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"The educator and developer community at iear.org has taken nominations and votes for their 2010 Best App Awards. While nominations and voting is now closed, the list of dozens of nominees is a valuable resource. Nominations were made in early December by those who read I Educational Apps Review's blog. There are nearly 20 categories and each category is divided into elementary and secondary. You can view the 125 apps categorized in a spreadsheet or view their icons in a widget. Clicking an icon will take you to the app's details page in the App Store. The widget was made using Appsfire's Widget Maker."

Relationships Australia (SA) is looking for up to 10 Adelaide area gamers who want to participate in paid consultancy work about online gaming through a program called Keep It Fun. The end game is to create an online or mobile widget/app/info source for gamers aged 12 to 17 to help them work out whether they've got game and are keeping it fun or whether their gaming habits are pwning them.

resources for wikis by Jen Dorman (cliotech

An amazing site from BBC Earth. The beautifully interactive site is full of images, video, and stories from BBC Earth's most captivating documentaries. Each month features a different theme. The astonishing images and video capture life's most colorful displays in nature. The search page is equally stunning, offering an on-screen widget that lets students adjust the pictures in the grid by filtering by hot/cold, slow/fast, sea/sky, or colour.

I have been twice, but on each occasion the site is 'coming soon'.

What is FlockPod? FlockPod is the world's first social interaction pod - a small place on any Web page where people get together and interact on-the-spot, while staying on the page. The central idea of FlockPod is to provide a space on any web page to collaborate and interact right on-the-spot, to share ideas, opinions, experiences, anecdotes or sometimes even to question, reason or debate. Want to know more?

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information.

This is an education focussed version of the popular RSS aggregator Pageflakes. It comes preconfigured with a wole host of widgets though these can be easily modified and added to from the Educational Gallery. By default, all your pages are private. Of course you can have as many pages (tabs) as you want.

Consolidate your online presence into an interactive online business card

"AnswerTips are small bubbles of information triggered by double-clicking any word on an AnswerTips-enabled page. AnswerTips-enable your site or blog: An AnswerTips-enabled page allows your visitors to access definitions and fast facts on millions of obscure words, personalities or slang. Keep your visitors from wandering: Don't lose your readers to outbound links, new browser windows or other distractions. AnswerTips delivers quick and integrated answers."