Friday, May 17, 2013
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11:41 AM
Thotz curation tool help you to keep content handy . Simply create a new Thot by adding pictures, text, notes, files and create wonderful single pages you can share or present real easy. Features : Set your "thot" Start your thot with one click, no sign up required. Write about it Add all the information you have about it. Add content You can integrate content from several services or drag the info. Organize it Add chapter and relate content.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
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Lucian Duma
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12:16 PM
The Student Edition of scrible is a free upgrade for students that adds the sweet features shown below. If you already use scrible and registered with a “.edu” email address, you can upgrade to the Student Edition for free from the Settings Page in your account. If you’re a new student signing up with a .edu email address, you’ll be shown an option to upgrade for free during the sign up process. If you have a .edu email address but didn’t originally sign up with it, you can add it as a secondary email address via your Settings Page. This will then allow you to make the upgrade and use http://www.scrible.com/student 5 Powerful New Features The 5 powerful new Student Edition features enable you to create sophisticated reports from you researched articles, easily capture citations while you’re reading online, generate bibliographies with one click, distill all of your highlights and notes into simple summaries and collaborate with others via group, topic or project specific Shareable Libraries. Nearly all of these features (except for citation capture) are accessible from within your Library (as shown here) once you’ve upgraded to the Student Edition. Reports The first new feature is a robust report interface. We’ve added the ability to bring the annotations from your saved articles into a rich text editor. Once you’ve selected the articles you want to work with and clicked the Add to Report Button in your Library, we take you to the report interface, which is a split pane view with the articles shown in a Source List on the left and the text editor on the right. You can selectively click on annotations in the Source List to add them to the report on the right. This allows you to easily bring your annotations into the editor and integrate them into your reports using the fully featured editor. Once you’ve finished writing, you can share the report using all the methods you’re used to, such as social media, permalink and email.
Citations & Bibliographies To go along with report writing, we’ve tried to ease a major pain point: proper citations and bibliography creation. We’ve added a citation manager to our Toolbar so that you can create citations right on the webpage or article as you’re working. When you click on the Citation Button in the Toolbar (shown here with the green box around it), you’ll be shown the Citation Generator Window. We autofill some of the citation info and you can easily fill in the rest. Once you’re done, you can automatically create citations with a single click in all the major academic formats, such as MLA, APA and Chicago. This citation info is saved with your article for future use so that once you’ve filled it out, you’ll never need to touch it again.
Once you have your citations saved, you can pull them into our dedicated bibliography interface, seen in the screenshot here, or directly into the report interface described earlier.
Summaries
If that all sounds too heavy, we also added a summary view of your annotations along with some meta information about the article. So, you can distill down and extract out just the important highlights and notes. By showing you just the good parts, you’ll have a clean view of what matters most. Shown here is the summary for just one article, but you can pull in as many saved webpages as you like at once.
Shareable Libraries
Lastly, we’ve added the ability to collaborate via multiple, Shareable Libraries. You can now create separate libraries for various groups, topics and projects to keep your saved and annotated articles organized in an orderly fashion. You can also invite other folks to your Shareable Libraries so that you can work together to collect, save and comment on articles and Web content. If you’d like to learn more about Shareable Libraries, check out this blog post.
That’s it for the overview of scrible Student Edition .
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Lucian Duma
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12:33 PM
Backstich is a personal web experience that aggregates content from your favorite websites and services into a consistent user interface. Unlike other 'data aggregators' backstitch translates information into descriptive formats such as articles, photos, and products. With this common format backstitch is able to provide a consistent experience (regardless of source) as well as allow for detailed personalization such location search, price limits, and social filtering.
Friday, March 29, 2013
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Lucian Duma
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1:55 PM
Wunderlist is here to help you get things done. Like I told you before Curation is now Social Media King and if you are agree leave a comment after you read the features . Whether you're planning an overseas adventure, sharing a shopping list with a loved one or simply keeping track of your daily to-dos.Available for free on all your devices with next features : Lightning fast performance and invisible syncNowadays, we are all using several different devices throughout the day, from mobile and tablets to desktop and web. Knowing this, Wunderlist 2 has gone native on all major platforms — Mac, iPhone, Web, Android and Windows PC. The switch to native apps guarantees a fast and stable performance no matter how many different devices you are using. What’s more, thanks to the brand-new server architecture your lists will automatically be synchronized via Wunderlist’s incredibly clever Cloud Sync. So clever in fact, the synchronization will happen without you even recognizing. Reminders, Recurring and Subtasks Everything you need, plus a little moreDo you like to work towards a deadline? Do you have things to do that never change? Or do you prefer to split big tasks into smaller steps? Wunderlist now features the new Detail View including Reminders along with Recurring and Subtasks. Guaranteeing your activities are kept on track and on time with little effort — again, again and again. Brand new design A love that goes beyond first sightWhen you first take a look at Wunderlist 2 it will feel familiar, yet completely new at the same time. Wunderlist has been redesigned to include all new stunning graphics that look even better on retina displays. Just take a look at the new icon, the nice subtle