Online Research Tools

Summary: This site. Enables you to create lists as i have for presentation. Needs some work so as to enable some formatting but quite quick and easy once you get the hang of it.

Summary: So the web highlighter led me to the most impressive find from ol' Diigo. Web Slides. This is so cool you should honestly just click the link and see it for yourself, but, to prepare you...You put a series of links into the application, plat with a few settings and it will create you a single url that slideshows through your links. You can put music to it (careful v. annoying if bad) and it will even show your highligher markings! Ok so its not THAT cool, but its getting there. Great application for displaying succinct info.

Summary: "Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great sites, videos, photos and more based on your interests. StumbleUpon learns what you like and makes better recommendations." Stumble is platform heading in the right direction of the future. You "stumble" through high quality - peer filtered content that is tailored to the intests that you specify when you join. It makes for a great way to kill time and surf the internet while having the added bonus of randomly turning up exactly what you are looking for ie. I have come across several awesome web radio stations that I couldn't find by googling. The other aspect is that you can add your own website to the network and, if it is good, it will do the rotation to 1 million plus on to it viewers. Seriously, get into this.

Summary: This site offers some incredibly useful applications. I found it when I was looking for an online highlighter(in the vague hope that such a thing existed). Well they do and this one rules. You just click and drag over the pertinent text or image; it leaves the text highlighted and also bookmarks the page. So no more sifting back through that epic rant you just read for the 4 words you really liked. I just absent mindedly bookmark as I go now. It's really good.

Summary: This is probably the most user friendly bookmarking system I've used. Nice and easy to access and provides suggestions for topics if your lazy. Also doubles as a promo tool as users can search for specific bookmarks ie psytrance

Summary: Being tagged as the future of music social networking. On myspace you simply wrote down the music you liked and people had to find you and read it. On this site you are connected with the people who like the same music as you. last.fm tracks what you listen to and actively opens you up to new music they think you will like. They even provide you software that lets it track your own mp3 habits at home to further revise its decision of what you will like. It may sound kinda fiendish but its the way of the future and its good. If they can do this well it will be awesome. Their intentions seem pure too as they openly support independent artists and labels to promote their music free and efficiently. Good shit. Theres a forum too for artists/labels to help you make the most of the site.

Summary: Yup, yup I know. Just in case someones been in a cave for 6 years. "As of December 2007, Wikipedia had approximately 9 ¼ million articles in 253 languages" the worlds biggest, bestest encyclopedia and its free. Thats information baby. That reminds me though, get FIREFOX, and get a Wikipedia toolbar. Too damn useful

Summary: Like youtube only more. Gets pretty much everything and has a length filter, so you can find those full episodes from all those damn remixes and clips. Oh and research and stuff...

Summary: Well, it looks good, its easy to listen to music on it and its not too hard to get your profile looking individual, and hey, everyone WAS on there. Not anymore. In NZ 10X the viewing time went to facebook over myspace.

Summary: Well, I saw the affor mentioned stat and so 2 days ago i got on facebook. And, I dont like it yet, its cluttered, its difficult to present clear ideas. BUT, everyone is on it. I'm sorry but, neccesary evil. The group function looks really useful though, and they are on top of their game in terms of staying at the height of web technology.