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 * __[|Voki]__**

Voki is a website that allows its users to create personalized speaking avatars. The creator can make the avatar look however they want with the different options available to edit the avatars hair, clothes, facial features, background, and more. The avatar can also talk if the creator uses a microphone or types a message they want the avatar to say.

__**[|Google Drive]**__

Google drive is a personal cloud storage tool that enables interface between the user's files and applications. Changes made to a file in the Google drive will be synchronized across all Google drives. Google drive provides advanced internet searching and also allows its users to share and talk about online documents with others. This is possible because of Google drives access to Google docs editing tools.


 * __[|Wordle]__**

Worldle is a website that allows its users to create "word clouds" with the information they provide. The more times the user types a word, the larger it will appear in the final word cloud. Wordle provides different fonts, layouts and colors that the creator can use to customize their word cloud how ever they want. The final product can be printed out and saved to the Wordle gallery.

__**[|Wikipedia]**__

Wikipedia is a free internet encyclopedia that is collaboratively edited by its users, meaning the articles can be edited by anyone who has access to the site. Wikipedia has 30 million articles in 287 languages and it is the largest and most popular general reference source on the internet, ranking 6th most popular website globally of all websites.


 * __Wikispaces__**

Wikispaces is a web hosting service that is among the largest in the world. Wikispaces offers private wikis with advanced features for its users wikis. The site was launched in March of 2005 as of March 2008, they had more than 920,00 members and hosted more than 390,000 wikis.


 * __[|YouTube]__**

YouTube is a website that allows its users to share and watch each others videos. The company is owned by Google and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to show its wide variety of videos. Individuals put videos on YouTube as do major media corporations such as CBS and Hulu. Unregistered users can only watch videos, while registered users can upload videos to the site.


 * __[|Craigslist]__**

Craigslist is a website that its users can use to buy items from other users. craigslist was invented by Craig Newmark in 1995 and it currently covers 50 countries. The site has sections devoted to jobs, housing, services, and more. Craigslist serves over 20 billion page views per month making it in 37th place among top websites in the world. The site has over 80 million new classified advertisements each month.


 * __[|Pandora]__**

Pandora is an automatic music recommendation service. The site plays music from a certain genre based on the users preference. The user can provide feedback on whether they liked or disliked the songs they heard. This feedback is taken into account when future songs are played in the effort to only play songs the user will enjoy. The user has the option to buy songs that they hear on Pandora through the website.


 * __[|Kayak]__**

Kayak is travel search engine operated by the Kayak Software Corporation. The company was originally incorporated in Delaware in 2004. The site compares airline, hotel, car rental, cruise, and other vacation deals to ensure its users get the cheapest prices possible.

**__[|Flickr]__**

Flickr is a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs on an online community. The site is widely used by photo researchers and bloggers to host images that they use in blogs and social media sites. In March 2013, it was reported that Flickr had a total of 87 million registered members and more than 3.5 million new images downloaded each day.

__**[|Yelp]**__

Yelp is an American website that operates an "online urban guide" that was founded in 2004. The site began as an email service for exchanging local business recommendations but later introduced social networking features. The sites users rate various businesses they experience to tell other users if the business is good or not.


 * __[|Glogster]__**

Glogster is a website that allows it's users to create free interactive posters. The user can insert text, images, photos, audio, videos, special effects and other elements into their glog creations. Glogster is based on Ad obe Flash elements and the posters created can be shared with other users on Glogster or on other social media websites.


 * __ [|Prezi] __**

Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that allows its users to present ideas on a virtual canvas. The site uses zooming user interface software that allows the user to zoom in and out during their presentation. Prezi offers a new and interesting way to present projects other than using power point.


 * __[|Gmail]__**

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. The program has a search-oriented interface and is the most widely used web-based email provider worldwide.


 * __[|Google Hangouts]__**

Google hangouts is a program by Google that allows its users to live video chat with up to ten people at a time. Google hangouts works with computers as well as mobile devices so no one is left out of the conversation no matter where they are.


 * __[|Google Docs]__**

Google docs is an app by Google that allows its users to create documents similar to Microsoft Word. The user can put images, tables, equations, drawings, links, and more on a Google doc spreadsheet. You can also gather input with social commenting.