Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.

http://dimdim.com

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Labels: audio, collaboration, communication, networking, opensource, software, web_2.0, web_services

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_services

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_services

Joost after spending more than a year has finally come out with its much waited web based video service. The idea of moving from software based P2P network to the browser based must have come from the growing trend of bringing the desktop to the browser and it isn’t bad at all...

It looks and feels exactly the same, and best of all, now all Linux users can enjoy the vast content

http://www.joost.com/

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Labels: video, web_2.0, web_services

Individurls makes it super simple to create your own custom Popurls or Alltop style news aggregation page. The feature set is pretty straightforward. You can add new sites to your page, re-order them and delete them. It has a bookmarklet to make it easy to add a site to your page, and it looks and works great on the iPhone.... it was created by Daelan Wood with lots of help from SimplePie, a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that puts the ‘simple’ back into ‘really simple syndication’.

http://individurls.com
http://individurls.tumblr.com/

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Labels: communication, gadgets, html, iphone, mashup, mobile, sharing, utilities, web_2.0, web_services

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

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web—even if it has been modified.

http://ideeinc.com/

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Labels: image_processing, search, software, web_services

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_services

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_services

SayTweet allows users to create an embeddable badge to display their Twitter updates on top of an uploaded picture. Users tag faces on their picture in a manner similar to Facebook, and each of the tagged users have their latest status displayed in a speech bubble.

http://saytweet.com

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Labels: web_2.0, web_services

Unlike Blinkx, which is dropping their desktop app following the footsteps of Joost and iPlayer into an open platform called the “web” - readable at paidcontent.co.uk - the new Livestation desktop client will work on Windows, Mac and Linux and is packed with new social features.

Livestation is built on a sophisticated P2P technology and offers realtime live television high quality streaming over the internet in a desktop application.

The new release will sport a new social feature to allow users to “Buzz” interesting news so that other ones can “Buzz” in to the news or jump in a chat session to discuss it.

http://livestation.com
http://livestation.com/blog
LiveStation Screencast of Mac OSX Client 2.0.9 on vimeo.

direct competitors of IPTV desktop-apps are:
Joost
Babelgum
Zattoo

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Labels: software, video, web_services

Feedalizr, an Adobe AIR desktop application that alerts you to real-time updates from your friends on various social networks (Friendfeed, Twitter, Flickr, etc.). You can also post and share comments through the application.

http://www.feedalizr.com/

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Labels: adobe, mashup, messenger, microblogging, web_services

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_services

JumpBox Open is a time saving collection of virtual appliances for Open Source Infrastructure.

Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a real time collaboration (RTC) server dual-licensed under the Open Source GPL and commercially. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.

JumpBox for OpenFire
Openfire

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Labels: collaboration, messenger, networking, opensource, software, web_2.0, web_services

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_services

because there are many cms php-mysql webapps, here is another one:

Saurus CMS, estonia based company 'Saurused OÜ', is a web publishing software written in php and using mysql. now they create an online web page builder. the service is called Sauropol and offers free hosting of your webpages, blog, etc.. cool.

You don’t need to know anything about programming or graphic design to get started. If you can write an email, you can start a website.

http://www.saurus.info
http://www.sauropol.com

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Labels: collaboration, html, networking, software, web_2.0, web_services

LongURL expands URLs that have been shortened by services like TinyURL, Ping.fm, is.gd, and tons more

LongURL Mobile Expander uses the LongURL.org web services to let you know where shortened links *really* go.

http://longurl.org/tools
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8636

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Labels: firefox, web_2.0, web_services

Google Updates Picasa and Picasa Web Albums this week.
as rww reported,

the desktop application now lets you create collages, retouch photos, add text to your images, and upload your videos to YouTube.
...
You can now easily sync albums between your desktop and Picasa's online albums. Any change you make on the desktop will be reflected online.

Picasa 3 Download
Picasa Web Album

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Labels: google, image_processing, sharing, web_2.0, web_services

Microblogging service blip.fm automatically sends updates to your social networks(twitter, pownce, friendfeed, tumblr, livejournal, jaiku) each time you blip a song and or gets your scrobbles scrobbling from last.fm to blip.