paper texture of a task and the handmade pictograms in the sidebar. The only way to achieve a design like this is by relentlessly considering and reconsidering every single piece — including the details you don’t directly see, but will no doubt experience. Seamless collaboration With a little help from your friendsWant to get your colleague’s assistance on an upcoming presentation? Or maybe you want to share the fun of organizing a birthday party with a friend? Wunderlist now makes it downright simple to invite your friends, family and colleagues to lend a helping hand. Through the smart integration of Facebook’s Open Graph and your personal address book all you need to do is hit “Invite” and wait for them to join. Oh, and if they are not yet a Facebook friend simply type in their email address. Sharing in Wunderlist has never been easier. Push, Email and In-App Notifications Always be the first to knowWant to know if a friend has invited you to a list? Or has a colleague added a task to the latest project? Customize the way you want to be kept informed with Wunderlist 2. Depending on your preference you can receive updates to your shared lists via push notifications, email or simply head to Wunderlist’s new Activity Center. The choice is totally up to you. Smart Lists The full package – beauty and intelligenceWunderlist's new interface is even more intelligent. It now shows you everything you need exactly when you need it. Instead of having filters permanently visible we integrated the new concept of Smart Lists that are hidden if there’s nothing to be shown. If you worked a lot with the former filter function you can easily make Smart Lists visible permanently through the preferences panel. With this approach we can deliver an even simpler experience, while at the same time offer advance users even more functionality. Data security Keeping your data secure 24/7Millions of people and thousands of businesses worldwide use Wunderlist to manage their lists and daily to-dos. So protecting your data is of paramount importance.. So there is no need to worry — you can trust your data is safe with us. Sticky Notes 2.0 Capture all your best ideas Whether you are student, an aspiring chef or an established author Wunderlist 2 has your note taking requirements covered. Just open the front cover to experience clever features like web link integration and auto save, along with the ability to attach and detach a note from a task, allowing you to work in the detailed view or out of the app itself, it’s entirely up to you.Print your Lists Travel light with everything you need on paperWith Wunderlist you can print your lists with just a few clicks. Whether it’s a team meeting agenda, shopping list or your very own wish list, you can travel light with all the details you need on paper. Add to Wunderlist Browser Extension The whole web is just a click awayAdd to Wunderlist is a Chrome, Firefox and Safari browser extension that appears in your navigation bar, allowing you to quickly save all your favorite web content directly into Wunderlist. To make it even easier Add to Wunderlist places a second button directly on some of your favorite websites, starting with Amazon, Asos, Ebay and Etsy, Hacker News, Twitter, Wikipedia and Youtube, as well as the most popular web email clients, Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo! Mail.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
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Lucian Duma
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8:53 AM
Curatr is for showing off the things you love.. Like I told you before Curation is now Social Media King and if you are agree leave a comment after you read the features Have you ever been talking with someone cool and wondered what blogs they read? Music they like? TV shows they watch? Podcasts they pod? Of course, you don't want to know every show they watch, just their favourites. In the Offline World you show a lot of things off on a living room bookshelf. Since a real bookshelf only holds so many things, you thoughtfully choose to display only the best items — the things that mean the most to you. Curatr encourages the same thoughtful selection by providing space for 9 items for each curation. Select items and visually customize your curations. Friends can quickly view, discuss, and debate the choices, as well as show off their own curations. So now go curate! After meeting someone interesting at a dinner, visit their Curatr profile to see what blogs they read. Find new people with similar tastes to you and see what else they like. Get great content recommendations from Curatr based on curations from similar Curators. Curatr worked hard to make this useful and fun. We hope you’ll enjoy and would love feedback! You can use Curatr to transform learning resources into a Rich, Active and Social Learning experience. Curatr unique platform encourages users to reflect, curate and build their understanding as they collaborate with their peers in a social learning environment. Features Integration Curatr can act both as a stand-alone solution and as a layer on top of existing systems. With Curatr's API and our flexible delivery solutions, Curatr can integrate with a wide-range of existing software, from Single Sign On solutions to content and reporting. Visualisation Curatr presents learning objects in a highly scalable, visual interface. Each object is represented by a node which carries an image and several dynamic pieces of information to tell the user more about what is 'behind' the click. Using this approach any digital content can be linked to and curated by your learners. User-Generated Content Curatr allows learners to contribute back to the platform in a wide-range of ways. From adding objects or uploading content, to creating comments and peer voting on test responses, no other learning platform caters to UGC in the same way Curatr does. Object Orientated Discussion There's nothing sadder than an empty forum. Which is why you won't find any here! Unlike some other Social Learning platforms, discussion is baked in to Curatr, with opportunities for learners to reflect on every piece of content. Unique Testing Options Challenge your learners to build new learning objects as a part of the learning process. Testing options include standards such as MCQ's and Discussion Questions, but also ask learners to stretch themselves by adding new objects, uploading assignments and peer marking. Gamification Curatr taps into the power of Gamification to encourage users to contribute and collaborate with each other at every stage of the process. With a comprehensive Experience Points and Levels system intertwined with varying difficulty settings, you can craft the perfect scaffolding and flow for your users. Reporting Curatr creates rich reports of your learner's progress, allowing you to not only check on overall progress, but on effort throughout a programme. All of our reports can be output to a variety of formats and systems.
