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We wanted a fully-featured, social networking aware task management application with a user interface that made sense, something we didn't have to devote a couple of hours to learning to use. We wanted to be able to get a clear overview of the status of any project, anytime and from any place. We needed to be able to collaborate effortlessly. We wanted to be able to update project information in many different ways : via email, online, desktop, mobile, IM... and we needed to be able to share information in real time with all our team members, no matter how computer-savvy they are … or aren't.

Gawkk is a social video community where members discover, share and discuss videos from around the web with their friends by answering the question: What are you watching?

Sense of Fashion created a home for indie fashion, where you can show off your hot style, sell your clothes and accessories and shop for unique fashion items from all over the world. Sense of Fashion is a web site of people, not items. In Sense of Fashion everyone can interact socially with everyone else.

Free monthly songs and printables to download. Free lyrics that teach & motivate your students. Over 5,000 songs for subjects across the curriculum: Math, Phonics, Social Studies, Spanish, French, ESL-EFL-ESOL, Science, Character Ed, Grammar, Special Ed...

99Polls offers a simple approach to making Web Polls, which you can post nearly anywhere on the Web. 99Polls.com poll-creation tool requires no knowledge of HTML or coding, and once made, the poll can be posted on blogs, Web sites, and social-networking profiles such as: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Xanga and more...

Online free web polls generator, let your visitors vote. Easy to setup, customize and use. Great to use for students outside of the classroom since its accessible to anyone on the web.

This is a neat site that generates dynamic graphs based on the data you enter for the "dynamics of your life". Imagine all the dramas student could graph. Graphs can be shared via MySpace or Blog and Rss feeds.

Chain Reading is designed to cater to those of us who have an addiction to reading. * Let people know what you are reading, planning on reading, and recommend. * Suggest books to your friends. * Browse books recommended by others. * Write book reviews to share your opinions. * Keep track of books that your friends suggest.

Ubiquitous social networking web site used extensively by middle school students.

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

Twitter is the telegraph system of Web 2.0.

This site has great resource for all subjects. Although it is geared for High School, there are plenty of ideas and lessons that can be used at the middle school level expecially under Math A and Math B categories.

Connotea is a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to find them again. It is also a place where you can discover new articles and websites through sharing your links with other users. By saving your links and references to Connotea they are instantly on the web, which means that they are available to you from any computer and that you can point your friends and colleagues to them.

reference management...share references w/group

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more. Install the toolbar to make using it easy. Finds things you like: videos, pictures, news, science, music, etc.

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Website Grader is a free SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.

This is a website where you can communicate with others over the internet while sharing information. Anything interesting you find, just put it on this website to share.

This website allows you to bring everything together and checks webistes for things that might interest you. It allows you to have everything at your fingertips on one site. Also, you can find other people with your same interests at this website.

Create Poll With Fotoll making your own poll is quick and easy. Create it and share with your students. Great to use with introductory statistics.

This website allows you to create your own poll and survey as many people as are on this site. You may also vote on the polls on this site, as well as view the results. Students could use this site to design a survey, collect data, and analyze it.

This free site will help students organize an in class or at home party or even an end of year or middle school graduation party. This will help them to see how being organized can help accomplish a goal.

TwitterAnalyzer will let you research the way your fellow twitterers behave. For example, you can see which messages they answer and which ones they pay no heed to, whereas you can also learn about the main subjects that person writes about. In addition to that, this solution will let you see the occupation of other Twitter users and realize which ones are actually in your line of work, whilst a tool for analyzing hashtags is likewise taken into account.