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