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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Google Data APIs

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Labels: api, collaboration, consumer_cloud_computing, development, google, mashup, opensocial, web2.0

Processing is a data visualization programming language, which John Resig has ported to JavaScript, using the Canvas element.... [demos here]

Obsessing is a "very alpha" service that allows you to edit and build Processing.js applications on the fly. Obsessing is all about bringing the Processing API/experience into the browser.

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Labels: ajax, JavaScript, mashup, web2.0

AOL is now offering developers who create applications using the Open AIM API the opportunity to make money

AIM Money is a new revenue-share platform that allows you to make money from ad views generated in your Open AIM application...There are no fees to participate, and monthly payments are issued only via PayPal.

For example, the TinyBuddy IM mashup applies AOL’s OpenAuth API along with WebAIM in an IM client that works on the iPhone and iTouch, as well as in standard browsers

http://dev.aol.com/aim/money

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Labels: api, consumer_cloud_computing, gadgets, iPhone, mashup, web2.0

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

Web Form Factory is an open source web form generator which automatically generates the necessary backend code to tie your form to a database. By generating the backend code...

http://www.webformfactory.com/

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Labels: communication, html, mashup, opensource, 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

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

create an account

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Labels: collaboration, communication, mashup, web2.0

According to webware,

News Corp.'s MySpace is set to release a major redesign next week; a number of features have been revamped to improve user experience...

additionally Myspace has a data portability project, "Data Availability," with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter on the way.... [read on]

Facebook, is also set to unveil a redesigned profile page in the near future

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Labels: collaboration, mashup, networking, Twitter, web2.0

280 Slides (now available in public beta) is an online slideshow similiar to apple's desktop application Keynote

this online slideshow is powered by their own 'Cappuccino' JavaScript Framework, which implements the powerpoint format and claims a near 'desktop' experience in the web.

It includes all kinds of shape manipulation, as well as easy publi