Embed Images and Videos in Blogs / Wikis
Topic: blogs

Google's image and photo storage and sharing service, has been upgraded…They've increased their free storage allocation and also added the facility to directly link to individual albums and photos, making it easier to share them via e-mail or IM. They even give you the HTML code to display an album or photo on a web page.

They've also integrated it with Blogger so if you've got a blog hosted by Blogger, log in to Picasa Web Albums and you'll find a new album containing uploaded images from your blog. Tip: Resize images to the size your posting as it saves space and should be faster at loading and rendering. If you need a utility to help crop and resize images use SnipShot - http://snipshot.com/

Online Quiz Creation
Topic: Instructional Design
Here is a great site for instructional design students and teachers. Create your own FREE online quiz. Customize with your own choice of logo, text & colors. Post your quiz at any webpage (your blog, myspace page or classroom page).

Group Voicebooks - Group Audio Blogging
Topic: blogs
VoiceThread enables “group audio blogging” - you can create “voicebooks” combining images and audio. Extremely simple but is effective when you want  to post an image and allow others to add their text or voice comments. Also note that you can post these voicebooks to your blog, wiki, MySpace, etc.

Online Converter - Download online videos direct to PC
Topic: vblogging
This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (Youtube's movie,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file.

Convert Blog/RSS Feed Information Into a PDF File
Topic: blogs
Here is an innovative application that converts information from an RSS feed into a PDF file. You simply enter the URL of your blog or RSS feed.

Who is Visiting Your Blog Site -- Country? and City?
Topic: General
Neocounter is "an innovative and unique web counter that displays your visitors on your blog or website by country and city" You can see one version of it in action on this posting.  You can start using NeoCounter Premium immediately. After a 14-day trial period you can either keep the
free version or upgrade to NeoCounter Premium.

Brain Games
Topic: General
The title says it all.....have fun.

Images To Enhance Blogs and Wikis
Topic: General
Here are some great images for your blogs and wikis. They include Punk Graphics, Goth Graphics, Glitter text generator, Inspirational Graphics, etc. Although developed for use with MySpace sites they can also be embeded in blogs, wikis and websites....

Web File Storage - Free Host Service
Topic: General
Yahoo Briefcase is recommended as a free service for storing your files on the Web. Limited to 30mbs but has the advantage of letting you create a folder structure for storing files. This is particularly useful when a number of files are created at the same time and need to be kept in the same folder e.g. Camtasia.

Update your blog automatically with other blog updates.
Topic: blogs
Add your favorite blogs (or any source with a RSS feed) to your Feevy tag and receive automatic updates. Feevy gives you a personalized feevy tag. Just place the tag in your blog template or wiki and... bang! Your friends will appear in your blog! Feevy shows the latest posts from your favorite blogs in one column putting them in order according to the latest updates, which will appear on top. You can use as many feevy tags as you like. placing them anywhere in your blog or your html page.

Mind-mapping and Brainstorming Tool
Topic: All subjects
MindMeister, which is currently in private beta (enter your email and you might get an invite), is a new online mindmapping tool similar to Bubbl.us, Gliffy’s web-based diagram service and Mayomi (now dead, it seems). There’s no doubt that it’s nicely designed and comes with some neat features: cut, copy & paste, undo and redo, font colors, a revision history, keyboard shortcuts, multi-user editing and the ability to import, export and save maps to the server.

Virtual Worlds - Second Life
Topic: General
Second Life: The Official Guide Here is a great book if your interested in Linden Lab's fascinating Second Life metaverse. It explores in detail every aspect of Second Life's rich and multilayered virtual world, explains how it works, and offers a wealth of information and practical advice for all Second Life residents.

Get Ideas and Start a Portfolio
Topic: All subjects

Here is a web service where you can view the creative works of graphic designers….a great source of ideas for your projects. You can create a portfolio of your projects and send it out to potential employers and colleagues. You can connect with designers and start creative dialogues with colleagues, friends, and other members. What inspires you? Start your inspiration book and share where you find your creativity.

iPods - What to Buy and How to Use
Topic: General

This free iPod tutorial explains the differences between the iPod models. It also deciphers the technical jargon used on websites to explain the iPods various features and functions. The iPod tutorial includes screenshots to assist users in setting up the basics, from the date and time, to their contacts. The iPod tutorial is designed to even help advanced iPod users to take advantage of the iPods more advanced and complex features.

A Guide To Writing Well
Topic: All subjects
Writing well is a great asset. A Guide to Writing Well will help you to write better reports,project proposals, blog posts, assignments, letters, technical specifications, AND job applications. 

Edit Photos Online
Topic: General
This web service enables you to edit photos online in your browser. Crop, sharpen, enhance, rotate, etc. etc.

Video Podcast
Topic: vblogging

"Podesk is a unique and complete solution for video capture, encoding and podcast delivery. Everything is automated : a single drag?n?drop publishes your video straight to your web site, iTunes+iPod or iTV ! Record directly from your webcam, and Podesk will take care of the rest." Podesk is the only solution that combines a desktop utility that encodes video, prepares meta data and uploads the video, combined with an open source blog platform with all the tools to set up video podcast distribution easily."

YouTube for Cartoons
Topic: Instructional Design

MyToons, which is currently in private beta, is an impressive new video and image-sharing site for cartoons. You can upload your own videos and artwork, and find the most viewed, top rated, most discussed and most recent media in these sections. The player is large, fast loading and Flash-based - it can also be expanded to take up much of the screen. Look out too for tagging, comments and the ability to share via email (strangely, there’s no option to embed clips in MySpace and blogs). Beyond media sharing, there’s also groups, messaging, networks of friends and profile pages. The profiles provide a choice of design templates, and you can also create you own.

Webcam Videos
Topic: All subjects
Flixn, is a free service that allows you to quickly post your webcam clips to MySpace, hi5, Piczo, blogs and webpages.

eMail Your Videos
Topic: All subjects
TurboFlix is a simple new way of sending videos via email - just browse for the clip on your computer and send it, along with a message.