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"We're excited to announce the Grand Prize of the 2011 What's Your Story? Internet safety video contest!"

Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page.

An interesting take on collaborative reference material. Embeddable option interest me for education.

Now you can make your own Qwiki

"As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, "information overload" is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the "stuff" out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche. Let's face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes. The demand for timely, relevant content that is specific to our unique interests and perspectives has given rise to a new generation of tools that aim to help individuals and companies curate content from the web and deliver it in a meaningful way. These new tools range from simple, application-specific types such as social media aggregators and discovery engines, to more complex, full-blown publishing solutions for organizations."

Some new ones to explore. I suppose students need to try these tools too. These automate daily search to just the best of what you are interested in.

This site follows up the promo video - jump in and have a look.

TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.

Thanks to Di Wilson for this link - looks good.

Convert PDFs into stylish page flip books Add a pdf document Convert it to a flipping book Embed & share your flipping book

An article adapted from Clive Thompson's book 'Smarter Than You Think', an exploration of being connected, as well as the impact and inflence this has on our thinking.

"Microsoft Research today launched Code Hunt, a browser-based game for anyone interested in learning how to code by playing. The premise is straightforward: the player must write code to advance in the game."

"The idea behind FireChat is simple. It's a chatting app. After registering with a name - no email address or other personal identifiers required - you're dropped into a fast-moving chatroom of "Everyone" using it in your country. The interesting aspect, however, is the "Nearby" option. Here, the app uses Apple's Multipeer Connectivity framework, essentially a peer-to-peer feature that lets you share messages (and soon photos) with other app users nearby, regardless of whether you have an actual Wi-Fi or cellular connection."

"apple apps peer to peer security FOLLOW WIRED Twitter Facebook RSS This Little-Known iOS Feature Will Change the Way We Connect"