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1. 301url : tiny url
2. Abaqueinside : online ajax catalog
3. AJAX Devmo : mozilla dev center for ajax
4. Ajax showcase : web 2.0 directory
5. AJAX using only an image : ajax using only an image
6. Ajaxian : ajax new blog
7. AjaxImpact : ajax news
8. Ajaxpatterns : ajax repository
9. ajchat : ajax based chat room
10. aPop : ajax, php, mysql powered gallery
11. Ataja : tiny url translated in Spanish and English
12. b2evolution : open source blog engine
13. Codase : programming code snippet sharing
14. Code Snippets : source code repository
15. Cyber Dummy : ajax code snippets
16. del.icio.us direc.tor : ajax based user interface for delicious
17. del.icio.us tag cloud : delicious clouds for your account
18. DIY Map : clickable zooming map
19. Django : web applications framework
20. Dojo : open source javascript toolkit
21. dotproject : open-source project management application
22. EasyUtil : recommendation service api
23. ElfURL : short urls with stats
24. eyeOS : web based desktop system
25. FCKeditor : open-source html text editor
26. fileNice : php file browser
27. Flickr RSS Widget : javascript to display flickr feed
28. Flowermaker : art/flower making service
29. footoo : ajax image gallery
30. FreeVolution : isometric tile engine for games
31. gDisk : use gmail account for online storage
32. GrokThis : ruby / zope / plone / mono hosting
33. Hula : open source calendar and mail server
34. Instant Rails : rails runtime solution
35. IssueTrackerProduct : online bug-tracking; open-source j
36. Krugle : programming code snippet search
37. Lite Spell Checker : spell check demo
38. Locomotive : ruby on rails solution for mac
39. Loudblog : content management system for audio media
40. Memory : memory game from yahoo images
41. Meta : forum software with tagging, ranking, live updating ml”>m-n
42. MochiKit : javascript libraries
43. Montage-a-google : google image montage
44. MyProgs : social programs/software list sharing
45. Nopaste : programming code snippet storage
46. NotLong : tiny url
47. openrico : javascript libraries
48. OPML Workstation : manage opml files
49. Orbeon : form-based web applications
50. OSZone : open source directory
51. Pastebin : programming code collaboration
52. PhotoStack : photo gallery using ajax/php
53. Phrasr : phrase from flickr photo
54. Plogger : open-source photo gallery
55. Processing : open source environment for image/animation/sound
56. ProgrammableWeb : web 2.0 reference site
57. script.aculo.us : javascript libraries
58. SWiK : open source directory
59. Tagnautica : flickr search interface
60. TextDrive Snippets : programming code snippet sharing
61. TextSnippets : source code repository
62. The Open Source Zone : open source projects repository
63. TNX : temporary text storage
64. Treehouse AJAX chat room : ajax chat room
65. TurboDbAdmin : ajax database solution
66. url(x) : url shortening service
67. Userscripts : firefox greasemonkey scripts
68. VGMap : software library to add to google maps
69. what is that file : ajax based file description
70. wsfinder : web services / api directory
71. YubNub : command line search
72. zenphoto : photo gallery using ajax/php
73. Zmanda : open source backup/recover

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Check these sites out.

• Google Notebook - Google’s notebook. You are able to make private or public scrap books so that people can see your research and your notes.
• writely - Best online word processor online. Acquiered by google and is currently by inventation only.
• dublish.com - Write articles fast, nice layout.
• Sabifoo - use your instant messanger service to post notes to a web page or rss feed
• Zoho Planner - online planner with note capiblities
• Writeboard - from 37 signals the makers of Backpackit create an online message board with comments can create unlimited boards
• My Yellow Pad - create and store notes online free
• yahoo! Notepad - Online note taking from Yahoo!
• Wallnote - an online note taking site as well as a todo list
• Fly Note - great note site that generates everybodys note on it’s home page
• Wridea - super online note taking site with mulitiple pages and can add images to notes
• Sunny Notes - lets your organize your note into folders
• Your Draft - create and edit notes online
• Short Text - create notes with there own url must buy url to re-edit notes $2:00 per url per year
• Pianist - create and store notes online
• Paste Here - create and store notes online
• cL1p - the online clipboard allows you to copy and paste between computers
• Our Note Pad - create and store notes online
• Change to Link - online note taking app
• Web Note - online note taking site that lets you HTML and add links and images no sign just create a note space
• Sync Notes - comes with a downloadable program which can be used to create notes from your desktop free
• Infogami - create a free web site in seconds can be edited by anyone sort of a mini web site
• Snapbits - free online note taking and keeping site
• Stu.dicio.us - for students all notes are public includes a todo list notes etc… free
• Nottr - Small, tag based, gmail-like interface. Sharing, txt/zip export, html support.
• stikkit - Intelligent notepad. It feels urls, to-do lists, schedules as you type (e.g., “buy flowers” will be detected as todo). Sharing, exporting, prining, reminders support.
• Google Notepad - Very basic notepad. Organize with folders and sections (but no tree view). Drag&drop, sharing support. Integrity with Firefox by handy extension.
• Helipad - Tag based. Textile formatting, exporting, sharing, printing, add-ons support.
• goowy - if you have a fast computer and high speed connection, this online desktop works well for taking online notes and much more. i’m not a member of the goowy team - just a new big fan of theirs.
• Protopage - Something like Netvibes but more “note” oriented and somewhat simplier!
• Deusto - create an editable online e-book free
• Post-It Note Generator - Post your notes to an image of a “post it”!

