I stumbled across a snifty web applications that simplifies collaborating with your peers or with small teams despite geographical displacement.
Twiddla It lets you mark up media and live Web sites, or simply organize ideas together on a virtual whiteboard.

You have at your disposal the ability to draw over a website which makes illustrating your point visual. No sign-ups are required unless you wish to start a private discussion session.
It also tacks on live communication with text chat and free voice over ip conference calling that doesn’t require additional plug-ins or software. You can also take a snapshot the current whiteboard session and save it for achieving purposes or for later alterations.

I found the application to be simple with a clean interface and easily accessible. Thou it was not that responsive, but I can’t complain too much on that area as I run on 256mb of ram.

Twiddla’s packs a lot of features that might attract users of premium paid collaborative services who are seeking an alternative way to perform brain storming session with out dishing out big bucks.

Popularity: 18% [?]

Today’s serious job seeker must take a multi-pronged approach to succeed. It’s important to realize that finding a job, is a job on it’s on. With the abundance of online resume publishing services its has become a trend to publish your resume online along with it some great benefits. They are a couple of reasons why you might want to post your resume online such as gaining an extra competitive advantage and allow you can cover a lot more ground than using conventional methods of job hunting. It is also invaluable to send your resume to many targeted recruiters and post your resume to all of the top career sites which are searched by over a million hiring managers daily. I stumbled upon Emurse probably one of the most useful and yet minimalists resume publishing sites.

Not only can you create a resume using their template tool, but Emurse also allows you to download your resume from anywhere and gives you the choice to instantly turn your resume into a web site that gets a unique, permanent link (url) so employers can find you.

You can track your job hunts, whether they’re by email, fax, or post; or you can quickly print out your resume. You also have the ability to synchronize your resume with other job sites enabling you to increase your online exposure. .

Popularity: 18% [?]

When it actually comes down to learning nothing beats hands on videos. Video can be one of the most powerful forms of communication, and it offers a tremendous vehicle for learning. With the assortment of instructional videos online learning and picking up new skills is a personal choice, there’s just plenty of video content online to immerse your self in.

Here are some of the best places to get a hold of howTo videos and upload your own on pretty much about any subject you can conjure up in you mind.

Expertvillage browse and watch hundreds of how-to videos from “experts” on all kinds of subjects. Videos consists of a mixture of user generated content and professionally made content. Expertvillage function like any other video directory e.g youtube you can pretty much do about the same things embed and share favorite videos on your website or social networking profile.
Subscribe to latest videos using your feedreader. Subscribe to become an expert by submitting your own creations, or by becoming a professional film maker.

WonderHowTo is a community-fueled, search engine and directory for Free How-To Video. With an index of more than 90,000 videos (January 2008), we provide the largest, most contemporary, and most diverse resource in this increasingly vibrant space.

Looking for quick fixes short how to clips then check out 5min a place to find short video solutions for practical questions and a place for people to share their knowledge.
The idea behind 5min is any solution can be visually explained in no more than 5 minutes.

TeachersTube a similar themed site to youtube is a safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

Vidipedia is another user generated content free video encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Think of it as the wikipedia of videos. It provides various information historical events, politics to sciences and other content you’d expect to find in an encyclopedia.

videojug hosts professionally-produced, high definition videos many of these videos are created by the VideoJug team,

doFlick consists of instructional videos covering science, humanites and engineering

Popularity: 11% [?]

I wish I knew about this free services ChatMaker back in the day were instant message applications were constantly been blocked in my college. ChatMaker allows you to instantly creates an online chat room that any one else can join in by sending them a link (url) which is created in real time as you type in the name. The beauty about it is nobody has to commit to signing up for the service nor answer any invitation emails, that’s pretty frustrating as most of the time you end up receiving a lot unsolicited junk mail. The chat interface is quite simple and easy to get started using immediately, but you don’t get as much flexibility and control as with well known applications like msn , yahoo chat etc.

Popularity: 6% [?]

They are hundreds of thousands of podcasts (digital recording of a radio broadcast made available on the Internet for downloading or streaming purposes) online ranging from health related IT to personal podcasts basically covering of genres you can think of, this equates to a lot of content that’s still unsearchable and has not been indexed in most search engines yet. When it comes to indexing audio it’s not as easy as indexing textual representation of data even with advancements in metadata tags, RSS feeds and audio-recognition technology, it’s still much more tedious and challenging for a search engine to catalog the content of an audio files. All that is the past or I should say becoming better now a since plugg a new web startup has taken upon its self to take lip in an attempt to make audio and video files more searchable and I have to say it looks quite promising.
Pluggd’s audio/video search service utilizes speech recognition this is the process of digitally converting spoken speech into text in order to identify points in an audio file that match your search terms.

For example, searching for the word “Manchester won” in a podcast or video about the premier league football will return a “heat map” showing you points in the file that may be of interest to you, with brighter colors indicating a more likely match. Thus, instead of listening through an entire audio file to find the points of interest, you can search for them and jump right to what you’re looking for and save your self the frustration and time of having to listen or watch and entire program.
Having the ability to search within audio and video is definitely a brilliant idea and could potentially open up to a world of untapped content and make it that much easier to find more information on certain topics of interest.

You can have a look at the demo presentation here Demo

Popularity: 7% [?]

MOfuse short for mobile fusion is a new web to mobile web conversion service currently in beta, that allows you to provide your RSS feed and then automatically convert your blog or website to a mobile version, pretty net for taking your content on the go. MoFuse is currently invite-only, but invitation are been sent out if you sign up to their mailing list.
Mofuse is also offering a free way to earn some money, with their
revenue sharing program, your mobile site can earn you some extra cash. In order to take part in this you would need to have an existing google adSense publisher ID and you’ll get half of all the ad revenue MoFuse generates, pretty fair deal.

Popularity: 5% [?]

What do you get when you convert your video conferencing software application into a web version . A truly portal hassle free tokbox. tokbox is an free online-web conferencing site, completely gets rid of the complications of installations or complicated tweaking with conventional software based web conferencing tools. In order to use the service you will need to register once that is done registration is not required for anyone else whom may want to video chat with you. tokbox can be widgtized giving you the option of embedding it into your blog ,Facebook, MySpace etc. This offers you the option of interacting with your readers live if your a website or blog owner. I certainly see how this service could potently allow business users to offer live support to customers via live video conferencing. check it out tokbox here.

Popularity: 6% [?]

Ajax13 a google docs like web office suite portal including a word processor, sketch design program, speadsheet program, presentation program and music manager all for free.

Popularity: 5% [?]