All of the Google Data APIs support OAuth - an open standard for authentication

Last night the Google Data API blog announced that oAuth is now available for all Google Data APIs, everything from Gmail contacts to Google Calendar to Docs to YouTube. This means that 3rd party app developers now have one easy, standardized and secure way to authenticate that their users really own the Google accounts they say they do

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After all, there's already Picnik, Adobe Photoshop Express, FotoFlexer, and dozens of others. One of our favorites is Splashup, which has a very desktop application-like feel. And for the life of us, we can't decide if Sumopaint is just a simple Splashup clone or just an incredibly similar web app. [continue]

http://www.sumopaint.com

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Labels: collaboration, freeware, image processing, photo, software, web2.0

authorSTREAM is a powerful online presentation sharing engine that not only allows you to upload your PowerPoint presentations online for free, but also assists you to share them with your friends, students or co-workers located across the globe

http://www.authorstream.com

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The intents of annotation of webpages were to share knowledge information and to encourage a way of free speech on the internet...
please read also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

Most of these application offer browser plugin to share your annotations and bookmarks friendly.
These services use flash- or javascript-based application to grab and cache the ressource to modify and save it for you.




My Nominates are:

1. Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. check out the FireFox add-on and bookmarklet.

2. Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community, hot in there community today eg.: Educational Benefits Of Social Networking Sites Uncovered

3. With fleck.com you can save all your interesting websites online in one place.

4. Mento (new!!) is for sharing links with friends: Smarter than email overload, more permanent than IM, and always just one click away...

5. ShiftSpace is an open source layer above any website. It seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web...

6. Write Stickis on any web page. Read what your crowd of friends and bloggers have written right there...

7. With Trailfire you find what you want on the web in an entirely new way. Follow trails of web pages and discover new ideas, Discover trails

8. kwout is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map. To use this service, all you need is to add our bookmarklet to your favorite browser.

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Labels: collaboration, html, mashup, sharing, software, web2.0

With a beautiful Mac-like interface, email and subversion integration.... -> Beautifully simple issue tracking.

Open Source Loves Lighthouse
lighthouseapp.com

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Labels: administration, collaboration, development, freeware, networking, sharing, web2.0

...with zembly, you easily create and host social applications of all shapes and sizes, targeting the most popular social platforms on the web. Using just your browser and your creativity, and working collaboratively with others, you create and publish Facebook apps, OpenSocial apps, meebo apps, iPhone apps, Google Gadgets, embeddable widgets, and other social applications.”

http://zembly.com/
http://blog.zembly.com/

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Labels: collaboration, communication, development, freeware, gadgets, iPhone, JavaScript, mashup, opensocial, sharing, web2.0

...crazy for the most unique and high quality videos around the web?

Openfilm specializes in ambitious, well-produced, licensed video content. We showcase our own line-up of original productions and web serials called “Openfilm Originals”, as well as content from an ever-growing list of contributing individuals and organizations, the ranks of which any serious content creator has the potential to join!

http://beta.openfilm.com/

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Yes, WatchDoIt is yet another instructional/education videospace on the internets. Yes, you can learn how to play golf or make a cosmo, but you can also learn things like how to walk the catwalk or distinguish among different Asians (talks, looks, dress). It’s got videos that are actually entertaining rather than merely educational

http://www.watchdoit.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Learning

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With Wag Mini, visitors on your blog and Web pages can now leave audio messages in just two clicks.