Springpads are free online notebooks that help you manage your life. Use your springpad to keep track of notes, photos, maps, to-do’s, contacts, appointments & more.

http://www.springpadit.com

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Labels: collaboration, communication, networking, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

Create your own microblogging community and communicate with friends and other people that share your same interests. (Link: Twingr)

link: http://twingr.com/

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easy scheduling, team tasks, messages, writing documents together.

Teamness is a software project from romania based bitground and a web application, which intended to organize projects, task and collaborative team workflows.

you can assign easy tasks and attach messages to them, manage and share files and whiteboards, set milestones correlated with tasks, create groups to gather similar data, subscribe projects RSS feeds to monitor the latest project activities and invite clients to watch the progress, customize the look and feel of the private space, multi-lingual interface...the application is developed in ASP .NET and C# and powered by MS SQL Server and IIS server.

have a look on my.teamness.com

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Labels: collaboration, communication, sharing, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

....by aggregating popular media content in a flash based media-hub.

RADUS (pronounced like "radius," in case that's not obvious!) is a free online service that "streamlines content discovery and navigation, offering consumers quick and easy access to hundreds of mainstream and user generated news, sports, and entertainment channels from leading broadcasters, bloggers, directors, musicians, photographers, and more," as described by the company.

http://www.radus.com/

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Labels: fun, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

Today Yahoo! is making Y!OS a reality for developers through the release of the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) , Yahoo! Social Platform (YSP) and Yahoo! Query Language (YQL). Now, anyone on the web has access to Yahoo!’s tools and data to start building applications for Yahoo!’s vast audience and the web beyond....

This launch also marks Yahoo!’s first implementation of OpenSocial support. As a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, Yahoo! is committed to supporting the complete OpenSocial specification and is working with the community to expand the spec to include OSML and OpenSocial templates.

http://developer.yahoo.com/

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Labels: cloud_computing, collaboration, development, framework, opensocial, opensource, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

Liferay is an open source portal framework, offering integrated Web publishing and content management, an enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture, and compatibility with all major IT infrastructures.

Technologies Used: JBoss, Tomcat, Java J2EE/JEE, ICEfaces...

sourceforge download
Liferay

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Labels: collaboration, networking, opensource, social_software, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Action Method online is an intuitive, most versatile project management and collaboration application and is free for up to 50 action steps.

It takes care of every aspect of project communication, collaboration and organization.

http://www.actionmethod.com/

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Labels: browser, collaboration, communication, fun, networking, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

Microsoft's Photosynth software is designed to craft a browsable 3D model by stitching together and analyzing multiple photographs....

Photosynth installs two programs on your computer: a Web browser plug-in for viewing synths, and an application (called "Photosynth") for creating them....

Photosynth was born of a collaboration between Microsoft and the University of Washington...

http://labs.live.com/
http://livelabs.com/blog/

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Labels: fun, image_processing, photo, sharing, social_software, software, utilities

Friendfeed implemented the new feature tonight. Users can choose to view most of their FriendFeed pages in real time, including topical based pages.

Robert Scoble says: "This is wild. It’s like the web has been turned into a chat room", and I agree.

Push technology, or server push, describes a style of Internet-based communication where the request for a given transaction originates with the publisher or central server....

blog.friendfeed.com

many other services are using long polling, eg. blip.fm, plurk.com, ping.fm, soup.io, facebook.com, etc...

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Labels: collaboration, communication, friendfeed, html, mashup, microblogging, networking, sharing, social_software, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Noteflight makes it easy to create and share written music online. It is a powerful full-featured Flex-based application to edit, display and play back music notation using variety of instruments, in a standard web browser [blog.go2web20.net]

http://www.noteflight.com/

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Labels: audio, collaboration, fun, social_software, utilities, web_2.0

Swirrl allows your team to store, share, edit and analyze information.

Swirrl is a wiki-like application that was built using Semantic Web technologies and launched as a beta last week.

http://www.swirrl.com/

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Ipernity,

In October 2008 the best photos from this group will be shown on the Ford Fiesta Mega-LED-Screen
(104qm!) in the middle of Berlin Ku’damm.

If you would like to see your picture there simply join this group and send your best photos. The pictures should portray the theme „This Is Now“ and be based on people, hobbies, and favourite places and scenes.

Winner photos are added to Ford Fiesta favorites.

ipernity group 'This is now! '

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Labels: fun, photo, social_software, web_2.0

Listing of 10 Interesting Open Source Social Networking Systems:


Pligg - open source content management system (CMS). Pligg has perfected content management in a unique way that encourages users to participate and control the content on the site.

Symfony - is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP5.
Elgg - allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals.

Meneame - popular spanish digg.com clone.

Spree - creates a social search community where everybody shares knowledge and benefits from other users' knowledge alike.

iSocial - is a free social networking CMS software that allows you to create your own Friendster and Orkut like sites. Use bookmarks, dating and create groups with just one mouse click.

Mahara is fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder, and social networking system for connecting users and creating online communities.

Yogurt is a Social Network module for xoops CMS. You have seen Facebook, Orkut, Myspace , try Yogurt for Xoops!

VMukti is a Unified Social Collaborative conferencing engine. Allows access through personalized, mashable web-interface. Core features:- Video conferencing, Audio conferencing, IP Telephony, Desktop sharing, Chat, Whiteboard, Presentation & More.

Scuttle - web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

if you want, search for more open source entries.

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Labels: development, mashup, opensource, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

Fidj.it was born in August 2008 and is a mix of both Twitter and Pownce features.

http://fidj.it/

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Labels: microblogging, social_software, twitter, web_2.0, web_apps

iLike are rolling out the Developers program to enable the most commonly requested forms of music integration.

As Kevin Farnham(programmableweb) tells us,
iLike, Facebook’s favorite music service, has officially launched their new API. TechCrunch reports that iLike is partnering with Google, TypePad, Flixster, Connected Weddings, and others, in the launch.
The music itself is provided by Rhapsody.

http://www.ilike.com/developer
http://www.ilike.com/

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Labels: api, audio, communication, development, google, mashup, search, sharing, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

We started our journey with a desktop screen sharing software to help and get help on one's computer. It became immensely popular because it was:

- free and
- worked and
- was grandma-friendly

Crossloop is a consumer Internet company that empowers everyone to help someone anywhere in the world with its free and easy-to-use software application for desktop sharing. CrossLoop connects computer users with trusted, qualified service providers and friends who can provide the support they need quickly and conveniently.

perhaps i can help you :) http://www.crossloop.com/webmove

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Labels: collaboration, communication, networking, social_software, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

HighNote is a music streaming service, a web radio similar to Last.fm, Pandora and GrooveShark.

http://highnoteradio.com

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Labels: audio, fun, mashup, social_software, web_2.0

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