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Hadn't paid attention to the improvements in the Diigo extension for Chrome. Just discovered that you can use it to do screen captures and mark them up at the same time with text, arrows and shapes.

"TAGS Viewer allows users to browse, explore, and search a Twitter archive. As a backend, it requires Martin Hawksey's Twitter Archive Google Spreadsheet (TAGS). TAGS provides a free, non-technical method of archiving tweets for a given hashtag, which can be particularly useful for capturing a conference's backchannel. This application is contained in a single HTML file and has no server dependencies, which makes it easy to host anywhere: just upload a single file (this one!) and you're done. Or, if you don't need to share it with anyone, just double-click the file on your hard drive to open it in your Web browser. Configuration is as simple as supplying a Google Spreadsheet URL"

"Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes. Create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface. Build a community around your content with social tools and use the reach of mobile, tablet and ebook technology to engage new audiences."

"Zeega is revolutionizing web publishing and interactive storytelling for a future beyond blogs. Join the community and start experimenting now."

For the searchers among you! Search on Google and get web, mail and Drive results on the one page. At the moment it is only available on personal accounts as a field trial that you can sign up for.

Audrey Watters suggests this project should apply itself to education too. ""'I have read and agree to the Terms'" is the biggest lie on the web," insists a new project Terms of Service; Didn't Read. "We aim to fix that." A play on the Internet lingo "tl;dr" (too long; didn't read), the site reviews the Terms of Service agreements for major websites and applications. TOS;DR then rates the terms from good to bad, A to F, based on things like data portability, anonymity, cookies, data ownership, copyright, censorship, and transparency about law enforcement requests."

Interesting new? journal on TEL - this issue seems to focus on widgets and PLEs / Web 2.0

While DRM has largely been defeated in downloaded music, it is a growing problem in the area of ebooks, where people have had their books restricted so they can't freely loan, re-sell or donate them, read them without being tracked, or move them to a new device without re-purchasing all of them. They've even had their ebooks deleted by companies without their permission. It continues to be a major issue in the area of movies and video too. Join us in working to eliminate DRM! This is the fourth year we've run the international Day Against DRM. In previous years we've focused on music, held events at the Boston Public Library and more! On May 4th, the Defective by Design DRM Elimination Crew will of course be running an event in Boston. But for this day to send a strong message against DRM, we need people all over the world to join us and hold their own events! As well as attending or running events, you can join other activists in blogging about DRM, putting up banners on your Web sites and blogs, talking about DRM on your social networks and more.

Site to Phone is a free service designed to send links and text from your computer to your phone or tablet. Once you have a Site to Phone account you can download a selection of extensions and browser addons that let you send information to your phone. Once your phone is setup you can recieve the information by opening a homescreen app or bookmark. If you regularly type out links from your computers web browser onto your phone Site to Phone could save you a lot of time.

Blogpost on social web and its free-loading on people.

Web conferencing tool and claims it scales - 1-25 with video and interaction or 1-150 in presentation mode with audio and chat interaction.

Question and answer web-based app that has some nifty features for tracking student questions and who answers

Blockly is a web-based, graphical programming language. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required.

"Data visualization is a running theme of visual literacy here, and Manuel Lima has been one of its biggest advocates since 2005 when, shortly after graduating from the Parson School of Design, he launched VisualComplexity - an ambitious portal for the visualization of complex networks across a multitude of disciplines, from biology to history to the social web."

RT @catspyjamasnz: Free web LAMS at http://t.co/9PXg1zxm <- So this is what happened to LAMS! Thanks for the #learningdesign tweets Joyce

Using technology to do more with less (sounds familiar). Like SWEET - Synchronous Web-enabled Employee Training :-)

uses a web browser - students tell the teacher anonymously whether they understand the material or are confused by it - the teacher gets a continuous graph during the lecture. All responses are anonymous. 

Rubrics for as number of things inc. wikis, blogs, etc

Article proposing that a revolution is coming to academia because of social media and web technologies. Possibly a rather optimistic view given the attitudes of some academics and institutions...