Friday, July 23, 2010

Sharing More Sites

I follow (via RSS feeds -- fyi I use Bloglines as my feed reader) 25-35 blogs on a regular (i.e. daily) basis.  I end up reading even more blogposts than that, however, because a couple of them are essentially news or blogpost aggregators.  One great blog on which I've found many interesting Web 2.0 software suggestions is Free Technology for Teachers (we're all teachers here in one way or another, right?).  Here are two recent finds:

Check out drop.io, a free file-sharing service.
Drop.io is an easy to use, online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through unique, user-created and controlled sharing points called 'drops.' ... Once you have the hang of the basics, check out what it means to do it all in realtime for seamless collaboration.

In just two clicks, users are able to seamlessly create personal sharing points, upload content via web, e-mail, MMS, Facebook, Firefox extension, phone and fax inputs and share it on-the-fly through drop.io's various outputs like web, e-mail, MMS, Twitter, iTunes, fax and more.  

Another intriguing site to explore is Screenjelly, a free web-based tool that allows anyone to quickly create a screencast video. To use it all you need to do is go to Screenjelly.com and click the big red "record" button. Once clicked Screenjelly will begin recording your screen and your voice (if you choose) for up to three minutes. When you're done recording press "stop" and you can then share your video via email or Twitter and other social networks. You can also embed your Screenjelly recording into your blog or website.  Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like.  No need to install or download anything!

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