I got a new phone and was terrified about the manual work that would be needed to sync all of my contact details. But then I thought, we’re in 2008 so there must be an open source way of doing this!!
FunambolMobileWe did the trick perfectly! Funambol allows syncing over the air emails, contacts, calendar, tasks and notes with mobile devices. The site reports syncing capabilities with 1.5 billion mobile devices and thousands of online services.
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I’ve seen countless times websites that would allow me to dig through my GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo, contact list to invite friends over. A pretty neat piece of code that can help a website to grow its userbase quite well.
Open Inviteris the open source bit of code that can allow users to install this functionality wherever needed. The list of supported communities and CMS platforms is huge! Open Inviter can link to users to their contacts in GMail, AOL, Yahoo!
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If you’re working with a team of people to build a software, a website, or a plain and simple group project, Bugzilla is a very good task management web based tool.
I’ve used in the past the commercial application JIRA which in some ways resembles Trac, so my familiarity with Bugzilla is pretty recent.
This web based app is pretty simple to use: you report bugs, change requests, new feature tasks, and calls for investigation, assign it to someone and follow this task’s progress until its resolution and QA check.
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Bookmarking social web service Ma.gnoliahas announcedthat they’re building a v2.0 of their platform, aka M 2, that will be completely open sourced. We already love Ma.gnolia from the fact that it uses OpenID, eliminating the need to create yet another username and password to use the service.
M 2 will be a rewrite of the entire Ma.gnolia platform so all of the current features should be kept for the open source community.
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First, my truest apologies for the disappearance. Due to health reasons, work, then more health reasons my tech life was drastically minimized. But, now all is well and coming back on track.
And, we’re coming back with a sweet web service called identi.ca. Once Twitter got all crazy and full of never-ending glitches, many web services jumped in the opportunity to win the hearts of frustrated users, identi.ca being one of them.
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Reddit is trying to strengthen its web presence, as a competitor to Digg, by releasing their code to the open source community.
Being released under Common Public Attribution License, reddit is now allowing users to download the full code that powers its website. The real intent is to have developers provide improvements for reddit itself, making it a bigger and more powerful platform that only their small team of 5 can not possibly manage.
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia is now coming out strong with Wikia Search, an open source collaborative search website. It was first released in alpha months ago, but most recently some new features have been announced.
It isn’t a Google killer (yet), but it surely has the potential to one day become quite visible.
Wikia Search takes on the same principles that Wikipedia does to generate and moderate content, but here for your web search results.
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Pligg is for Digg as GetBoo is for Del.icio.us.
I was happily surprised to have found this open source project. Besides from being a website that can organize my bookmarks, GetBoo also releases the entire platform for download under GPL license. So, not only can I use their services but I can also copy it freely!
The project was created in 2005 and the website already has 14000 registered members sharing their bookmarks.
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