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• Yedda - People. Sharing. Knowledge. - Yedda connects people looking for knowledge with people who have the knowledge. **Ask, Answer, Explore** Didn’t find what you’re looking for? Ask and get great answers from real people.
• Vivisimo - Best cluster search site out there. More results than google everytime.
• Exalead - audio, video, rss search results clustering, phonetic search, sites thumbs
• Clusty - Clusty the Clustering Engine.
• snap -
• Searchbots - Build your own search robot and send it out to search the world by tag, colour, mood and location.
• Gigablast -
• Otavo - The Intention Engine - Search by Questing. Start a quest that interests you and have others join your quest and help you find and gather information faster. Quest for knowledge (Q&A), Quest for achievement (Task/Project tracking), Quest for order (Organize information).
• Wink - Social search
• Gravee - Social Search
• Site Map Engine - Outune is a Web2.0 like service that allows to display the tree structure of a web space, showing title, absolute URL, used protocol, mimetypes, size and relation with the root url. It can be useful to extract a deeper map of a web site or web space. It can also generate a simple Google Sitemap in wml format.
• Zemnix Metasearch - The most complete metasearch.
• Mooter - Clustering Engine.
• PreFound - PreFound - search what people have already found
• flipnsearch - MetaSearch engine that allows you to save results to del.icio.us.
• Why is a Logo so Important to Your Business? - Well, a logo for your business. Why is it important? Does it matter what it looks like? Is Yours Professional?
• Web 2.0 Search Engine - Simply search for a keyword of what your wish to make or work with to see the tools available (example search links: mashups, blogging, viral videos, clipart, designing, social tagging, AJAX apps, file storage/sharing, RSS feeds, anti-spam tools, CSS layout generators, image editors, webmaster tools, calculators, file conversions, blog (URL) submits, web APIs, tutorials, etc). Please submit sites you find useful relating to the topic “WEB 2.0″. Each accepted site recieves a Web2.0 award.
• Comedy Search Engine (Official) - Over 10,000 funny and time wasting useless sites.
• Canada Directory - www.FriendlyCanadian.com
• Find-For.US - **American domain names only for the initial search, then it portals out to other niche portals and customized searches.**
• Multi Web Search - Multi Web Search site with 98 search engines, where you can search on four search engines at a time.
• Webmunism Video Search - Video meta search engine with playback of videos direct from search results.
• Traffic From Search Engines - The entire consulting industry is studying based on tweaking web pages to get themto the top of search engine results in the hope of capturing more traffic.
• Lead2Amazon - Lead2Amazon searches book, music, DVD, etc. through Amazons. The output can include BibTeX, disc track, and related goods.
• Dealing with an SEO specialist - Our SEO specialist has the required skills to up your bussiness in getting the web site to search engine rangking. make your site as valuable to the search user’s.
• PicFindr: search the free-stock-photosphere - PicFindr finds photos and images you can use in your commercial (for money) projects. It searches several hand-picked free stock photo sites simultaneously and combines the results into a single page.
• Be friendly to search engines - The object of search engines is to give their visitors a list of web pages relevant to the search words, in the order of relevance to the search words. So what do they want from websites?
• Will You Site be a BIG SUCCESS. 7 Reasons Why it Might Not! - With so many new websites going up, it is hard sometimes to tell if your site will be a BIG SUCCESS or an unexpected flop? If you are unsure of whether or not your site will fly with visitors or crash and burn, this article is definitely for you.
• Sparkl | The Web Designer’s Search Engine - ** A Search Engine Built Just For Web Designers. ** Search over 1400 web design resources to find answers to your questions. If you are a web designer, you’ll love Sparkl!
