According to the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
| Ranking | Tool | Votes | Description | Cost | Avail | ||
| 2008 | Spring | 2007 | |||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 82 | del.icio.us Social bookmarking tool | Free | H | |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Firefox | 70.5 | Firefox Web browser | Free | D |
| 3 | 4 | 3= | Skype | 57 | Skype Instant messaging, VoIP tool | Free | D |
| 4 | 3 | 7= | Google Reader | 56 | Google Reader RSS / Feed reader | Free | H |
| 5 | 5 | 3= | 53 | Google Search Web search tool | Free | H | |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | Wordpress | 50.5 | Wordpress Blogging tool | Free | H/D |
| 7 | 7 | 5 | 45.5 | PowerPoint Presentation software | £ | D | |
8= | 11 | 14 | Google Docs | 39 | Google Docs Web-based documents | Free | H |
9= | 11 | Audacity | 39 | Audacity Sound editor and recorder | Free | D | |
9= | 9 | Blogger | 39 | Blogger Blogging tool | Free | H | |
11 | 13 | 12= | Moodle | 37.5 | Moodle Course management system | Free | D/H |
| 12 | 12 | 26= | Wikipedia | 35.5 | Wikipedia Collaborative encyclopedia | Free | H |
| 13 | 8 | 7= | Gmail | 33.5 | GMail Web-based email | Free | H |
14 | 15= | 16 | flickr | 32.5 | flickr Photo storage/ sharing site (and mobile version) | Free | H |
15 | 17= | 43= | 32 | twitter Microblogging tool | Free | H | |
16= | 15= | 17= | iGoogle | 27 | iGoogle Personalised start page | Free | H |
| 17= | 22= | YouTube | 27 | YouTube Video hosting/ sharing site (and mobile version) | Free | H |
18 | 17= | 31= | Ning | 25 | Ning | Free | H |
19= | 14 | 31= | Slideshare | 23 | Slideshare Hosting / sharing presentations | Free | H |
| 20 | 15 | Wikispaces | 23 | Wikispaces Wiki tool | Free/£ | H |
