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December 19, 2007 By Skellie 5 Comments

14 Web Apps to Help You Learn Everything Online

These days when you want to learn how to do something, the web is usually a wise first port of call. One of the many positive developments of Web 2.0 has been the rise of a whole bunch of high quality web s dedicated to sharing knowledge online.

In this post, I want to help you tap into 14 innovative social and non-social communities dedicated to helping you learn online: from being more productive to playing guitar along to your favorite song.

Learn to cook

1. imcooked is a web community dedicated to filming and uploading cooking videos.

2. iFoods.tv is another food video community, but this one features professionally produced tutorial videos.

Learn to mix drinks with what you have

3. ExtraTasty allows you to search drink recipes or enter the ingredients you have into the ‘My Bar’ section of the site. Doing so will narrow down the search to only drinks you can make with the ingredients you currently have in your bar.

Learn what rare words mean

4. Definr is a minimalist web interface that performs one important function: to instantly define the word you input. You’ll receive search results almost before you’ve finished typing, and can get a definition with a single click.

Learn to play music

5. Show Me How To Play is the musician’s web . There’s plenty of free videos available you can use to learn some really great tracks.

Learn another language

6. italki helps you find a language partner, get answers, share files, get language resources and join groups. If you’re learning a language but don’t know anyone to practice with, this web could be the answer to your woes.

Learn how to make stuff

7. Instructables is an online community of enterprising DIY fanatics who share and use tutorials on doing just about everything under the sun: from building a gingerbread house to constructing a garage from the ground up.

Learn where the cool events are hening

8. Flavorpill is a very hip events aggregator for key American cities.

Learn to live sustainably

9. Make Me Sustainable is a social community for people trying to live in a more sustainable way. The Carbon and Energy Portfolio Manager is a neat way to keep tabs on your impact.

10. Carbonrally promises to help you reduce global warming (in a small way) by undertaking quick and easy challenges.

Learn to manage your finances

11. Mint is an award-winning secure web to help you manage your finances. It helps you track debt, view multiple accounts simultaneously and keep track of your income and your expenses. The slick interface also includes a number of visualization options.

Learn to be more productive

12. Remember the Milk helps you create simple to-do lists for everyday tasks.

Learn where to go

13. Wikitravel is a user-generated worldwide travel guide currently serving over 17,000 locations. If you don’t want to spend money on a glossy travel guide, Wikitravel should do the trick.

Learn where your site’s visitors are clicking

14. Crazy Egg generates a heat map of your site to help visualize where your visitors are clicking and navigating. Measure the performance of ads and which elements of your navigation aren’t working as they should be.

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  1. Shankar Ganesh says

    December 19, 2007 at 11:12 am

    Hi Skellie!

    I just dugg this post –
    http://digg.com/software/14_Web_Apps_to_Help_You_Learn_Everything_Online

    And BTW, I’d like to suggest these two sites as well: http://www.trymango.com/ and http://www.thinkglish.com/

    They’re just too good 🙂

  2. Devindra says

    December 20, 2007 at 1:51 am

    Great list Skellie. I’m currently a heavy Mint user, and it’s a great service once you spend some time creating rules to correctly label your transactions. I’m still astounded by the ever-increasing number of specialized web services out there. It seems the future potential for these things are limitless 🙂

  3. Arun says

    December 20, 2007 at 4:23 am

    Great List. I will be try out a few of these today. Would like to mention http://www.livemocha.com. Its a site for people to learn new languages. Great site that leverages the advantages of social networking and has several great trainer sessions.

  4. Jake says

    May 25, 2011 at 5:51 pm

    Arun mentioned how great LiveMocha is. I agree that it is a fantastic site. I use it to meet native speakers of foreign languages. However, I don’t like the language lessons on the site. I use learnalanguage.com to expand my vocabulary instead of LiveMocha.

  5. dave says

    December 12, 2012 at 3:04 am

    Great list, I use Mint all the time!

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