In other words, your computer (running Opera Unite) is truly part of the fabric of the Web, rather than just interacting with it, and it’s something anyone can use.
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social software on the Web, applications that benefit from two or more people being online at the same time. And, with Opera Unite, these people can all connect directly without needing middlemen who control third-party servers.

Taking the Web into our own hands, one computer at a time | download

Opera Unite
Unite API Library

Labels: api, browser, networking, opera, social_software, web_2.0

To use in translation with Google Translate Toolkit you can upload up to 1MB for free of Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML, text, Wikipedia articles and knols or any webpage , when you finish uploading, it automatically pretranslate your document...

...only a handful of blogs picked up on Google’s fresh Translator Toolkit, which the company launched yesterday by means of a blog post.
this new service really deserves a second look...

via [arabcrunch]

Labels: e-business, gadgets, google, social_software, web_2.0

Griner on thesocialpath.com explains very well, how crowdsourcing can be used and what it will bring and change to us.

BioMapping
Creates a map showing how people's emotions are affected by different parts of a certain city or area. The project relies on more than 1,500 volunteers who agree to wear a device that measures their "Galvanic Skin Response," a sign of heightened emotion.

We Are Hunted
Ranks the Web's most popular songs based on blogs, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, forums, peer-to-peer file sharing services and more.

Flickchart
with a unique way to rank movies where your taste in cinema will create the new definitive "Best Movies Of All Time" lists.

Galaxy Zoo
Lets any astronomer, amateur or pro, help classify one million different galaxies that were photographed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.


Brand Tags
Shows you a company logo and asks you to write the first word that comes to mind.


via [thesocialpath.com]

Labels: collaboration, crowdsourcing, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

As we posted in the past about Interesting Open Source Social Networking Application, we want to complement the list with a new one so called Dolphin - Smart Community Builder. The product id brtought to you by Bonnex and has a free edition with backlink credits.

keyfeatures are

• Online Dating
• Social Network
• audio/video communication(video chat)
• Music Player, WhiteBoard, Shoutbox....
  

Labels: community, networking, opensource, social_software, web_apps

MatterMeter is a service from Conversition Stategies, where you can share opinions on what really matters or not...its a kind of microblogging web tool with demographic questions, where we can together playable inform us about important things...

first look and impression about teh tool is very awesome...
and perhaps some day the content, which we are producing, imho, is possible to become more and more demographical significant quality for search engines in our future :)

-> have a own look at this funny tool: http://www.mattermeter.com :)

Labels: community, fun, mashup, microblogging, search, sharing, social_software

Mixcloud is to audio as YouTube is to video.
So, the idea is that DJs, broadcasters, and podcasters will have a platform to reach hungry music and audio content consumers. The private beta site offers a fresh take on music mixes that’s easy on the eyes and great for the ears, but you’ll have to wait until it enters public testing to take a proper look.


URL http://www.mixcloud.com

via [Jennifer Van Grove on mashable]

Labels: audio, fun, mashup, social_software, video

Have look at this nice app called Wakoopa. its a kind of service to scroll popular software, games and web applications. it shows you also, what software and service your friends are using recently....

Wakoopa.com

Labels: fun, games, mashup, microsoft, social_software, tip, web_2.0, web_apps

Poken is a young web database service from lausanne switzerland, where you can save your preferred social- and im-accounts like twitter, msn, facebbok, ..., etc. as on many other services, we just use them today.

but then you can buy a little usb-gadget (about ~15EUR) called 'poken' to exchange your social information with other poken user by bringing the two poken gagdets together. so you can connect to - or let me say more precise 'bookmark' - other people, who are using this nice thing.

the gadget can be handeld as your digital id-card and after you plugin into your computer, you can synchronize your new contacts with you web database account on doyoupoken.com to connect them...

more information at this time on: doyoupoken.com

Labels: community, fun, gadgets, sharing, social_software, web_2.0