average number for Harvard Business School grads is fifty-eight, so you could skip the MBA, work at Google, and probably get most of the connections you need. Later, you can hire Harvard MBAs to prepare your income taxes. # People with more than twenty connections are thirty-four times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than five. # All 500 of the Fortune 500 are represented in LinkedIn. In fact, 499 of them are represented by director-level and above employees. # According to my inside sources, the person with the most pending LinkedIn invitations is...Guy Kawasaki. (Though I'm not sure if I should be proud or ashamed of this factoid.)

Google Talk is a free Windows and web-based application for instant messaging and voice over internet protocol (VOIP), offered by Google Inc.

Chat with family and friends over the Internet for free

Meebo is a new communications and media company that's re-writing the way people have conversations and communicate on the Web. We provide instant messaging and group chat to over 40 million people at meebo.com and via partner sites across the Web.

Meebo, the web platform for IM on any network or site. Meebo connects you to MSN, Yahoo, AOL/AIM, MySpace, Facebook, Google Talk, and many more!

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