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Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services - think apps - are less about the searching and more about the getting. Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan is forsaking the Web for more promising (and profitable) pastures.

Spresent is a free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint. Create and edit high-quality Flash presentations online. You can send presentations via e-mail or publish on your web site or blog. Click on the Gallery to see examples.

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It's all free. It's all enriching. But it's also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content - it's all here. Open Culture was founded in 2006.

"The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine puts the history of the World Wide Web at your fingertips. We invite you to explore this new, BETA version of the Wayback Machine and contact us with any feedback. The classic version of the Wayback Machine is still available at web.archive.org/."

Great tool for anybody using the web for historical research or data mining.

A clever slideshow that could provide a starting point/friendly invitation for teachers with web 2.0

combined site with all web tools in categories 

In a world of information overload, it is vital for students to be able to find information on the Web, as well as to determine its validity and appropriateness. Our information literacy materials demystify the process Web so you can impart the vital skills students need to be safe, successful 21st century learners.

"Organize your frequently visited web sites in tabs. One for your social bookmarks. Simply set it as your homepage and you are ready to jump into your favorite links in only 2 clicks."

Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds with hyperlinks and embed them in your web page

Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something. I have used each tool to produce an example of the original Dominoe story, plus links are provided, where available, to examples by other people. Please share your own examples or thoughts in the discussion area of this wiki.

Content Clips helps you find and organize multimedia clips to quickly assemble simple web-based teaching activities and presentations. Use the collection of free resources or make your own. Create and save personal links to web sites or even to images from other collections and sites.

"Nearly all are free and most are actually tools you're probably already using."

Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level. 

"The online behaviors of youth and how to improve and correct them are part of how James feels new media can be used to address the world's challenges .. In their research, the team has found that most young people are devoid of ethical thinking or consideration for others when using the web."

Interesting article, are the youth really devoid of ethical thinking when using the web? Is this because there are no adults around to correct or give feedback to their behaviour?

This is a fantastic, collaborative map of learning trends and web 2 tools.

Web 2.0 application for creating Charts and Diagrams online. Lots of pretty templates and design elements.

This site suggests 23 different things you can learn about Web 2.0/Learning 2.0 over the course on 9 weeks.

Website web page creation tool

Swivel is a web 2.0 site where you can upload and share data and graphs.