Techno Constructivist: New Additions to the Digital Backpack

New additions to the Digital Backpack:

- Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

- Online Sketchpad/Paint Program

- QR Code Creator

- Create QR Code Business Cards

(for education)- text-to-speech talking avatar generator

- Free online tool that converts text from image files or PDFs to movable text in a DOC, PDF, RTF, or TXT file.

- Free online tool that converts text from a picture file to text that can be copied and pasted.

- Wiki-like page creation tool with user-created elements that users can move around like magnets on a refrigerator door.

- Upload and share audio recordings. Includes a search engine that will search for terms within publically shared recordings.

- Share your phone, not your number.

- Microblogging platform that gives you a 280 character limit.

- Collects YouTube videos shared by the people you follow on Twitter and creates a channel you can watch based on those links.

- Enter Twitter Search Terms, and visualize tweets by a users location on a map

- Create email alerts for every time your username, search term, or hashtag gets mentioned in Twitter

- automagically collects the links you share online ... and makes them searchable.

- Tweetstream synchs daily, making sure your tweets, contacts, lists, followers, followees and everything else are preserved forever.

- Collaborative multimedia diagramming tool.

- Twitter-like microblogging platform.

- mobile site that lets you manage your Twitter account but also has a great tool that lets you merge twitter lists created by other people

- - Allows teachers to set up class blog accounts and manage the settings and permissions for students in their class.

- create your own crisis maps that people can submit reports to via web, SMS, email, or Twitter.

- A world street map that anyone can edit and modify

- schedule emails to be sent in the future

- publish web pages via email

- automatically send photos uploaded to twitpic to your flickr account.

- drag and drop file sharing

- share and explore photos of things and places that no longer exist and map them

- very simple tool that lets you create slide shows from images found in Google Image searches.

- simple online video conferencing

- monitors your webcam and broadcasts online only something happens. Site alerts you via email but can also be set to broadcast alerts on Twitter.

- Generates code that lets you type text on a curved surface

record audio stories and share them on a map.

- disaster and crisis alert map

- compare two countries demographics

- record and share your GPS path records then later relive your trip in Google Earth

- create a map of your Linkedin connections.

- forwards your email to your cell phone via text message

- make your own book online.

- make your own ebook

- make your own childrens books

- upload your photo, record your voice, add text.

- free podcast hosting

- record and publish your own podcasts

- not really social bookmarking, with notefish you save content from web pages and collect them into notebook pages that can be sorted and shared.

- When you receive an urgent email message, AwayFind will notify you via your mobile device, a voice call, IM, or even delegate the message to someone you specify.

- free online proofreader. Checks spelling, grammar, and plagiarism

- Make your own free online discussion forum.

- World's Largest Social Networking Platform

- Create and design your own Facebook page.
- Create fictional Facebook profiles

The Deadlist: (we will miss you)

Online database application.
Online database application.
- publish email as a web page
- Online slide presentation tool that lets you publish your presentations either as web pages or embed them in web pages.
- Online vector drawing program similar to AutoDesk.
- Free online audio recorder and audio publishing.
- Online music remixing.
- Online file converter that supports most filetypes. Upload and download without an email address or creating accounts.
- Online meeting tool. Share your webcam, voice, chat, desktop, or PowerPoint presentations with others online
whspr! - Need to receive a message by email, but can't (or don't want to) give out your email address? whspr! gives you a URL to share instead.
- Build a video blog, the next YouTube or just a private place to share videos.
- Upload presentation materials to drop.io then they give you a free conference call line and chat box.