Elgg, is an open source social network engine providing out-of-the box functionality for deploying social-aware applications in education, business, non-profit and other environments.
Elgg runs on Apache, PHP and MySQL - the same open source platform that the majority of web applications are written in.
Geoff Livingston asserts: “I just wonder if most companies will ever get it, that organizational social media really is about peering with their customers, partners and employees, rather than broadcasting a cleverly disguised ad or white paper in the form “user generated content” or a “blog post.””
Off-the-shelf, Sphider the open source php crawler and search engine, (http://www.sphider.eu/) only returns one portion of a document in which the searched keyword is found. With this mod, Sphider will display as many as 5 portions of a document instead…
Josh Bernoff’s secret weapon: the “Social Technographics Ladder , a technique presented in chapter 3 of Groundswell.
Studio Artist is an amazing tool for computer assisted painting. Studio Artist is an award-winning graphics synthesizer created by Synthetik Software. www.synthetik.com, excellent for digital painting, photo manipulation, image processing, auto rotoscoping, video effects, and procedural animation.