John Lam's Public Library

Akin to a wiki, EtherPad lets groups collaborate simultaneously using text. It requires no registration nor login. A custom and shareable link gives access to created pads. See http://PaulGraham.com/foundervisa.html for an exemplar collaborative typestream and its resulting essay.

Like Reddit, Scribd, Justin.tv, and many awesome Web startups, Etherpad gestated from from http://Ycombinator.com school and venture funding.

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Once you're logged into Picasa Web Albums, this handy page fetches your albums and lets you select options and markup for embedding a slideshow.

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Both an interface and scripting platform, this Firefox extension harnesses microformats, HTML elements, RDFs and your trust network to let you use language and plow through some tedium of using the Web. The wiki here is a guide to big pieces and sites for Ubiquity.

Hmm, i wish Diigo would publish FOAFs to lever trust networks here!

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The YUI Library, a set of utilities and controls written in JavaScript for building richly interactive Web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX, comes under a BSD license, free for all uses. The YUI project includes the YUI Library and two build-time tools: YUI Compressor (minification) and YUI Doc (documentation engine for JavaScript code).

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Skype for SIP lets call flow through Skype from Voice over Internet Protocol office phones using Session Initiation Protocol: no more messy boxes in the middle, no more points of failure, just pure SIP.\n\nTo participate, you will need to create a temporary Skype Name to use for the beta program and you must have and can configure your own system to support G.729.

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Microsoft Outlook Calendar cannot feed iCalendar, so enter SyncMyCal. It can synchronize Outlook with Google Calendar, Apps for Domain, 30 Boxes, and other iCalendar-compatible calendars, and provide flexible support for privacy, sharing, and ways people use calendars.

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Hadoop, the opensource implementation of MapReduce, a powerful functional programming tool designed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, analyzes and transforms very large data sets. Popularized at Yahoo, Hadoop just got featured in a pair of New York Times articles http://nytimes.com/2009/03/17/technology/business-computing/17cloud.html and http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/bottling-the-magic-behind-google-and-facebook/

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A darling of SXSW and Web 2.0 tech conferences, Sched makes scheduling easy for organizers and maybe attendees. Unfortunately, it has yet to use OpenID for registration or Oauth to discover friends from other online sites. Without friend discovery, though, finding friends who plan to attend like events, an intended purpose of Sched, becomes a chore: working for computers, rather than having computers work for you.

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Under the Apache License 2.0, microblog engine Jaiku Engine has gone open source. An open instance, Jaiku.com, runs on Django frameworks at Google App Engine. Developer Mika has also released the Jaiku Mobile client, a Google 20% project, open source under both an MIT and Gnu Public Licence v2.

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