TALL blog

At TALL we’re particularly interested in how the many forms of online collaboration might be used in education and educational institutions such as our own, and currently have a couple of projects touching the subject: SPIRE and Isthmus.

There has been something of an explosion of these services over the last few years, producing photo hosting, calendaring, bookmarking, mapping, and blogging sites just for starters. With so many of these various services to consider, we need a list of what they all are, and how they compare, complement, and compete with each other… and which ones should I use!?

Here are a couple of sites listing these services:

• http://www.allthingsweb2.com/
• http://www.econsultant.com/web2/ (less comprehensive, but easier to read)

Here’s a quick selection of those that easily come to mind…
Identity/authentication/login

• OpenID
• LID
• Yadis

Reputation/profile

• ClaimID
• Mugshot
• Last.fm
• jyte
• myspace
• facebook
• http://twitter.com/

Photo hosting

• Flickr
• Zoomr

Blogging/journals

• Blogger
• WordPress
• LiveJournal

News/aggregation

• Digg
• Bloglines
• Google feeds

Bookmarking

• del.icio.us
• Ma.gnolia
• Stumbleupon

Meeting/calendaring

• iCal
• Renkoo
• planyp.us

Some provide multiple services, e.g. many profile services such as myspace provide some form of journal facility.

This entry was posted by David Balch on Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 at 10:03 am and is filed under Isthmus, Projects, spire, Web 2.0. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.