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Media Share

There is an unlimited number of videos, PDFs, etc. that can be used for education, training, instruction, or professional development.

Finding and curating them into playlists, integrating with existing workflow, and sharing with others is time consuming, inefficient, and often limited by ‘vendor lock-in.’

Media Share is a productivity tool that saves time, requires no training to use, and does not limit how or where content can be used.

bitly

Bitly is a link shortening service that also helps you share, track, and analyze your links. Now includes "bundles" which can be public or private, to gather your links by categories you choose. A social network style feed of other people's bitly links can be added to your dashboard.

An iOS app is available for iPhone. Wordpress plugin and API are available. Site includes a sub-site about the API for developers here: dev.bitly.com

SpiderOak

SpiderOak provides an private and secure online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for all file and data types. It was designed with a 'Privacy-as-a-Platform' approach. The 'Zero-Knowledge' privacy cloud technology provides a central, private place to store data, free from surveillance by private and public entities. Data is fully encrypted end-to-end (not only during transit) and only the user is able to unlock it using their password. Passwords are never stored by SpiderOak and the company cannot see the names of files or folders in your account.

SpiderOak allows you to securely backup files (including a built-in versioning system), choose to sync data across all of your devices, and share folders or files privately using a password-protected link. Users can have unlimited devices connected to their SpiderOak account which backs up your data so you are able to restore files, even if they are deleted.

Some components of SpiderOak are open source (See GitHub Page). The company intends to be fully open source in the future but as of 2014 their source is not available.

New users get 2GB free (no time limit) and can upgrade to more storage as required.

Blackboard Scholar

Blackboard Scholar is a social bookmarking service customized for education. It allows students and instructors to find educational resources on the Web. Available only to users of the Blackboard Learning System.