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I've been a huge symbaloo fan for a while now but I really think this is better. It is much easier to organize and much easier to add new pearls than it is to add tiles in symbaloo.

Fresh from the oven and piping hot, SpicyNodes is limited only by your imagination. Entice visitors to explore and savor the experience of visiting your web site, add visualizations to your blog, create a mindmap or organizational chart, or encourage students to delve deeper.

Play neverending quiz, memory & brain games to train your thinking

A SaaS hosted service for organizations. Not free because they have consulting fees, I think. May develop a free solution later. Open source badges are cool new buzz topic. Love the colorful web design of this site.

"Life is more than just numbers. In GRID: pictures, movies, people, locations and many more things are kinda of a big deal. Grid allows you to organize and work with them in a whole new intuitive way."

"Create free timelines. Follow interesting stories, get updates and notifications with "Today in history". myHistro is an interactive diary and a story-flow generator for bloggers. Unlimited space, unlimited number of photos! Create as many stories as you want and export these into Google Earth (KML) or spreadsheet format (CSV)! See the story on map and timeline, read more by "manually" turning pages or see the story summary as a simple chronological list of events. Try them all! My Histro also has an app.

"Gingko is an online word processor, that lets you work on structure & content at the same time."

ZuluPad is a notepad on crack. It's a place to jot down class notes, appointments, to-do lists, favorite websites, annotated bookmarks, pretty much anything you can think of. The great thing about ZuluPad is that it combines the best parts of a notepad with the best parts of a wiki, a concept made popular by Wikipedia. The basic idea has been called a personal wiki or a desktop wiki.

Fantastic use friendly site for creating mind maps of images / information online. Works almost in fairly similar way to prezi. Very easy to learn. Free sign up. Collaborate on mind maps with other people. You can select to be emailed daily, weekly or monthly changes to the popplet. Think you only have 5 free 'popplets' though :(

"GoSoapBox is used during class to break down participation barriers, keeping students engaged, and giving teachers insight into student comprehension that was never before possible." An interesting looking backchannel tool that enables a range of interactions plus having the capability to export data only problem it does cost.

Virtual Whiteboard is a web-based collaborative system that provides a realtime canvas for thinking, designing, and working with your colleagues, clients, friends or family. Virtual Whiteboard is available to anyone for personal, educational, or business use and registration is free.

"Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process."

"More than just a to-do list or a task manager, Trello is anything you want it to be-a lesson planner, a community bulletin, a repository for inspiration. We support the way you think, not the other way around."

"Gliffy Diagrams is a Google Chrome app that makes the process of creating all such diagrams a lot easier. You can not only create a vast range of diagram types, but also modify them in plenty of ways, save the output as image files, and even export it to Google Docs, presentations, or web pages."

Creating is important. In the West, traditional education has concentrated mainly on our heads, on filling them with knowledge. Little time and effort has been put into teaching students to be creative, to think widely (or often, deeply for that matter).

"Epistemic games are computer games that can help players learn to think like engineers, urban planners, journalists, lawyers, and other innovative professionals, giving them the tools they need for a changing world."

lightweight bookmarking "yummymarks is a simple, beautiful way of keeping track of the websites you love. yummymarks allows you to take your bookmarks to any computer, and works with any browser"

Is it sacrilege pointing out an alternative to the mighty Diigo? Perhaps we ought to think of yummymarks as lite social bookmarking.

Thanks to Di Wilson for this link - looks good.