• Mojacity - Bright lights, big city, the options are endless in Toronto. So much to do, so much to see, so much to eat and so much to live for that the choices can be overwhelming. This is where MojaCity comes in. We are a comprehensive database designed to let you explore dining, nightlife and apartment ideas. Menus, descriptions, pictures and much more are waiting for you. Take a peak!
• Quintura - Visual search using a cloud of related words. It dynamically changes search results when you add/exlude a word to search query
• ePrécis - The ePrécis Web site is an example of a new technology that creates abstracts from any text document. In this search implementation, web sites relevant to your search requests are analyzed by ePrécis and the results are returned to you in typical search format.
• TagTooga.com - Social bookmarking / Wiki-directory with Search.
• Sir Seek’s Talking Search Engine - Many features from thesaurus to spell checker (tonnes of advanced search tools)! Free to submit your web site for instant URL inclusion! Try our free toolbar, it’s the best around and let’s you search or add links to over 300 top major search engines!
• Med Checker (Not A Pill Selling Site) - Look up relevant information pertaining to your medical conditions or medications prescribed. This is not a portal that tries to sell you meds, it’s just a medical search engine. Many university EDU and actual medical websites from goverment sector. Many student doctor/nurse learning resources and reading material. Great way to look up your prescription drugs for side effects or common dosages (per weight/KG).
• Max Spider - Instant URL Inclusion - Simple and easy to submit your website for free web promotion, instantly have your URL submitted! You page is cached in text format for advanced search techniques.
• IceRocket - Search blogs, MySpace, Phone pics, and the web in general.
• surch - very cool
• Complore - Complore not only provides a huge online repository of bookmarks on it’s site but also various kind on lectures, papers, journals and articles. Should be a first choice for students and researchers.
• Power Search The Search Engines - Search over 100 search engines from this one simple search page, type in one search term and it is readied on the top search engines (just click the desired links).
• Crisis/Disaster Search Engine - Learn about natural and man made diasters. Ways of recovering after tradegy and ways to prevent death/injury by disaster planning. Please blog with your helpful ideas too. Make your own disaster plan and ready kit today, it could save lives (even your own)!
• KartOO - Kartoo is a meta search engine which presents its results on a map. The found sites are represented by more or less important size pages, depending on their relevance.
• less goo - Less-goo is a quick search resource with a very simple English interface.
• WHAK.com edy Search Engine! - Thousands of links to humor and fun web sites, free to submit your favorite funny pages. Stuff like jokes, pranks (prank radio), funny songs, religious slurrs, stupid sites, time wasting, boredom killers, silly links, etc. Please add your favorite funny URLs to this database of comedy links.
• How_to_STOP_Panic_Attacks_and_Anxiety_without_Medications_GUARANTEED! -
• Canada/Canadian Search Engine - A portal made by Canadians! Everything Canada from tourism to hunting/fishing! Everyone loves the friendly Canucks!
• Grokker - Clustering search with circles
• Homeless Search Engine - Use this free service at any library, search for helpful resources in the largest city closest to you! Tell others, poverty and low income people can benefit from this site too, not just for homelessness!
• AlltheWeb Livesearch - We are testing a new search experience to make things faster and easier. Livesearch Beta provides real-time suggestions and instant search results as you type.
• Windows Live Search - Windows Live Search beta gives you instant answers in search categories including news, maps, product and shopping information, items in academic journals, images and more. And you won’t have to click through dozens of pages to see your results—they’re all presented on one clean, easy-to-read page.
• Kosmx - Vertical search portals with clusters

