Web 2.0 Tools

Twitter is an online social networking tool in which users post 140 character updates of what is going on in their lives along with links to things they think are interesting, funny, or useful to their followers ("following" being essentially what "friending" is on other sites). People use twitter in many ways, some as a newsfeed by following prominent people or networks, some as a pseudo-chatroom by limiting their followers and whom they follow to close friends and family, and some as a microblog for updating people about the work they are doing and their personal lives.

Digrii allows you to discover the degree of connession between you and other people around the world and meet old and new friends! Let's prove the six degrees of separation theory

your automatic journal. Simply connect your social media sites and Journamatic automatically creates your daily journal/diary. See where you've been, what you've tweeted, what you've watched, photos you've uploaded, and more... all organized by day, month and week.

3 Ways to Use Wordle for More Than Fluff

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Posting a roundup of useful data visualization tools invariably means leaving out more than you can include. JavaScript libraries alone number considerably more than the 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis I reviewed last week. I knew I'd hear from Computerworld readers -- in comments, by email and via social media -- and I expected you'd have some great additions to my initial list. You didn't disappoint.

Quix is an extensible bookmarklet, that allows you to easily access all your bookmarks and bookmarklets, across all your browsers, while maintaining them in only one spot. All you have to do is remember the shortcut for the bookmarklet, so, basically, it's like a command line for your browser.

Control your virtual life. Connect in ways you never thought possible! The next generation of social networking.

Voted the best online project collaboration software for project managers, contractors, freelancers and teams.

Click.to simplifies your daily work significantly. You will save dozens of clicks, because interfaces between programs, and detours, can be skipped. Rather than looking up an address for a contact in Outlook, opening your browser to access Google Maps, and then typing in the address, you only need to click on Outlook, hit Ctrl+C (for Mac-Users: ⌘+C), select the menu click.to "Google Maps" and click.to searches for the address automatically on google maps and shows you the results.

Personal Assistants for Everyone Fancy Hands is a team of personal assistants ready to work for you right now. You should focus on what's important, let us focus on the rest.

Breadpig creates geeky products and donates all the profits to organizations and individuals making the world suck less.

I like it, but I prefer free. Paper Rater is free, no strings attached, and seems to perform all the same functions if not more. Additionally, it offers instruction in some areas that might be weak, such as vocabulary. http://www.paperrater.com/

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.