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World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals - like you - collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor.

The recent and dramatic growth of Web 2.0 and social software fundamentally changes the way that organizations must interact with information, and with those who produce, analyze, and consume that information. Government is no exception. The landscape of wikis, blogs, video sharing, and other social media has evolved and grown so rapidly that government policy has not kept up. The power of Web 2.0 and social software, if properly managed, can have a tremendously positive effect on the way the government interacts with the public, interacts with its employees, and conducts its own business. 

Today, Palm released its Mojo SDK for WebOS which should be the step that finally gets both the OS and the Pre to flourish.

Google Voice a service by Google that allow you have a single number for all your phones, SMS and voicemail. Place & take calls without sitting beside computer.

A Brisbane-based, international remixable literature project named Remix My Lit released this summer their first publication, "Through the Clock's Workings": it's defined as the world's first remixed and remixable anthology of literature. (continue....)

Google Noticeboard. It's a Firefox add-on can be used to create a message - including a voice recording and some text - which you can then send to other members, even if the other members doesn't installed Noticeboard you can still as audio as OGG email attachment.

iGoogle gadgets interact with the user and utilize the Google Gadgets API. Some gadgets developed for Google Desktop can also be used within iGoogle. The Google Gadgets API is public and allows anyone to develop a gadget for any need. iGoogle recently added a new gadget named " What's Popular". It seems to be similar to Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon. where you can vote the web pages and add content you find interesti

We all know Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing. But here is the intresting part, we know a lot about Google and about their products and services, In the screenshot let me show you what according to some intresting Twitter users Google is all about.

"SHJS is a JavaScript program which highlights source code passages in HTML documents. Documents using SHJS are highlighted on the client side by the web browser. SHJS uses language definitions from GNU Source-highlight. This gives SHJS the ability to highlight source code written in many different languages: Bison C C++ C# ChangeLog CSS Desktop files Diff Flex GLSL Haxe HTML Java Java properties files JavaScript JavaScript with DOM LaTeX LDAP files Log files LSM (Linux Software Map) files M4 Makefile Objective Caml Oracle SQL Pascal Perl PHP Prolog Python RPM spec files Ruby S-Lang Scala Shell SQL Standard ML Tcl XML Xorg configuration files SHJS comes with themes taken from the Highlight program. SHJS is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3. "

We provide software, training, consulting, and research for the application of network analysis in a wide variety of domains. Our deep experience in diagnosing and improving of organizations & communities, discovery and development of new leaders, analysis of influence networks, mapping and measuring of industry ecosystems, uncloaking of conspiracies and data mining & visualization of diverse information has assisted a variety of clients around the world. \n\nWe have participated in, or lead, over 500 projects for commercial, not-for-profit, educational, consulting, and government clients. In addition to mastering standard practices, we have pioneered the application of network analysis in new domains -- especially in the use of public data from the WWW.\n\nHow can we help you see what is hidden?

danah boyd's publications (booklength, short & long papers, etc.): http://www.danah.org/papers/