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List of RSS/ATOM feed readers/aggregators.

• Bloglines -
• Netvibes -
• Google Reader -
• Firefox Live Bookmarks -
• Hirlapom.hu - Online RSS reader - Hirlapom.hu - Online RSS reader from BudaPest, Hungary, Central Europe.
• FeedRaider.com - Customizable RSS Aggregator
• NewsFire -
• FeedReader - Very well designed offline feedreader. Inone view, folders, feeds, and read the article. You can adjust the size of the article that you are reading. With internal browser.
• Blog – A Powerful Marketing Tool - If you are frequently surfing the Net, you may have heard about blogs. Blogs are like newsletters, they are frequently updated mainly for general public usage.
• RSSOwl - RSSOwl - A Java RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader
• NetNewsWire for Mac -
• Protopage - Protopage - read feeds and share them with others.
• t3h Blox0r - A XUL rss reader that only runs ons Mozilla browsers.
• Alertbear - A great new approach, I love it! http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=3015.0 has tiny review with screenshots.
• onelurv - Channel-based online feed reader & password bookmarker. Embed feed reader into external blog/webpage.
• Feeds 2.0 - Feeds 2.0 is an online personalized RSS aggregator. It uses a learning engine to prioritizes incoming information according to the user’s interests, and also clusters items from different feeds who deals with the same subject.
• MonkeyChow - Web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed reader/aggregator/republisher that you can set up on your own *AMP server to access from wherever you want with whatever computing platform you want. Offers tagging and social networking hooks.
• Sage (Firefox Extension) -
• Apple Safari -
• Online RSS Reader, No Signup - Web 2.0 application (web based, no install) that allows you to import a RSS feed to be seen like a web page (I use it for my giving out a link to my del.icio.us account RSS feed).
• SharpReader -
• Orijinn - …since you are there, you know what to do…
• Gritwire -
• GreatNews - offline aggregator aoptimized for fast reading
• Krawler[x] - The only RSS reader that offers feed tagging, river of news style interface and rating of feeds!
• TheOnlineDiary - Built in online RSS reader
• Alesti.org - **Alesti.org** is a fast *web 2.0* online feed aggregator, in which you can *tag* your subscriptions, *bookmark* your prefered articles, send them by *mail* to a friend, *import/export* OPML and more, thanks to it’s simple yet *friendly* interface that resembles *desktop* aggregators, which is available in multiple *languages*.
• Rojo -
• NewsGator Online -
• RSS Bandit -
• Gregarius - Gregarius is a web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator, designed to run on your web server, allowing you to access your news sources from wherever you want. live demo: http://rss.gregarius.net/
• Attensa Online -
• FeedDemon 2.0 -
• FeedLounge -
• Pluck Web Edition -
• Google IG(Personalized Home) -
• Pluck for Firefox -
• Omea Reader - Best offline feed reader.
• Attensa Mobile -
• News Alloy -
• RSSFwd - Forwards RSS items to a email address. Combines well with GMail.
• Google Desktop Side Bar Web Clips -
• HanRSS (Korean) -
• Attensa for Outlook -
• Google Desktop gdRSS Reader plug-in -
• My Yahoo! -
• Opera -
• Pluck for IE -
• Start.com -
• Pageflakes -
• Mozilla Thunderbird -
• Internet Explorer 7 -
• Windows Live -
• NewsGator Inbox for Outlook -

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Gadgets, Technology, Future, Design

• Lifehacker - Very nice sites with loads of new stuff everyday related to technology.
• Techcrunch - Blog about the upcoming new web services. Not always impartial!!!!
• Engadget - Lots of great hi-tech toys: LCD TVs, iPods and accessories, Ultra Mobile PCs, GPS devices, robot technology, new hard drives, laptops, etc.
• Tech answers on Yedda - Find great tech-related Answers on **Yedda **- *People. Sharing. Knowledge*.
• digg - Web 2.0 version of /.
• Web Development Blog - Web development news, SEO information and PHP script releases
• Web Site Design Company - In fact, our primary source of new clients is word-of-mouth referrals from our satisfied clients.
• General Staff -
• Fleck.com blog - Blog from a european start-up. pretty neat.
• eHub - Talks about all the new web 2.0 services, and interviews the makers of some.
• widgetbroker.com - Fun site listing new products daily. Set apart by looking at old gadgets as well as new. Looks at major players in the gadget universe as well.
• Random Good Stuff - Great Blog with tech and gadgets
• Weblogs - Weblogs category contains English language sites about Technical Evaluations and Product Reviews,Software,E-Books Weblogs
• American Inventor Spot - All the lastest inventions, innovatons and iteresting ideas - from the wacky to the wonderful.
• Web Design and Search Engine Optimization - It is a blog about web design and search engine optimization. Great web design and search engine optimization will give you traffic and give you better placement on SERPs.
• Technabob - Cool tech news: Gadgets, games, gizmos and weird science.
• Gizmodo - Featuring updates on the newest computers, PDAs, cell phones, nd other gadgets.
• Techie Buzz - Nice site for tech news and tech tips and reviews
• TechnoBlog - Balance of geeky goodness with a dose of general technology business info geared to the SMB community.
• Mashable.com - Reviews of Web 2.0 offerings and trends. Always interesting and a good read.
• Hack a Day - Go beyond the normal gadgets and programming gee-gaw.
• Ministry of Tech - The Latest in Innovative Tech, Web and Gadget News
• CSS Insider - Articles that include updates and news about the web 2.0 styling language, CSS.
• [Geeks Are Sexy] Tech. News - Technology, science, news and social issues for geeks.
• Ars Technica - For the PC enthusiast. Check out /news.ars (yes, they use “ars” for their file extensions) for the blog.
• Slashdot - the holy grail of tech blogs. you should “digg” this!!
• Anti Web 2.0 - A dose of reality regarding “Web 2.0″
• Silicon Glen, Scotland - Progress from ideas - Personal blog, mixture of technical content and other stuff, often with a humourous or satirical slant
• Rotten Blog - A dash of tech, humour and much much more.
• Wwwhatsnew - about free applications on the internet

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