12 Top, Free Ways to Collaborate Online February 28th, 2008 (4:00pm) Samuel Dean 22 Comments Applications that make it easy to share and collaborate are often of much more use to web workers than they are to standard office workers. Especially if you wor
Upcoming.org is a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site
Social Bookmarking According to Wikipedia: ...an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the use of shared lists of user-created Internet bookmark lists, the practice of tagging, and meta-data infer
Talk Digger is a new way to find, follow and join discussions evolving on the Internet. It is simple. You have in hand the URL of a piece of news of the BBC, a blog post, a product page, or any other web page, and you want to know who is talking abou
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Problem: Malcolm, Zoe, Kaylee, Simon, and River all work together on the same web development team. They are avid Twitter users and want a similar way to broadcast quick messages and updates to everyone on their team. Since these messages may contain confidential information, the team doesn't want them published to their public Twitter timelines or to any followers who are not part of the team. Solution: GroupTweet allows Malcolm and the gang to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.
Selbst vergebene Schlagwörter, Tags, können Internet-Nutzern dabei helfen, Informationen im Web zu ordnen und wiederzufinden. Miteinander verknüpft ergeben die Schlagwörter ein kollektives Begriffsnetzwerk. Informatikern der TU Graz ist es gelungen, einen Lösungsansatz für die Verlinkung dieser Daten zu entwickeln. ORF.at sprach mit dem Wissensmanagement-Experten Markus Strohmaier über Tagging und wie Internet-Nutzer damit ein "intelligenteres" Web schaffen können.
Connect. Share. Collaborate.
Elgg is free and open source software
It provides the components you need to build a fully-featured social environment, including:
* Profiles
Elgg comes with default profile fields that can be extended or completely customized by the site administrator.
* Activity Streams
The granular activity stream feature ensures you keep up to date with all site activity.
* Blogging / Microblogging
Blogging and microblogging functionality that is both powerful, yet simple to use.
* Groups
Collaborate around specific topics via public, private or hidden groups.
* Access controls
Control who can access your content.
* Web Services API
Expose functionality through the REST API by building a plugin and then either publish the API for other developers to build clients or provide your own.
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There are three main activities you can do within Pearltrees: organize, share and discover.
Easily organize what you've found on the web. The simple and intuitive interface makes sorting your interests, your passions and your ideas easy. Pearltrees allows you to give a precise meaning to the content you've archived making retrieval and reuse a pleasure.
You can also instantly share the content you've organized. In Pearltrees, everything is public. All other users can see what you've organized and you can see everything that others have collected. This lets you easily find users with common interests and when you do, you can team up with them and curate a topic together.
Pearltrees also lets you discover a web organized by others. Do you like discovering a city with a friend who already lives there? With Pearltrees, you can enjoy a similar though digital experience and learn about a new topic, a newsworthy issue or anything else that captures your attention, all curated by other people just like you.
Welcome to BookCrossing, where 599,009 people in over 130 countries come to share their passion for books with the world. How? It’s easy.
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What is Gabbr? Gabbr allows you to read and comment on the latest news across major news sources as well as the blogosphere. Bloggers can submit their blog posts to appear on the front page for others to comment on.
trendalicious is a near real-time view of website popularity trends as reflected by the del.icio.us social bookmarking service. All URLs that have been posted by a minimum of two people in the past sixty minutes are displayed, ranked by the total number o
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