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Diigo - I recently signed up for this social bookmarking platform that also lets you highlight and take notes on Webpages. I was a Delicious user, until the Great Delicious Scare of 2010. I have to admit, I'm fairly anti-social with my bookmarks. I don't hunt down other people's saved links. No, I like this tool because I can instantly stash away a link for later, tag it, annotate it, and find it again. As Facebook friends know (probably all too well) that any saved link that I don't mark private is automatically routed to my Facebook wall. That's because I find lots of intriguing links posted by the people I hang out with at Facebook, and those often end up in my Diigo stash because they'll come in handy one day, just like all those rubber bands and bits of string in the kitchen drawer.

Also noted: lots of free productivity software such as Open Office, Google Docs, Jing (for screen capture and short videos - something I use all the time), Wordpress for creating websites and blogs easily and Paint.net as a free and simple substitute for more sophisticated and expensive image editing packages. Plus several things I'd never heard of or don't know enough to teach. Perl, for example. I'm a swine before perl.

Jon Perera keynote presentation during the 2010 IT Futures Summit (Technology Trends 3-5 Years Out)